Schedule

Basic Science / Neuroscience and Humanities

Cliff Saron – Meditation, Neuroscience and Contemplative Experience

Michel Bitbol – How Can We Avoid Bias in the Dialogue between Buddhism and Neuroscience

Education and Humanities

Brian Stock –  Western Contemplative Tradition in Higher Education

Hal Roth – Developing Contemplative Studies in Higher Education: The Brown Model

Clinical Science and Contemplative Practice

Sona Dimidjian – Mindfulness Training in Post-Partum Depression

peRoshi Joan Halifax – Issues in Bringing Meditation Practice into Clinical Settings

• Contemplating the Restless Mind: How Can Scientific investigation of Mind Wandering Refine Our Understanding of the Human Condition?
  Jonathan Smallwood, Daniel Margulies, Malia F. Mason and Mathew Killingsworth
• Pain and Mindfulness Meditation
  Yoshi Nakamura, Joshua Grant, Fadel Zeidan and David Vago
• Mindfulness Meditation and Anxiety Disorders: Effects on Emotion, Attention, and Brain Responses
  Elizabeth Hoge, Sara Lazar, Britta Holzel and Philippe Goldin
• Contemplative Science & the Relational Dimension: From Stress Regulation to Empathy and Compassion
  Andrew Dreitcer, Brent Field, Tania Singer, Michael Spezio and Cassandra Vieten
• Promoting Empathy, Awareness, and Compassion with Parents, Teachers and Youth
  Mark Greenberg, Douglas Coatsworth, Tamar Mendelson and Patricia Jennings
• Building a Contemplative Studies Community: Bridging the Sciences and Humanities
  Wendy Hasenkamp, John Dunne, Susan Bauer-Wu, Lawrence Barsalou and Bobbi Patterson
• Before Thought: The Cultivation of Insight in the Naropa University Classroomropa
  Judith Simmer-Brown, Gaylon Ferguson, Mark Miller and Richard Brown
• Mindfulness Training for Wandering Minds
  Michael Mrazek, Jonathan Schooler, Dawa Tachin and Daniel Levinson
• Cognitively-Based Compassion Training (CBCT): Theoretical Framework, Teaching Approaches and Preliminary Findings
  Thaddeus Pace, Geshe Lobsang Tenzin Negi, Brendan Ozawa-deSilva and Brooke Dodson-Lavelle
• Contemplative Mind/ACMHE Session:
  Renewal in Higher Education: Integrating the Contemplative Dimension
  Diana Chapman Walsh, Daniel Barbezat and Carolyn Jacobs

• Neural Substrates of Compassion
  Tania Singer, Tor Wager, Helen Weng, and Olga Klimecki
• Bringing Mindfulness to Difficult Populations: Considering Clinical and Research Challenges, Sharing Solutions
  Zev Schuman-Olivier, Judson Brewer, Sarah Bowen, Eric Garland and Zayda Vallejo
• A paradigm for contemplative practice for end-of-life clinicians: Being With Dying
  Anthony Back, Cynda Rushton, Roshi Joan Halifax and Susan Bauer-Wudean
• Effects of Mindfulness Training on Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Postpartum Outcomes
  Cassandra Vieten, Nancy Bardacke and Sona Dimidjian
• The Ethics of Teaching Contemplative Practices to the Armed Forces
  Mark J. Williams, Judith Simmer-Brown, Mirabai Bush, Chris Jung and Anders Meland
• The Role of Contemplative Practice in Developing Authentic Leaders
  Susan Skjei
• Mindfulness-Based Programs for Children and Youth
  Trish Broderick, Tish Jennings, Kim Schonert-Reichl and Brian Galla
  David Vago, Sara Lazar, Britta Holzel and Andrea Grabovac
• Mindfulness Meditation Improves Resilience: Distress, Emotional Reactivity, and Biomarker response to the Trier Social Stress Test
  Elizabeth Hoge, Willoughby Britton, Nicholas T. Van Dam and Thaddeus Pace
• Contemplative Self-Inquiry, Brain Science, and Mindfulness in Graduate Education: Multidisciplinary, Evidence-Informed Applications to Personal and Professional Development
  Susan Gere, Jared Kass, Nancy W. Waring and Lisa B. Fiore
• Contemplative Mind/ACMHE Session:
  Contemplative Inquiry as a Research Method
  Arthur Zajonc

Basic Science / Neuroscience and Contemplative Practice

Tania Singer – Neuroscience, Empathy and Compassion

Brother David Steindl-Rast – Cultivating Compassion in Christian Contemplative Tradition

Sharon Salzberg – Empathy and Compassion Practice

Education

Kathleen McCartney, Jerry Murphy, Carolyn Jacobs – Contemplative Practices in Education Leadership

Clinical Science and Humanities

John Teasdale – Mindfulness, Suffering, and Cognition

John Dunne – Mindfulness and Cognition from the Perspective of Buddhist Scholarship

• Impact of mindfulness on brain resting state connectivity
  Sara Lazar, Amishi Jha, Véronique Taylor and Judson Brewer
• Mindfulness Measurement and Research
  Daniel Levenson, Eric Garland, Fadel Zeidan, Anthony King and Lawrence Barsalou
• Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Treatment-Resistant Depression
  Stuart Eisendrath and Maura McLane
• Compassion Meditation and Training
  Gaelle Desbordes, Kristin Neff, Christopher Kelley, Fynn Mathis-Trautwein and Jenny Mascaro
• Mindfulness Training for Teachers, Parents and Students
  Robert Roeser, Rita Benn and Kimberly Schonert-Reichl
• The New Humanities: Contemplative Studies and the Liberal Arts
  Louis Komjathy, Andy Fort, Anne Klein, Harold Roth and Martijn van Beek
• The Impact of Compassion Cultivation Meditation Training
  Philippe Goldin, James Doty, Birgit Koopmann-Holm and Thaddeus Pace
• Behavioral, Psychophysiological and Neurobiological Investigations of Changes in Craving Following Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Substance Use Disorders
  Kathleen Lustyk, Jean Kristeller, Sarah Bowen and Hedy Kober
• Aligning the Goals of Contemplative Science with the Funding Priorities of NIMH
  David Fresco, David Vago, Elizabeth Hoge, McAndrew Jack and Sharon Salzberg
• Contemplative Mind/ACMHE Session:
  Contemplative Practice Throughout the Curriculum
  Mirabai Bush

• Neural Mechanisms of Mindfulness Induced Analgesia
  Tim Gard, Tor Wager, Hedy Kober and David M. Perlman
• Measuring Compassion Correlates in the Mind, Brain and Body
  Emiliana Simon-Thomas, Teresa I. Sivilli and Baljinder Sahdra
• Mindfulness and Smoking Cessation
  David Wetter, Whitney Heppner, Jennifer Irvin Vidrine and James Davis
• Mindful Eating: Recreating our Relationship to Nourishment
  Jean Kristeller, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Elissa Epel and Jan Chozen Bays
• Mechanisms of Mindfulness: Integrating Neurobiological, Clinical, and Buddhist Models with Standards for Measurement
  David Vago, Sara Lazar, Britta Holzel, Nicholas T. Van Dam and Andrea Grabovac
• Contemplative Inquiry: a Non-Reductionist Approach to Research and Academic Study
  Robin James Weeks, Gloria E. Nouel, Anne Parker and Susan Skjei
• Contemplative Mind/ACMHE Session:
  Developing Multiculturally Inclusive Contemplative Pedagogy
  Laura Rendón and Rhonda Magee

Basic Science / Neuroscience and Education

Amishi Jha – Meditation, Attention, and Neuroscience

Arthur Zajonc – Reflections on Contemplative Practice in Non-Traditional Settings

Education and Basic Social Science / Positive Psychology

Mark Greenberg – Applied Mindfulness Intervention with Parents and Teachers

Barbara Fredrickson – Positive Emotion, Social Connections and Loving-Kindness Meditation

Contemplative Practice – Yoga

Lorenzo Cohen – Yoga Research

Richard Freeman – Yoga Practice

Stephen Phillips – Yoga Scholarship