Dr Patrick Jones
Dr Patrick Jones is founder and teacher at the not-for-profit Clear Mind Open Heart Ltd. His work focuses on leading people to awakening to their true nature of inner well-being. With a background as a clinical psychologist for twenty years and a mindfulness teacher for the 10 years he works to bring psychology and the enlightenment practices into the mainstream.
Patrick has presented at state, national and international conferences in psychology and health and has also been a spiritual director for both eastern ashrams and western monasteries.
Patrick was an honorary research associate at Murdoch University, an occasional university lecturer and recent relevant publications include Mindfulness-Based Heroism: Creating Enlightened Heroes (International Journal of Humanistic Psychology) and Mindfulness Training: Can it Create Superheroes? (Frontiers in Psychology). Through his clinical work and research Patrick also developed a quality of life and well-being program (Mindfulness-based Quality of Life and Well-Being Program) which has been used by thousands of people and its findings have been presented at conferences around Australia and internationally.
His PhD was on Quality of Life and Well-Being, and included an inquiry into its causes and conditions, and the development of a questionnaire, mindfulness intervention, and critique of the existing paradigm. A recent research project can be found at https://www.murdoch.edu.au/news/articles/is-mindfulness-more-effective-with-goal-setting. Patrick’s profile and full publications can be found on Google Scholar at https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Ad7V07gAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra and at www.drpatrickjones.com.
Through his public teaching and one-on-one work work with students at Clear Mind Open Heart Patrick’s focus is to lead people along the path to inner well-being, happiness and spiritual enlightenment. He now brings the skill sets of his public speaking and his clinical work directly to the work of seeing through what is in the way of awakening to the underlying true nature. For up to date videos and posts go to: facebook.com/drpatrickjonesofficial.
