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Why Kindness Heals
As a physician specializing in neurosurgery at an academic medical center, I appreciate the unhappiness many patients have with the present healthcare delivery system that is rushed, bureaucratic, non-caring and technology-focused. In the U.S. we spend more per capita than any other industrialized country, yet the outcomes are some of…
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Real Magic
The day I noticed my thumb was missing began like any other day the summer before I started eighth grade. I spent my days riding my bicycle around town, even though sometimes it was so hot the metal on my handlebars felt like a stove top. I could always taste…
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Thinking About Thinking
“Do you know what a mantra is, Jim?” I shook my head. I didn’t have a clue. “It’s kind of like a song or a sound you make that helps you focus your mind. Just like you’ve been focusing your mind on your breathing or the candle, this is another…
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How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success
After working in many high-achieving environments like Yale, Stanford, Silicon Valley, New York City, I noticed too many people pursuing “success” at a cost to themselves. They were postponing their happiness now in pursuit of success…with the idea that, when they attain success, they will be happy. Yet they were…
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CCT Founders and Senior Teachers Offer New Ways to Cultivate Compassion
Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) is an educational program designed to help improve resilience and build connections with others—ultimately providing an enhanced overall sense of well-being. The founders and senior teachers who developed CCT combined traditional contemplative practices with contemporary psychology and scientific research designed to effectively help create a more…
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An Interview with the Founder of MIT’s Innovative Transformative Leadership Program – Now to Be Offered at Stanford!
Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi, founder of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT, talks with CCARE about this exciting leadership development program, one of the highest rated programs in innovation and leadership at Sloan School of Management. CCARE is delighted to co-host a special offering of this…
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Dr. James Doty, Founder of CCARE, Releases Book
In Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon’s Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart, Dr. James Doty, neurosurgeon and professor at Stanford School of Medicine and Director of Stanford’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education has written a moving account – part auto-biographical narrative,…
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Let’s Catalyze Compassion for Nepal
Tragedies like the earthquake in Nepal cause us to engage in soul-searching about life and how we are living, as well as call us to respond with compassion to the intense suffering that we witness. For those of us seeking ways to help, it can be difficult to know how…
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Call for a Temporary Outreach and Program Coordinator
CCARE is pleased to announce a position opening for a Temporary Outreach & Program Coordinator. TO APPLY: Please review the position description below and submit an application online at https://stanfordmedicine.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_51oEgmR2YvDpvNP no later than Wednesday April 22, 2015. QUESTIONS: Please contact CCARE by email at ccare_info@stanford.edu and put “Temporary Outreach &…
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Extended Deadline: Call for Dignity Health-CCARE Fellowship Proposals
Call for Proposals: The Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at the Stanford University School of Medicine seeks an applied science researcher to focus on conducting research related to compassion and healthcare. The ideal researcher will focus on patient care outcomes as they are impacted by the…