MBSR and Mindfulness Classes

Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is an evidence-based course developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn over 40 years ago at UMass Medical School. It is highly effective at helping manage stress, pain and illness, as well as finding more joy, ease and insight into one’s life, and has been shown to provide myriad physical and psychological benefits. Though offered at the Zen Center, and taught by one of the teachers listed below, this is a secular mindfulness course available for anyone interested in learning widely applicable mindfulness and meditation skills. To register for an 8-week series, please click on one of the events below.

Our Teachers:

Peggy Sheehan, M.D., brings many years of experience of teaching MBSR programs at Kaiser Permanente, along with being a Zen teacher and one of the ZCD’s spiritual directors. Peggy offers a wonderful balance of decades of meditation practice, clinical experience and gentle humor.

Joyce McLaren, PhD, a trained MBSR instructor, has been a ZCD member for over four years and is currently on the ZCD Board of Directors. Along with her meditation and mindfulness expertise, Joyce’s lively, joyful and kind energy creates an experience for her students that is at once supportive and enlivening.

Billy Wynne, J.D., has been a member of the Zen Center of Denver for eight years and currently serves on the Board. He is a certified mindfulness meditation teacher, presence-based coach, and author of The Empty Path: Finding Fulfillment Through the Radical Art of Lessening, which will be published by New World Library in March 2025.