Schmidt, Joseph

Joseph Schmidt was raised in a Midwestern Mennonite family. He attended Occidental College in Los Angeles during the late 1960's and then accepted a three-year teaching assignment in India.

Returning to the United States, he earned an MA in Psychology from Columbia University, opened a psychotherapy practice in San Francisco, and then worked as a corporate executive in New York for twenty years.

Following his corporate career, he cofounded New York Insight Meditation Center and served as its Executive Director. He is currently training as a chaplain with the New York Zen Center for Conte...