Join CALM Studies in welcoming Richard ("Richie") J. Davidson to the TCU campus on March 1 at 7:00 for the Ronald E. Moore Humanities Symposium.
Dr. Davidson is the William James and Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Founder and Director of the Center for Healthy Minds.
His talk, "Well-being is a Skill," is at 7:00, Wednesday, March 1 in Moudy 141N, and is the first keynote for the 2023 Ronald E. Moore Humanities Symposium on the question "What is well-being?"
This exceptional opportunity is free and open to all. Please come!
We very much encourage in-person attendance, but for those unable to make it, we have a live online option. Note that registration is required through either of these Eventbrite links.
https://tinyurl.com/DavidsonInPerson
https://tinyurl.com/DavidsonLiveVirtual
Dr. Davidson is best known for his groundbreaking work studying emotion and the brain. A friend and confidante of the Dalai Lama, he is a highly sought after expert and speaker, leading conversations on well-being on international stages such as the World Economic Forum, where he serves on the Global Council on Mental Health. Time Magazine named Davidson one of “The 100 Most Influential People in the World” in 2006.
He is the co-author with Daniel Goleman of Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body.
The evening's interactive and experiential presentation will consider scientific evidence suggesting that we can change our brains by transforming our minds and cultivate habits of mind that will improve well-being. Characteristics such as happiness, resilience, compassion, and emotional balance are each instantiated in brain circuits that exhibit plasticity and thus can be shaped and modified by experience and training. Mental training to cultivate well-being has profound implications for the workplace including its impact on leadership, creativity, employee health, productivity, and collaboration.
The mission of the Center for Healthy Minds (Center) is to cultivate well-being and relieve suffering through a scientific understanding of the mind. Faced with mental and physical health challenges at a global scale, the Center conducts rigorous scientific research to bring new insights and tools aimed at improving the well-being of people of all backgrounds and ages. The Center’s research, rooted in neuroscience, comes down to one basic question: “What constitutes a healthy mind?” To begin to answer this, the Center has investigated the science of emotions, contemplative practices and qualities of mind suspected to affect well-being, including attention, resilience, equanimity, savoring positive emotions, kindness, compassion, gratitude and empathy.
The Center, part of one of the world’s top research institutions, benefits from cross disciplinary collaborations in the arts and humanities, the physical and natural sciences, and the social sciences Healthy Minds Innovations (HMI), which was also co-founded by world renowned neuroscientist Dr. Richard Davidson is a non-profit organization driven by the mission to translate science into tools that cultivate well-being.
HMI takes discoveries and insights gleaned from research and translates them into tools that help people around the world learn and build skills of well being. These tools include a donation-supported app, the Healthy Minds Program (which uses podcast style lessons and meditations to support increased awareness, connection, insight and purpose), and our workplace program Healthy Minds @Work (a science-based program that offers a suite of tools to improve well-being in the workplace).
In addition to creating products and services and sharing them widely, HMI also manages philanthropic activities, public speaking engagements and special initiatives that bring this work to the world.
The Center and HMI both seek to work as widely as possible, reaching the farthest corners of the globe to realize a vision of a kinder, wiser, more compassionate world.
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