Center for Healthy Minds & Healthy Minds Innovations

THE WORLD WE MAKE: 2022 Gathering

Reception and Presentation

Thursday, September 22
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
227 State St. Madison, WI (map)

Schedule

We are excited for you to join us for The World We Make: 2022 to celebrate our tremendous progress and the exciting possibilities ahead to create a kinder, wiser, more compassionate world, together.

THURSDAY

5:00 – 7:00 p.m. | RECEPTION with heavy hors d'oeuvres

7:00 – 8:30 p.m. | PRESENTATION

Speakers

Richard Davidson

Founder, Center for Healthy Minds, UW–Madison and Healthy Minds Innovations
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.

Andrew Burroughs

VP of Customer Engagement, Healthy Minds Innovations
Burroughs leads partnerships, collaborations and customer engagement initiatives to cultivate collective well-being. He is a seasoned practitioner of Design Thinking, having led teams in the design of consumer products, award-winning healthcare delivery devices and new services.

Simon Goldberg

Faculty, Center for Healthy Minds, Assistant Professor of Counseling Psychology
Goldberg uses tools drawn from psychotherapy research to better understand the therapeutic processes and outcomes of mindfulness and meditation. Among other work, he has collaborated on several randomized trials of contemplative interventions and conducted systematic reviews and meta-analysis of mindfulness-based interventions.

Matt Hirshberg

Scientist, Center for Healthy Minds
Hirshberg’s research seeks to understand the competencies that are most essential to healthy development and how these competencies can be systematically strengthened, particularly through in-person and mobile health meditation-based interventions. His research has focused on adolescents, college undergraduates, teachers and other school system employees.

Raquel Tatar

Senior Director of Research and Measures at Healthy Minds Innovations
Tatar’s passion for using applied science and meaningful work to help people flourish is the driving force for her to explore the facets of coping with stress, including: proactive coping, misconceptions of coping and their correlates, collective traumas, and longitudinal stressors.

Christy Wilson-Mendenhall

Associate Scientist, Center for Healthy Minds
Wilson-Mendenhall focuses on how we actively shape our emotional experiences to become healthier and more resilient. Drawing on perspectives from situated cognition, constructionist approaches to emotion, and contemplative philosophies, she investigates well-being as an active process of life-long learning, practice, and transformation.

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Get In Touch

If you have any questions, please contact Lorri Houston at [email protected] or 608-263-3672.