George Mumford

George Mumford has taught mindfulness and meditation since 1989, when he left his career as a financial planner and earned a Masters in counseling psychology. He worked at the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness and directed a prison project that has taught mindfulness techniques to more than 5,000 New England inmates. While a student-athlete at the University of Massachusetts (where he roomed with Julius Erving), injuries forced Mumford out of basketball. The medications that...See more

George Mumford has taught mindfulness and meditation since 1989, when he left his career as a financial planner and earned a Masters in counseling psychology. He worked at the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness and directed a prison project that has taught mindfulness techniques to more than 5,000 New England inmates. While a student-athlete at the University of Massachusetts (where he roomed with Julius Erving), injuries forced Mumford out of basketball. The medications that relieved his pain also numbed him to the emptiness he felt without the game that had been his greatest passion--and led him to drugs. After getting clean and making meditation the center of his life, Mumford returned to the game he loves, teaching his revolutionary mindfulness techniques in the NBA. George Mumford appears regularly at business and athletic conferences, nationally and internationally. He lives in Massachusetts. See less