2009 Mind & Life Dialogue XVII - Mind & Life Institute

Private dialogue

LOCATION: Ann Arbor, Michigan

Participants

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama

Honorary Board Chair

Richard J. Davidson, PhD

William James and Vilas Research Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry and Founder & Director of the Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Founder and Chief Visionary for Healthy Minds Innovations, Inc.

John Dunne, PhD

University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Brent A. Field, PhD

Fellow, Planning Committee Member

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Joseph Goldstein

Adam Engle, JD, MBA

Mind & Life Institute

Amishi Jha, PhD

University of Miami

Convening Faculty, Fellow, Grantee, Planning Committee Member, Research and Programs Council Member

Thupten Jinpa, PhD

Compassion Institute

Board Chair

Antoine Lutz, PhD

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Discussant, Fellow, Reviewer

Matthieu Ricard, PhD

Karuna-shechen

Convening Faculty, Fellow

Clifford Saron, PhD

University of California, Davis

Convening Faculty, Fellow, Planning Committee Member

Tania Singer, PhD

Fellow

B. Alan Wallace, PhD

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Jonathan Cohen