Social Change

2021 Summer Research Institute Session

Don’t Look Down: How to Build Bridges with Unlikely Allies

Dekila Chungyalpa

Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Education | Environment | Social Change

2021 Summer Research Institute Session

A Conversation with Christiana Figueres: The Case for Stubborn Optimism

Christiana Figueres, Susan Bauer-Wu

Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Environment | Social Change

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2021 Summer Research Institute Session

Panel Discussion: Science Forum: The Science of Social Change for Sustainability

Moderators: Elissa Epel
Panel: Christine Wamsler, Ed Maibach, Karen O' Brien, Elissa Epel

Topics: Environment | Interconnection | Mindfulness | Social Change

2021 Summer Research Institute Session

How to Give the Future a Chance: Mind, Earth, and Climate Change

Elke Weber

Topics: Environment | Social Change

2021 Summer Research Institute Session

The Timing of Climate Change

Kyle Whyte

Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Environment | Social Change

2020 Contemplative Research Conference Session

Meditation: “Taking a Stand by Taking Your Seat”

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Topics: Interconnection | Self & Other | Social Change

2020 Contemplative Research Conference Session

Plenary Symposium: Clinical Panel “Effects of Contemplative Training in Vulnerable Populations”

Moderators: Doris F. Chang
Panel: Linda Carlson, David J. Creswell, Cheryl Woods Giscombe, Doris F. Chang

Topics: Interconnection | Mindfulness | Social Change | Stress & Resilience

2020 Contemplative Research Conference Session

Plenary Panel: “Pathways to Resilience in the Pandemic from a Contemplative, Moral and Public Health Perspective“

Moderators: David Vago
Panel: Richard J. Davidson, Vivek Murthy, Molly Crockett, David Vago

Topics: Interconnection | Social Change | Stress & Resilience

2020 Summer Research Institute Session

Contemplating 400 Years of Inequality: A Mindfulness & Compassion Community Practice

Angel Acosta

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Interconnection | Self & Other | Social Change

2020 Summer Research Institute Session

No Place Like Home: Decolonizing our American Dreams & the Necropolitics they Bury

Jasmine Syedullah

Topics: Body-based Practices | Self & Other | Social Change | Stress & Resilience

2020 Summer Research Institute Session

The Role of Contemplative Practice in Cultivating Cultural Humility and Inclusivity in Research and Education

Kamilah Majied

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Self & Other | Social Change

2019 Summer Research Institute Session

The Quest for Serenity Among the Disenfranchised

Zenju Earthlyn Manuel

Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Mental Health | Social Change

2019 Summer Research Institute Session

Dismantling Oppression from the Inside Out

Doris F. Chang

Topics: Education | Mindfulness | Social Change

2019 Summer Research Institute Session

Othering and Belonging

john a. powell

Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection | Self & Other | Social Change

2018 International Symposium for Contemplative Research Session

Keynote Panel “Contemplative Practice Enters the Digital Age”

Moderators: Zindel Segal
Panel: Acacia Parks, Jack Kornfield, Darnell Lamont Walker, Zindel Segal

Topics: Body-based Practices | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Education | Interconnection | Mindfulness | Social Change

2018 International Symposium for Contemplative Research Session

Keynote “Toward A Transformed Vision of Contemplative Education Centering Social Justice”

Laura Rendón

Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Education | Social Change

2018 International Symposium for Contemplative Research Session

Master Lectures: Social Justice Panel: “From Awareness to Embodied Change: A Conversation Toward Contemplative Justice”

Moderators: Dominique A. Malebranche
Panel: Helen Weng, Oliver Hill, Rhonda Magee, Dominique A. Malebranche

Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Self & Other | Social Change

2018 International Symposium for Contemplative Research Session

Keynote: To Be of Benefit: The Promise of Contemplative Research and Practice

Sona Dimidjian

Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Education | Interconnection | Mental Health | Self & Other | Social Change

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2018 International Symposium for Contemplative Research Session

Social Justice Breakout Session

angel Kyodo williams

Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Self & Other | Social Change

2018 Summer Research Institute Session

Mindfulness Is Always a Multicultural Experience, Even When It Is Not

Larry Yang

Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness | Social Change

2018 Summer Research Institute Session

Neurological Identities: Challenging the Brain as the Locus of Difference

Suparna Choudhury

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Social Change

2018 Summer Research Institute Session

How Difference is Constructed and What We Can Do About It: Perspectives across Evolution, Culture, and Mindfulness Training

Bruce Knauft

Topics: Mindfulness | Self & Other | Social Change

2018 Summer Research Institute Session

Taking Care of Social Justice: Outside and In

Marisela Gomez

Topics: Body-based Practices | Social Change

2018 Summer Research Institute Session

Contemplative Neuroscience through the Lens of Diversity and Social Justice

Helen Weng

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Interconnection | Social Change

2017 Mind & Life Dialogue XXXII Session

Session I – The History and Contemporary Frame of Botho/Ubuntu: Philosophical and Sociocultural Complexities

Michael Onyebuchi Eze, Lily Mafela

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection | Self & Other | Social Change

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2017 Mind & Life Dialogue XXXII Session

Session V – Reparative Humanism: Exploring the Meaning of Ubuntu

Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Lily Mafela, Theo Sowa

Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Education | Interconnection | Social Change | Stress & Resilience

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2017 Mind & Life Dialogue XXXII Session

Session IV – The Role of Botho/Ubuntu in Modern Responses to Children’s and Women’s Rights Issues in Africa

Graça Machel, Theo Sowa

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection | Self & Other | Social Change

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2017 Mind & Life Dialogue XXXII Session

Session IV – The Biology of Care and Conflict in Groups

Carsten K.W. De Dreu, Theo Sowa

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection | Self & Other | Social Change

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2017 Mind & Life Dialogue XXXII Session

Session I – The Concept of Botho/Ubuntu: its Expression and Resilience in the Lived Experiences of Batswana and Other Indigenous Africans

Moderators: Lily Mafela
Panel: Ponatshego H.K. Kedikilwe, Lily Mafela

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection | Self & Other | Social Change

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2017 Mind & Life Dialogue XXXII Session

Session II – Traditional Healer as Medium for Addressing Afflictions and Restoration of Wholistic Order within Botho/Ubuntu Cosmology

Mandaza Kandemwa, Lily Mafela

Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection | Self & Other | Social Change | Stress & Resilience

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2017 Mind & Life Dialogue XXXII Session

Welcome

Moderators: Lily Mafela
Panel: Rupert Hambira, Raphael Sikwane, Canon Mpho Tutu Van Furth, Susan Bauer-Wu, Seretse Khama Ian Khama, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Lily Mafela

Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection | Self & Other | Social Change

2017 Summer Research Institute Session

STEMing the Tide: How Female Experts and Peers Foster Social Connections and Serve as “Social Vaccines” to Protect Young Women’s Self-Concept in STEM

Nilanjana (Buju) Dasgupta

Topics: Interconnection | Self & Other | Social Change

2017 Summer Research Institute Session

Intersubjectivity and Social Connectivity: Deepening the Work of Putting Contemplative Studies and Science In Context

Rhonda Magee

Topics: Interconnection | Social Change

2017 Summer Research Institute Session

Plenary Workshop What Roles Do Inclusivity and Social Justice Play in Contemplative Science?

Peter Grossenbacher, Rhonda Magee

Topics: Social Change

2017 Summer Research Institute Session

Advancing Prosocial Interactions on Facebook Through Interdisciplinary Research

Pete Fleming

Topics: Interconnection | Self & Other | Social Change

2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session

Master Lectures: Embodying Change: Buddhism, Feminism, and Contemplative Education

Erin McCarthy

Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Education | Social Change

2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session

Liberation Through Memory and Storytelling

Sheila Peltz Weinberg

Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness | Self & Other | Social Change

2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session

Moving Together From Colorblindness to ColorInsight: Contemplative Inquiry, Research and Practice in the Work of Transformative Justice

Rhonda Magee

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Education | Mindfulness | Self & Other | Social Change

2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session

Master Lectures: School Systems, Educational Reform and Mindfulness Training

Robert Roeser

Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Education | Mindfulness | Social Change

2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session

Letter from the Future

Sheila Peltz Weinberg

Topics: Body-based Practices | Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection | Social Change

2016 Summer Research Institute Session

What is the Role of Contemplative Practice When Social-Identity-Based Suffering and Structural Violence Has Happened?

Rhonda Magee

Topics: Education | Social Change

2016 Summer Research Institute Session

Community Engagement and Contemplative Neuroscience within a Diverse Contemplative Community

Helen Weng

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Social Change

2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session

Pre-Conference Workshop – The Awakened Educator: On Contemplative Practice, Applied Research, and Social Transformation in Education

Yvette Jackson, Robert Roeser

Topics: Education | Mindfulness | Social Change

2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session

Concurrent Session 4 – Leaning into Difference Through Contemplative Education: A Mindful Exploration of Power, Privilege, and Oppression

Deb Bopsie, Ugur Kocataskin, Regina Smith

Topics: Education | Self & Other | Social Change

2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session

Pre-conference Introduction and Opening Keynote

john a. powell

Topics: Education | Interconnection | Social Change

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2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session

Pre-Conference Workshop – From Grassroots Community Building to Generating a Movement

Leslie Booker, Kristen Zimmerman

Topics: Education | Social Change

2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session

Pre-Conference Workshop – Getting from Here to There: Perspectives on System Change in Education

Janice Jackson, Jerome Murphy

Topics: Education | Social Change

2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session

Pre-Conference Workshop – Teaching for Radical Transformation

Rhonda Magee, Maria Pacheco

Topics: Education | Mindfulness | Social Change

2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session

ISCS Opening Keynote

Diana Chapman Walsh

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Environment | Social Change

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2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session

Concurrent Session 1 – The Role of Contemplative Practice in Developing Authentic Leaders

Susan Skjei

Topics: Mindfulness | Social Change

2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session

Concurrent Session 2 – Contemplative Education: From Neoliberal to Transformational?

David Forbes

Topics: Education | Social Change

2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session

Concurrent Session 2 – A Profile Is Not a Self: A Buddhist Critique of Privilege and Power in the Construction of Social Media Platforms

Kevin Healey, Rich Potter

Topics: Self & Other | Social Change

2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session

Concurrent Session 3 – Ideals of Human Being in Contemplative Philosophy and in U.S. Law

Kris Weller

Topics: Social Change

2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session

Concurrent Session 5 – Contemplative Initiatives for Business Education

Kevin Jackson

Topics: Mindfulness | Social Change