Peter Malinowski
About Us
Our team is lead by Dr Peter Malinowski, Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Liverpool John Moores University. Peter has a first degree and a PhD in Psychology and has completed a foundational training in person-centred psychotherapy with the ‘Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftliche Gesprächspsychotherapie (GwG)' in Germany. His expertise is built on about 20 years of own meditation experience and more than ten years as authorised meditation teacher within one of the four major traditions of Tibetan Buddhism (the Karma Kagyu School of Diamond Way Buddhism). He is a much sought after teacher, regularly invited to teach meditation or give lectures on the link between science and meditation. In recent years he visited for instance Austria, Australia, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine and the United Kingdom.
Peter has developed our mindfulness @ work programmes, integrating a modern psychological and scientific approach and the ancient knowledge of improving mental functions and discovering the inherent qualitites of mind.
In his own research Peter focuses on the neuroscientific investigation of attentional functions and on physiological as well as psychological effects of meditation practice. The exciting mixture of these two perspectives becomes evident in many aspects of his work.
Peter is author of various scientific as well as more general articles and book chapters on attentional functions, the link between brain and mind and the effects of meditation, as for instance:
- Gruber, T., Malinowski, P. & Müller, M.M. (2004). Modulation of oscillatory brain activity and evoked potentials in a repetition priming task in the human EEG. European Journal of Neuroscience, 19, 1073-1082.
- Malinowski, P. (2003). Das Gehirn – Quelle des Bewusstseins? Buddhismus Heute, 35, 78-85. [in German]
- Malinowski, P. (2005). Karmapa-Meditation. In M. Fuchs, J. Jakumeit & K. Neukirchen (Eds.), Best of Buddhismus Heute 3: Praxis und Meditation (pp. 50-57). Hamburg: Buddhismus Heute Versand. [in German]
- Malinowski, P. (2006a). The brain in meditation: Part 1. Buddhism Today, 17, 6-11.
- Malinowski, P. (2006b). The brain in meditation: Part 2. Buddhism Today, 18, 28-31.
- Malinowski, P. (2007a). Der Geist, der Buddha und das Gehirn. in: A. Przybyslawski: Form und Leerheit: Buddhismus und Wissenschaft (p. 127- 149). Wuppertal: Buddhistischer Verlag. [in German]
- Malinowski, P. (2007b). The mind, the Buddha and the brain. In: A. Przybyslawski: From Buddhism to science and back (pp. 105-128). Vélez-Málaga: ITAS.
- Malinowski, P., Fuchs, S. & Müller, M.M. (2007). Sustained division of spatial attention to multiple locations within one hemifield. Neuroscience Letters, 414 (1), 65–70.
- Malinowski, P. & Hübner, R. (2001). The effect of familiarity on visual-search performance: Evidence for learned basic features. Perception & Psychophysics, 63(3), 458-463.
- Malinowski, P., Hübner, R., Keil, A., & Gruber, T. (2002). The influence of response competition on cerebral asymmetries for processing hierarchical stimuli revealed by ERP recordings. Experimental Brain Research, 144(1), 136-139.
- Müller, M. M., Andersen, S., Trujillo, N. J., Valdés-Sosa, P., Malinowski, P., & Hillyard, S. A. (2006). Feature-selective attention enhances color signals in early visual areas of the human brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the USA, 103(38), 14250-14254.
- Müller, M. M., Malinowski, P., Gruber, T., & Hillyard, S. A., (2003) Sustained division of the attentional spotlight. Nature, 424(6946), 309-312.