Frank Ostaseski

Board of Directors

Frank Ostaseski, President & Director
Sigward Moser, Treasurer
Gabe Luna Ostaseski, Secretary

Metta Institute Core Faculty

  • Angeles Arrien, PhD, author, anthropologist, Associate Professor, California Institute for Integral Studies.
  • Zoketsu Norman Fischer, author, Zen priest, Founder of Everyday Zen Foundation, former Abbot of San Francisco Zen Center.
  • Charles Garfield, PhD, author, founder of Shanti Project, Clinical Professor, UCSF Medical School, Board Member Jung Institute, Visiting Scholar, Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.
  • Frank Ostaseski, Founder and Director, Metta Institute, Founding Director Zen Hospice Project.
  • Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, author, co-founder of Commonweal Center, Clinical Professor, University of California at San Francisco Medical School.
  • Ange Stephens, MA, MFT, integral psychotherapist and coach, specializing in illness, death and dying, and grief.
  • Angeles Arrien, PhD, (deceased, April 2014) author, anthropologist, Associate Professor, California Institute for Integral Studies.
  • Ram Dass, (deceased, December 2019) author, internationally renowned spiritual teacher.
  • Rabbi Alan Lew, (deceased, January 2009) Former Spiritual Leader, Congregation Beth Shalom, founder of Makor Or Center for Jewish Meditation.
  • Frances Vaughan, PhD, (deceased, September 2017), author, transpersonal psychologist, trustee of the Fetzer Institute.