心觉知Heartful Awareness

我的全职工作是在美国一所公立研究型大学担任教职。除了从事与人类发展和养育相关的课程教学之外，我主要主持一些研究项目。我的研究主题是正念及其在家庭中的应用研究。我的近期工作包括系统综述，开发测评面向离异父母的正念应用程序（这项工作获得了美国国立卫生研究院职业发展奖的资助）。

我拥有明尼苏达大学双城分校家庭科学博士学位。之后，我在亚利桑那州立大学完成了博士后训练，该博士后项目由美国国立卫生研究院资助。我研究过军人家庭，丧亲家庭，研究课题是养育技能、情绪调节、家庭干预和正念慈心。

在我来到美国之前，我出生并成长于中国北京。我在清华大学获得心理学硕士学位。在我的导师樊富珉老师指导下接受团体咨询临床训练，至今仍深刻影响着我与他人共处的方式——以稳定、专注和深切的尊重，去承托人们相聚时自然形成的关系场域。我与童慧琦共同翻译了马克·威廉姆斯、约翰·蒂斯代尔、辛德尔·西格尔和乔恩·卡巴金合著的 The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness，中文版书名为《穿越抑郁的正念之道》，于2015年出版。除了学术和临床训练之外，我也持续培养个人正念练习，至今已近二十年。我曾在麻省大学医学院医学健康照护与社会正念中心接受了正念减压课程的正式训练，并继续在布朗大学正念中心进行师资发展系统培训和认证，已于2022年完成一级师资培训。我接受过乔恩·卡巴金博士和萨奇·圣多瑞里博士的正式训练。2013年我在中国北京首次参加了由卡巴金博士和圣多瑞里博士共同带领的正念减压课程培训。之后我在美国和欧洲参加了由他们各自带领的多次静修。

我的个人生活也持续深化并扎根着我的修习。作为两个双族裔孩子的母亲，我每天都被提醒去体会“初学者之心”的精神。随着我自己的父母进入花甲之年，我也走在成年子女照护者的道路上。我逐渐看见，力量与脆弱常常可以并存；情感上的亲近与距离，也都可以被置于不评判的觉察之中。紧张可以柔化为温情，愤怒可以转化为慈悲，僵硬可以舒展为有趣的灵动，而挣扎也可以更新为成长。

生命自有其展开的方式。它向我们发出的邀请很简单：从思维的头脑中走出来，回到那颗懂得敞开、感受、充满爱的心。

My full-time job is a faculty member at a public research university in the United States. In addition to teaching courses related to human development and parenting, I conduct research on mindfulness and its applications to families. My recent work includes systematic reviews examining the science and practice of mindfulness programs designed for parents of children and adolescents, as well as for expecting parents during pregnancy. I have also developed a mindfulness app for divorced parents, and this work has been funded by a career development award from the National Institute of Health.

I hold a Ph.D. in Family Science from the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities), with advanced training in parenting skills, emotion regulation, and family stress. I completed postdoctoral training in Prevention Science at Arizona State University through a fellowship funded by the National Institutes of Health), with a focus on self-compassion, bereavement, grief, and family-based interventions.

Before beginning my professional journey in the United States, I was born and raised in Beijing, China. I earned my Master’s degree in Psychology from Tsinghua University. My clinical training in group counseling under my mentor Fumin Fan continues to shape how I hold space — with steadiness, attentiveness, and deep respect for the relational field that forms whenever people gather. I co-translated The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness (by Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal, and Jon Kabat-Zinn) with Hui Qi Tong, published in Chinese in 2015.

Alongside my academic and clinical training, I have cultivated a personal meditation practice for nearly two decades. I received formal training in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction at the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and I have continued teacher-development training and certification through the Mindfulness Center at Brown University, where I have completed MBSR Qualified Teacher Level 1 in 2022. I have received formal training directly from Drs. Jon Kabat-Zinn and Saki Santorelli. My first MBSR training with both Drs. Kabat-Zinn and Santorelli took place in Beijing, China, in 2013. I later attended multiple retreats led by each of them in the United States and Europe.

My personal life continues to deepen and ground my practice. As a parent of two biracial children, I am reminded daily of the spirit of beginner’s mind. As my parents enter advanced age, I also walk the path of an adult child caregiver. Through these relationships, I have come to see that strength and vulnerability often coexist; emotional intimacy and distance can both be held in nonjudgmental awareness. Tension can soften into tenderness, anger can transform into compassion, rigidity can relax into playfulness, and struggle can renew into growth.

Life unfolds on its own. The invitation is simple: come out of the thinking mind, and come back to the heart that knows how to open, feel, and love.

我的正念静修经历 Read more about my mindfulness training experiences

2026               Five-day program, “Polishing the Mirror of the Heart”, organized by the Ser Integral Portuguese Center for Mindfulness, May 3 – 8, residential. Portugal. With Saki Santorelli.

2026               Five-day program, “Intimacy Beyond the Wall”, organized by the Association for the Advancement of Mindfulness France, Apr 24 – 29, residential. France. With Saki Santorelli.

2026               One-day program, “Intimacy Beyond the Wall: A Dialogue and Inquiry Intensive for Mindfulness-Based Program Teachers”, organized by Institut Pleine Conscience, Feb 8, online synchronous. With Saki Santorelli.

2025               Five-day program, “A Wide Net of Affection: Keeping Friendship’s Light Ablaze in Hard Times”, organized by Vækstcenteret, Sept 24 – 28, residential, Nørre Snede, Denmark. With Saki Santorelli.

2025               Five-day program, “Love’s Journey: Polishing the Mirror of the Heart”, organized by Copper Beech Institute, June 1 – June 5, residential, West Hartford, CT. With Saki Santorelli.

2025               One-day program, “Intimacy Beyond the Wall: A Dialogue and Inquiry Intensive for Mindfulness-Based Program Teachers”, organized by Institut Pleine Conscience, Feb 9, online synchronous. With Saki Santorelli.

2024               Invitational eight-day program, “Deepening inquiry, practice, and community in the greater mindfulness universe: An experimental international retreat within the non-dual embrace of noble silence and dialogue”, organized by the Omega Institute, May 26 – June 2, residential, Rhinebeck, NY. With Jon Kabat-Zinn.

2024               Dialogue & Inquiry for Mindfulness-Based Programs, organized by the Mindfulness Center at Brown University, 18 contact hours, Feb – Mar, online synchronous. Trainer: Lynn Koerbel.

2023               Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Curriculum Study Group & Skill-Building Workshop, organized by the Mindfulness Center at Brown University, 25 contact hours, Jul – Sept, online synchronous. With Lynn Koerbel.

2022               Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Teacher Advancement Intensive, organized by the Mindfulness Center at Brown University, 99 contact hours, Oct – Nov, online synchronous. Trainer: Lynn Koerbel and Kathleen Mitcheom.

2022               Eight-day silent meditation retreat, “Insight inside us”, organized by the Mindfulness Center at Brown University, July 22 – 29, online synchronous. With Bob Stahl, Eowyn Ahlstrom, and Kasim Al-mashat.

2017               Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Fundamentals, organized by the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society, UMass Medical School, Jan 8 – 17, residential, Norwood, MA. With Bob Stahl and Carolyn West.

2016               Ten-day silent meditation retreat, “The deepening of love, awareness and wisdom”, organized by the Twin Cities Vipassana Collective, June 17 – 26, residential, Koinonia Retreat Center, MN. With Kamala Masters and Bonnie Duran.

2013               Seven-day program, “Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in Mind-Body Medicine”, Nov 1 – 7, residential, Beijing. With Jon Kabat-Zinn and Saki Santorelli.