Please join us for the 3rd Annual Precision Mental Health & Wellness Symposium. Tuesday, October 24, 2023 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Register here for this in-person event by October 19. We invite Stanford Faculty, Staff, Students, and Affiliates to join us. We have designed an in-person event to facilitate interaction between speakers and attendees. All …
Most people are more compassionate toward others than themselves when things go wrong. However, a large body of research shows that self-compassion is broadly associated with well-being, including emotional resilience, healthy life habits, motivation to succeed, and more satisfying personal relationships. What is self-compassion? How does it work? Can it be learned? This talk will …
Traditional stress-management exercises have emphasized a top-down approach—deal better with the stressors and the body will feel better. Breathwork and Self-Hypnosis approach the problem from the body up—change the negative interoception that amplifies stress by focusing on calming the body first. Research has shown that straightforward brief daily breathwork exercises such as cyclic sighing improves …
In this talk Tania Singer, PhD will present how to train brain, mind, heart, and social connections taking a social neuroscience perspective and show which benefits the mental training of compassion, mindfulness and other human qualities can have on mental health, resilience, and cooperation. She will present the ReSource Project, a large-scale year-long longitudinal study …
As we navigate our environments, form our world views, and create impact, we have choice and agency about how we show up. Our presence, mindset, and heartset matter. In this session, we will explore how to notice, pay attention to, and cultivate our ways of being with intention so that we connect compassion with wisdom and …
A state of well-being is not something you simply get or have. Like a garden, it is something that is cultivated over time AND must be maintained. And like gardening, well-being (aka flourishing) results over time when we practice a variety of health and wellness skills. Join this session to nourish yourself with some yummy …
Join Dr. Joe Orovecz as he presents a noontime webinar for anyone interested in learning more about suicide intervention and prevention. Joe’s presentation will include how to recognize warning signs of suicide and communicate supportively with an individual experiencing emotional distress. Joe will also share resources that can be helpful in times of crisis and …
Anyone can become more self-compassionate. We can cultivate self-compassion with contemplative practices like meditation and also by simple acts of kindness in response to stress. What are common obstacles to practice? What are two hidden factors that determine whether self-compassion practice will succeed or not? Participants will learn key principles and practices to bring self-compassion …
Between each observation we make and each thought that we think, there is a moment. With training, we can stop, become aware, and transform a moment of conflict into a moment of understanding. Grounded in the work of Marshall Rosenberg, Werner Erhardt, and Albert Ellis, Thom will share how we can differentiate between disconnecting habitual …
Today, as we are often compellingly called to acknowledge the horrors of humanity’s past and the probability of our extinction, we are frequently frightened or shamed into inactivity and despair. However, the exquisitely important call is the one that supports us to recognize what we are, and acknowledges the spiritual import of our evolution, looking …