Frederic Luskin, Ph.D. is the Director of the Stanford University Forgiveness Projects and a Senior Consultant in Health Promotion at Stanford University. For many years he was a Preventive Cardiologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He has completed 9 successful research projects on the training and measurement of his forgiveness therapy. Dr. Luskin’s research demonstrates that learning forgiveness leads to increased physical vitality, hope, greater self-efficacy, enhanced optimism and conflict resolution skills. His research also shows that forgiveness lessons the physical and emotional toll of stress, and decreases hurt, anger depression and blood pressure.
On three occasions he has successfully worked with men and women from both sides of the violence in Northern Ireland who have had family members killed. In addition he helped develop curriculum to teach forgiveness to school children in Sierra Leone affected by that country’s civil war. Currently Dr. Luskin also serves as the Co Chair of the Garden of Forgiveness Project at Ground Zero in Manhattan.
Dr. Luskin is the author of the San Francisco Bay Area best seller Forgive for Good: A Proven Prescription for Health and Happiness as well as Stress Free for Good: Ten Life Skills for Health and Well Bring. Harper Collins will publish Forgive for Love: The Missing Ingredient for a Loving and Lasting Relationship in December of 2007. He has worked with organizations such as the City of San Jose, Kaiser Permanente, Mountain States Health Alliance, Superior Court of San Francisco and others to help them work with conflict and grudges. In addition he has trained lawyers, doctors, church leaders and congregations, hospital staffs, teachers and other professionals to manage stress and enhance forgiveness all over the United States. Dr. Luskin’s work has been featured in Time, O, Ladies Home Journal, U.S. News and World Reports, Parade, Prevention as well as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, U.S.A. Today and the Wall Street Journal. He has appeared on the Today Show, 20/20, CNN, CNBC and local radio and television shows throughout the United States. In addition The Public Broadcasting System has made a pledge drive video of his teaching called Forgive for Good.