ixac knowledgments
Developing, researching, testing, and organizing the behavioral skills in this book 
has been a process that has unfolded over many years. Over these years many people made important contributions to what finally became this set of skills and work -
sheets. Here I want to thank a long line of teachers, colleagues, students, post
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octoral fellows, and clients, who for many years have been in dialogue with me on 
how to best develop, organize, explain, and disseminate behavioral skills to those in need of skillful means.
I want to acknowledge Rev. Pat Hawk and Rev. Willigis Yaeger, who were my 
contemplative prayer and Zen teachers, and Anselm Romb, my Franciscan spiritual guide, who taught me to let go of words. Each of them listened to me for hours as I sorted out how to practice and how to teach mindfulness. My mentors, Gerald Davi -
son and Marvin Goldfried, taught me behavior therapy, and through them I was introduced to evidence-based treatments, where I found most of the skillful means that I condensed into the skills in this book. I extend my gratitude to Jon Kabat-Zinn, John Teasdale, Mark Williams, and Zindel Segal for inspiration. I especially want to thank my students and former students (in alphabetical order), Milton Brown, Anita Lungu, Andrada Neacsiu, Shireen Rizvi, Stephanie Thompson, Chelsey Wilks, Bri -