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Donald Rothberg

Donald Rothberg, Ph.D. is a member of the Teachers Council at Spirit Rock Center. He teaches retreats and groups on concentration and insight meditation practice, lovingkindness practice, transforming the judgmental mind, mindful communication, working skillfully with conflict, and socially engaged Buddhism. 

Donald has practiced insight meditation since 1976, and has also received training in Tibetan Dzogchen, body-based psychotherapy, and trauma work. He has helped guide many six-month to two-year training programs in socially engaged spirituality, both Buddhist-based and interfaith.

He is the author of The Engaged Spiritual Life: A Buddhist Approach to Transforming Ourselves and the World (2007), and the co-editor of Ken Wilber in Dialogue (1998).

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