Conversations on Compassion with Eckhart Tolle CCARE at Stanford University 2024-10-22 | Conversations on Compassion with Eckhart Tolle
Applied Compassion is Changing the World - ACT Open House & Panel Discussion CCARE at Stanford University 2023-11-10 | How is compassion changing the world? Find out now!Applied Compassion Training (ACT) at CCARE Stanford Open HouseReal People. Real Projects. Real Change.Presented by the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) Applied Compassion Training Featured Speakers:Dr. James Doty, Founder and Director of CCARE at Stanford UniversityACT Founders and Directors: Monica Hanson, Neelama Eyres, and Robert CusickKristine Claghorn, ACT Marketing & Communications SpecialistAnd distinguished panelists: Abhishek SharmaAtul GargBrooke CassoffCyndi Weekes Bradley, MATFelix YeraceIan Ong, CMSAC, RegCLRJeff JacobsJennie MoreauMary HaunLisa Kerr, PhDNancy Lee, MA, LPC, NCC, CCFPNanhi SinghOlympia AmmonDr. Pitsi KewanaSuit Fong ChanLearn about ACT @ https://ccare.stanford.edu/education/applied-compassion-training/
Dr. James Doty shares how Applied Compassion is changing the world through CCAREs ACT program CCARE at Stanford University 2023-10-26 | Dr. James Doty, CCARE Founder and Director, shares about the importance of CCARE's Applied Compassion Training program during the live online event, Applied Compassion is Changing the World.Learn more about ACT @ https://ccare.stanford.edu/education/applied-compassion-training/
Stanford University Applied Compassion Training (ACT) CCARE at Stanford University 2022-11-18 | Hear about the ACT program from recent participants. Learn more @ https://ccare.stanford.edu/education/applied-compassion-training/
Meng-Wu Lecture featuring Prof. Dr. Tania Singer CCARE at Stanford University 2022-07-19 | Meng-Wu Lecture featuring Prof. Dr. Tania SingerFrom Inner Change Towards a More Caring Economy: The Neuroscience of Motivation, Care and CompassionAbstract: In the last decades our society has faced many global and economic problems that call for new solutions and change. Emerging fields such as affective-social and contemplative neurosciences as well as neuro-economics have produced promising findings that can help inform such necessary changes as well as inform new economic models which integrate psychological and biological knowledge about human motivation and decision making. For example, plasticity research has suggested that training of mental capacities such as compassion and care is indeed effective and leads to changes in brain functions associated with increases in mental health, well-being and pro-social behaviors and cooperation. Evidence for the trainability and alterability of what economists have postulated being fixed and context-insensitive preferences questions classic views of homo economicus and call for the development of new decision-making models based on care and affiliation and not only on consumption motivation. In this talk, she will introduce the idea of caring economics and review findings from two mental training studies: the Resource Project, a large-scale multi-methodological one-year secular mental training program that aims at the cultivation of attention and social skills such as empathy, compassion and perspective taking, and the CovSocial Project, focusing on assessing changes in mental health, social cohesion and resilience throughout the Covid19 pandemic in 2020/21/22. She will show how such mental trainings can indeed foster resilience and social skills as well as cooperation and human prosociality. Further she will show how 10-weeks mental online training including 12-minutes daily partner-based practices, so called Contemplative Dyads, can actually reduce increasing levels of loneliness and stress elicited by multiple consecutive lock-downs during the Covid19 pandemic and increase social connectedness and resilience. She will discuss these findings in light of their relevance for caring economics models aiming at reintroducing secular ethics and care in society emphasizing the need to step into a global responsibility through personal change.About Prof. Dr. Tania SingerTania Singer is the scientific head of the Social Neuroscience Lab of the Max Planck Society in Berlin, Germany. After doing her PhD in Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, she became a Post-doctoral Fellow at the same institution, at the Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, and at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience in London. In 2006, she first became Assistant Professor and later Inaugural Chair of Social Neuroscience and Neuroeconomics as well as Co-Director of the Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research at the University of Zurich. Between 2010 and 2018 Tania Singer was the director of the department of Social Neurosciences at the Max Planck Institute of Cognitive and Human Development in Leipzig. Tania Singer is author of more than 150 scientific articles and book chapters and edited together with Mathieu Ricard the two books Caring Economics (2015) and Power and Care (2019).Her research focus is on the hormonal, neuronal, and developmental basis of human sociality, empathy and compassion, and their malleability through mental training. Learning from contemplative traditions from the East, she has initiated and headed one of the largest meditation-based secular mental training studies on compassion, the ReSource project. Linking such findings to the field of (neuro)economics, she developed a Caring Economics approach, developing new models of economy based on care and social cohesion. She is also heading the CovSocial project, a large-scale study on stress, resilience and social cohesion in Berliners during the corona crisis. Throughout her life she has explored how inner change can bring about societal change putting science in the service of societal transformation. Web: taniasinger.de
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar leads a guided meditation CCARE at Stanford University 2022-05-12 | This guided meditation took place during the Social Connection, Compassion, and Youth Mental Health panel with US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, and Dr. James Doty, moderated by Emma Seppälä at The George Washington University on May 6, 2022.
Social Connection, Compassion, and Youth Mental Health CCARE at Stanford University 2022-05-12 | An inspiring conversation with distinguished panelists US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, and Dr. James Doty, moderated by Emma Seppälä at The George Washington University on May 6, 2022.Amid the ongoing mental health crisis made more acute by the global pandemic, this distinguished panel explores the future of mental health, work, and life in general in the U.S., giving young people tips and tools to be happy now, and into the future.
LIVE Webcast at George Washington University: Social Connection, Compassion, & Youth Mental Health CCARE at Stanford University 2022-05-06 | View this inspiring conversation with distinguished panelists US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, and Dr. James Doty, moderated by Emma Seppälä.Amid the ongoing mental health crisis made more acute by the global pandemic, this distinguished panel explores the future of mental health, work, and life in general in the U.S., giving young people tips and tools to be happy now, and into the future.
Compassion In Action Showcase CCARE at Stanford University 2022-04-20 | Celebrating the 2021 Applied Compassion Training (ACT) Graduates
Applied Compassion Training (ACT) OPEN HOUSE CCARE at Stanford University 2021-11-02 | How is compassion changing the world? Find out now!Applied Compassion Training (ACT) at CCARE Stanford Open HouseFeaturing Dr. James Doty, ACT Co-Founders Robert Cusick, Neelama Eyres, and Monica Hanson, and ACT Alumni Dr. Al’ai Alavrez, Dana Hoshino Sr. Learning Consultant in Instructional Design, and Chantal Paulson, CEO, BuildBidLearn about ACT @ https://ccare.stanford.edu/education/applied-compassion-training/
Lets treat the planet like our home CCARE at Stanford University 2021-10-23 | Realising a Compassionate Planet on November 5, 2021, co-hosted by CCARE and the University of Edinburgh Global Compassion Initiative, Centre for TechnoMoral Futures, and Global Health Academy. A groundbreaking event where compassion science meets climate science. Let's learn more about how to treat our planet and its people with the compassion we deserve. Register now at: acompassionateplanet.org oWrite to us for full scholarship details and more information: hello@acompassionateplanet.org
Conversations on Compassion with Dr. James Doty, Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas CCARE at Stanford University 2021-01-28 | ...
Conversation on Compassion with The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi CCARE at Stanford University 2020-07-28 | Dr. James Doty, CCARE Founder and Director, hosted this online Conversation on Compassion with the Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi, author of Running Toward Mystery.The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi is an innovative thinker, philosopher, educator and a polymath monk. He is President & CEO of The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a center dedicated to inquiry, dialogue, and education on the ethical and humane dimensions of life. The Center is a collaborative and nonpartisan think tank, and its programs emphasize responsibility and examine meaningfulness and moral purpose between individuals, organizations, and societies. Six Nobel Peace Laureates serve as The Center’s founding members and its programs run in several countries and are expanding. Venerable Tenzin's unusual background encompasses entering a Buddhist monastery at the age of ten and receiving graduate education at Harvard University with degrees ranging from Philosophy to Physics to International Relations. He is a Tribeca Disruptive Fellow and a 2018 Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Venerable Tenzin serves on the boards of a number of academic, humanitarian, and religious organizations. He is the recipient of several recognitions and awards, and received Harvard’s Distinguished Alumni Honors for his visionary contributions to humanity.
Conversations on Compassion with Dr. Scilla Elworthy CCARE at Stanford University 2020-03-10 | CCARE founder and director, Dr. James Doty, welcomed Dr. Scilla Elworthy, a distinguished activist for peace who has worked on peace-related issues for over 30 years, for a Conversation on Compassion.Dr. Elworthy turns vision into action: three times nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for developing effective dialogue between nuclear weapons policy-makers and their critics, with the Oxford Research Group, founded in 1982.In 2002, Dr. Elworthy founded Peace Direct to fund, promote and learn from local peace-builders in conflict areas. She was advisor to Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Sir Richard Branson in setting up The Elders, independent and global leaders working together for peace and human rights. Dr. Elworthy was awarded the Niwano Peace Prize in 2003.Today her full attention is on developing The Business Plan for Peace resulting from her 2017 book The Business Plan for Peace: Building a World Without War. Her TED talk on non violence has been viewed over 1.4 million times on TED and YouTube.
Conversations on Compassion with Dr. Shauna Shapiro CCARE at Stanford University 2019-05-30 | In this conversation, CCARE’s founder and director, Dr. James Doty, will ask Dr. Shauna Shapiro about her life’s work and how compassion plays a role.Shauna Shapiro is a professor, author, and internationally recognized expert in mindfulness and compassion. Over one million people have watched her 2017 TEDx talk “The Power of Mindfulness,” rated top 10 talks on mindfulness. Dr. Shapiro has published over 150 journal articles and co-authored two critically acclaimed books translated into 14 languages: The Art and Science of Mindfulness, and Mindful Discipline. Her work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Mashable, Wired, USA Today, Dr. Oz, the Huffington Post, Yoga Journal, and the American Psychologist. Dr. Shapiro has been an invited speaker for the King of Thailand, the Danish Government, Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness Summit, and the World Council for Psychotherapy, as well as for Fortune 100 Companies including Google, Cisco Systems, Proctor & Gamble, LinkedIn and Genentech. Dr. Shapiro is a summa cum laude graduate of Duke University and a Fellow of the Mind and Life Institute, co-founded by the Dalai Lama.
Conversations on Compassion with Dr. BJ Miller CCARE at Stanford University 2019-03-26 | In this conversation, CCARE’s founder and director, Dr. James Doty, will ask Dr. BJ Miller about his life’s work and how compassion has played a role.Dr. BJ Miller is a palliative care physician at UCSF and a leading voice reframing society’s discourse on the field of death and dying. His interests are in working across disciplines to affect broad-based culture change and in cultivating a civic model for aging and dying. He invites us to think about, and discuss, the end of our lives through the lens of a mindful, human-centered model of care, one that embraces dying not as a medical event but rather as a universally shared life experience.Informed by his own experiences as a patient, BJ powerfully advocates the roles of our senses, community and presence in designing a better ending. He brings a unique blend of training, experience and commitment to furthering the message that suffering and dying are fundamental and intrinsic aspects of life and is widely recognized for his efforts in cultivating a larger dialogue on this full scope approach to the reality of life and death.His TED Talk, “What Really Matters at the End of Life” has been viewed over 8 million times and his work have been the subject of multiple interviews and podcasts including Oprah Winfrey, PBS, The New York Times, The California Sunday Magazine, Krista Tippett, Tim Ferriss, and the TED Radio Hour. BJ’s practical guide for preparing for death, entitled A Beginner’s Guide to the End, co-authored with Shoshana Berger, will be released in July 2019.
Conversations on Compassion with Dr. Elissa Epel CCARE at Stanford University 2018-12-14 | Join us this special evening for a conversation on compassion, meditation, and the biology of aging. Our interviewer for the evening, Dave Simpson, graciously stepped in for Dr. James Doty, who was unfortunately unable to host the conversation. Dave is a CCARE collaborator, an Organization Development Practice Manager with Stanford Healthcare, and we are deeply grateful for his participation this evening. Dr. Elissa Epel is a Professor at UCSF in the Department of Psychiatry. She studies how chronic stress can impact aspects of biological aging (including the telomere/telomerase system), and how behavioral, mindfulness, and meditation interventions may buffer stress effects and promote psychological and physiological thriving. She co-leads the NIH Stress Network and a UC obesity research consortium, linking other UC campuses in the study of stress, sugar, food addiction, and obesity. Dr. Epel is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, steering council member for the Mind and Life Institute, and President Elect of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research. She co-authored “The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer,” a NYT best seller, with Nobel Laureate Elizabeth Blackburn.We hope you enjoy the conversation.
Meng-Wu Lecture by Stephanie Brown, PhD CCARE at Stanford University 2018-11-27 | Dr. Brown received her PhD in social psychology from Arizona State University. She is currently an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the Stony Brook Medical School. Dr. Brown uses a variety of biomarkers to test whether and how helping behavior in humans emerges from neural circuits that evolved to motivate parenting behavior. Her studies increase understanding of how neural circuits that support parenting behavior promote mental health and protect individuals against disease.Dr. Brown will present: Is it safe to help? Perceived familiarity with the recipient alters the neural, hormonal, and immunological consequences of helping behavior. Here is a sneak preview: Two studies tested the neurological, hormonal, and immunological effects of helping behavior. Results of these tests showed that the physiological consequences of helping behavior depend on the nature of the relationship between the helper and recipient. When individuals helped someone they cared about, helpers showed a pattern of neural responses that resemble the neural responses associated with parenting behavior, and they displayed a hormonal profile that down-regulated transforming growth factor–beta (TgF-B), a molecule that turns on disease states in the brain.
Conversations on Compassion with Sri M & Dr. James Doty CCARE at Stanford University 2018-08-21 | We were deeply honored to host spiritual guide, social reformer, educator and writer, Sri M, for a privately recorded conversation with CCARE's founder and director, Dr. James Doty, on August, 8, 2018.This conversation takes you through Sri M's brief encounter during his childhood at the tender age of 9 that eventually led him on his spiritual path. Sri M reminisces his childhood as it relates to his family, his need to feel unrestrained when he started practicing meditation and reading the literature, on to his relationship with his Master, Maheswarnath Babaji, in the early years of his training.Join us as Sri M takes you through his life-long spiritual journey to date through stories and a good sense of humor.Supported in part by the Satsang Foundation
A Quest for Meaning - Discussion and Q&A with Dr. James Doty and co-director Marc De La Menardiere CCARE at Stanford University 2018-06-11 | Film Screening | A Quest for MeaningAbout The EventDr. James Doty hosts a film screening of A Quest for Meaning, followed by a brief discussion and Q&A with the co-director, Marc De La Menardiere.About A Quest for MeaningA Quest for Meaning tells the story of two childhood friends and their life-changing journey around the world. Equipped with nothing more than a tiny camera and a microphone, Marc and Nathanael will attempt to uncover the causes of the current world crises and discover a way to bring about change. Through the messages of environmental activists, philosophers, biologists, and guardians of the ancient cultures, they invite us to join their adventure and partake in their questionings of the world.A quest that gives confidence in our ability to influence things for the better. Change is at hand all over the world – a change in consciousness, motivated by our need to live in harmony with ourselves and with the world.
Conversations on Compassion with Werner Erhard CCARE at Stanford University 2017-12-11 | In this dialogue, CCARE’s founder and director, Dr. James Doty, will ask Werner Erhard about his life’s work and how compassion has played a role.Werner Erhard is an original thinker whose ideas have transformed the effectiveness and quality of life for millions of people and thousands of organizations around the world. For nearly 50 years he has been the creator of innovative ideas and models of individual, organizational, and social transformation. His work has been the source of new perspectives for thinkers and practitioners in fields as diverse as business, education, philosophy, medicine, psychotherapy, developing countries, leadership, conflict resolution, and community building. Erhard has created new ways of seeing things in areas where progress has stalled or where breakthroughs would make a significant difference. A majority of the Fortune 100 companies and many foundations and governmental entities have used his ideas and models. Fortune magazine’s 40th anniversary issue (5/15/95), in examining the major contributions to management thinking, recognized Erhard’s ideas as one of the major innovations of the last few decades. In recognition of his humanitarian work in the U.S. and around the world, in 1988 Erhard was awarded the Mahatma Gandhi Humanitarian Award.
Conversations on Compassion with Byron Katie and Stephen Mitchell CCARE at Stanford University 2017-11-07 | In this dialogue with CCARE’s founder and director, Dr. James Doty, will ask Katie about her life’s amazing work and how compassion has played a role.Step into an evening of radical self-inquiry with Byron Katie, as she launches her new book, A Mind at Home with Itself. As a surprise, Katie's husband and co-author of the new book, Stephen Mitchell, will help make this evening extra special by joining in on the conversation. The book weaves the brilliant clarity of the Diamond Sutra with the power of The Work, her method of self-inquiry. Katie will engage participants, using The Work, which is so sharp that it can cut through the most obstinate stressful thought and lead you to the freedom that is your birthright.In 1986, Katie woke up one morning to a state of constant joy that has never left her. In that moment beyond time, she realized that when she believed her stressful thoughts she suffered, but that when she questioned them she didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being.Katie has been bringing The Work to millions of people for more than 30 years. Her webcasts, weekend workshops, 5-day intensives, 9-day School for The Work, and 28-day residential Turnaround House have brought the beginning of the end of suffering to people all over the world.
Mysteries of the Brain, Secrets of the Heart with Dr. James Doty CCARE at Stanford University 2017-11-01 | Are you ready to learn the most important ingredient to fulfillment? Looking from the outside in Dr. James Doty had it all: incredible wealth, a successful career as a prominent neurosurgeon, sports cars, mansions, villas and beautiful women. But something was missing. Dr. Doty shares his secrets to success and how implementing the power of an open heart and compassion supported him in manifesting more than just wealth, but rather, authentic and sustained life purpose and prosperity.
Into the Magic Shop with Dr. James Doty CCARE at Stanford University 2017-11-01 | You are in possession of a powerful tool that can help you manifest amazing things! From poverty to prosperity, prominent neurosurgeon, Dr. James Doty shares his story and the 4 step process that eased his suffering and helped him claim great success (and these steps can do the same for YOU!). Dr. Doty says we can all do extraordinary things when we harness the power of our thoughts and mind. And an even richer opportunity to create magic when we open our hearts and use it in service to our minds.
Psychology of True Happiness Summit: Interview with Dr. James Doty CCARE at Stanford University 2017-08-24 | How Practicing Compassion Creates True HappinessInterview by The Shift Network with Lori Schwanbeck, CoFounder of Mindfulness Therapy Associates and Dr. James Doty of the Stanford Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education.This interview is part of the Psychology of True Happiness Summit, a free online event featuring pioneers of psychology, mindfulness and Hakomi sharing the science and integrative practices that optimize your joy and flow.For more information, please visit psychologyoftruehappiness.com. This recording is a copyright of The Shift Network. All rights reserved.
HUMAN Film Screening Recorded Discussion CCARE at Stanford University 2017-07-28 | CCARE was deeply honored to host the film screening* of HUMAN, directed by Yann Arthus-Bertrand followed by the trailer of the upcoming film WOMAN, which he is currently co-directing with Anastasia Mikova. The evening ended with a discussion of both films and audience Q&A. Watch the HUMAN movie trailer at vimeo.com/149788153Watch the WOMAN movie trailer at youtube.com/watch?v=1b8f1EpD50U*The screened film at Stanford was the theatrical version (2 hours 23 minutes). If you were unable to attend or are interested in seeing the extended version of this extraordinary film, the three volumes are available on YouTube at youtube.com/watch?v=vdb4XGVTHkE&feature=youtu.be
Engage Webinar with Dr. James Doty CCARE at Stanford University 2017-06-22 | Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute holds a program called Engage, which is for leaders looking to bring the benefits of mindfulness and emotional intelligence to workplaces and organizations. Engage is a five-month intensive program in mindful leadership.This is a webinar that took place with Dr. James Doty, who is one of the many guest faculty members for the program.To find out more about Engage, visit siyli.org/programs/engage
Conversations on Compassion with Krista Tippett CCARE at Stanford University 2017-06-06 | In this dialogue, CCARE’s founder and director, Dr. James Doty, will ask Krista Tippett about her life’s work, her award winning program, On Being, and how compassion has played a role.Krista Tippett is a Peabody Award-winning broadcaster and New York Times bestselling author. She created and hosts the public radio program and podcast On Being and curates the Civil Conversations Project, an emergent approach to the differences of our age. She received the 2013 National Humanities Medal at the White House for “thoughtfully delving into the mysteries of human existence. On the air and in print, Ms. Tippett avoids easy answers, embracing complexity and inviting people of every background to join her conversation about faith, ethics, and moral wisdom.” Krista was a journalist and diplomat in Cold War Berlin and holds a Masters of Divinity from Yale University. Her books are Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living (now also available in paperback), Einstein’s God – Conversations about Science and the Human Spirit, and Speaking of Faith – Why Religion Matters, and How to Talk about It. In 2013, Krista took On Being and The Civil Conversations Project into independent non-profit production.
Meditation and the Science of Human Flourishing Workshop - Part 4 CCARE at Stanford University 2016-06-24 | CCARE and Tergar Meditation Community held Meditation and the Science of Human Flourishing workshop followed by a Conversation on Compassion.Can we cultivate well-being in the same way that we can train our bodies to be healthier and more resilient? If so, how might we use the practice of meditation to experience equanimity, to open our hearts fully to others, and to cultivate insight and wisdom? In this workshop, two world-renowned experts, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche and Richard J. Davidson, PhD, shared their perspectives and insights on meditation and the cultivation of well-being. This workshop included teachings on simple meditation practices that help us to recognize and nurture the mind’s natural qualities of awareness, compassion, and wisdom, as well as discussions on the practice and science of self-transformation and the cultivation of well-being.
Meditation and the Science of Human Flourishing Workshop - Part 3 CCARE at Stanford University 2016-06-24 | CCARE and Tergar Meditation Community held Meditation and the Science of Human Flourishing workshop followed by a Conversation on Compassion.Can we cultivate well-being in the same way that we can train our bodies to be healthier and more resilient? If so, how might we use the practice of meditation to experience equanimity, to open our hearts fully to others, and to cultivate insight and wisdom? In this workshop, two world-renowned experts, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche and Richard J. Davidson, PhD, shared their perspectives and insights on meditation and the cultivation of well-being. This workshop included teachings on simple meditation practices that help us to recognize and nurture the mind’s natural qualities of awareness, compassion, and wisdom, as well as discussions on the practice and science of self-transformation and the cultivation of well-being.
Meditation and the Science of Human Flourishing Workshop - Part 2 CCARE at Stanford University 2016-06-24 | CCARE and Tergar Meditation Community held Meditation and the Science of Human Flourishing workshop followed by a Conversation on Compassion.Can we cultivate well-being in the same way that we can train our bodies to be healthier and more resilient? If so, how might we use the practice of meditation to experience equanimity, to open our hearts fully to others, and to cultivate insight and wisdom? In this workshop, two world-renowned experts, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche and Richard J. Davidson, PhD, shared their perspectives and insights on meditation and the cultivation of well-being. This workshop included teachings on simple meditation practices that help us to recognize and nurture the mind’s natural qualities of awareness, compassion, and wisdom, as well as discussions on the practice and science of self-transformation and the cultivation of well-being.
Meditation and the Science of Human Flourishing Workshop - Part 1 CCARE at Stanford University 2016-06-24 | CCARE and Tergar Meditation Community held Meditation and the Science of Human Flourishing workshop followed by a Conversation on Compassion.Can we cultivate well-being in the same way that we can train our bodies to be healthier and more resilient? If so, how might we use the practice of meditation to experience equanimity, to open our hearts fully to others, and to cultivate insight and wisdom? In this workshop, two world-renowned experts, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche and Richard J. Davidson, PhD, shared their perspectives and insights on meditation and the cultivation of well-being. This workshop included teachings on simple meditation practices that help us to recognize and nurture the mind’s natural qualities of awareness, compassion, and wisdom, as well as discussions on the practice and science of self-transformation and the cultivation of well-being.
New Perspectives on Compassion - Opening Remarks CCARE at Stanford University 2016-06-22 | CCARE and the University of Edinburgh had a half-day mini-conference exploring the frontiers of compassion research. Scholars from the two institutions provided short presentations of new work on a variety of perspectives on compassion, including neuroscience, health care, psychology and business.
The Compassionate Robot: Myth, Nightmare, or Solution - Part 3 CCARE at Stanford University 2016-06-22 | Moderator: James Doty, MDProfessor Sir Timothy O’SheaThe Rev. Professor Jane Shaw, PhDAlastair BoyleJon Oberlander, PhDCCARE and the University of Edinburgh had a half-day mini-conference exploring the frontiers of compassion research. Scholars from the two institutions provided short presentations of new work on a variety of perspectives on compassion, including neuroscience, health care, psychology and business.The event culminated in a distinguished panel addressing the cutting edge of compassion research involving artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics: The Compassionate Robot: Myth, Nightmare, or Solution? This panel was anchored by Sir Timothy O’Shea, The Principal of University of Edinburgh, who has explored computer-based learning and artificial intelligence in over 10 books and 100 articles.
Neuroscientific Approaches to Compassion - Part 2 CCARE at Stanford University 2016-06-22 | Moderator: John Gillies, MA FRCGP, FRCPE, OBEPaul Brennan, MD, PhDBrian Knutson, PhDFirdaus Dhabhar, PhDCCARE and the University of Edinburgh had a half-day mini-conference exploring the frontiers of compassion research. Scholars from the two institutions provided short presentations of new work on a variety of perspectives on compassion, including neuroscience, health care, psychology and business.The event culminated in a distinguished panel addressing the cutting edge of compassion research involving artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics: The Compassionate Robot: Myth, Nightmare, or Solution? This panel was anchored by Sir Timothy O’Shea, The Principal of University of Edinburgh, who has explored computer-based learning and artificial intelligence in over 10 books and 100 articles.
New Perspectives on Compassion Across the Disciplines - Part 1 CCARE at Stanford University 2016-06-22 | Moderator: Yotam Heineberg, PsyDHumanities - John Gillies, MA, FRCGP, FRCPE, OBEPsychology - Paul Gilbert, PhD, FBPsS, OBEBusiness and Organizations - Monica Worline, PhD and Anne Birgitta Pessi, PhDCCARE and the University of Edinburgh had a half-day mini-conference exploring the frontiers of compassion research. Scholars from the two institutions provided short presentations of new work on a variety of perspectives on compassion, including neuroscience, health care, psychology and business.The event culminated in a distinguished panel addressing the cutting edge of compassion research involving artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics: The Compassionate Robot: Myth, Nightmare, or Solution? This panel was anchored by Sir Timothy O’Shea, The Principal of University of Edinburgh, who has explored computer-based learning and artificial intelligence in over 10 books and 100 articles.
Conversations on Compassion with Andres Edwards CCARE at Stanford University 2016-06-07 | In this dialogue, CCARE’s founder and director, Dr. James Doty, asks Andres Edwards about his life’s work and what role compassion may have played.Andres Edwards is an educator, award-winning author, media designer and sustainability consultant. He is founder and president of EduTracks, a firm specializing in developing education programs and consulting services on sustainable practices for green building and business initiatives. His work includes developing exhibits and public education programs for municipalities, colleges and businesses.He has worked as producer, exhibit developer, and consultant for projects in natural history, biodiversity and sustainable community for companies and towns throughout the US and abroad.He is author of The Heart of Sustainability (2015), Thriving Beyond Sustainability (2010), The Sustainability Revolution (2005) and co-author with Robert Z. Apte of Tibet: Enduring Spirit, Exploited Land (1998).Mr. Edwards has given radio and television interviews and lectured and presented seminars about his work at conferences, universities, and for businesses and community organizations. He lives in northern California.
Conversations on Compassion with Emma Seppala, PhD CCARE at Stanford University 2016-06-01 | In this dialogue, CCARE’s founder and director, Dr. James Doty, asks Emma Seppala, PhD about her life’s work and what role compassion may have played.Emma Seppala, PhD, is author of The Happiness Track, science director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford University, founder of the popular news site Fulfillment Daily, and a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review and Psychology Today. She is a health psychologist who has conducted research on happiness, compassion, resilience and mind-body practices for trauma and well-being. She received her BA from Yale, her Master’s from Columbia and her PhD from Stanford University. To learn more about CCARE, please visit ccare.stanford.edu.
Conversations on Compassion with Dr. Kyra Bobinet CCARE at Stanford University 2016-05-24 | In this dialogue, CCARE’s founder and director, Dr. James Doty, asks Dr. Kyra Bobinet about her life’s work and what role compassion may have played. Dr. Kyra Bobinet has five words of advice on engaging people in health: be caring, authentic, and useful.As a national speaker, author and CEO-founder of engagedIN, a neuroscience behavior design firm, Kyra devotes her life to cracking the code of WHY we engage in what we do. Everyday, she and her team use neuroscience and design thinking to make health and wellness more engaging.For this work, Kyra received the 2015 Innovator Award from Harvard where she received her Masters in Public Health. She earned her medical degree at UCSF School of Medicine.Dr. Bobinet is the author of Well Designed Life: 10 Lessons in Brain Science and Design Thinking for a Mindful, Healthy, and Purposeful Life and authors a column on behavior neuroscience design for ExperienceLife magazine.She has founded health start-ups, created blockbuster products, designed health apps, and patented big data algorithms. She started mindfulness programs and clinical studies on mind-body medicine as an executive at Aetna.Dr. Bobinet co-teaches patient engagement and health design with Dr. Larry Chu at Stanford School of Medicine and studied in BJ Fogg’s behavior design lab.When she’s not geeking out on neuroscience, you can find her engaged in her kids, minimalist eco design, indigenous culture, and surfing.To learn more about CCARE, please visit ccare.stanford.edu.
Invited Lecture: Anne Birgitta Pessi & CoPassion Research Team CCARE at Stanford University 2016-04-07 | In this lecture, Anne Birgitta Pessi and the CoPassion research team presents: “Individually together – in compassion and co-passions: Revolutionizing Work Through Compassion.” Anne Birgitta Pessi is a Professor of Church and Social Studies at the University of Helsinki – and a true believer and explorer of the incredible power of altruism and compassion. Pessi has worked for several universities abroad (e.g. Boston University in 2010 and LSE in 2005 and 2006). In Autumn 2013, she worked as a Tobis fellow at UC Irvine, California.Pessi has been working in various international research projects, such as the EU-funded project “Welfare and Values in Europe” (2006-2009). Currently, she directs a vast multidisciplinary project CoPassion (The Revolutionary Power of Compassion) from 2015 to 2017. She has also directed Academy of Finland funded research projects RiTS (Religion in Transforming Solidarity) in 2008-2011 and CoCare (Cooperation in Care – meaning systems, chances, and conflicts) in 2014-2018.Pessi’s research interests cover particularly volunteering, altruism, civil society, togetherness, church social work and experiences of good life, as well as individualized religiosity. Her publications include over 40 referee journal articles and over 200 titles. Currently Pessi works, together with her two research teams, on analysis of power of compassion in business and the public sector as well as on content and reader experiences of self help literature and the construction of self in this genre. She also focuses on her ongoing studies on individual experiences of the sacred.Pessi is a member of several international and national academic societies, such as International Society for the Sociology of Religion, European Research Network on Philanthropy, International Society for Third-Sector Research, and Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. She is currently a chief editor/editor of three academic journals.Pessi has been awarded several international and national academic prizes, such as the prestigious Nils Klim prize (2008) and the Jutikkala prize (2013). Her dissertation gained awards, including an award from the International Society for Third-Sector Research in 2006.To learn more about CCARE, please visit ccare.stanford.edu.
Conversations on Compassion with Eileen Fisher CCARE at Stanford University 2016-03-10 | In this dialogue, CCARE’s founder and director, Dr. James Doty, asks Eileen Fisher about her life’s work and what role compassion may have played. Eileen is the Founder and Chairwoman of EILEEN FISHER, INC., the clothing company known for its simple shapes and beautiful fabrics. Eileen ventured into clothing design in 1984. Her original concept – pieces that work together to help women get dressed easily – still defines the company’s collections, which are sold at 65 EILEEN FISHER stores, over 300 department and specialty stores across the US, UK and Canada as well as 2 Green Eileen stores, which are part of the company’s innovative recycling program.Eileen is passionate about business as a movement. In spring 2015, the company announced VISION2020, a bold five-year plan that addresses sustainability and human rights. In keeping with Eileen’s belief in collaboration, VISION2020 calls for partnering with other brands to shift the fashion industry. “We don’t want sustainability to be our edge,” says Eileen. “We want it to be universal.”In 2015, Eileen also launched the Eileen Fisher Learning Lab where employees and the public are invited to embark on journeys of inquiry to explore purpose, mindfulness and embodiment through a variety of workshops and events.In October 2015, the Fashion Group International honored Eileen with the prestigious Sustainability Award. Eileen was the recipient of the 2015 Riverkeeper Award as well as BF+DA’s Corporate Leadership in Advancing Sustainability Award. Eileen’s additional honors include the 2012 Leaders of Change award from the Global Conference for Social Change and the Board of Directors Award from the Metropolitan New York Chapter of the US National Committee for UN Women. She is a 2012 inductee into the Social Venture Network Hall of Fame and a member of the Clinton Global Initiative.To learn more about CCARE, please visit ccare.stanford.edu.
Conversations on Compassion with Dr. James Doty, Moderated by Jon Kabat-Zinn CCARE at Stanford University 2016-03-10 | In this public dialogue, world renowned mindfulness teacher and author, Jon Kabat-Zinn engages in conversation with CCARE’s Founder and Director, Dr. James Doty, to celebrate the release of Dr. Doty’s book, Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon’s Quest to Discover Mysteries of the Brain and Secrets of the Heart. During this conversation, Jon Kabat-Zinn asks Dr. Doty to reflect upon his life’s journey and discuss the pivotal roles of mindfulness, meditation, and compassion as shared in the book.To learn more about CCARE, visit ccare.stanford.edu.
“Motivation, Capacity, And The Limits Of Compassion” By Daryl Cameron, PhD CCARE at Stanford University 2015-12-18 | In this lecture, Daryl Cameron, PhD, presents: “Motivation, Capacity, and the Limits of Compassion.” This event is an hour-long lecture followed by questions from the audience. Daryl Cameron is an Assistant Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Iowa. He received his Ph.D. in 2013 from the University of North Carolina, and has been a Fellow at the Duke University Kenan Institute for Ethics, and at Stanford CCARE. He received his B.A. in Philosophy and Psychology in 2006 from the College of William & Mary. His research focuses on causes and consequences of empathy and compassion. In particular, he focuses on motivational factors that inhibit empathy toward large-scale crises (e.g., natural disasters, genocides) and stigmatized targets (e.g., drug addicts). His research is funded by the National Science Foundation.For more information about CCARE, visit: http://ccare.stanford.edu/
Invited Lecture: Barry Kerzin, MD CCARE at Stanford University 2015-07-20 | In this lecture, Barry Kerzin, MD, presents: “Compassionate Living”. This event is an hour-long lecture followed by questions from the audience. Prof. Kerzin, M.D., is a former Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington, a Visiting Professor at Central University of Tibetan Studies in Varanasi, India, and a visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 2014 and 2015. He has been appointed an Honorary Professor at the University of Hong Kong in 2015. Barry is a fellow at the Mind and Life Institute and consults for the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig on compassion training.He is founder and president of the Altruism in Medicine Institute and the founder and chairman of the Human Values Institute in Japan.For 26 years he has been providing free medical care to those in need. He also provides medical care to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and other advanced spiritual beings. Barry has completed many meditation retreats varying from a three-year retreat to a one-year retreat to many several month retreats. He also leads meditation retreats. His brain was studied both at Princeton University and the University of Wisconsin, Madison as a long-term meditator. Barry was ordained as a bikshu (fully ordained monk) by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Bodh Gaya, India. He combines his work as a monk and doctor, harmonizing mind and body.He lectures on the interface of modern science and Buddhist psychology, philosophy, ethics, compassion, personal ecology (managing destructive emotions like anger, jealousy, and pride), meditation, and death and dying, in medical schools and universities around the world particularly in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Russia, Mongolia, Europe, and North America on a regular basis.To learn more about CCARE, visit ccare.stanford.edu.
Conversations on Compassion with Matthieu Ricard CCARE at Stanford University 2015-07-06 | In this dialogue CCARE’s founder and director, Dr. James Doty, asks scientist and Buddhist monk, Matthieu Ricard, about his life’s work and what role compassion may have played.Born in France in 1946, Matthieu Ricard is a Buddhist monk who left a career in cellular genetics to study Buddhism in the Himalayas over 45 years ago. As a trained scientist and Buddhist monk, he is uniquely positioned in the dialogue between East and West. He is an international best-selling author and a prominent speaker on the world stage, celebrated at the World Economic Forum at Davos and at TED where over four million people have viewed his talk on happiness. He also founded Karuna-Shechen, which provides health care, education, and social services for the under-served people of India, Nepal, and Tibet.To learn more about CCARE, visit ccare.stanford.edu.
Meng-Wu Lecture: Owen Flanagan Jr, PhD CCARE at Stanford University 2015-06-04 | In this lecture, Owen Flanagan Jr., PhD, presents: “Stoic and Buddhist Views on Elimination of Anger”. This event is an hour-long lecture followed by questions from the audience. Owen Flanagan Jr., PhD, is the James B. Duke University Professor at Duke University. He is also Co-director of the Center for Comparative Philosophy. He has had visiting positions at Berkeley, Brandeis, Princeton, Harvard, and La Trobe in Australia, University of Vienna, City University of Hong Kong, as well as several fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities.In 1993-94, Flanagan was President of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology. In 1998, he was recipient of the Romanell National Phi Beta Kappa award, given annually to one American philosopher for distinguished contributions to philosophy and the public understanding of philosophy.He has lectured on every continent except Antarctica, where however he has been. Besides enjoying writing articles, reviews, and contributing to colloquia, Flanagan has written and edited many books, including The Bodhisattva’s Brain: Buddhism Naturalized (MIT 2011). He is currently finishing a book, The Geography of Morals: Varieties of Moral Possibility, which Oxford will publish.To learn more about CCARE, visit ccare.stanford.edu.
Conversations on Compassion with Thupten Jinpa, PhD CCARE at Stanford University 2015-06-03 | In this dialogue CCARE’s founder and director, Dr. James Doty, asks Thupten Jinpa about his life’s work and what role compassion may have played.Thupten Jinpa is a former monk and has been the principal English translator to H.H. the Dalai Lama for nearly thirty years. Trained as a Geshe in the Tibetan tradition Jinpa also holds a BA and PhD from Cambridge University, where he worked as a research fellow. As a visiting scholar at Stanford University, Jinpa was a founding member of CCARE and the principal author of Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT). His published works include translations of numerous books by the Dalai Lama such as Ethics for the New Millennium and Beyond Religion, as well as his own work Self, Reality and Reason in Tibetan Philosophy and the forthcoming A Fearless Heart: How the Courage to be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives. He is an adjunct professor of religious studies at McGill University, president of the Institute of Tibetan Classics, and chairman of the Mind and Life Institute, which is dedicated to promoting dialogues and collaborations between the sciences and contemplative knowledge, especially Buddhism. He lives in Montreal with his wife and daughters.To learn more about CCARE, visit ccare.stanford.edu.
Conversations on Compassion with Sharon Salzberg CCARE at Stanford University 2015-05-07 | In this dialogue CCARE’s founder and director, Dr. James Doty, will ask worldwide meditation teacher, Sharon Salzberg, about her life’s work and what role compassion may have played.Sharon Salzberg has been a student of meditation since 1971, and leading meditation retreats worldwide since 1974. She teaches both intensive awareness practice (vipassana or insight meditation) and the profound cultivation of lovingkindness and compassion (the Brahma Viharas).Sharon’s latest book is Real Happiness At Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace, published by Workman Publishing. She is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post and is also the author of several other books including the New York Times Best Seller, Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Program (2010), Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot Happier with Robert Thurman (2013), Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience (2002), and Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness (1995).Sharon Salzberg is cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Barre, Massachusetts. She has played a crucial role in bringing Asian meditation practices to the West. The ancient Buddhist practices of vipassana (mindfulness) and metta (lovingkindness) are the foundations of her work. “Each of us has a genuine capacity for love, forgiveness, wisdom and compassion. Meditation awakens these qualities so that we can discover for ourselves the unique happiness that is our birthright.”To learn more about CCARE's work, visit ccare.stanford.edu.
Dr. James Dotys Guest Appearance on TheBlaze CCARE at Stanford University 2015-04-28 | Founder and Director of Stanford's Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE), Dr. James Doty, was invited to speak with Glenn Beck in an interview on Beck's talk show, TheBlaze.
Conversations on Compassion with Dean Ornish, MD CCARE at Stanford University 2015-04-24 | Conversations on Compassion with Dean Ornish, MD on October 1, 2014In this dialogue CCARE’s founder and director, Dr. James Doty, asked Dean Ornish about his life’s work and what role compassion may have played.Dr. Dean Ornish is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCSF and the Founder & President of the nonprofit Preventive Medicine Research Institute. Dr. Ornish’s pioneering research was the first to prove that lifestyle changes may stop or even reverse the progression of heart disease and early-stage prostate cancer and even change gene expression, “turning on” disease-preventing genes and “turning off” genes that promote cancer, heart disease and premature aging. Recently, Medicare agreed to provide coverage for his program, the first time that Medicare has covered an integrative medicine program. He is the author of six bestselling books and was recently appointed by President Obama to the White House Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative and Public Health. He is a member of the boards of directors of the San Francisco Food Bank and the J. Craig Venter Institute. The Ornish diet was rated #1 for heart health by U.S. News & World Report in 2011 and 2012. He was selected as one of the “TIME 100” in integrative medicine, honored as “one of the 125 most extraordinary University of Texas alumni in the past 125 years,” recognized by LIFE magazine as “one of the 50 most influential members of his generation” and by Forbes magazine as “one of the 7 most powerful teachers in the world.”To learn more about CCARE, visit ccare.stanford.edu.
