Mark Williams and Dr. Danny Penman

Authors of Deeper Mindfulness and international bestseller Mindfulness

Mark Williams is Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology at Oxford University. He co developed mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), is co author with Danny Penman of the international bestseller Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World, and (with John Teasdale, Zindel Segal and Jon Kabat-Zinn) of The Mindful Way Through Depression and author of Cry of Pain: Understanding Suicide and the Suicidal Mind.

Dr. Danny Penman is a meditation teacher, writer and journalist. In 2014, he jointly won the British Medical Association’s Best Book (Popular Medicine) Award for Mindfulness for Health: A Practical Guide to Relieving Pain, Reducing Stress and Restoring Wellbeing (You Are Not Your Pain in the US). His books have been translated into more than thirty languages. He has received journalism awards from the RSPCA and the Humane Society of the United States. He holds a PhD in biochemistry.