Mindfulness, Meaning, and Resilience

Chris Berlin is an instructor in spiritual counseling, Buddhist ministry, and the counselor to Buddhist students at Harvard Divinity School (HDS). He has been an instructor at the Harvard Division of Continuing Education since 2014. At HDS, his teaching ranges from courses in counseling theory and practice, clinical hospital chaplaincy, and resilience theory to contemplative approaches to care for the dying, mindfulness, and Buddhist psychology. At the Harvard Extension School, his courses include applied Buddhist and South Asian contemplative traditions, mindfulness, the psychology and neuroscience of meditation, resilience and flourishing, as well as artificial intelligence (AI), consciousness, and ethics. He has previously served as a full-time chaplain in the Harvard medical system where he received extensive experience teaching meditation and mindfulness to patients and clinicians alike. As a lay-teacher in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, he also frequently offers meditation classes and workshops in the Greater Boston area. He has written and/or published pieces on Buddhism in chaplaincy, resilience theory and mindfulness, and the interface of Buddhism and Western psychology.