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Fred Luskin Ph.D.
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Main Areas: Forgiveness training, forgiveness in couples, stress managementBest Sellers: Forgive for Good
Frederic Luskin, Ph.D. is the Director of the Stanford University Forgiveness Projects, a Senior Consultant in Health Promotion at Stanford and and an Associate Professor at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. He has completed 9 successful research projects as the on the training and measurement of forgiveness therapy. Dr. Luskin’s research demonstrates that learning forgiveness leads to increased physical vitality, hope, greater self–efficacy, enhanced optimism and conflict resolution skills. His research also shows that forgiveness lessons the physical and emotional toll of stress, and decreases hurt, anger depression and blood pressure.
On three occasions he has successfully worked with men and women from both sides of the violence in Northern Ireland who have had family members killed. In addition he worked with 7 different groups of financial advisors after the stock market crash of 2000 to enhance their conflict resolution and stress management skills. The advisors in his groups show over the course of a year a 20% reduction in stress and a 25% increase in sales. Currently Dr. Luskin also serves as the Co Chair of the Garden of Forgiveness Project at Ground Zero in Manhattan.
Dr. Luskin is the author of the San Francisco Bay Area best seller Forgive for Good: A Proven Prescription for Health and Happiness, Stress Free for Good and the just released Forgive for Love: The Missing Ingredient for a Healthy and Lasting Relationship. He has worked with organizations such as the City of San Jose, Kaiser Permanente, Mountain States Health Alliance, Superior Court of San Francisco and others to help them work with conflict and grudges. In addition he has trained lawyers, doctors, church leaders and congregations, hospital staffs, teachers and other professionals to manage stress and enhance forgiveness all over the United States. Dr. Luskin’s work has been featured in Time, O, Ladies Home Journal, U.S. News and World Reports, Parade, Prevention as well as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, U.S.A. Today and the Wall Street Journal. In addition The Public Broadcasting System has made a pledge drive video of his teaching called Forgive for Good.
