Bridging Eastern knowledge traditions and Western science, Jon Kabat-Zinn has been a pioneer of mind-body medicine for more than 25 years. His groundbreaking work at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center has demonstrated the vital role meditation and awareness can play in healing. Beyond that, he's brought mindfulness practice into the lives of hundreds of thousands of ordinary people with his bestselling books Full Catastrophe Living and Wherever You Go, There You Are, as well as his memorable appearance on Bill Moyers's PBS special Healing and the Mind. His Symposium keynote will show how mindful awareness?seeing into the very heart of reality?can help us marshal our inherent clarity, wisdom, and creativity to deal with the turmoil of an era beset by collective attention deficit disorder and haunted by uncertainty about how safe we are.