Bio
Jan Surrey is a teacher of Insight Dialogue and a practicing clinical psychologist. She completed the Community Dharma Leader Training at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in 2008 and is currently teaching Insight Dialogue retreats worldwide.
She is founding Scholar of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute at the Stone Center, Wellesley College and has been consulting and teaching Relational-Cultural Theory nationally and internationally for more than 30 years. She has been working to synthesize Buddhist and relational psychology.
She has co-authored or co-edited a number of books, including Women's Growth in Connection (Guilford Press), Women's Growth in Diversity, Mothering Against the Odds: Diverse Voices of Contemporary Mothers (Guilford Press), We Have to Talk: Healing Dialogues Between Women and Men (Basic Books), a contributing author to Mindfulness and Psychotherapy, {First and} Second Edition, and the play Bill W. and Dr. Bob: The Story of the Founding of Alcoholics Anonymous (Samuel French).
Her latest book, The Buddha's Wife: The Path of Awakening Together, coauthored with Samuel Shem, was published in June 2015.
Jan is on the faculty and board of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy. She is dedicated to a lifelong exploration of the power of relationships to create suffering and the power of relationships to liberate and transform suffering.
Jan lives in Newton, Massachusetts. Her two primary co-teachers are Gregory Kramer and Phyllis Hicks.
