Michael Lipson

It has been a great privilege to work for many years as a clinical psychologist while living with my family in the Berkshire Hills of Western Massachusetts. Before that, I was the Chief Psychologist in Pediatric AIDS at Harlem Hospital in NYC, where as a Soros Faculty Scholar I developed a meditation program for health professionals who work with the dying. Earlier still, I had been awakened to some hard and glorious facts of life by volunteering with Mother Theresa in her Home for Dying Destitutes in Calcutta, India. But who are we really? Our resumes? What happens in the moment of eye-contact has always fascinated me more than who we seem to be in our official biographies. You can meet me through books, through my weekly emails, or sign up for my meditation groups and workshops at michaellipson.org.