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OUR MISSION
Our goal is to bring evidence-based mindfulness into cancer care by training compassionate, highly skilled MBCR facilitators who deliver the program with integrity, authenticity and scientific excellence, and to support people living with cancer by connecting them to high quality MBCR resources, programs and facilitators worldwide.
WHAT IS MBCR?
Mindfulness-Based Cancer Recovery (MBCR) is an evidence-based scientifically tested and internationally-recognized mindfulness training program for cancer patients and their support network. It follows a 9-week, group-based training program.
Created by Dr. Linda Carlson and Dr. Michael Speca at the University of Calgary, MBCR has been running as a clinical program for since 1998 and served thousands of patients.
MEET THE TEAM
Learn More About the MBCR Team
Director
Dr. Linda E. Carlson, PhD, R. Psych.
Dr. Linda Carlson, PhD, R. Psych., holds the Enbridge Research Chair in Psychosocial Oncology and is Full Professor in Psychosocial Oncology in the Department of Oncology, Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary. She is the Director of Research and works as a Clinical Psychologist at the Department of Psychosocial Resources at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre.
Dr. Carlson's research in psychosocial oncology has been published in many high-impact journals and book chapters, and she has received many national and international awards for her work. She published a patient manual in 2010 with Michael Speca entitled: Mindfulness-Based Cancer Recovery: A step-by-step MBSR approach to help you cope with treatment and reclaim your life, in addition to a professional training manual in 2009 with Shauna Shapiro entitled The Art and Science ofMindfulness: Integrating mindfulness into psychology and the helping professions.
Dr. Carlson has published over 200 research papers and book chapters, holds several millions of dollars in grant funding and is regularly invited to present her work at international conferences.
Director
Dr. Michael Speca, PsyD, R. Psych.
Dr. Michael Speca, PsyD, R.Psych., is Adjunct Associate Professor in the Division of Psychosocial Oncology, Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary.
In addition to his research contributions and conference presentations, as a clinical psychologist at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre, he counseled cancer patients and their families, facilitate. a range of group support programs, and cofounded the Centre's popular Mindfulness-Based Cancer Recovery program.
He has received several awards for clinical excellence- twice from the Cumming School of Medicine’s Department of Oncology and also from the Canadian Association of Psychosocial Oncology.
