Scott McBride, together with his wife Nancy, is the Co-Director of the Clear Light Meditation Group.  He has practiced Buddhist meditation for over 30 years and taught group seminars in Buddhist meditation and study since 1978.  Scott has completed the traditional Tibetan three-year meditation retreat and has been authorized to teach by the late Chogyam Trungpa and Thrangu Rinpoche.  A founding member and former Director of the Philadelphia Shambhala Center, he also served for five years as a Director of the Shambhala Center of Halifax, Nova Scotia, one of the largest urban meditation centers in North America.  Scott was ordained as a Buddhist minister in 1988.  He has extensive knowledge of western psychology and has been teaching mindfulness-based stress management for 10 years, currently through the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.  He has a private practice in Spiritual Counseling and Healing oriented to support those on the path of meditation.

Gabriel Rocco has studied and practiced Buddhism for over twenty-five years.  He is currently a senior student of Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche of the Bon Buddhist dzogchen tradition.  Gabriel received his master’s degree in Contemplative Psychotherapy from Naropa University and maintains a private practice of counseling and meditation instruction in Bala Cynwyd.  He is the mind-body health specialist at the Wellness Community in Philadelphia for people living with cancer, and a staff instructor for the University of Pennsylvania’s Program for Stress Management.
 
 

Jan Wilcox has practiced mindfulness meditation since 1972, studying with a number of prominent teachers of the Tibetan Kagyu and Nyingma traditions including Chogyam Trungpa and Khenpo Tsultrim Gyatso.  She has taught classes and seminars in the U.S., Canada, and Europe since 1982, and also teaches mindfulness- based stress management through the Stress Management Program at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.