How do we place ourselves in the climate crisis? Are we at home? Do we search for roots denied us or taken away? Can we quiet our busy minds and bodies to receive more than visitors do; to hear the plants and trees, to sense another, to protect and love as do inhabitants? How can …
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Meditation: “A Guided Compassion Meditation”
Drawing on CCT (Compassion Cultivation Training), a protocol developed at Stanford and widely studied, in this session Thupten Jinpa will lead through a guided practice focusing on two key themes: Setting your Intention and Connecting with Our Common Humanity. The guided practice will be interspersed with brief explanations of key constructs, their rationale, and underlying theory of change, …
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Panel Discussion: “What Does Spirituality Mean To US?”
People across the U.S. have shared their personal experiences and perspectives about spirituality and religion in a national research study completed this year. Commissioned by the Fetzer Institute, the study aimed to learn more about the beliefs, behaviors, and benefits that undergird people’s spiritual and religious identification, and their relationship to community and civic life. …
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Plenary Panel: “Pathways to Resilience in the Pandemic from a Contemplative, Moral and Public Health Perspective“
This plenary session will consider the key major challenges we face during and after the pandemic and social unrest from the lens of social, affective and contemplative neuroscience and from public health. Insights from these disciplines will be applied to consider possible interventions and solutions for some of the key challenges we face today. The …
Plenary Symposium: Clinical Panel “Effects of Contemplative Training in Vulnerable Populations”
This session will feature talks on how contemplative and mindfulness-based training can help to enhance social connectivity and aid in the development of individual and societal flourishing in vulnerable and marginalized populations, including older adults, African Americans and people living with chronic medical conditions. David Creswell Mindfulness training to decrease loneliness and enhance social connectivity …
Meditation: “Taking a Stand by Taking Your Seat”
In this meditation, Jon will guide us in taking up residency in awareness and apprehending the vast scope of human experience and interconnectedness in the only moment they can be apprehended—this one—and point out mindfulness’s individual, social, and global potential for optimizing well being and healing, including racial, economic, and global injustices and inequalities.
On the Dalai Lama’s Birthday, a New Film Calls Us to Embrace Our Shared Humanity
To celebrate the Dalai Lama’s birthday on July 6th, Mind & Life is pleased to announce the release of a new film, “Evolution of the Heart.” The film pays tribute to the Dalai Lama’s lifelong spirit of inquiry and values he has long championed: compassion, forgiveness, cooperation, altruism, and kindness. The documentary chronicles profound conversations …
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Evolution of the Heart
On July 6, Mind & Life will honor the Dalai Lama’s birthday with the release of “Evolution of the Heart.” The 36-minute film chronicles conversations between the Dalai Lama, evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson, and social scientist Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela.
The Hollywood Compassion Coalition: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Most would agree, today’s media diet is lacking in nutrition. Thanks to globalization and advancing technology, viewers—whether in Nairobi, New York, or New Delhi—now watch the same film premieres on the same night. This boom in the entertainment industry has many asking whether we have a responsibility to produce content that contributes to both individual …
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2021 Online Speaker Series
This six-day speaker series explores how the union of contemplative traditions, indigenous wisdom, and science can lead to greater awareness of the interconnectedness of all life, and reignite our collective responsibility as stewards of our planetary future.
