Gonzalo Brito, MA
Gonzalo Brito, MA is a Chilean clinical psychologist who has worked with diverse populations in Perú and Chile, integrating western psychological approaches with local traditional medicine, mindfulness, and yoga.
As a certified yoga teacher and a mindfulness instructor he has included these integral practices into his clinical work and workshops for health care professionals and educators over the last seven years.
Gonzalo is also the founder of Red Mindfulness (www.redmindfulness.org), a Spanish speaking network that focuses on bringing contemplative practices and insights into education, work, and society at large.
As a PhD student, his main focus is in secular compassion cultivation practices and their benefits at the individual and social levels. He has been training during this last year at Stanford´s Center for Compassion and Altruism in Research and Education (CCARE) in order to be able to offer their Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) program. This training is also part of his dissertation project which involves adapting CCT for South American populations, which he will be implementing in Santiago de Chile in the second half of 2013.
As a certified yoga teacher and a mindfulness instructor he has included these integral practices into his clinical work and workshops for health care professionals and educators over the last seven years.
Gonzalo is also the founder of Red Mindfulness (www.redmindfulness.org), a Spanish speaking network that focuses on bringing contemplative practices and insights into education, work, and society at large.
As a PhD student, his main focus is in secular compassion cultivation practices and their benefits at the individual and social levels. He has been training during this last year at Stanford´s Center for Compassion and Altruism in Research and Education (CCARE) in order to be able to offer their Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) program. This training is also part of his dissertation project which involves adapting CCT for South American populations, which he will be implementing in Santiago de Chile in the second half of 2013.
