News: Learning Well-Being
The Center for Healthy Minds partners with former NFL players for an eight-week workshop to look at how mindfulness practices might impact their lives
Can video games teach prosocial skills such as empathy? A new study from the Center for Healthy Minds suggests that it's possible
Two weeks of compassion meditation training may reduce distress and improve a person’s ability to look at others who are suffering
A new course, piloted in conjunction with the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Virginia and Pennsylvania State University, aims to integrate extracurricular learning experiences with intellectual topics in the classroom
Graduate students who underwent the intervention reported an increase in personal qualities associated with creativity
Compassion – and intentionally cultivating it through training – may lead us to do more to help the wronged than to punish the wrongdoer