Tim Desmond

Timothy Ambrose Desmond is a Distinguished Faculty Scholar at Antioch University, where he teaches professional psychology rooted in self-compassion. He has lectured at Yale School of Medicine and taught mindfulness in all fifty states. After having grown up poor in Boston with an alcoholic single mother and having been homeless as a teenager, he was exposed to the teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh and eventually studied closely with him and his senior monastics at Plum Village. In 2011, he co...See more

Timothy Ambrose Desmond is a Distinguished Faculty Scholar at Antioch University, where he teaches professional psychology rooted in self-compassion. He has lectured at Yale School of Medicine and taught mindfulness in all fifty states. After having grown up poor in Boston with an alcoholic single mother and having been homeless as a teenager, he was exposed to the teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh and eventually studied closely with him and his senior monastics at Plum Village. In 2011, he co-founded Morning Sun Mindfulness Center, an intentional community and retreat center in Alstead, New Hampshire. See less