Changing the Odds 2016

Oct 6, 2016 - 9:00AM to Oct 7, 2016 - 3:30PM

Center for Healthy Minds Founder Richard Davidson is a featured speaker at the 5th annual Changing the Odds conference. This year's "Compassion: Brain Changer" conference will explore how healthy habits of the mind - such as mindfulness, gratitude and kindness - impact the brain and increase levels of compassion. Davidson will be joined at the Dallas conference on October 6 and 7, 2016 by other top thought leaders in the fields of education and mental health, including friends of the Center Daniel Goleman and Matthieu Ricard.

Learn more and register for the event hosted by Momentous Institute.

Read Davidson's blog post for the Changing the Odds conference.

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