About Jason Waterman

Jason is a long-time practitioner and teacher who aims to incorporate the Dharma into all aspects of his life, particularly his career as a social worker and psychotherapist.

He first gave meditation a shot in college as just another coping mechanism for increasingly untenable stress and anxiety. Only a few years later, he found himself living in Southeast Asia, practicing throughout the region, including a four-month stay serving at a retreat center in Cambodia and attending silent meditation retreats lasting up to six weeks at a time. 

He completed his two-year Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program led by renowned teachers Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield, certified by University of California Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center and International Mindfulness Teachers Association. He continues to go on silent retreats and has completed courses such as Mindful Self-Compassion, Compassion Cultivation Training, and Dassanaya Buddhist Community’s 6-month Approach to Nibanna with Ayya Dhammadipa for Dharma teachers.

Jason has taught in a variety of settings, including the DC Department of Corrections Central Detention Facility, Fortune 500 companies, activist organizations, women’s shelters, Montgomery County Hospice, Minds Incorporated, middle schools, The Lotus Room, children’s camps/after-school programs, Dassanaya Buddhist Community, Insight on the Inside, the Center for Mindful Living, and the Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC. He has co-led daylong retreats for 35+ people and facilitates a Dharma Therapists peer group.

He has promoted meditation and Buddhist teachings through his employment with A Skeptic’s Path to Enlightenment, Vagabond Temple, the Calm app, and his own organization, Seeds We Water. He has been influenced and inspired by teachers such as Buddhadasa Bikkhu, S.N. Goenka, Joseph Goldstein, Ajahn Chah, Bhante G, and more recently, Ayya Dhammadipa.

He is a licensed social worker in North Carolina and Maryland (LCSWA/LMSW) working as a psychotherapist at The Woolf Center. Jason is a former NCAA Division One Academic All-American athlete, Fulbright Grant recipient, husband and cat-dad.