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Jean-Gérard BLOCH
Université de Strasbourg
Rhumatologue, Professeur conventionné
Description
Jean-Gérard BLOCH is Rheumatologist Professor of Medicine at the University of Strasbourg. He has studied and practiced meditation in different traditions since 2000. He is the founder in 2010 of IFPCM the French Institute mindfulness Mindfulness. He introduced meditation to the Hospital and University since 2010 and created in 2012 a DU of Meditation Medicine and Neuroscience at the Faculty of Medicine. He leads a meditation module created in 2014 in the Master 2 curriculum of cognitive and behavioral therapies at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Strasbourg and since 2016 a meditation module for 3rd year medical students at the Faculty of Medicine of Strasbourg.
In 2016, he organized a great day of exceptional dialogue between the Dalai Lama and scientists around the interactions between medicine, science, engagement and meditation. Body Esprit Science: conversations with the Dalai Lama, at the University of Strasbourg
He participates in the Mindfulness France thinktank Initiative in which he has been offering meditation programs to parliamentarians at the National Assembly since 2018.
In 2017, he founded SAM Science Art Meditation, whose Rencontres Internationales have been held every year since 2018 in Strasbourg. He is co-founder and committed to Rend-Fort, a structure born during the confinement in 2020 to support professionals and which aims to promote the culture of altruistic self-care and develop methods of resilience through multidisciplinary approaches around various practices of interiority.
He co-created in 2020 at the Strasbourg School of Management a new University Diploma "Leadership Meditation and Neurosciences" for leaders of all types of organizations to allow them to question the fixed certainties of the world of work, the dogmas of the economy with witnesses whose disruptive light can inspire them to open up to other ways of being and acting in the service of the common good.
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