History of the MBSR Program
History of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
Mindfulness–Based Stress Reduction was pioneered by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. and assisted by Saki Santorelli, Ph.D. and colleagues in 1979 at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. Bill Moyers featured Jon Kabat-Zinn's Stress Reduction Clinic in the series "Healing and the Mind" in 1993. A great movement began as many health care professionals became interested in offering a similar program. Today there are over two hundred medical and community centers in the United States that offer Mindfulness–Based Stress Reduction programs. There are programs in nearly every continent on the planet.