BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Frank Ostaseski, President & Director
Sigward Moser, Treasurer
Gabe Luna Ostaseski, Secretary

Metta Institute CORE FACULTY

Angeles Arrien, PhD, author, anthropologist, Associate Professor, California Institute for Integral Studies.

Ram Dass, author, internationally renowned spiritual teacher.

Zoketsu Norman Fischer, author, Zen priest, Founder of Everyday Zen Foundation, former Abbot of San Francisco Zen Center.

Charles Garfield, PhD, author, founder of Shanti Project, Clinical Professor, UCSF Medical School, Board Member Jung Institute, Visiting Scholar, Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.

Frank Ostaseski, Founder and Director, Metta Institute, Founding Director Zen Hospice Project.

Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, author, co-founder of Commonweal Center, Clinical Professor, University of California at San Francisco Medical School.

Ange Stephens, MA, MFT, integral psychotherapist and coach, specializing in illness, death and dying, and grief.

Angeles Arrien, PhD, (deceased, April 2014) author, anthropologist, Associate Professor, California Institute for Integral Studies.

Rabbi Alan Lew, (deceased, January 2009) Former Spiritual Leader, Congregation Beth Shalom, founder of Makor Or Center for Jewish Meditation.

Frances Vaughan, PhD, (deceased, September 2017), author, transpersonal psychologist, trustee of the Fetzer Institute. 

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