Contemplative Science Goes to School: Improving the Context for Teaching and Learning in the Elementary School Years Through Contemplative Approaches
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ISCS 2014 – Master Lecture – Paul Ekman, B. Alan Wallace
What Constitutes Compelling Evidence, And For Whom? (B. Alan Wallace) Why Don’t We All Have Global Compassion? (Paul Ekman)
ISCS 2014 – Opening Keynote – Diana Chapman Walsh
Education for Ethical and Compassionate Leadership
ISCS Opening Keynote
Education for Ethical and Compassionate Leadership We live in a time of increasingly fragile social institutions: a political system distorted by increases in inequality; financial markets that create unsustainable debt; and an economy that drives a scarcity mentality and ever-escalating consumption, diminishing the quality of time-starved and stress-filled lives. We have crises in health care, …
Concurrent Session 4 – The Role of Empathy in Social Cognition
Social cognition theories explain how we understand others in social interactions. A new approach, interaction theory, focuses on the phenomenological and embodied nature of what it is like to connect to andunderstand others in social interaction. This theory incorporates traditional phenomenological approaches to understanding other minds, and it also gives significant status to the role …
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Roshi Joan Halifax
A pioneer in compassion-based medicine on death, dying, and our health care system
The Bright Knight of the Soul
How a 13th-century myth illuminates the contemporary mission of Mind & Life
Nine Meditations from SRI 2013
Summer Research Institute 2013
Model Behavior
A new study asks: Does meditation make us more compassionate?
Embodying Care
Three practices that help us receive, develop, and extend care
