CBD 2023: iPause Guided practice #11, Cultivating Self-awareness and transformation: A Noting & Labeling Practice with David Vago, PhD

Dr. Vago will guide participants through a noting and labeling style of meditation that can deepen self-awareness, self-regulation, self-transformation and self-transcendence. This experiential session offers an opportunity to cultivate the beneficial processes of shaping, reshaping, and transcending the 'self' that Dr. Vago will illuminate during his Oct. 31 Contemplation by Design keynote, titled "Self-transformation through Contemplative Experience: A Neurobiological Perspective."

This iPause Guide Practice is the second session in a two part series taught by David Vago. Attendees are invited to register for one or both sessions in the series, as well as for other sesisons in the Contemplaiton by Design Summit.

Dr. David Vago is an Associate Professor and visiting faculty at the Contemplative Sciences Center, University of Virginia, Director of Neurosciences and Communications for the International Society for Contemplative Research and Research Lead for the mental health and well-being platform, RoundGlass. Dr. Vago also maintains a research associate position in Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Vago is formerly the Research Director for the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Vanderbilt and core training faculty for the Vanderbilt Brain Institute and Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology, and Inflammation. Dr. Vago is also the former Senior Scientist for the Mind and Life Institute, for which he is currently a Research Fellow.

CCBD 2023: iPause Guided practice #11, Cultivating Self-awareness and transformation: A Noting & Labeling Practice with David Vago, PhD is part of the FREE Contemplation by Design Summit, Oct. 24- Nov. 2, 2023.

The full Summit schedule is posted at: http://contemplation.stanford.edu/summit. All events are FREE and online.

Registration opens September 12, 2023