Thank you for the great interest you have shown in our event. As you know, this year it will take place on Saturday, April 6, on the Zorlu PSM Main Stage. As the event date approaches, we will be introducing our speakers to you more closely.
Who is Zümra Atalay?
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zümra Atalay is a faculty member and head of the Psychological Counseling and Guidance department at MEF University. Her main areas of work are mindfulness, mindfulness-based therapies, compassion and compassion-based therapies. Her doctoral thesis is also on these two topics. She did her postdoctoral work at the University of Rochester's Department of Psychology on "Mindfulness and Psychological Needs". On this subject she has articles indexed in international indexes and published in national peer-reviewed journals, papers at national and international congresses, books and book chapters, courses she has taught at master's and doctoral level, and master's and doctoral theses she has supervised.
She has completed the train-the-trainer program on her area of expertise, "Mindfulness-based approaches", organized by IMA (International Mindfulness Based Association). She is an international trainer for IMA, which provides training in 8 countries. She is a member of EAMBA (Europian Association of Mindfulness Based Approaches) and also sits on its board. Alongside her work at the university, she regularly holds MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Program) and MBCT (Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy) group sessions, trainings and individual sessions at her private office. She is the author of the book Mindfulness: Here and Now (Mindfulness: Here and Now).
- You can get tickets for the event from the link below.
