This workshop is offered at two diferent times—giving you options for attending. Choose to participate from 8:30-9:30am OR from 10:00-11:00am. Location: To be announced Experience how contemplative practices strengthen our capacity to effectively engage in the complex work of creating health and well-being for all individuals, communities, countries, and the planet. “iPause to Thrive, Create, …
Events: 1st April 2025
This workshop is offered at two diferent times—giving you options for attending. Choose to participate from 8:30-9:30am OR from 10:00-11:00am. Location: To be announced Experience how contemplative practices strengthen our capacity to effectively engage in the complex work of creating health and well-being for all individuals, communities, countries, and the planet. “iPause to Thrive, Create, …
“The future is dark. Is this the darkness of the tomb—or the darkness of the womb?" Valarie Kaur reframes the present moment in history as one of transition and calls on us to show up in the labor of birthing a beloved community. Through her renowned storytelling, teaching, and embodied inquiry, Valarie will help us …
What creates a new era? We’re familiar with change induced by outside forces: a technological advance, a natural disaster. But when we as mere mortals wish to shift the norms of a society towards a regenerated common life (less a devolved one), what’s at play when it works? Anne Snyder, editor-in-chief of Comment Magazine and …
Please join us for the 3rd Annual Precision Mental Health & Wellness Symposium. The Stanford Center for Precision Mental Health and Wellness and Stanford's Major Laboratories and Clinical Translational Neuroscience Incubator are excited to present the 3rd Annual Precision Mental Health & Wellness Symposium on Tuesday, October 24, from 9am to 5pm. We invite Stanford Faculty, …
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 …
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 …