Martin Boroson is emerging as an inventive new voice in the next generation of meditation teachers.
Author of One-Moment Meditation: Stillness for People on the Go, now published in eight languages, he has taught his radical new take on meditation in leadership seminars, hospitals, public workshops, and the media, as well as in busy urban train stations, a farmyard, and a cabaret.
In the UK, Marty was the spokesman for the Federation of Organic Milk Groups, for whom he devised and presented the “Take-a-Mooment™” campaign, consisting of interviews for nineteen BBC radio stations in which Marty got the radio hosts (and their audiences) to moo with him for stress relief.
In Ireland, Marty created “The National Moment of Stillness,” in which thousands of people stopped driving and stopped working to experience thirty seconds of total silence together, live on national radio. Said the host, Derek Mooney, on the following day, “The whole nation was enthralled.”
Marty has delivered training in meditation as a leadership skill at numerous conferences, and recently delivered training in One-Moment Meditation® to physicians at Kaiser Permanente, and to faculty and staff of the UC Davis Medical Center. As a faculty member of the Institute for Management Studies, he created the seminar Becoming a Next-Generation Leader. He has delivered training to many senior executives, and he consults to organizations on the applications of a meditative mind to leadership, decision-making, and innovation.
Born and raised in New York, Marty had a first career as a teenage political activist and, at sixteen, became a Legislative Aide to the New York State Assembly. He then studied philosophy at Yale, earned an MBA from the Yale School of Management, trained in transpersonal psychology, and worked in both theatre and psychotherapy. He is a formal student of Zen Buddhism, an accredited member of the European Association of Psychotherapy, and is President of the Association for Holotropic Breathwork™ International.
Marty is also the author of Becoming Me, a modern creation story praised by scientists, psychologists, and leaders of many faiths. Now an animated short film, Becoming Me is being used in secular and religious schools to teach interfaith understanding, philosophy for children, and environmental awareness. Said Erwin Laszlo, Science Advisor to the Director General of UNESCO, “Becoming Me undoubtedly captures the emerging spirit of the 21st century.”
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