The Mindful Approach to Wellness: Exploring the Science of Mindfulness

Chip Conley is a hospitality entrepreneur, New York Times best-selling author, and the founder and CEO of MEA. His two most recent books, Wisdom@Work: The Making of a Modern Elder and Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better With Age, are the foundation for MEA’s curriculum.

Ellen J. Langer is considered the “mother of mindfulness” and the first woman tenured in psychology at Harvard and author of eleven books, including the international bestseller Mindfulness and her latest work, The Mindful Body: Thinking Our Way to Chronic Health. She has received numerous prestigious awards, has authored over 200 research articles, and her pioneering experiments in social psychology have been featured in The New York Times Magazine’s “Year in Ideas” issue. She is a member of Harvard University’s psychology department and resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts.