George Buranyi, PhD, along with colleague Sharon Driscoll offered Nova Scotia’s first Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy Group Treatment Program for Depression (over 600 participants since 2003). While with South Shore Health George developed the the provinces first Acceptance and Commitment Group Therapy Program for Depression and Anxiety, and Group for Male Survivors of Abuse. He is Board Chair of Freeman House (http://www.fswns.org/) where he offers a Mindfulness Group and is one of the facilitators for the Chester Open Mindfulness Group.