Main Speakers

Susan Bögels

Professor in psychology at the University of Amsterdam, psychotherapist specialised in cognitive behaviour, couple and family therapy and mindfulness for children and parents, and companies. Her main research areas concern the trans-generational transmission of psychopathology in family processes and the cost / benefit relationship of actions based on mindfulness. She has published more than 200 articles in international scientific journals and 14 books translated into different languages all over the world.

Robert Brandsma

Licensed health psychologist, a pedagogue, meditation teacher and author. He is the co-founder of the Centrum voor Mindfulness in Amsterdam and head of its MBSR/MBCT teacher trainer program. As a contemplative practitioner, Rob has had a long term meditation practice and teaches meditation retreats in the tradition of early Buddhism. He also teaches Buddhist psychology to mindfulness teachers. A publishing author since two decades, Rob wrote several popular books on mindfulness-based living. He is a leading authority in the methodology and pedagogy of teaching mindfulness. His book The Mindfulness Teaching Guide, A Comprehensive Guide to Teaching Mindfulness in Any Setting, is translated several languages, amongst which in Italian: Insegnare mindfulness: una guida: Le abilità e le competenze essenziali per istruttori di interventi Mindfulness-based.

Nicoletta Cinotti

Psychologist, psychotherapist, teacher at the School of Specialisation in Psychotherapy recognised by MIUR Humanitas, Mindfulness Teacher with the Center for Mindfulness for the MBSR protocol, Metta Foundation for Interpersonal Mindfulness, MBCT (Zindel Segal), Mindful Parenting (Susan Bögels), MSC.
Nicoletta organises Mindful Parenting training in Italy, leads meditation retreats which she alternates with clinical practice. She has written and published 4 books and numerous articles and publications.

Rebecca Crane

Director of the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice at Bangor University, Rebecca has played a leading role in developing its training and research programme since it was founded in 2001. She teaches and trains internationally in both Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). Her research and publications focus on how the evidence on mindfulness-based interventions can be implemented with integrity into practice settings. She has written “Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Distinctive Features”, 2017, co-authored Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy with People at Risk of Suicide”, 2017 and is a Principle Fellow with the Higher Education Academy.

Christopher Germer

Clinical psychologist and lecturer on psychiatry (part-time) at Harvard Medical School. He co-developed the Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) program with Kristin Neff in 2010 and they wrote two books, The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook and Teaching the Mindful Self-Compassion Program. MSC has been taught to over 150,000 people worldwide. Dr. Germer is also the author of The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion; he co-edited two influential volumes on therapy, Mindfulness and Psychotherapy, and Wisdom and Compassion in Psychotherapy; and he maintains a small psychotherapy practice in Massachusetts, USA.

Alessandro Giannandrea

Psychologist and psychotherapist specialized in Analytical Psychotherapy and Existential Anthropology, Alessandro holds a PhD in Psychology, Psychophysiology and Personality, and is the founder of the Abruzzo Mindfulness Practice Center and Italia Mindfulness. He teaches the 2nd level Master “Mindfulness: Practice, Clinical studies and Neuroscience” at the Sapienza University of Rome. He is an MBCT, MBSR and MSC instructor, certified by the UCSD School of Medicine, in San Diego, California. He collaborates with the UCSD Center for Mindfulness as trainer and supervisor for mindfulness instructors, Alessandro has published articles on scientific journals such as “Mindfulness”, “Setting”, “The Journal of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research”, “New Perspectives in Psychology”, with the Italian publisher “Arpanet” and Jason Aronson Publishing House in Maryland, USA.

Paola Mamone

Psychologist, psychotherapist, adjunct professor at the School of Specialization in Health Psychology of the University La Sapienza in Rome, she is co-founder of the Italian Society of Health Psychology and Interessere – Mindfulness in Action (https://interessere.info/). Paola is a Mindful Parenting trainer and MBSR senior teacher

Maja Wrzesien

Scientist and mindfulness & compassion trainer for youth, adults, and educators. She has a PhD in clinical and health psychology and is currently working as a researcher and lecturer at the University of Valencia (Spain). She is also an Academic Director of Summer & Winter School programs on the topic of Mindfulness and Compassion at the University of Amsterdam.

Round table

Maria Francesca Freda

Andrea Bassanini

Laura Beccia

Nicola Petrocchi

Maria Beatrice Toro