Below is the list of all grants that the Mind & Life Institute has funded to date.
Mind & Life Awarded Grants
Laurisa S. Dill Legacy Award
Compassionate Design Approaches: Co-Developing Digital Therapeutics with Emerging Adults
Denise Quesnel
Varela Grant
Integrating Tibetan Dream Yoga and Western Techniques for Lucid Dream Induction
Daniel Morris
Varela Grant
Cultivating Transformation: The Role of Contemplative Practices in Sustainability Advocacy
Johann-Justus Wachs
Varela Grant
The Urgent Need for Research in Indigenous Contemplative Science in Ecuador: A Beacon for Pluralism in Nature, Mental Health, and Well-being, with Potential Transformative Impact
Amaya Carrasco-Torrontegui, Carlos Andres Gallegos-Riofrío
PEACE Grant
Mitigating Compassion Fatigue and Promoting Resilience and Healing: Harnessing Global Experience to Empower Mental Health Providers in Conflict Zones
Liat Shklarski, Yael Latzer
Varela Grant
Protecting college students’ well-being with mindfulness-infused dance movement therapy
Malena Price
PEACE Grant
How are mindfulness meditation teachers implementing social justice literacy in their classes?
Ana Eclair, Julieta Galante
PEACE Grant: Samuel B. Hanser Visionary Grant
Skillful means and compassion in high school: Exploring a relational approach to compassion training with adolescents
Blake Colaianne
PEACE Grant
“healing attempt”: A digital music-based mindfulness intervention for Black Americans with elevated race-based anxiety
Matthew Nock, Grant Jones
PEACE Grant
Engaging stakeholders to nurture emotional resilience among environmental experts and stewards
Christine Wilson-Mendenhall
Contemplative Changemaking Grants
A B O U T – I T: Accelerating Buffalo’s Opportunity to Upsurge Transformation-from the Inside OuT
S. Ama Wray
Contemplative Changemaking Grants
Healing Landscapes: Restoring the Human Land Reciprocal Relationship
Contemplative Changemaking Grants
Conscious Climate Action through Contemplative Gardening
Contemplative Changemaking Grants
Mindfulness Trainings for Mothers and Teachers of Escuela Don Luis Braille in Asunción, Paraguay
José Godoy
Contemplative Changemaking Grants
Mind the Conflict in Hura’s Bedouin Community
Contemplative Changemaking Grants
Meditation as a Path to Peaceful Living
Contemplative Changemaking Grants
Mindfulness Practices for Indigenous Youth
Contemplative Changemaking Grants
Forest Therapy for People with Cancer in Three Public Hospitals in Chile
Contemplative Changemaking Grants
Contemplative Art Therapy for Children and Adolescents Coping with Self-Harm
Contemplative Changemaking Grants
Embracing the Heart: Yoga for Mental Health and Community Building in Dzaleka Children and Youth Refugees
Contemplative Changemaking Grants
Freedom Inside: Contemplative Practice for Women in Prison
Varela Grant
Investigating the practices, benefits and neural correlates of Tibetan Dream Yoga
Gabriela Torres Platas
Varela Grant
Mindfulness-based interventions targeting first-generation college student retention in rural environments
Natalie Lecy, Adam Hanley
Varela Grant
Exploring experiences and features of mindfulness and contemplative practices for autistic adults
Kelly Birtwell
PEACE Grant
Testing an interpersonal model of mindfulness: A randomized controlled study
Bassam Khoury, Soham Rej
PEACE Grant: Samuel B. Hanser Visionary Grant
Recovering the relational roots of compassion training: Supporting sustainable and inclusive care
Paul Condon
PEACE Grant
Nurturing compassionate responding towards oneself and others through the caregiver-child relationship: A response to the youth mental health crisis
Ryan Herringa, Christine Lathren
Varela Grant
Effects and mechanisms of smartphone-based mindfulness training on emotional well-being in at-risk college students
Polina Beloborodova
Topics: Interconnection | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
Varela Grant
Making data more accessible: Visualizing the Contemplative Coping during COVID-19 project
Quinn Conklin
Topics: Mental Health | Stress & Resilience
Varela Grant
Documenting Mayan Milpa biocultural heritage through embodied ethnoecology
Erika Diaz-Almeyda
Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Environment
Varela Grant
Merging mindfulness and climate change education
Jyoti Mishra
Topics: Environment | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
The acute impact of yoga-based stretching on inflammation and its resolution: A pilot study
Dennis Muñoz Vergara
Topics: Body-based Practices
Varela Grant
Mindfulness and the reduction of racial disparities and disproportionality in school discipline
Lindsay Romano
Topics: Education | Mindfulness | Social Change
Varela Grant
Biological and psychological mechanisms of mindfulness meditation-based interventions for depression
Matthew Sacchet
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness
PEACE Grant
An intensive longitudinal study on a Centering Meditation: Exploring the temporal dynamics of nondual awareness and prosociality
Daniel Gutierrez, Stephanie Dorais
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Mental Health | Social Change
PEACE Grant
Widening the circles of compassionate action: A social justice, school-based mindfulness intervention for youth
Sharon Lambert
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Education | Social Change
PEACE Grant
Overcoming barriers to social connection and love
Abigail Marsh
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Self & Other
PEACE Grant
Happiness Curriculum and social emotional development; the role of curricula, pedagogy, reflection and teacher student relations
Jwalin Patel, Seema Nath
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Education
PEACE Grant
Cognitive mechanisms underlying increased compassion from Mindfulness and Compassion meditation
John Edwards
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Mindfulness
PEACE Grant: Samuel B. Hanser Visionary Grant
Gratitude interventions, well-being and social networks: A 16-month longitudinal study
Sam Roberts, Peter Malinowski
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Interconnection | Self & Other
Think Tanks
Resistance through Resilience: A Compassionate Approach to Interrupting Privilege
Megan Kennedy, Ralina Joseph, Jas Moultrie, Bonnie Duran, LaNesha DeBardelaben
Topics: Mindfulness | Self & Other | Social Change
Think Tanks
Contemplative Practices for Well-being of Low-income Children and Teachers in India
Nirmal Govindaraju, Ananya Tiwari, Jyothi Ravichandran, Prachi Khandeparkar, Sai Sudha Ramakrishnan
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Education | Stress & Resilience
Think Tanks
Contemplative Environmental Mentoring Communities
Paul Wapner, Julie Tato, Matias Franchini, Matthew Hoffmann, Cristina Yumie Aoki Inoue
Topics: Education | Environment | Stress & Resilience
Think Tanks
Embodying DEI: Trauma-informed and Mindfulness-based Approaches to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Higher Education
Anita Chari, Jennifer Cannon, Monika Son, Angelica Singh
Topics: Education | Social Change | Stress & Resilience
Think Tanks
Community Suicide Prevention Project for Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
Romuald Adili Amani, Patricia Luck, Michael Krasner, Papy Lukeka, Marlin Bisimwa
Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
Think Tanks
Master Plants and Mindful Medicine: Towards Reciprocation and Recontextualization of Indigenous Practices and Western Psychedelic Research
Yuria Celidwen, Dacher Keltner, Juan Nelson Rojas, Yuniur Vazquez Rosalio, Nicole Redvers
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Self & Other | Social Change
Varela Grant
Conscious Connected Breathing for Chronic Low Back Pain: A Pilot RCT
Steven Pratscher
Topics: Body-based Practices | Mental Health | Stress & Resilience
Varela Grant
Assessing the Implementation of Integrated Mindfulness Programs in Schools: Case Study Evaluation of the Mindfulness Director Initiative
Rebecca Acabchuk
Topics: Education | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
Examining Individual Differences in Contemplative Practice Response
Tawni Tidwell
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
A Whole Trait Theory Account of Mindfulness in Adolescence
Michael Warren
Topics: Education | Interconnection | Mindfulness | Self & Other
Varela Grant
Community engagement in contemplative training and research with law enforcement
Dan Grupe
Topics: Self & Other | Social Change
Varela Grant
Music-Based Mindfulness Intervention for Black Americans
Grant Jones
Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness | Social Change | Stress & Resilience
PEACE Grant
Aware, awake, woke: How a brief mindfulness intervention fosters prosocial/ethical attitudes
Paul Verhaeghen, Shelley Aikman
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Mindfulness | Self & Other
PEACE Grant
Creation of a performance-based measure of compassion for use with children
Tyralynn Frazier, Brendan Ozawa-de Silva
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Education
PEACE Grant
Sleep’s role in realizing the prosocial benefits of contemplative practice
Ken Paller
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Mindfulness
PEACE Grant: Samuel B. Hanser Visionary Grant
How do the benefits of meditation spread? Investigating interpersonal mechanisms following practice
Christopher May, Marieke van Vugt
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Interconnection | Mindfulness
PEACE Grant
Balancing hope and fear: Resourcing climate activists for sustainable environmental justice work
Brooke D. Lavelle, Kristina Eichel
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Environment | Interconnection | Social Change
PEACE Grant
Making PEACE, one moment at a time: Mindfulness-Based Trauma Recovery for Refugees
Amit Bernstein
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Mindfulness | Self & Other | Stress & Resilience
Think Tanks
International Society for Contemplative Research
Linda Carlson, Amishi Jha, Erin McCarthy, Harold Roth, Zindel Segal, David Vago, Fadel Zeidan
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Education | Environment | Interconnection | Mental Health | Mindfulness | Self & Other | Social Change | Stress & Resilience
Think Tanks
Silent Illumination: Compassionate End-of-Life Care for Transgender Elders
Cathy Campbell
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Mindfulness | Social Change | Stress & Resilience
Think Tanks
Youth4Peace Mindfulness
Mridul Upadhyay, Romeral Ortiz Quintilla, Saumya Aggarwal, Bhargavi Raman, Paula Ramírez
Topics: Interconnection | Mental Health | Mindfulness | Self & Other
Varela Grant
Linking embodiment with the neural circuitry of mindfulness and reward
Véronique Taylor
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
Varela Grant
Mindfulness-based intervention for both parents in families with mothers who have postpartum depression and anxiety
Katarina Tabi
Topics: Interconnection | Mental Health | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
Liyan: Contemplation, well-being and ethical action in Australian Indigenous wisdom traditions
Sarah Laborde
Topics: Body-based Practices | Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection
Varela Grant
VOICES: Vocalizing Oppression and Interconnection in Contemplation and Embodiment Spaces
Richa Gawande
Topics: Body-based Practices | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness | Social Change
Varela Grant
The histories of Varela’s legacy within the contemplative sciences
Shayna Fox Lee
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
A meditation intervention for repetitive subconcussive head impact exposure in youth sports
William Flood
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
Varela Grant
Cultivating mindful schools to promote an equitable climate of learning
Vitaliya Droutman
Topics: Education | Mindfulness | Social Change | Stress & Resilience
Varela Grant
Effects of Mindful Compassion Training on social emotion regulation in daily life
Jordan Quaglia
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Interconnection | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
PEACE Grant
SHAPE JOY: A program to nurture empathic happiness in children through contemplative parenting practices
Erin Tully, Laura McKee
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Interconnection | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
PEACE Grant
From violence and victims to voices and visions: Exploring the power of mindfulness to effect lasting positive change in post-conflict settings in Northern Uganda
Sarah Ssali, Evelyn Lutwama-Rukundo
Topics: Interconnection | Mindfulness | Self & Other | Social Change
PEACE Grant
Mindfulness as a novel intervention for improving romantic relationships
Lisa Jaremka
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Interconnection | Mindfulness
Think Tanks
Critical Neuroscience and the Politics of Mindfulness Interventions for Youth: A Proposal for an Interdisciplinary Working Group
Suparna Choudhury, William Wannynn, Elena Hailwood, Steven Stanley, Jennifer Thomson
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Education | Mindfulness | Self & Other | Social Change
Think Tanks
Wise Climate Actions & Sacred Activism
Vivian Valentin, Radhule Weininger, Michael Kearney, John Foran, Kevin M Gallagher
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Environment | Interconnection | Social Change
Varela Grant
Measuring meta-awareness in the present moment
Thomas Anderson
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
Can meditation practice ameliorate the consequences of early life adversity on telomere regulation?
Quinn Conklin
Topics: Interconnection | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
Varela Grant
Exploring the uptake and potential efficacy of brief mindfulness meditation for underserved female tobacco smokers
Samantha Davis
Topics: Mindfulness | Social Change | Stress & Resilience
Think Tanks
Mechanisms of Meditation and Consequences for Clinical Practice
Marieke van Vugt
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness | Self & Other
Varela Grant
Is knowing the body knowing the mind? Mind-body coherence, interoception, and contemplative training
Sasha Sommerfeldt
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
PEACE Grant
Combining immersive virtual environments and contemplative techniques to increase empathy and decrease anger in intergroup conflicts
Yoni Levy, Eran Halperin
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Self & Other
PEACE Grant
Neurobehavioral effects of prenatal mindfulness training on maternal presence and compassionate love
Heidemarie Laurent, Larissa Duncan
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Interconnection | Mindfulness
PEACE Grant
Can emotional acceptance promote political action? Leveraging contemplative science to promote positive social action
Brett Ford, Allison Troy
Topics: Social Change | Stress & Resilience
PEACE Grant
Using a contemplative conflict resolution intervention to promote teachers’ and youth’s beneficial engagement in controversial discussions and intergroup encounters
Nava Levit-Binnun, Michal Reifen Tagar
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Education | Mindfulness | Self & Other | Social Change
Varela Grant
Transforming habits from the heart: From good intentions to reliable prosocial response
Rémi Thériault
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Interconnection
Varela Grant
Mindfulness for well-being and enhanced teaching in academia: A mindfulness-based program in South African higher education
Nuño Aguirre de Cárcer
Topics: Education | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
Think Tanks
African Contemplative Practices for Healing the Past, for Transforming the Present and for Future Flourishing
Lucy Draper-Clarke
Topics: Body-based Practices | Contemplative Wisdom | Social Change
Varela Grant
Mindfulness-to-Meaning theory and eudaimonic appraisals of positive autobiographical events
Le-Anh Dinh-Williams
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
Varela Grant
A real-time fMRI study to link subjective experience with brain network dynamics during craving
Kathleen Garrison
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
Intracranial circuits underlying Deep Slow Breathing and its palliative effects
Jose Herrero
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
Eudaimonia and sleep: Effects of a mindfulness intervention in caregivers of people with dementia
Tarah Raldiris
Topics: Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
Varela Grant
The role of Contemplative Art Education in social, emotional, and cognitive development of children with low SES
Darya Zabelina
Topics: Education | Mindfulness | Social Change
PEACE Grant
From barriers to bridges: Investigating contemplative approaches to social justice
Annemarie Gockel, Peggy O’Neill
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Social Change | Stress & Resilience
PEACE Grant
CBCT® (Cognitively-Based Compassion Training) at the hospital bedside
Jennifer Mascaro, Charles Raison
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Stress & Resilience
Think Tanks
Core Measures for Mindfulness Studies
Rick Hecht
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness
Mind & Life 1440 Grant
The effect of mindfulness training on executive function and social cognition in the developing brain: An EEG study in preschoolers practicing mindfulness
Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Education | Mindfulness
Mind & Life 1440 Grant
Teaching mindfulness in schools: A mixed method study of teachers’ mindfulness practice, professional knowledge, perspectives and experiences
Polina Mischenko
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Education | Mindfulness
Mind & Life 1440 Grant
Developing and testing the effectiveness of a self-compassion intervention for beginning teachers
Rebecca Nyquist Baelen, Brian Galla
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Education | Stress & Resilience
Mind & Life 1440 Grant
Tracking the longitudinal real-world socioemotional benefits of mindfulness meditation training in youth
Emily Shih
Topics: Education | Mindfulness
Think Tanks
Designing and implementing a contemplative practice-based program for ex-combatants in Colombia’s peacebuilding process
Juan Santoyo, Juliana M Santoyo, Alejandro Chaoul, Brooke D. Lavelle
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Social Change
Varela Grant
Investigating the impact of yoga on brain aging: A randomized controlled trial
Joseph Therriault
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mental Health
Varela Grant
The impact of a mindfulness-based intervention on opioid misuse during pregnancy: A mixed methods pilot RCT
Sarah Priddy
Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
An action phase model of compassion: Predictors and effects of helping goal commitment
Lauren Ministero
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Mental Health | Self & Other
Think Tanks
Microphenomenology and Contemplative Experience: Exploring the Intra- and Intersubjective Dynamics of Language and Embodied Experience
Andreas Roepstorff, Claire Petitmengin, Anne Klein
Think Tanks
Embodiment, Contemplative Practice, and Equality: Developing a Programmatic and Research Agenda for Reducing Ingroup Bias through Embodied Inquiry and Contemplative Practice
Bo Forbes, Norman Farb, David Vago, Christine Wilson-Mendenhall
Topics: Body-based Practices | Self & Other | Social Change
Think Tanks
Educating the Heart: Cultivating Compassionate Global Citizens
Caroline Murphy
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Education
Think Tanks
Establishing Contemplative Studies Programs: Practices, Priorities and Problems
Harold Roth, Anne Klein, Carolyn Jacobs, Mirabai Bush, John Dunne, Judith Simmer-Brown, David Germano
Topics: Education
Think Tanks
Conceptualizing Compassion: A Heuristic Model
Brooke D. Lavelle, Paul Condon, John Dunne
Topics: Compassion & Empathy
Varela Grant
Navigating the end of life among Tibetans in exile: A transnational ethnographic study
Sara Lewis
Topics: Contemplative Wisdom
Think Tanks
Socially-Engaged Mindfulness Interventions (SEMI) and the Promise of Making Refuge
Ronald Purser, Edwin Ng, Zack Walsh
Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection | Mindfulness | Social Change
Mind & Life 1440 Grant
(Epi)genetic biomarkers of a school-based mindfulness program
Eric Thibodeau
Topics: Education | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
Mind & Life 1440 Grant
Mindfulness in the context of intractable intergroup conflicts: Can mindfulness practice help overcome barriers to conflict resolution?
Eran Halperin, Ruthie Pliskin
Topics: Mindfulness | Self & Other | Stress & Resilience
Mind & Life 1440 Grant
Evaluation of school-based mindfulness curriculum “Learning to BREATHE”
Joshua Felver
Topics: Education | Mindfulness
Mind & Life 1440 Grant
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and early life abuse: Does attenuating inflammation reduce depressive symptoms and interpersonal dysfunction?
Tory Eisenlohr-Moul, Erin Walsh
Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
Mind & Life 1440 Grant
A randomized control trial of an in-person vs. ehealth mindfulness-based intervention for adolescents with chronic illness
Nicholas Chadi
Topics: Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
Mind & Life 1440 Grant
Self-compassion in adolescence: Validation and neural correlates
Michael Crowley
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Education | Self & Other
Mind & Life 1440 Grant
Heartfulness in education: The effects of mindful self-compassion training on teachers’ wellbeing, student-teacher relationships, and school climate
Kamila Dvorakova
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Education
Mind & Life 1440 Grant
Does ongoing practice of mindfulness meditation promote healthy relationships?
Norman Farb
Topics: Interconnection | Mental Health | Mindfulness
Mind & Life 1440 Grant
Engaged mindfulness in Vietnam
Thao Le
Topics: Interconnection | Mindfulness | Social Change
Mind & Life 1440 Grant
Mind/body awareness workshop for teachers living in post-conflict Northern Uganda
Kyle Matsuba
Topics: Body-based Practices | Education | Mental Health
Mind & Life 1440 Grant
The impact of mindfulness meditation training on social integration and well-being in first-semester college students
Aminda O'Hare
Topics: Education | Interconnection | Mental Health | Mindfulness
Mind & Life 1440 Grant
Impacts of yoga on self-regulation and emotion regulation in preschool education
Roxanne Rashedi
Topics: Body-based Practices | Education | Stress & Resilience
Think Tanks
Concepts and Nonconceptuality in Buddhist Philosophy
Evan Thompson, Robert Sharf
Topics: Contemplative Wisdom
Varela Grant
Socio-emotional effects of Insight Meditation retreat participation on practitioners and their close others
Jennifer Pokorny
Varela Grant
The effects of mindfulness meditation on pain and heart rate variability
Adrienne Adler
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
Creating implicit and phenomenological assessments of nonjudgmental orientation to experience
Jessica Peters
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Self & Other
Varela Grant
Neural and endocrine mechanisms mediating prosociality
Noopur Amin
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Interconnection | Self & Other
Varela Grant
The Meta-Awareness Task (MAT): A novel behavioral measurement methodology of mindfulness
Yuval Hadash
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
Dissecting de-automatization: The effect of mindfulness training on unconscious habit formation
Adam Hanley
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness
Mind & Life 1440 Grant
Developing an objective measure of mindfulness in daily life
Angelina Polsinelli
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness
Mind & Life 1440 Grant
Impacts of maternal mindfulness on mother-infant biological integrity
Benjamin Nelson
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Interconnection | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
Mind & Life 1440 Grant
Studying interpersonal physiological attunement in experienced mindfulness practitioners
Yulia Golland, Nava Levit-Binnun
Topics: Interconnection | Mindfulness
Mind & Life 1440 Grant
Assessing beneficial relationship factors that support contemplative development
Willoughby Britton, Jared Lindahl
Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection
Mind & Life 1440 Grant
Assessing the effect of contemplative-based training in self awareness, self-regulation, prosocial attitudes and ethical decision making in employees of private or public organizations in Mexico
Laura Emiliana Rodriguez Morales
Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection | Stress & Resilience
Mind & Life 1440 Grant
Mindfulness, loving-kindness, & compassion meditation in group couples therapy for combat veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan and their spouses
Anthony King
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Mental Health | Mindfulness
Think Tanks
Varieties of Contemplative Experience
Willoughby Britton, Jared Lindahl
Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Mental Health
Varela Grant
The effects of mindfulness on gender stereotype threat
Jeff Yanli Lin
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Social Change
Varela Grant
Synchronizing brains through loving-kindness meditation
Yoona Kang
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Interconnection
Varela Grant
Mindfulness for pre-service teachers
Matthew Hirshberg
Topics: Education | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
Varela Grant
Mindfulness and the neurophysiological substrates of fear conditioning
Véronique Taylor
Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
Varela Grant
Is mindful meditation effective and culturally relevant for Native people?
Jeffrey Proulx
Topics: Mindfulness | Social Change
Mind & Life 1440 Grant
Impacts of tailored mindfulness training for maternal caregivers on intrapersonal wellbeing and interpersonal experiences
Ashley Mason
Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
Mind & Life 1440 Grant
A test of the efficacy of compassion cultivation training for veterans with PTSD
Marcel O. Bonn-Miller
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Mental Health
Mind & Life 1440 Grant
How do thoughts about social closeness promote health and well-being?
Brett Major
Topics: Interconnection | Mental Health | Stress & Resilience
Mind & Life 1440 Grant
Bringing relief to caregivers: Evaluating the effects of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction on relational quality, psychological well-being and cognitive function in caregivers of patients with dementia
Alexandra Fiocco
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness
Mind & Life 1440 Grant
Using mindfulness meditation training to transform social relationships among lonely older adults: A randomized controlled trial
David J. Creswell
Topics: Interconnection | Mindfulness
Mind & Life 1440 Grant
Compassion training for emotional numbing in post-traumatic stress disorder
Jordan Kohn, Jennifer Mascaro
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Mental Health
Varela Grant
Mindfulness and beyond: A qualitative study of advanced Mahasi meditators’ experience
Sean Pritchard
Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Mental Health | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
The effects of contemplative training on brain structure and function in 6-year-old children
Sarah Short
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health
Varela Grant
The role of endogenous opioidergic systems in mindfulness meditation-related pain relief
Fadel Zeidan
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
Varela Grant
Examining the relationship of meditation experience to the neural correlates of spontaneous emotion regulation
Kathrine Shepherd
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
Varela Grant
What is it about yoga? Isolating the effect of structured movement sequences on cognition, interoception, and stress markers
Chivon Powers, Laura Schmalzl
Varela Grant
Neural dynamics of attention and meta-attention during meditation
John Plass
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
Does meditation cause pain relief through endogenous opioids?
Lisa May
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Stress & Resilience
Varela Grant
Mechanisms of mindfulness and stress resilience: A mobile app mindfulness training study
Emily Lindsay
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
Varela Grant
Mindfulness Intervention to Study the Neurobiology of Depression (MIND)
Rachel Jacobs
Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
Varela Grant
Neural mechanisms of self-transcendence: Insights from noninvasive brain stimulation
Eileen Cardillo
Mind & Life Contemplative Studies Fellowship
Addressing moral distress in clinical practice: A contemplative, neuroscience-based intervention
Cynda Hylton Rushton
Mind & Life Contemplative Studies Fellowship
The roles of constitutive contexts in contemplative practice
David Germano, Shauna Shapiro
Topics: Contemplative Wisdom
Mind & Life Contemplative Studies Fellowship
Subjective transformation and actual individual practice among at-risk populations engaged in cognitively-based compassion training
Chikako Ozawa-de Silva
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Stress & Resilience
Mind & Life Contemplative Studies Fellowship
Introspective reliability: Synergizing Buddhist and contemporary viewpoints
Monima Chadha
Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness
Mind & Life Contemplative Studies Fellowship
Contemplative practice, Hasidic modernism and contemporary psychology
Don Seeman
Topics: Contemplative Wisdom
Mind & Life Contemplative Studies Fellowship
Building a new theory of contemplative interactions for healthcare
Anthony Back
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Stress & Resilience
Mind & Life Contemplative Studies Fellowship
Meditation, concepts and de-reification: Investigation of possible links between contemplative and neurocognitive perspectives
Dusana Dorjee
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mental Health
Think Tanks
Interoception and Contemplative Practice
Catherine Kerr, Norman Farb, Wendy Hasenkamp
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness | Self & Other | Stress & Resilience
Mind & Life 1440 Grant
Mindfulness in interpersonal judgments and relationships in daily life
Carrie Adair
Topics: Interconnection | Mental Health | Mindfulness
Mind & Life 1440 Grant
Trauma-Informed Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction to promote intra- and interpersonal flourishing among survivors of traumatic violence
Amber Kelly, Eric Garland
Topics: Interconnection | Mental Health | Mindfulness
Mind & Life 1440 Grant
Contemplative practice, emotional well-being, and the transformation of hostility in the lab and real world
Paul Condon
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection | Stress & Resilience
Varela Grant
Intrinsic neural characteristics predict the effectiveness of MBSR training on fear extinction and stress reduction
Xiaodan (Diane) Yan
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
Varela Grant
Exploring mindfulness induced state and trait alterations in “self” networks: A combined fMRI-MEG neurophenomenological study
Aviva Berkovich-Ohana
Topics: Mindfulness | Self & Other
Varela Grant
The varieties of contemplative experience
Chris Kaplan, Nathan Fisher
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mental Health
Varela Grant
Effects of yogic breathing on sleep and well-being in college students: Exploration of psychophysiological mechanisms
Michael Goldstein
Topics: Body-based Practices | Mental Health | Stress & Resilience
Varela Grant
Compassion cultivation for physicians-in-training
Elizabeth Goodman Gurfein
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Stress & Resilience
Varela Grant
Neural effects of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy in remitted patients with chronic history of depression
Marina Lopez-Sola
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health
Varela Grant
Self-compassion and the need of self-preservation
Dev Ashish
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Mental Health
Varela Grant
From intra- to inter-personal: Effects of MBSR on emotion regulation in social contexts
Jordan Quaglia
Topics: Interconnection | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
Varela Grant
The effect of MBSR on episodic and prospective memory function in aging adults
Robert Goodman
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health
Mind & Life Contemplative Studies Fellowship
Nonattachment and Intergroup Harmony
Baljinder Sahdra
Topics: Interconnection | Self & Other
Mind & Life Contemplative Studies Fellowship
Where’s the Breath? An Interdisciplinary Investigation of Breath Awareness Placement
Harold Roth
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness
Mind & Life Contemplative Studies Fellowship
Fieldwork on Contemplative Practices with High Risk Preschoolers: Children’s Empathic, Compassionate, and Self-Regulatory Behaviors
Julie Poehlmann
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Education | Mindfulness
Mind & Life Contemplative Studies Fellowship
Meditation in Context
David McMahan
Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness
Mind & Life Contemplative Studies Fellowship
Philosophical and historical accounts for the neuroscientific investigation of human spirituality
Franco Fabbro
Varela Grant
Differential effects of empathy and compassion on emotional and behavioral processes
Jenny Liu
Varela Grant
Compassion- and mindfulness-based meditation: Nurturing pro-social behavior and social networks
Paul Condon
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
The eCALM Study: eTherapy for Cancer AppLying Mindfulness
Kristin Zernicke
Topics: Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
Varela Grant
Brain mechanisms distinguishing mindfulness meditation-related pain relief from placebo analgesia
Fadel Zeidan
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
Effects of open monitoring on visual search: Evidence from eye-tracking, electrophysiology, and phenomenology
Michael Lifshitz
Varela Grant
Can supercharged memory consolidation during sleep boost compassion and pro-sociality?
Jessica Creery
Varela Grant
An investigation of the impact of mindfulness training on the development of attention and working memory in children
Julia Ann Keller
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Education | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
The neurophenomenology of mindfulness: Metacognitive awareness as a mechanism for adaptive change
Micah Allen
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
Effects of training in loving‐kindness meditation on underlying approach and avoidance motivations
Jessica Flynn
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Mental Health
Varela Grant
Differential effects of mindfulness and yogic breathing on cognitive and emotional processes
Andrea Hayes
Topics: Body-based Practices | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
Varela Grant
Do white matter changes contribute to improved fear extinction following mindfulness training?
Britta Hölzel
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
Varela Grant
Breath counting: Developing a behavioral measure of mindfulness
Daniel Levinson
Topics: Mindfulness
Varela Grant
The effects of mindfulness meditation training in early childhood
Kristen Lyons
Topics: Education | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
EEG spectral signatures of the impact of mindfulness meditation on perceptual-motor awareness and self-agency
Jose Raul Naranjo
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
Exploring the effects of mindfulness meditation on self-control failure
Autumn Wiley
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
Mindful interactions: effects on couple conflict-related stress and relationship function
Shari Cordon
Varela Grant
Focused attention versus open monitoring meditation and self-referential brain processing
Rael Baruch Cahn
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
Mindfulness and response inhibition: Behavioral, neural and subjective correlates in smoking cessation
Cecilia Westbrook
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
Relational processes in learning mindfulness: An action-theoretical perspective
Brenda Dyer
Topics: Education | Interconnection | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
Development of mindfulness-based real-time fMRI neurofeedback for smoking cessation: A preliminary study
Zev Schuman-Olivier
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
Effects of short-term mindfulness intervention on depression and immunity
Erin Walsh
Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
Investigating the neural basis of spontaneous thought with real-time fMRI and contemplative mental training
Melissa Ellamil
Varela Grant
The impact of evaluative vs. experiential self-focus on emotional response
Emma Lawrence
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
How mindfulness impacts selective attention during emotional challenge
Norman Farb
Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
Varela Grant
The effectiveness of MBSR as an intervention among elderly family caregivers of persons with neurocognitive disorders
Roisin O'Donnell
Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
Varela Grant
Mindfulness training for parents and children
Jessica Tipsord
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Interconnection | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
Hedonic sustainability in the BOLD response to selfish and altruistic rewards
David Perlman
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Stress & Resilience
Varela Grant
Nonattachment, group identity, and memory of historical injustices
Baljinder Sahdra
Topics: Interconnection | Self & Other | Social Change
Varela Grant
Exploring the role of self-compassion in the establishment and maintenance of a meditation practice
Meredith Terry
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom
Varela Grant
Identifying the mechanisms of action in MBCT
Sean Barnes
Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
The interrelationship between cognitive control and affect in an intensive Vipassana retreat
Anthony Zanesco, Brandon King
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
School-based mindfulness training in middle school and college students
Ellen Darling, Nathaniel Lepp
Topics: Education | Mental Health | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
The FACE Study: Faces, Attention, Compassion, and Emotion
Teresa Sivilli
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Stress & Resilience
Varela Grant
Real-time dynamics of cognitive processing during meditation: A subject-driven fMRI investigation
Wendy Hasenkamp
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
The neural and behavioral correlates of a neurofeedback-based metta meditation training
Susanne Leiberg
Varela Grant
An objective comparison of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for the treatment of insomnia in individuals with cancer using wrist actigraphy: A randomized, non-inferiority trial
Sheila Garland
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
Varela Grant
Examining the psychological effects of intensive meditation retreats for teenage youth
Brian Galla
Topics: Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
Varela Grant
Mindfulness-based kindness curriculum for preschool children: A replication and extension
Lisa Flook
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Education | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
Changing our perception of others through compassion meditation
Julie Brefczynski-Lewis
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Self & Other
Varela Grant
Meditation and nonlinear neurodynamics: From state to trait
Aviva Berkovich-Ohana
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
Study to design and assess the validity of the Emory Meditation Practice, Tradition, and Experience (EMPTE) scale
Brooke D. Lavelle
Topics: Contemplative Wisdom
Varela Grant
How does MBSR improve psychological functioning for cancer patients?
Laura Labelle
Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
Varela Grant
Does mindfulness training change the processing of social threat?
Britta Hölzel
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
Varela Grant
Measurement and correlates of nonattachment
Baljinder Sahdra
Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Self & Other
Varela Grant
Neural effects of mindfulness training on adults with ADD
Zev Rosen
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
MBSR for the treatment of pediatric chronic pain
Kristen Jastrowski
Topics: Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
Varela Grant
Neuropeptide levels in meditation
Elizabeth A. Hoge
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
Varela Grant
Biopsychosocial assessment of a mindfulness-oriented treatment of alcohol dependence
Eric Garland
Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
Effects of mindfulness meditation on cell aging processes
Jennifer Daubenmeier
Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
Varela Grant
Different approaches to emotion regulation: MBSR and CBT in the treatment of anxiety disorders
Joanna Arch
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
Mindfulness training as treatment and mechanistic probe for drug addiction
Judson Brewer
Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
Varela Grant
Using MBCT to prevent relapse to suicidality in patients suffering from ongoing depressive symptoms
Catherine Crane, Thorsten Barnhofer
Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
Neural Correlates of PTSD Prevention with MBSR in Iraq Veterans
Sandra DiVitale
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
Developing a computational model for meditation using cross cortical synchrony in EEG data
Manish Saggar
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
Regulating emotion in social situations: An fMRI study of experienced Buddhist meditators
Deidre Kolarick Reis
Varela Grant
Mindfulness-based interventions for depression: Possible neurophysiological mechanisms
Willoughby Britton
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
Feasibility, clinical acceptability, and efficacy of a mindfulness-based group therapy intervention for PTSD
Anthony King
Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
Neural systems supporting interoceptive awareness in experienced and beginning meditators
Sahib Khalsa
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
Neural effects of mindfulness meditation training on working memory
Adam Safron
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
Investigating the correlates and consequences of directed loving-kindness meditation
Cendri Hutcherson, Emma Seppala
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Interconnection
Varela Grant
Dissociable neural modes of self-reference and emotion regulation
Norman Farb
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
Varela Grant
Establishing mindfulness and mind wandering as mediators of patient benefit in MBCT
Durwin Foster
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
Varela Grant
The neurobiology of mindfulness meditation for the control of pain
Joshua Grant
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
Effectiveness of the Mindfulness Education Program on children’s social-emotional competence, psychological well-being, and stress reactivity
Molly Stewart Lawlor
Topics: Education | Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
Varela Grant
Mindfulness meditation for reduction of smoking craving: An fMRI investigation
Hilary Tindle
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
Investigation of attentional modulation in visual cortex during meditation
Brian Pasley
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, well-being and immune changes among rheumatoid arthritis patients
Elizabeth Kimbrough Pradhan
Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
Varela Grant
Neural correlates of meta-consciousness events as experienced during Zen meditation practice
Arnaud Delorme
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
Cultivating Emotional Balance Classroom Project
Patricia (Tish) Jennings
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Education | Mental Health | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
Mindfulness-based interventions for depression: Possible neurophysiological mechanisms
Willoughby Britton
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
Understanding the neural correlates of attention
Ryan Canolty
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
Effects of mindfulness meditation training on attentional control in neutral and emotional contexts
Catherine Ortner
Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
Contemplative Changemaking Grants
Freedom is being Present
Contemplative Changemaking Grants
Mindfulness for high-demand, high-stress cohorts in wartime Ukraine
Contemplative Changemaking Grants
Project FORE – Fostering Resilience & Peace
Contemplative Changemaking Grants
Nature and Spirituality: A Muslim Perspective
Contemplative Changemaking Grants
Peer Outdoor Education for Mental Health (POEM)
Contemplative Changemaking Grants
Transformative Theatre: Empowering Women’s Social Reintegration in Chilean Prisons through Mindfulness and Self-Compassion
Contemplative Changemaking Grants
Inspiring the Mayan children and youth of Chiapas with mindful practices
Contemplative Changemaking Grants
HEALthy ME – Mental Wellbeing of Young People at Schools in Macedonia
Contemplative Changemaking Grants
Contemplative practices in palliative care
Contemplative Changemaking Grants
Weaving Wellness: Training Hairdressers as Mindful Mental Health Allies for women with psychological Challenges.
