Bill Morgan, PsyD is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Cambridge, MA. He is the author of “The Meditator’s Dilemma: An Innovative Approach to Overcoming Obstacles and Revitalizing Your Practice”. He is an Advisory Board and faculty member of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy. Bill has participated in ten years of intensive meditation retreats in the past 50 years. For 25 years, together with his partner Susan, he leads mindfulness retreats for psychotherapists and caregivers, and more recently leads The Daily Sit and online householder retreats for the general public. Making practice meaningful and enjoyable are core to his teachings. For more information: billandsusan.org.
Events with Bill Morgan, PsyD
July 20 - 29, 2025
Many psychotherapists have been studying mindfulness, compassion, and their clinical applications for years but have not found time for more intensive meditation practice. Others would like the opportunity to refresh their practice with like-minded colleagues. By deliberately stepping out of everyday life and into an intensive retreat environment, we can observe subtle habit patterns of heart and mind and deepen our awareness. This retreat will explore the deep synergies among mindfulness, compassion, and depth psychotherapy. Mindfulness interventions have often been aimed at managing stress, reducing reactivity, and alleviating symptoms. But they also have more transformative potentials—to reveal how we create…
September 1 - 10, 2025
The point of mindfulness meditation is not simply to train the mind, but to engage the heart in all of its heart tones; lovingkindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity. In this nine-day retreat we will explore the heart quality of compassion. Compassion is often talked about as a quality of heart that “quivers” or trembles in the face of suffering. Yet it is perhaps more accurate to say that it is a whole-body attitude of heart-mind that opens to pain or disturbance and intentionally ministers to the suffering that is present. Bill and Susan Morgan along with their beloved colleague, friend…