Greater Good - Three Insights about Compassion, Meditation, and the Brain

Held back in April in Denver, the inaugural 2012 International Symposia for Contemplative Studies, facilitated by the Dalai Lama's Mind & Life Institute, was a collaborative effort among Centers and Laboratories around the world to explore the correlates and consequences of contemplative practice. The Symposia brought together world-renowned researchers, scholars, teachers, and students in keynote addresses, concurrent master lectures, panels, workshops, and poster presentations.

Among the speakers were Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D. (Director of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds andDirector of the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience and the W.M. Keck Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior at the University of Wisconsin at Madison), John Dunne, Ph.D.... [via Integral Options Cafe]