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So welcome everyone. We're So welcome everyone. We're really excited to present the second of our public lecture series. Uh, John Cosin kicked it off in October, and we're really blessed to have Joseph Goldstein with us this evening for the second of our, uh, public lecture series. Uh, we'll be having a few more starting in the spring, so just look f on our, um, mailing list for those announcements.

It's my great, I'll just, so I'm Judd Bem, the director of research here at the Center for Mindfulness, and I will just very briefly, uh, introduce, uh, Joseph because it's much better to hear him speak than me. Uh, so for those of you that aren't familiar with him, Joseph is actually. After finishing up the Peace Corps in the sixties, uh, stayed in Southeast Asia to study and practice, uh, to learn, uh, mindfulness and, and Buddhist meditation, and was one of the first folks to bring that back, uh, to the west.