
Dr. Brandon Nappi
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Dr. Brandon Nappi has over 20 years of experience as a spiritual teacher, guide, and mindfulness practitioner. He has been invited as a keynote speaker to share spiritual wisdom with Fortune 100 leaders, NFL and NBA coaches, elite athletes, artists, physicians, judges, and people from all walks of life. Brandon is a lecturer at Yale Divinity School with numerous appearances on NPR, CBS, ABC, and NBC.
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Brandon is the founder and executive director at Copper Beech Institute, a global mindfulness community and training center which has shared research-based, life-saving wellness practices with over 50,000 people from over 50 countries.
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He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and holds a Master of Divinity degree from Yale University. His doctoral research explored interreligious dialogue, mysticism, and Zen meditation as a healing practice within the history of spirituality. He has also received extensive mindfulness training from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Mindfulness and Zen Mountain Monastery. Brandon is a compassionate listener who loves playing classical guitar and baking bread. He is currently a lecturer at Yale Divinity School and is the Executive Director of Leadership Programs at Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. Brandon is a fellow of Morse College, Yale University.