童慧琦

Tong Huiqi is a clinical psychologist, currently a clinical assistant professor at the School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. She is also a co-founder of RuiXin | California Health Research Institute and a visiting scholar at the Oxford Mindfulness Centre. She has long been devoted to introducing and promoting mindfulness-based therapies in China, having coordinated the delivery of the University of Massachusetts Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program and the Oxford Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy program in mainland China. As the principal translator of Jon Kabat-Zinn's works, including Full Catastrophe Living and Everyday Blessings, she was praised by Kabat-Zinn as "my ferryman to China." Her five works in the library span applied psychology and social psychology, including The Gift of Life: On Love, Death, and the Meaning of Existence, Living Mindfully: Embracing the Power of the Present Moment, and A Oral History of Zimbardo, focusing on themes such as mindfulness healing, parenting, and the meaning of life.