CCARE’s Founder and Director, Dr. James Doty, will be speaking at BookPeople about his new book, “Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon’s Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart”.
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Conversations on Compassion with Dr. James Doty, Moderated by Jon Kabat-Zinn
All tickets are SOLD OUT for this event. Tickets are still available for the VIP reception following the event HERE.
About the Event
In this public dialogue, world renowned mindfulness teacher and author, Jon Kabat-Zinn will engage in conversation with CCARE’s Founder and Director, Dr. James Doty, to celebrate the release of Dr. Doty’s book, Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon’s Quest to Discover Mysteries of the Brain and Secrets of the Heart(now available for pre-order). The book will also be for sale at the event along with book signing afterwards. During this conversation, Jon Kabat-Zinn will be asking Dr. Doty to reflect upon his life’s journey and discuss the pivotal roles of mindfulness, meditation, and compassion as shared in the book.
The talk will be recorded and posted to CCARE’s YouTube Channel and website several weeks after the event.
About the Speakers
James Doty, MD is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Stanford University and the Director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education as Stanford University School of Medicine. He completed his undergraduate education at the University of CA, Irvine and medical school at Tulane University. He trained in neurosurgery at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and completed fellowships in pediatric neurosurgery at Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia (CHOP) and in neuroelectrophysiology focused on the use of evoked potentials to assess the integrity of neurological function. His more recent research interests have focused on the development of technologies using focused beams of radiation in conjunction with robotics and image-guidance techniques to treat solid tumors and other pathologies in the brain and spinal cord. He spent 9 years on active duty service in the U.S. Army Medical Corp.
As Director of CCARE, Dr. Doty has collaborated on a number of research projects focused on compassion and altruism including the use of neuro-economic models to assess altruism, use of the CCARE developed compassion cultivation training in individuals and its effect, assessment of compassionate and altruistic judgment utilizing implanted brain electrodes and the use of optogenetic techniques to assess nurturing pathways in rodents. Presently, he is developing collaborative research projects to assess the effect of compassion training on immunologic and other physiologic determinates of health, the use of mentoring as a method of instilling compassion in students and the use of compassion training to decrease pain.
Dr. Doty is also an inventor, entrepreneur and philanthropist having given support to a number of charitable organizations including Children as the Peacemakers, Global Healing, the Pachamama Alliance and Family & Children Services of Silicon Valley. These charities support a variety of programs throughout the world including those for HIV/AIDS support, blood banks, medical care in third world countries and peace initiatives. Additionally, he has endowed chairs at major universities including Stanford University and his alma mater, Tulane University. He is on the Board of Directors of a number of non-profit foundations including the Dalai Lama Foundation, of which he is chairman and the Charter for Compassion International of which he is vice-chair. He is also on the International Advisory Board of the Council for the Parliament of the World’s Religions.
Dr. Doty also writes for The Huffington Post. He is the author of Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon’s Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart (Penguin, 2016).
Jon Kabat- Zinn, PhD is founding Executive Director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is also the founding director of its renowned Stress Reduction Clinic and Professor of Medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He teaches mindfulness and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) in various venues around the world. He received his Ph.D. in molecular biology from MIT in 1971 in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate, Salvador Luria.
He is the author of numerous scientific papers on the clinical applications of mindfulness in medicine and health care, and of a number of books for the lay public: Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness (Delta, 1991); Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life (Hyperion, 1994); Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness (Hyperion, 2005); and Arriving at Your Own Door: 108 Lessons in Mindfulness (Hyperion, 2007). He is also co-author, with his wife Myla, of Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting (Hyperion, 1997); and with Williams, Teasdale, and Segal, of The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness (Guilford, 2007). Overall, his books have been translated into over 30 languages.
Tickets
Tickets go on sale HERE through the Stanford Ticket Office starting Friday, January 8, 2016 at 10AM.
Stanford Ticket Office
2nd Floor of Tresidder Memorial Union
459 Lagunita Drive
Stanford, CA 94305
Link to Campus Map
Phone: (650) 725-2787
Hours: Mon – Fri 10AM – 5PM
Public: SOLD OUT
Stanford Faculty/Staff: SOLD OUT
Stanford Students: SOLD OUT
Other Students (non-Stanford): SOLD OUT
Please note: A customer service handling fee is applied to orders placed over the phone and online.
Parking And Transportation
Parking is free after 4PM (M-F) in many spaces on campus. Please check signs carefully to avoid citation. The closest parking for CEMEX Auditorium (Zambrano Hall) is as follows:
Knight Management Center Garage (Parking Structure 7)
655 Knight Way (at Campus Drive)
Stanford, CA 94305
Link to Map
Lot 93 (by Maples Pavilion)
Entrance is on Campus Drive at Bonair Siding Road
Link to Map
Click here for a printable Stanford Parking Map
Stanford Shuttle Stop
The closest Marguerite Shuttle stop is located on Serra Street in front of The Knight Management Center. Click here to find maps and schedules.
Disability-Related Accommodations And Services
Requests for disability-related accommodations should be directed to CCARE staff by phone (650) 721-6142 or email ccare_info@stanford.edu. Requests should be made by Friday, February 5, 2015.
Disabled parking is located in an underground parking garage beneath the Knight Management Center (Parking Structure 7). Enter from Campus Drive East across from the parking lot adjacent to Maples Pavilion. Additional disabled parking is located along Serra Street or in a small parking lot at the corner of Serra Street and Arguello Way. The closest Marguerite Shuttle stop is located on Serra Street in front of The Knight Management Center.
There are two wheelchair accessible entrances to the CEMEX Auditorium. The entrance furthest east (closest to Arbuckle Cafe) is equipped with a power-operated door. Once inside, wheelchair seating is centrally located. Additional wheelchair seating is located on the 2nd floor of the CEMEX Auditorium. In order to access the upper level of the Auditorium, take the elevator to the 2nd floor and enter through the exterior entrance.
James Doty in conversation with Philip Zimbardo
James (Jim) Doty, neurosurgeon and the director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford – of which the Dalai Lama is a founding benefactor – will discuss his new memoir, Into the Magic Shop, with Stanford psychologist, Philip Zimbardo.
For more information and registration on this event, click here.
“Why Be Nice?” Talk for LASERs Program
CCARE’s Founder and Director, Dr. James Doty, will be speaking at Stanford University with the Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASERs) program. The LASERs are a national program of evening gatherings that bring artists and scientists together for informal presentations and conversation with an audience. See the program for the whole series. The event is free and open to everybody. Like previous evenings, the agenda includes some presentations of art/science projects, news from the audience, and time for casual socializing/networking.
For more information on this event, click here.
2nd Annual Compassion Fair
For employees, patients and families of Stanford Children’s Health & Stanford Health Care. Join us for live music, arts and crafts, massage therapy, and resources for your body, mind and spirit.
For more information on this event, click here.
Invited Lecture: “Motivation, Capacity, and the Limits of Compassion” by Daryl Cameron, PhD
*Event Update: Pre-event registration is now full. We still encourage those who are interested to attend as registration is only required for access to seating before the event starts. Once the event begins, any available seats will be offered on a first-come, first-serve basis.
About This Event
In this lecture, Daryl Cameron, PhD, will present: “Motivation, Capacity, and the Limits of Compassion.” This event is an hour-long lecture followed by questions from the audience. The talk will be recorded and posted to CCARE’s YouTube Channel and website several weeks after the event.
About Daryl Cameron
Daryl Cameron is an Assistant Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Iowa. He received his Ph.D. in 2013 from the University of North Carolina, and has been a Fellow at the Duke University Kenan Institute for Ethics, and at Stanford CCARE. He received his B.A. in Philosophy and Psychology in 2006 from the College of William & Mary. His research focuses on causes and consequences of empathy and compassion. In particular, he focuses on motivational factors that inhibit empathy toward large-scale crises (e.g., natural disasters, genocides) and stigmatized targets (e.g., drug addicts). His research is funded by the National Science Foundation.
Registration
Registration is required for access to seating before the event starts.
Non-registrants are still welcome to attend. Depending on space, any available seats will be offered on a first-come, first-serve basis once the event begins.
Doors open at 5:30PM.
Parking
Visitor metered parking is available at the parking lot located in front of LKSC off Campus Drive. A machine operated by cash or credit card is available to purchase parking. Parking is free in this lot after 6PM.
Additional visitor parking is located on the Stock Farm lot in the corner of Campus Drive and Welch Road. Visitors may park in parking spaces marked for “A” and “C” permits after 4PM.
For more parking information, click here.
Disability-Related Accommodations and Services
The closest disabled parking spaces to Li Ka Shing Center (LKSC) are available at the parking lot located in front of LKSC off Campus Drive. Click here to reference the Stanford Parking Map.
For additional parking and accessible entrance information, click here.
If registrants need a disability-related accommodation, please contact ccare_info@stanford.edu or call (650) 723-8599 by Friday, December 11.
2nd Annual ‘Awake In The World’ Online Event
We’re glad to share this exciting event hosted by our friends at Shambhala Mountain Center. Watch FREE as over thirty teachers of mindfulness and yoga share wisdom and practical teachings for our everyday lives.
Over the course of 5 days, you can explore teachings and practices with the potential to transform your personal sense of well-being, your relationships, your work life, and our society. Topics range from learning how to meditate, to applying mindfulness in everyday life, living with more purpose, getting involved in societal transformation and so much more. To get free access to this incredible event, please click here.
Presenters and hosts include: CCARE’s Dr. James Doty, Krista Tippet, Jack Kornfield, Venerable Dr. Pannavati, Seane Corn, Shiva Rea, Matthieu Ricard, Lama Tsultrim Allione, Robert Thurman, Susan Piver, Lodro Rinzler, Dr. Rick Hanson, Dr. B. Alan Wallace, and lots more!
Sign up HERE to get access to over 30 dialogues, presentations, and guided meditations.
Compassion Cultivation Training with Robert Cusick “Winter 2016“ Saturday Mornings
Course Description
Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) is an educational program designed to help you improve your resilience and feel more connected to others – ultimately providing an overall sense of well-being.
CCT combines traditional contemplative practices with contemporary psychology and scientific research to help you lead a more compassionate life. Through instruction, daily meditation, mindfulness, and in-class interaction, you can strengthen the qualities of compassion, empathy, and kindness. Classes meet once a week for two hours for eight weeks.
Learn how to train your mind to intentionally choose compassionate thoughts and actions and develop skills that help you relate to others – and yourself. For more details about CCT please click here.
Dates: January 30 through March 19, 2016
(8 Saturdays)
Time: 10:00AM – 12:00PM
Instructor: Robert Cusick
Location: Li Ka Shing Center (LKSC), Stanford University
Cost: $325 – All course instruction, materials and guided meditation recordings are included.
Registration:*This class is FULL and now accepting registrations for the wait-list here.
Please note that these courses tend to fill quickly. We therefore recommended to register as soon as possible once registration has opened to ensure your best chances of enrolling.
CCT courses are limited to 30 people to allow for sufficient student participation.
Questions?
Answers to the most frequently asked questions about the CCT courses can be found at http://ccare.stanford.edu/about/faq/#cct.
If you have further questions, please contact CCARE at cctinformation@stanford.edu or (650) 721-6142.
Compassion Cultivation Training with Robert Cusick “Winter 2016“ Thursday Evenings
Course Description
Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) is an educational program designed to help you improve your resilience and feel more connected to others – ultimately providing an overall sense of well-being.
CCT combines traditional contemplative practices with contemporary psychology and scientific research to help you lead a more compassionate life. Through instruction, daily meditation, mindfulness, and in-class interaction, you can strengthen the qualities of compassion, empathy, and kindness. Classes meet once a week for two hours for eight weeks.
Learn how to train your mind to intentionally choose compassionate thoughts and actions and develop skills that help you relate to others – and yourself. For more details about CCT please click here.
Dates: January 14 through March 3, 2016
(8 Thursdays)
Time: 7:00 – 9:00PM
Instructor: Robert Cusick
Location: Li Ka Shing Center (LKSC), Stanford University
Cost: $325 – All course instruction, materials and guided meditation recordings are included.
Registration: *This class is FULL and now accepting registrations for the wait-list here.
Please note that these courses tend to fill quickly. We therefore recommended to register as soon as possible once registration has opened to ensure your best chances of enrolling.
CCT courses are limited to 30 people to allow for sufficient student participation.
Questions?
Answers to the most frequently asked questions about the CCT courses can be found at http://ccare.stanford.edu/about/faq/#cct.
If you have further questions, please contact CCARE at cctinformation@stanford.edu or (650) 721-6142.
Compassion Cultivation Training with Monica Hanson “Winter 2016“ Monday Evenings
Course Description
Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) is an educational program designed to help you improve your resilience and feel more connected to others – ultimately providing an overall sense of well-being.
CCT combines traditional contemplative practices with contemporary psychology and scientific research to help you lead a more compassionate life. Through instruction, daily meditation, mindfulness, and in-class interaction, you can strengthen the qualities of compassion, empathy, and kindness. Classes meet once a week for two hours for eight weeks.
Learn how to train your mind to intentionally choose compassionate thoughts and actions and develop skills that help you relate to others – and yourself. For more details about CCT please click here.
Dates: January 11 through March 14, 2016
(8 Mondays, No class on 1/18/16 and 2/15/16)
Time: 6:30PM – 8:30PM
Instructor: Monica Hanson
Location: Li Ka Shing Center (LKSC), Stanford University
Cost: $325 – All course instruction, materials and guided meditation recordings are included.
Registration:*This class is FULL and now accepting registrations for the wait-list here.
Please note that these courses tend to fill quickly. We therefore recommended to register as soon as possible once registration has opened to ensure your best chances of enrolling.
CCT courses are limited to 30 people to allow for sufficient student participation.
Questions?
Answers to the most frequently asked questions about the CCT courses can be found at http://ccare.stanford.edu/about/faq/#cct.
If you have further questions, please contact CCARE at cctinformation@stanford.edu or (650) 721-6142.
Compassion Cultivation Training with Erika Rosenberg “Winter 2016“ Monday Evenings
Course Description
Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) is an educational program designed to help you improve your resilience and feel more connected to others – ultimately providing an overall sense of well-being.
CCT combines traditional contemplative practices with contemporary psychology and scientific research to help you lead a more compassionate life. Through instruction, daily meditation, mindfulness, and in-class interaction, you can strengthen the qualities of compassion, empathy, and kindness. Classes meet once a week for two hours for eight weeks.
Learn how to train your mind to intentionally choose compassionate thoughts and actions and develop skills that help you relate to others – and yourself. For more details about CCT please click here.
Dates: January 11 through March 14, 2016
(8 Mondays, No class on 1/18/16 and 2/15/16)
Time: 7:00PM – 9:00PM
Instructor: Erika Rosenberg, PhD
Location: Li Ka Shing Center (LKSC), Stanford University
Cost: $325 – All course instruction, materials and guided meditation recordings are included.
Registration: *This class is FULL and now accepting registrations for the wait-list here.
Please note that these courses tend to fill quickly. We therefore recommended to register as soon as possible once registration has opened to ensure your best chances of enrolling.
CCT courses are limited to 30 people to allow for sufficient student participation.
Questions?
Answers to the most frequently asked questions about the CCT courses can be found at http://ccare.stanford.edu/about/faq/#cct.
If you have further questions, please contact CCARE at cctinformation@stanford.edu or (650) 721-6142.
Compassion in Management & Leadership
About the Session
All great leaders create suffering. The very best anticipate that fact and respond with compassion. Today, broad-based survey research reveals that our relationship with a direct manager is probably the primary influence on the quality of our workplace experience, yet many managers still overlook the centrality of compassion to their role. Join Monica Worline, compassion at work researcher, in a lively discussion of the new science of compassion and its implications for managerial practice, leadership excellence, and the new world of sustainable competitive advantage that is created through engagement, commitment, and innovation capability fueled by compassion.
About the Instructor
Monica Worline, PhD, is an organizational psychologist dedicated to research and teaching that brings forward courageous thinking, compassionate leadership, and creating environments that bring people alive in their work. Monica is currently a research scientist at the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education in the Stanford School of Medicine as well as an affiliate faculty member at the Center for Positive Organizations at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.
Registration
This session is free, but registration is required. Click here to register.
Questions?
Please email healthimprovement@stanford.edu or call (650)723-9649.
This event is one of many Contemplation By Design 2015 events, which are sponsored by BeWell@Stanford. For the full schedule of events, click here.
Conversations on Compassion with Anna Deavere Smith
About the Event
In this public conversation, CCARE’s founder and director, Dr. James Doty, will host actress and NYU professor Anna Deavere Smith for a dialogue about her life’s work and what role compassion may play. Free registration is required for access to seating before the event starts. Walk-ins are also welcome and will be offered any unclaimed seats just after the event starts.
Doors open to registered attendees at 5:40PM.
This event will NOT be recorded.
About Anna
Actress, playwright, and teacher, Anna Deavere Smith is said to have created a new form of theater. She received the National Humanities Medal, presented to her by President Obama in 2013. She was the 2015 Jefferson Lecturer for the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is a MacArthur Fellow, and received The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize. She is recipient of two Tony nominations, and two Obie awards. She was runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize for her play Fires in the Mirror. She has created over 15 one-person shows based on hundreds of interviews, most of which deal with social issues. Twilight: Los Angeles, about the Los Angeles race riots of 1992, was performed around the country and on Broadway. Let Me Down Easy focused on health care in the U.S. Her current work-in-progress, the Anna Deavere Smith Pipeline Project, examines the school to prison pipeline. In popular culture you have seen her in Nurse Jackie, Black-ish, The West Wing, The American President, Rachel Getting Married, and Philadelphia. Books include Letters to a Young Artist and Talk to Me: Listening Between the Lines. Honorary degrees include those from Yale, Juilliard, the University of Pennsylvania, Barnard, Radcliffe, Wesleyan, Williams, and Northwestern. She is University Professor at New York University, where she also directs the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue.
Parking and Transportation
Parking is free after 4PM (M-F) in many spaces on campus. Please check signs carefully to avoid citation. The closest parking for CEMEX Auditorium (Zambrano Hall) is as follows:
Knight Management Center Garage (Parking Structure 7)
655 Knight Way (at Campus Drive)
Stanford, CA 94305
Link to Campus Map
Lot 93 (by Maples Pavilion)
Entrance is on Campus Drive at Bonair Siding Road
Link to Map
Click Here for a printable Stanford Parking Map
Stanford Shuttle Stop
The closest Marguerite Shuttle stop is located on Serra Street in front of The Knight Management Center. Click here to find maps and schedules.
Disability-Related Accommodations and Services
Requests for disability-related accommodations, should be directed to CCARE staff by phone (650) 721-6142 or email ccare_info@stanford.edu. Requests should be made by Friday October 2, 2015.
Disabled parking is located in an underground parking garage beneath the Knight Management Center (Parking Structure 7). Enter from Campus Drive East across from the parking lot adjacent to Maples Pavilion. Additional disabled parking is located along Serra Street or in a small parking lot at the corner of Serra Street and Arguello Way. The closest Marguerite Shuttle stop is located on Serra Street in front of The Knight Management Center.
There are two wheel chair accessible entrances to the CEMEX Auditorium. The entrance furthest east (closest to Arbuckle Cafe) is equipped with a power-operated door. Once inside, wheelchair seating is centrally located. Additional wheelchair seating is located on the 2nd floor of the CEMEX Auditorium. In order to access the upper level of the Auditorium, take the elevator to the 2nd floor and enter through the exterior entrance.
Conversations with The Monk Dude on Love, Creativity, & Wisdom
Join Dr. James Doty, leading compassion researcher, and The Monk Dude for a FREE live webinar on compassion. The webinar will take place on Friday, September 18 at 8:30am PT.
What we’ll show you:
-The importance of compassion in supporting our success in life and business.
-The vital role of compassion to us as a species, past, present and future.
-What brain science tells us about the benefits of being more compassionate.
-Is it possible that the Dalai Lama is really that nice in person?
-What neuroscience tells us about how to develop compassion.
-In the Pixar movie, Inside Out, there is no character representing compassion. Why not?
Space is limited and these LIVE interviews always fill up because they are a great way to get quality information and inspiration for free. Claim your spot here!
Film Screening: “The 5 Powers: Superheroes of Peace”
About the Event
Please join CCARE, The Stanford Storytelling Project, and Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh’s international community of monks and nuns for a special screening and panel discussion of The 5 Powers on Friday, October 9 at 6:30pm at Stanford University’s Cubberley Auditorium. Learn how to access the power of mindfulness to effect change within oneself and the world.
Doors open to ticket holders at 6:00PM
This event will NOT be recorded.
About the Film
From Spiderman to the Hulk, numerous superhero origin stories tell of a character’s interaction with an unknown element that effects a radical transformation. This change often leads to heightened senses, enhanced abilities, and the sense of a greater mission that transcends our individual selves. Although this path is a familiar trope in the realm of a fantasy, it exists in the real world as well. It is a profound yet simple notion: each of us can be a superhero.
Like the spider that bit Peter Parker, we can tap into a real life element called mindfulness to have better concentration, self-awareness, and impulse control. Mindfulness has also been scientifically proven to help us feel calm and increase empathy for others.
Inspired by Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1957 comic book The Montgomery Story, which informed and influenced a civil rights movement, the animated film The 5 Powers tells the story of three inspiring individuals who used the power of mindfulness for peace during the turbulent Vietnam War. We learn about our main character’s journey towards mastery of the five powers through the experiences of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, Sister Chan Khong, and their friends Alfred Hassler and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Click here for more info about The 5 Powers
Tickets
Tickets go on sale HERE through the Stanford Ticket Office starting Monday September 14, 2015 at 10AM.
Stanford Ticket Office
2nd Floor of Tresidder Memorial Union
459 Lagunita Drive
Stanford, CA 94305
Link to Campus Map
Phone: (650) 725-2787
Hours: Mon – Fri 10AM – 5PM
Public: $20
Stanford Faculty/Staff: $15 (limit two per ID)
Stanford Students: 1 complimentary ticket available per student through Tuesday 10/6/15, while supplies last. (student ID card is required for entry with ticket – no exceptions can be permitted)
Other Students (non-Stanford): 1 complimentary available per student Tuesday 10/6/15, while supplies last. (student ID card is required for entry with ticket – no exceptions can be permitted)
Please note: A customer service handling fee is applied to orders placed over the phone and online.
All proceeds from ticket sales go towards covering event costs.
Parking and Transportation
Cubberley Auditorium is located just off the Main Quad, in the School of Education, next to the clock tower at the intersection of Escondido Mall and Lasuen Mall. Parking is generally free on campus after 4pm; however, please read signs carefully to avoid citation. Park either on the main Oval, or the Memorial Lot just north of the Memorial Hall on Memorial Way, or South of the campus union at Mayfield Ave.
Disability-Related Accommodations and Services
Disabled parking is located at the top of the Oval (the end of Palm Drive). Additional disabled parking is located at the end of Panama Mall, near the Nitery.
The main entrance to to the Cubberley Auditorium is equipped with a power-operated door, is accessible via a pathway on the southwest corner of the building (across from the Clock Tower). Another accessible entrance is located on the southeast side of the building via a ramp. Once inside the main entrance, the elevator is located to the left and provides access to all floors (B, 1, 2, 3).
If a disability-related accommodation is needed, please contact CCARE staff at phone (650) 721-6142 or email ccare_info@stanford.edu. Requests should be made by Friday October 2, 2015.
Compassion Cultivation Training with Erika Rosenberg “Autumn 2015“ Mondays
Course Description
Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) is an educational program designed to help you improve your resilience and feel more connected to others – ultimately providing an overall sense of well-being.
CCT combines traditional contemplative practices with contemporary psychology and scientific research to help you lead a more compassionate life. Through instruction, daily meditation, mindfulness, and in-class interaction, you can strengthen the qualities of compassion, empathy, and kindness.
Learn how to train your mind to intentionally choose compassionate thoughts and actions and develop skills that help you relate to others – and yourself. For more details please click here.
Autumn 2015
Dates: October 5th through November 30th, 2015
(9 Mondays)
Time: 7:00PM – 9:00PM
Instructor: Erika Rosenberg
Location: UC Berkeley
Cost
$285 – All course instruction, materials and guided meditation recordings are included.
Registration
Please note that these courses tend to fill quickly. We therefore recommended to register as soon as possible once registration has opened to ensure your best chances of enrolling.
CCT courses are limited to 30 people max, to allow for sufficient student participation.
Questions?
Answers to the most frequently asked questions about the CCT courses can be found at http://ccare.stanford.edu/about/faq/#cct.
For questions regarding this particular course offering, please contact Erika directly via her Contact form.
Compassion Cultivation Training with Robert Cusick – Autumn 2015 – Saturdays
Course Description
Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) is an 8-week educational program designed to help you improve your resilience and feel more connected to others – ultimately providing an overall sense of well-being.
CCT combines traditional contemplative practices with contemporary psychology and scientific research to help you lead a more compassionate life. Through instruction, daily meditation, mindfulness, and in-class interaction, you can strengthen the qualities of compassion, empathy, and kindness.
Learn how to train your mind to intentionally choose compassionate thoughts and actions and develop skills that help you relate to others – and yourself. For more details please click here.
Autumn 2015 – CCT Section 3
Dates: September 12th through October 31st, 2015
(8 Saturdays)
Time: 10:00AM – 12:00 PM
Instructor: Robert Cusick
Location: Stanford University
Cost
$325 – All course instruction, materials and guided meditation recordings are included. Payment is accepted securely online by credit card (Mastercard, Visa or American Express).
Registration
COURSE NOW FULL
Click here to register for the wait list (there is no charge, but credit card info is required)
Registration opened on Wednesday August 5th at 12 noon PST.
Please note that these courses tend to fill quickly. We therefore recommended to register as soon as possible once registration has opened to ensure your best chances of enrolling.
CCT courses are limited to 30 people max, to allow for sufficient student participation.
Questions?
Answers to the most frequently asked questions about the CCT course offered by CCARE can be found at http://ccare.stanford.edu/about/faq/#cct.
If your question is not answered there, please contact CCARE at cctinformation@stanford.edu or (650) 723-8666.
Summer of Peace 2015
Discover potent practices that cultivate more inner peace and soul-powered ways to take inspired action in your home, your community and the world. Join 75+ top peacebuilders, including CCARE’s Dr. James Doty, Thupten Jinpa, and Kelly McGonigal along with Deepak Chopra, Ervin Laszlo, Grandmother Agnes Pilgrim, Karen Armstrong and Congressman Tim Ryan, who will help you bring inner, interpersonal and collective peace efforts to the next level.
This year, The Summer of Peace is featuring 3 new summits you won’t want to miss. They include:
The Global Compassion Summit (July 7-9)
The Subtle Activism Summit (September 8-10)
11 Days of Global Unity Summit (September 11-21)
The largest online peace event on the planet is happening for free June 13 – Sept. 21. Join here: https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/sop15JD/doty/
Compassion Cultivation Training with Monica Hanson – Autumn 2015 – Mondays
Course Description
Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) is an 8-week educational program designed to help you improve your resilience and feel more connected to others – ultimately providing an overall sense of well-being.
CCT combines traditional contemplative practices with contemporary psychology and scientific research to help you lead a more compassionate life. Through instruction, daily meditation, mindfulness, and in-class interaction, you can strengthen the qualities of compassion, empathy, and kindness.
Learn how to train your mind to intentionally choose compassionate thoughts and actions and develop skills that help you relate to others – and yourself. For a more detailed course description please click here.
Autumn 2015 – CCT Section 2
Dates: September 14 – November 2, 2015 (8 Mondays)
Time: 6:30PM – 8:30PM
Instructor: Monica Hanson
Location: Stanford University
Cost
$325 – All course instruction, materials and guided meditation recordings are included. Payment is accepted securely online by credit card (Mastercard, Visa or American Express).
Registration
CLASS NOW FULL – Click here to register for the wait list
Registration opened on Monday July 27th at 12 noon PST.
Please note that these courses tend to fill quickly. We therefore recommended to register as soon as possible once registration has opened to ensure your best chances of enrolling.
CCT courses are limited to 30 people max, to allow for sufficient student participation.
Questions?
Answers to the most frequently asked questions about the CCT course offered by CCARE can be found at http://ccare.stanford.edu/about/faq/#cct. If your question is not answered there, please contact CCARE at cctinformation@stanford.edu or (650) 723-8666.
Compassion Cultivation Training with Robert Cusick – Autumn 2015 – Wednesdays
Course Description
Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) is an 8-week educational program designed to help you improve your resilience and feel more connected to others – ultimately providing an overall sense of well-being.
CCT combines traditional contemplative practices with contemporary psychology and scientific research to help you lead a more compassionate life. Through instruction, daily meditation, mindfulness, and in-class interaction, you can strengthen the qualities of compassion, empathy, and kindness.
Learn how to train your mind to intentionally choose compassionate thoughts and actions and develop skills that help you relate to others – and yourself. For more details please click here.
Autumn 2015 – CCT Section 1
Dates: Wednesday September 9th through Wednesday October 28th, 2015
(8 Wednesdays)
Time: 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Instructor: Robert Cusick
Location: Stanford University
Cost
$325 – All course instruction, materials and guided meditation recordings are included. Payment is accepted securely online by credit card (Mastercard, Visa or American Express).
Registration
CLASS NOW FULL. Click here to register for the wait list
Registration opened on Monday July 27th at 12 noon PST
Please note that these courses tend to fill quickly. We therefore recommended to register as soon as possible once registration has opened to ensure your best chances of enrolling.
CCT courses are limited to 30 people max, to allow for sufficient student participation.
Questions?
Answers to the most frequently asked questions about the CCT course offered by CCARE can be found at http://ccare.stanford.edu/about/faq/#cct.
If your question is not answered there, please contact CCARE at cctinformation@stanford.edu or (650) 723-8666.
Invited Lecture: Barry Kerzin, MD
Event Update: Pre-event registration is now full. We still encourage those who are interested to attend as registration is only required for access to seating before the event starts. Once the event begins, any available seats will be offered on a first-come, first-serve basis.
About This Event
In this lecture, Barry Kerzin, MD, will present: “Compassionate Living”. This event is an hour-long lecture followed by questions from the audience. The talk will be recorded and posted to CCARE’s YouTube Channel and website several weeks after the event.
About Dr. Barry Kerzin
Prof. Kerzin, M.D., is a former Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington, a Visiting Professor at Central University of Tibetan Studies in Varanasi, India, and a visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 2014 and 2015. He has been appointed an Honorary Professor at the University of Hong Kong in 2015. Barry is a fellow at the Mind and Life Institute and consults for the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig on compassion training.
He is founder and president of the Altruism in Medicine Institute and the founder and chairman of the Human Values Institute in Japan.
For 26 years he has been providing free medical care to those in need. He also provides medical care to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and other advanced spiritual beings. Barry has completed many meditation retreats varying from a three-year retreat to a one-year retreat to many several month retreats. He also leads meditation retreats. His brain was studied both at Princeton University and the University of Wisconsin, Madison as a long-term meditator. Barry was ordained as a bikshu (fully ordained monk) by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Bodh Gaya, India. He combines his work as a monk and doctor, harmonizing mind and body.
He lectures on the interface of modern science and Buddhist psychology, philosophy, ethics, compassion, personal ecology (managing destructive emotions like anger, jealousy, and pride), meditation, and death and dying, in medical schools and universities around the world particularly in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Russia, Mongolia, Europe, and North America on a regular basis.
Dr. Kerzin delivered a TEDx talk in Philadelphia, and one in Taipei. In June 2014 he presented a keynote address to the 10th Annual Grief and Bereavement Conference held in Hong Kong at the University of Hong Kong. In April 2015 he addressed the Said Business School, University of Oxford, as part of the annual Skoll World Forum. In June 2015, Prof. Kerzin will present a medical grand rounds lecture on The Science Behind Meditation at Stanford Medical School.
He has written Tibetan Buddhist Prescription for Happiness in Japanese, which is being translated into English and Chinese. He is nearly to publish, Nagarjuna’s Wisdom. Barry has written many chapters for a variety of books. Many interviews, radio programs, TV programs and documentaries have been made about him in many different countries.
Registration
Registration is required for access to seating before the event starts.
Non-registrants are still welcome to attend. Depending on space, any available seats will offered on a first-come, first-serve basis once the event begins.
Doors open at 5:30PM.
Parking
The closest parking to the Alway Building is located in Parking Structure 1 on Roth Way or Parking Structure 4 on Pasteur Drive.
Disability-Related Accommodations and Services
The closest disabled parking spaces to the Alway Building are located in Parking Structure 4 on Pasteur Drive. Click here to reference the Stanford Parking Map.
All 1st floor entrances to rooms in Alway are accessible via doors in the exterior courtyard. There are no wheelchair accessible restrooms within the Alway Building. However, accessible men’s and women’s restrooms are located on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd floors in the corridor between the Alway Building and the Lane Building.
If registrants need a disability-related accommodation, please contact ccare_info@stanford.edu or call (650) 721-6142 by Friday, June 26, 2015.
Global Compassion Summit
A more peaceful world is possible when we can demonstrate love, understanding, acceptance and compassion for our fellow human beings. Fortunately, every human being is hardwired for compassion, and with intention and education, that compassion can grow. The Global Compassion Summit, July 7-9, will bring to life the science and practices that help us as individuals embrace compassion. In doing so, we see how compassion is a fundamental contributor to inner peace as well as global peace.
What you’ll learn in The Global Compassion Summit:
- How science and ancient wisdom have united to create powerful compassion education protocols that can relieve anxiety and depression and increase happiness
- How science and ancient wisdom have united to create powerful compassion education protocols that can relieve anxiety and depression and increase happiness
- What compassion is and how recognizing suffering in ourselves and others is the first step in creating more inner and outer peace
- How the science of compassion illustrates that we can nurture compassion for ourselves, loved ones, strangers and even perceived enemies
- Why embracing love and common humanity are important in the cultivation of compassion
- How compassion is emerging as a relevant and poignant field that serves our evolution as a human species
- What you can do to grow the compassion movement
We believe that a compassionate world is a peaceful world.
We believe that a compassionate world is possible when every man, woman and child treats others as they wish to be treated – with dignity, equity and respect.
We believe that all human beings are born with the capacity for compassion, and that it must be cultivated for human beings to survive and thrive.
If you also believe in this vision above (from The Charter for Compassion website), please join our Global Compassion Summit featured speakers to be a part of co-creating a more compassionate world.
*The Global Compassion Summit (GCS) is part of the 4th annual Summer of Peace, a 3-month series that celebrates collective peace efforts and leaders creating a culture of peace. When you sign up for GCS, you’ll also have the option to register for all of The Summer of Peace offerings for free.
Compassion Cultivation Training with Robert Cusick – Summer 2015
Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) at Stanford University
CCARE is offering one course on campus this Summer Quarter with Certified CCT Instructor Robert Cusick.
Course Description
Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) is an 8-week educational program designed to help you improve your resilience and feel more connected to others – ultimately providing an overall sense of well-being.
CCT combines traditional contemplative practices with contemporary psychology and scientific research to help you lead a more compassionate life. Through instruction, daily meditation, mindfulness, and in-class interaction, you can strengthen the qualities of compassion, empathy, and kindness.
Learn how to train your mind to intentionally choose compassionate thoughts and actions and develop skills that help you relate to others – and yourself.
Summer Quarter 2015 – Course Schedule
Wednesday June 24th to Wednesday August 12th, 2015
(8 Wednesdays)
7:00 – 9:00 pm
Instructor: Robert Cusick
Location: Stanford University Medical Center, Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge (LKSC) Room TBA
Cost
$325 – All course instruction, materials and guided meditation recordings are included. Payment is accepted securely online by credit card (Mastercard, Visa or American Express).
Registration
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
Registration opens on Monday May 18th at 12 noon PST. The link to register will be posted here and at http://ccare.stanford.edu/cctreg once registration has opened.
Please note that these courses typically fill quickly. We therefore recommended to register as soon as possible once registration has opened to ensure your best chances of enrolling.
CCT courses are limited to 30 people max, to allow for sufficient student participation.
Questions?
Answers to the most frequently asked questions about the CCT course offered by CCARE can be found at http://ccare.stanford.edu/about/faq/#cct. If your question is not answered there, please contact CCARE at cctinformation@stanford.edu or (650) 723-8666.
Perspectives on Mindfulness: The Complex Role of Meditation Research
In recent years, the number of published studies of mindfulness-based interventions has grown exponentially in both basic and clinical domains. Despite this increased interest, the bases of the effects reported in these studies are not well understood. The purpose of this symposium is to articulate a spectrum of views on what mindfulness is, to explore the often unexamined methodological complexity of research in this area, and to highlight the importance of context in interpreting these findings. We will examine ways in which the research findings and their communication may contribute to unrealistic expectations at the individual and institutional level, and can contribute to misconceptions regarding the larger goals of contemplative practice in modernist and secular settings.
For more information and registration, click here.