Center for Healthy Minds

The Best Year of Your Life Summit is a free online event from January 19-28. Center Founder and Director Richard Davidson will be a featured speaker. 

Center Founder and Director Richard Davidson will present as part of the UW Now Live event on January 19th in a talk focused on wisdom and well-being.

Center Founder and Director Richard Davidson will speak at the 8th Mindfulness Forum about well-being and emotional intelligence in organizations. 

Loka Director Dekila Chungyalpa will be a featured faculty member in the Upaya Socially Engaged Buddhist Training Program.

Center Founder and Director Richard Davidson will present a talk, "Well-Being is a Skill" at the XXI International Congress of Educators. 

Join Center for Healthy Minds Director of Loka Initiative Dekila Chungyalpa for a virtual, live guided meditation Thursday, February 25.

Loka Director Dekila Chungyalpa will speak as part of the UW–Madison Arboretum's Winter Enrichment Lecture Series on March 4th.

Center Founder and Director Richard Davidson will be a panelist at The Compassion Shift hosted by the Emory Center for Contemplative Studies and Compassion-Based Ethics.

Join Center collaborator Chad McGehee for a virtual, live guided meditation Thursday, March 11.

The March Healthy Minds LIVE event, "The How of Well-Being," will focus on the Healthy Minds Framework consisting of four pillars of well-being that have been studied in the lab and have been shown to improve with training.

Join Healthy Minds Innovations (HMI), the external nonprofit affiliated with the Center for Healthy Minds, for a virtual 4 week course,"Kickstart To Train Your Mind."

The Center for Healthy Minds is a co-partner for the upcoming 26th Annual Wisconsin Symposium on Emotion: Translational Neuroscience and Mental Health.

Center Founder and Director Richard Davidson will speak at the upcoming Science & Wisdom of Emotions Summit, co-produced by our friends at the Mind & Life Institute and The Awake Network Foundation.

Center Founder and Director Richard J. Davidson will speak at the Fifth International Vatican Conference: Exploring the Mind, Body & Soul on May 7, 2021.

Dekila Chungyalpa, Director of the Loka Initiative, will present at the virtual Green Sabbath Gathering on May 7, 2021.

The May Healthy Minds LIVE event, "Learning Well-Being for Life" will focus on the lessons learned from education as a way to enhance emotional well-being for everyone, at all stages in life.

Center Founder and Director Richard Davidson will present at the 2021 Roots of Empathy Research Symposium on May 11, 2021.

Center Founder and Director Richard J. Davidson and Center Faculty John Dunne will speak at the upcoming Varela International Symposium: An Exploration of Uncertainty and Emergence in Self and Society. 

Center Founder and Director Richard Davidson will present a talk, "Well-Being is a Skill" at an online benefit event for New York Insight Meditation Center.

Join us for virtual, live meditation sessions with Center for Healthy Minds and Healthy Minds Innovations founder, Richard Davidson, to learn and practice skills to cultivate a healthy mind.

Join Center for Healthy Minds Director of Loka Initiative Dekila Chungyalpa for a virtual, live guided meditation Friday, June 4.

Loka Director Dekila Chungyalpa will be a plenary faculty member at the upcoming Mind & Life Summer Research Institute: The Mind, the Human-Earth Connection, and the Climate Crisis. 

Join this summer's Healthy Minds Masterclass! This course is being offered by Healthy Minds Innovations (HMI), the external nonprofit affiliated with the Center for Healthy Minds. 

Loka Director Dekila Chungyalpa is a presenter for the Social and Environmental Justice program, presented by Upaya Institute and Zen Center, on July 10-11, 2021. 

The Loka Initiative and the International Mayan League, in coordination with diverse organizations and leaders, are celebrating International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples by hosting an online convening from August 9th to 11th. The convening brings together and centers Indigenous speakers and moderators from a variety of traditions, regions and backgrounds to share Indigenous ecological and spiritual knowledge as means of sustenance for all Indigenous peoples and all humanity. This event is open to the general public.

Center Founder and Director Richard Davidson will deliver the opening keynote for the Asia-Pacific Mindfulness Conference on August 13, 2021.

The August Healthy Minds LIVE event, "The Aging Brain: Developing Well-Being for Your Future," will focus on what can we learn from the latest science to promote greater health and well-being as we age.

En estos tiempos de estrés y agitación, Daniela nos compartirá ideas y una práctica para fomentar nuestro bienestar en tiempos del COVID-19. 

Dekila Chungyalpa, Director of the Loka Initiative, will speak at an online capstone gathering with One Earth Sangha on August 29, 2021.

Center Founder and Director Richard Davidson will give a talk titled, "Well-Being is a Skill" at the Congreso de Educación emocional y Bienestar. This virtual conference will discuss the importance of emotional education from childhood and the impact of this training on the development of children and adolescents.

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Loka Director Dekila Chungyalpa will participate in the Wellbeing Project's WELLbinar series on September 14, 2021 with wisdom teacher Sharon Salzberg and Mark Coleman.

Dekila Chungyalpa, Director of the Loka Initiative, will present at the 2021 Green the Church National Summit.

Healthy Minds Innovations is hosting a Founders Edition of their popular Masterclass, featuring Center Founder and Director Richard J. Davidson and Research Scientist Cortland Dahl.

Join us for our The World We Make: 2021 gathering this October, a series of virtual events with renowned scientists, innovators and other thought-leaders to broaden the conversation on how we can bring well-being into our daily lives and communities.

Loka Director Dekila Chungyalpa will speak at the Contemplation by Design Summit, hosted by the Stanford Prevention Research Center in a session titled, "At the Center of All Things is Interdependence."