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Heroic Transformations from Violence to Peace Healing and Compassion in Wounded Communities

Tracking Values and Behaviors OnlineActively caring for Self & Others: Dr. Yotam Heineberg, Dr. Daniel E. Martin, Dr. Philip G. Zimbardo.

Jim Doty speaks at the 2012 Wisdom 2.0 Conference

What progress is being made toward conceptualizing and adopting the social values of good, compassionate societies? What cross-national indicators are available for comparing societies and regional units in terms of generosity, social justice, harmonious interaction, and other social characteristics related to compassion?

Fully rounded research programs in the biological sciences ask four questions, concerning function, mechanism, development, and phylogeny, which mutually inform each other. The same approach is needed for all human-related subjects, including compassion and altruism.

Emiliana Simon-Thomas from Stanford's Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education makes the case that compassion is good for you, taking into consideration studies of neural activation associated with emotional and cognitive processes that play a role in compassionate responding.

Jon Kabat-Zinn’s life work has been largely dedicated to bringing mindfulness into the mainstream of medicine and society. Kabat-Zinn is the author or co-author of many scientific papers on mindfulness and its clinical applications. He has written two bestselling books: Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness (Delta, 1991), and Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life (Hyperion, 1994). Kabat-Zinn has made significant contributions to modern health care with his research which focused on mind/body interactions for healing, and on various clinical applications of mindfulness meditation training for people with chronic pain and/or stress-related disorders.

Dacher Keltner, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology at UC Berkeley and the faculty director of the university’s Greater Good Science Center, an interdisciplinary center that disseminates the new science of happiness and compassion to educators, parents, mental health workers, and others.

James Doty speaking at TEDxGoldenGateED 2011

The Science of Self-Compassion