Jörg Mangold

Jörg Mangold is a specialist in child and adolescent psychiatry, a medical psychotherapist, a mindfulness teacher and an author. He leads seminars across Europe. His courses help people with stress through mindfulness and self-compassion. He has more than 40 years of professional experience.

His training covers many mindfulness-based approaches. These include MBSR, MBCT, and Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) with Chris Germer and Kristin Neff, where he is a certified teacher. He also trained in Self-Compassion for Healthcare Communities, Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living, Mindful Parenting and MYmind. MYmind is a mindfulness training for young people with ADHD or autism spectrum conditions. Other training includes Positive Neuroplasticity with Rick Hanson, advanced skills in Compassion-Focused Therapy, and positive psychology, in which he is a master trainer certified by EUPPA.

He has also developed his own course formats. Mindful Compassionate Parenting (MCP) is one, and he is a trainer of MCP teachers. Mindful Compassionate Education (MCE) is for people who work professionally with children and young people. Mindful Positive Living (MPL) is another.

His courses are open to anyone, need no prior experience, and are independent of any particular worldview. They offer impulses for personal development and are not therapy. He also teaches in-house seminars on health care and on preventing burnout and empathy exhaustion. He offers psychotherapy, mindfulness-based coaching and counselling for self-development, and many of his offerings run online. He speaks especially to people in helping professions, therapists and colleagues in health care. In his own words, self-compassion can be an antidote to some of the crazy modes of living in modern industrialised societies.

He handed over his practice in 2020 and now concentrates on courses, seminars, psychotherapy and individual sessions. He also supports education and health projects in Nepal and Liberia.