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Here are all the conferences I've found related to empathy and
compassion.
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for other conferences. Mind &
LIfe Institute also holds many conferences.
This conference consists of an
ongoing series of online Panel Discussions with
empathy and compassion experts
from all fields and walks of life. The panels take place using
Skype and Google Hangouts group video conferencing and are recorded
and placed on Youtube
for viewing at any time.
At Facebook we understand the importance of research and
practice around how people perceive, relate, and engage with each other.
In this spirit, Facebook is hosting researchers and practitioners who
work to improve our understanding of the driving forces and benefits of
compassion.
This event is open to the public and will be streaming live.
Location: Facebook Building 10, 1050 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA 9430 Can't join us
in person? Watch the event live
Arturo Bejar
Dacher Keltner -
Diff'rent Flows for Diff'rent Folks
Emiliana Simon-Thomas
Paul Piff
Marc Brackett
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Emotionally Intelligent Bullying Prevention
Robin Stern
Piercarlo Valdesolo - Me, and you, and everyone we know (and
everything we like)
Emma Seppala - Beyond the Service: Veteran Healing & Empowerment
through Social Media, Community & Compassion
The
symposium provides a site to examine the neurobiological theory of
empathy and its impact on socio-psychological ideas of care-taking,
altruism etc. within the cultural and conceptual history of empathy and
related concepts, the latter referring to both aesthetics and moral
philosophy.
Sigrid
Weigel (ZfL): Empathy. A neurobiological capacity and its cultural and
conceptual history
Vittorio
Gallese (Parma): Embodied Simulation Theory. The body in aesthetic
experience
Andrea
Pinotti (Milan): A question of character. The empathic life of things
Christian G.
Allesch (Salzburg): Empathy. A key concept of psychological aesthetics
Patrizia
Manganaro (Rome): Empathy and phenomenology. The roots of
intersubjectivity by Edith Stein
Susan
Lanzoni (Harvard Univ.): Empathy in translation
Vanessa Lux
(ZfL): Measuring the emotional quality of empathy and sympathy
Marianne
Leuzinger-Bohleber (Frankfurt a.M.): Empathy with the primary object.
Key to Winnicott’s or Klein’s baby?
Thomas Fuchs
(Heidelberg): The Extended Body. A phenomenological and enactive
account of empathy
Grit Hein
(Zurich): Modulation of empathy and its link to altruism
Katja Liebal
(FU Berlin): Does empathy motivate prosocial behavior in great apes?
Mark Solms (Cape Town): The problem of other minds.
A neuropsychoanalytical perspective
Simon Strick (ZfL): Feeling other people's pain
between 1750 and 1860. Aesthetics, politics, biopower
Helmut J. Schneider (Bonn): Empathy, fiction,
community. Aesthetic experience and social cohesion in Enlightenment
thought
Iris Hermann (Bamberg): Empathy in literary texts
Antonio Somaini (Paris): Expressive movement,
regression, ecstasy. The aesthetics of empathy in Sergei M.
Eisenstein’s art theory
Mind and Life Dialogues with the Dalai Lama examine new
areas of research to be explored. Publications are created to report on
the results of these dialogues and are available as a recorded history
of the developments.
Introduction Morning: Exploring the Nature of
Reality: Buddhist and Scientific Perspectives Afternoon: Session: The
Sweep of Science: Knowledge and the Nature of Reality
Physics: Morning: Quantum Physics, Relativity, and
Cosmology -
Afternoon: The Nature of Reality
Neuroscience: Morning: Changing the Brain -
Afternoon: Exploring Neuroplasticity
Consciousness: Morning: Consciousness in
Western Science and Philosophy - Afternoon: Approaches to
Consciousness
Applications of Contemplative Practice: Morning:
Clinical and Educational Applications of Contemplative Practice -
Afternoon: Promoting Human Development
Future Directions: Morning: The Future of
Monastic Science Education & Buddhism, Science and Modernity
Tenzin Gyatso: His Holiness the 14th Dalai
Lama
Michel Bitbol, PhD: Directeur de Recherche Centre
National de la Recherche Scientifique
"The core focus of the Bridging conference is to connect
people across disciplines, creating connections between the classroom,
the laboratory, the therapy room and the living room, to support and
foster the growth, study and dissemination of mindfulness for the good
of the next generation"
"The Social & Affective Neuroscience Society (SANS) is
committed to research investigating the neural basis of social and
affective processes
Major areas of interest include (but are not limited to): social
cognition, emotion, motivation, social perception, intergroup relations,
judgment and decision making, empathy, personal relationships, culture,
and reward/punishment."
The Power of Empathy, Anita Nowak, McGill
Foundation
Welcome from Dr. Lisa A. Erwin, Vice Chancellor for Student Life
Empathy, Entrepreneurship, and the Liberal Arts - Dr. Olaf Kuhlke
Associate Dean, UMD College of Liberal Arts
Duluth Poet Laureate - Deborah Gordon Cooper
Imagining Empathy or its Absence
David Gore, UMD Department of Communication
Eve Browning, UMD Department of Philosophy
Neuroscience, Evolution and Empathy
Dan Glisczinski, UMD Department of Education
Noel Reynolds, UMD College of Education and Human Service Profession
Non-Violent Communication Track Workshop One
Seven Key Skills: A Map of Empathic Connection - Ann Harrington
... ..
"This day-long seminar and live webcast will explore the conceptual,
biological and practical relationship between mindfulness and
compassion. The goal of this conference is to explore the important
connections between mindfulness and compassion by providing answers to
questions such as how are they similar or distinct, how does one promote
the other, which research-tested programs have been shown to boost
mindfulness and/or compassion, and much more. Cognitive-Based Compassion
Training (CBCT). "
"This highly interactive conference, titled “Compassion
and Creativity in the Community,” will invite audience participation
with featured national and local leaders in a creative exploration of
how compassion is valued across the spectrum of communities.
The forum provides an opportunity to reach past barriers that too often
separate the academic, business, government, spiritual and medical
communities from one another. Area professionals from each of these
sectors will speak, focusing on the role of compassion in daily living
and inviting the audience to offer, discuss, and help develop ideas that
create paths to a more compassionate society."
"There
are three central questions that will drive each panel discussion and
act as the common threads through the panels:
How do you shift the focus from “me” to “we”?
How can you turn a destructive event into something constructive?
How does compassion affect the dynamics of a community?"
"Empathy plays a key role in global change, our relationships as well as
inner and outer healing. We bring scientific, psychological and
process-oriented perspectives into dialogue with each other.
Speakers"
Drs. Amy and Arnold Mindell: „Empathy and the
Universe Dance - in personal life and world situations“ Founders of Process-oriented Psychology, Portland USA
Prof. Dr. Tanja Singer: „Empathy in neuroscience
research“ Neuroscience, Director of the Max-Planck-Institute Leipzig
Prof. Dr. Stefan Willich: „Empathy in the
doctor-patient relationship in allopathic and complementary
medicine“ Medicine, Director at the CHH, Charité, Berlin
Dr. Alan Bern and Mr. Tcha Limberger: „Expression
with and without words in Yiddish and Roma music traditions“ Music, Director of the Yiddisch Summer in Weimar / Musician
Dr. Tanja Hetzer: „Empathy of the self as gateway to
peace“ Prozesswork and History, Hanuman Institut Berlin
Dr. Achim Goeres : Horizontal and vertical empathy“
Process facilitation and Physics, Hanuman Institut Berlin
Prof. Dr. Simone Mahrenholz: Chair Philosopher, University of Manitoba, Canada
PANEL DISCUSSION: HOW MUCH EMPATHY DO WE HUMANS NEED?
With speakers and audience Chair: Prof. Dr. Simone
Mahrenholz
The Department
of Comparative Literature at Yale University would like to invite
submissions for the Annual Graduate Student Conference: The topic of
empathy has been the recurring focus of numerous debates across a
diverse range of disciplines, including literature, philosophy,
political theory, theology, psychology, and cognitive science.
Topics for discussion may include, but
are by no means limited to:
"The purpose of the Compassion & Business Conference, a one-day
conference to be held April 30, 2013, is to present and create a dialog
around cutting-edge research and best practices on compassion and
business by leading research experts in the field as well as business
leaders who have successfully implemented compassion-based programs in
their organization.
Conference presenters will explore and discuss the neural correlates,
biological bases and antecedents of compassion with regards to its
application to the corporate world; the effects of compassion on
behavior, physiology, physical and psychological health and well-being
and the brain; and methods, techniques, and programs for cultivating
compassion and promoting altruism within individuals and society-wide"
"The intention of the First International Conference on
Mindfulness is to provide such a forum for clinicians, contemplatives,
researchers, academics, teachers, students, politicians, communities,
and practitioners to begin this process. We invite you to participate in
this conference, which is intended as the first of many future
conference. The conference brings together researchers and practitioners
of mindfulness. The conference takes place on May 8-12, 2013 in Rome,
Italy. Keynote speakers include":
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.,
University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA
J. Mark G. Williams. Ph.D.,
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Susan Bögels, Ph.D.,
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Paul Grossman, Ph.D.,
University of Basel Hospital, Switzerland
Henk Barendregt, Ph.D.,
Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Giuseppe Pagnoni, Ph.D.,
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
The “2013 International Summit Conference on
Compassionate Organizations” is an exploration in which all who
participate help frame the questions and explore answers that we can
incorporate into the movement
Unlike many other conferences, the 2013 International Summit Conference
on Compassionate Organizations has no keynote speakers, workshop
presenters, or participants. The Summit Conference is a working event in
which colleagues join together to engage the convening question:
For the fifth consecutive year, Sapienza University of Rome will host
artists, performers, filmmakers, scholars and neuroscientists from
different research centers in Europe and the United States on the
occasion of the International Conference Dialogues between theater and
neuroscience . neuroestetica the theatrical anthropology,
from studies on empathy
to research on intersubjectivity, moving from studies of motor
cognition, memory, emotions, on mirror neurons and alternative
therapies.
The GGSC’s six-day Summer Institute will equip educators
with social-emotional learning tools that will benefit both students and
teachers... The Center’s first Summer Institute will provide
science-based information, tools, and skills to promote the social and
emotional well-being of both teachers and their students.
Participants will engage in interactive
workshops and discussions that will foster an in-depth exploration and
practice of: mindfulness, self-compassion, empathy, gratitude, achieving
and maintaining positive emotions, emotional literacy, and emotional
balance.
The purpose of the CCARE Summer Research Institute, a six-day conference
to be held in Summer 2013, is to advance research on compassion and
altruism through collaboration, dialog, inquiry, education, and
research.
The purpose of the CCARE Summer Research Institute, a six-day conference
to be held in Summer 2013, is to advance research on compassion and
altruism through collaboration, dialog, inquiry, education, and
research.
2003-10-(16-18) -
The Promise Of Empathy
University of Iowa
"Empathy has recently emerged as a topic of critical importance: in the social
sciences and
in popular political discourse we wonder about the promise of empathy in our
efforts to
overcome differences of race, religion, or national culture; in the humanities
and fine arts we
hope to facilitate empathy by providing an imaginative reconstruction of our
own or someone
else's experience; in the natural sciences of evolutionary biology and
neurophysiology we are
eager to ground empathy in human nature."
2005-01-15
- International
Conference on Neuroesthetics Empathy in the Brain
and in Art - UC Berkeley
"Empathy, one of the most extraordinary feats of the human brain, plays
a major role in social and artistic communication. We empathize with
others and often respond with emotion to their condition. Artists,
photographers, actors and film directors use our capacity to empathize
to give their works heightened emotional appeal. But what are the
neurological foundations of empathy, and on what specialized brain cells
and systems does it depend?"
Speakers:
Vittorio Gallese
Ray Dolan
Leonard Pitt
Aina Puce
Judy Dater
Alice O'Toole
Frans De Waal
Paul Ekman
2005-10-(25-27)
Symposium on Empathy and fairness, held at the Novartis Foundation,
London,
Empathy is the process that allows us to share the feelings and emotions
of others, in the absence of any direct emotional stimulation to the
self. Humans can feel empathy for other people in a wide array of
contexts: for basic emotions and sensation such as anger, fear, sadness,
joy, pain and lust as well as for more complex emotions such as guilt,
embarrassment and love. It has been proposed that, for most people,
empathy is the process that prevents us doing harm to others. This symposium is based on a proposal made by
Chris Frith, Uta Frith, Tania Singer and Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
Chris Frith - Introduction
Vittorio Gallese - Embodied simulation:
from mirror neuron systems to interpersonal relations
Tania Singer - The neuronal basis of
empathy and fairness
Marc Hauser - What’s fair? The
unconscious calculus of our moral
faculty
Josep Call and Keith Jensen -
Chimpanzees may recognize motives and goals,
but may not reckon on them
Nancy Eisenberg - Empathy-related
responding and prosocial behaviour
Paul A. M. Van Lange, Marcello Gallucci,
Johan C. Karremans, Anthon
Klapwijk and Chris Reinders Folmer A social interaction analysis of
empathy and fairness
Raymond A. Mar and C. Neil Macrae
Triggering the intentional
stance
R. James R. Blair Dissociable systems
for empathy
Ralph Adolphs Looking at other people:
mechanisms for social perception
revealed in subjects with focal amygdala damage
Jonathan Wolff Models of distributive
justice
Frédérique de Vignemont When do we
empathize?
Robert Frank Cooperation through moral
commitment
2005-11-05
- Stanford School of Medicine
Presents the 14th Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama and a group of scientists and
Buddhist scholars in dialogue. Talking about spiritual and scientific
explorations of human experience in the areas of craving, suffering and
choice.
Dr. Carl Bielefeldt , Professor of
Religious Studies, Stanford University
Dr. Paul
Ekman , Professor of Psychlogy,
Department of Psychiatry, University of California , San
Francisco
Dr. Howard Fields , Professor of
Neurology, Physiology, and Psychiatry and Director, Wheeler
Center for the Neurobiology of Addiction, University of
California, San Francisco
Philippe Goldin, Postdoctoral
Scholar, Department of Psychology, Stanford University
Dr. Janet Gyatso ,
Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies, Harvard Divinity School
Dr. Anne C. Klein , Professor of
Religious Studies, Rice University
Dr. Mathieu Ricard, Buddhist scholar
and monk, French translator for His Holiness
Dr. David Spiegel , The
Jack, Lulu and Sam Willson Professor in Medicine, Stanford
University
Ven. Karma
Lekshe Tsomo , Assistant Professor of
Theology and Religious Studies, University of San Diego
Dr. Alan
Wallace , Founder & President, Santa
Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies
Brian Wandell , Isaac and Madeline
Stein Family Professor of Psychology, Stanford University
2005
Greater Good Science Center - Symposium on Empathy UC Berkeley - Their magazine has a section on empathy.
" Like many pieces of advice, the age-old adages to "put yourself in
someone else's shoes" or "see the world from someone else's perspective"
can sound painfully naïve. Indeed, they seem to go against human nature,
serving as moralistic attempts to rein in our tendencies toward
self-interest. Can we truly understand what other people are thinking or
feeling—and if so, how? Those are the questions at the heart of four
essays in this issue of Greater Good, which homes in on the human
capacity for empathy."
2006-01-00 -
Empathy and the Greater Good
A Greater Good Science Center event on the science and practice of
empathy, featuring Arlie Hochschild, Phil & Carolyn Cowan, Lyssa Mudd,
and Jason Marsh. Introductions by Deirdre English and Dacher Keltner.
Audio is a bit messed up
About Greater Good Center; compassion,
forgiveness, science, etc,
Times of stress due to lack of resources
Studies of family stress
Empathy is a trait - some can be more
empathic - depends on the conditions
Stress, depression, more difficult to be
empathic
Some have poor examples from family
examples
How work is divided
Stress outside of family and in society
Childhood development is important
Social Circumstances
Politicians manipulate social stresses
why do people agree with this?
why do people consent?
contraction of the boundaries of empathy
Bad news can make us more empathic
sometimes
What can people do?
we don't quite know what empathy is?
In-group and out-groups.
Definition of empathy -
being able to feel the feelings of
another
I feel your pain and doing something
consistently about it.
How can we arrange life to facilitate
empathy in our family
How to learn family empathy skills and
then on to the political level
There are a lot of levels
Need to start in the formative years
A fake morality is being used -
scapegoating
Q and A
Many demands on your empathy?
To great of expectations for
relationships
mass media is creating a market of
love
families more isolated
Empathy and zero sum?
preoccupied with your own stress.
are constrained
Doctors and empathy?
A culture of humiliation?
Stress and its negative empathy effects?
Importance of nurture and the long term
positive effects
2006-06-(22-23) - An
International Interdisciplinary Conference
California State University, Fullerton
The goal of this international interdisciplinary conference is to provide a
forum for interdisciplinary scholarly collaboration addressing the following
questions regarding empathy:
What kind of process is empathy?,
How does empathy differ from related psychological processes?
What role does empathy play in our engagement with fiction?
How do we determine whether or not attempts to empathize are
successful?
What role does empathy play in social and
moral life?
Presenters
Derek Matravers - Empathy and Knowledge
Heather Battaly - Empathy: Virtue or
Skill?
Noel Carroll - Solidarity
Amy Coplan - Understanding Empathy: Its
Features and Effects
Peter Goldie - Anti-empathy
Martin L. Hoffman - Empathy,
Justice, and the Law
Jesse Prinz - Is Empathy Necessary for
Morality?
Murray Smith - Five Problems for Empathy
Kendall Walton - In Alien Shoes
Stephen Davies - Infectious Music:
Music-Listener Emotional Contagion
Paul L. Harris - The Intersection of
Empathy and Testimony in Child Development
Gregory Currie - Empathy, Imitation and
Joint Attention
E. Ann Kaplan - Vicarious Trauma or
'Empty' Empathy?--Images of Catastrophe in the Public Sphere
2006-2009 - Autonomy Singularity Creativity
(ASC) Conference - National Humanities Center
"A small but growing number of philosophers, literary
scholars, and other humanistic thinkers has turned to the work of computational
scientists, primatologists, cognitive scientists, biologists, neuroscientists,
and others in their attempts to gain a contemporary understanding of human
attributes that have traditionally been described in abstract, philosophical, or
spiritual terms."
(Follow links to video of each
speakers presentation).
2007-04-12 -
Empathy and Ethics
in Film and Literature
The theme may be interpreted
broadly, from the portrayal of empathy and/or ethics in literature and film to
the way these works encourage an empathetic reaction in readers or viewers.
2008-03-27 -
Drivers of
Our Shifting Culture
EMPATHY AND ETHICS: DRIVERS OF OUR SHIFTING CULTURE…
A Panel Discussion on Empathy and Ethics(audio) Bill Drayton, Jill Vialet, Mary Gordon, Keith
Hammonds, Kirk Hanson
"Technology has increased the flow of information and made our
decision-making more transparent. In this panel discussion on empathy and
ethics, Bill Drayton, Mary Gordon, Keith Hammonds, Kirk Hanson and Jill Vialet
consider how empathetic ethics has to begin with individuals and can only then
move into the organizations we lead and the societies we serve."
2008-04-15 -
Seeds of Compassion Gathering Seedsofcompassion.org,
Seattle WA
"Anchored by the deep wisdom of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, this
community–focused event celebrated and explored the relationships, programs and
tools that nurture and empower children, families and communities to be
compassionate members of society. Each of the five days provided parents,
educators, business and community leaders with an opportunity to better
understand the real benefits of compassion, and concrete steps on how to bring
compassion into their lives."
(Follow
links to video of each speakers presentation).
The
Scientific Basis for Compassion, Part 2
"panel of leading researchers to discuss the quantitative benefits of
compassion." Dalai Lama, Daniel Goleman,
Andrew Meltzoff, Richard Davidson, Daniel Siege, Alicia Lieberman
2009-09-30 -
How the social brain
experiences empathy Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience, University of Chicago
"A one-day conference in Downtown Chicago
The Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience will be hosting a one-day
conference led by Dr. Jean Decety entitled, "How the social brain experiences
empathy." Presentations will provide up-to-date knowledge on empathy
ranging from brain circuits to patient-physician relationships, and will
emphasize how many academic areas and applications, such as clinical psychology,
education, psychotherapies, and others, can benefit from this new knowledge
about the social brain. The conference will showcase some of the most important
researchers in empathy today."
2009-10-1 -
Varieties of Empathy in
Science, Art and Culture
"Varieties of Empathy in Science, Art, and Culture (VOE), a workshop held at the
Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies on 10-12 October, 2009, brought
together twenty-two scholars, scientists, and artists from nine disciplines,
working in six different countries, to consider the recent research into
empathy, mirror neurons, autism and related phenomena and several historical
antecedents and social implications of this research."
Einfühlung and its Aesthetic Origins
Einfühlung/Empathy in Psychology, Phenomenology and
Psychoanalysis
“Translating Empathy in the Psychological
Laboratory”
Empathy & Hermeneutics in the Philosophy of the
Social Sciences
Empathy and Evolution
Mirror Neurons & Empathy in Cognitive Neuroscience
Empathy and its Limits: Transmission of Affect at
Cultural Boundaries
Session
Three: Compassion and EmpathyCompassion and
empathy are fundamental to moral and character development and to any vision of
a kinder, more just, and more caring society and world.
A research project launch - empathy
and the use of metaphor in social relations. Starting from the
reality of empathy in post-conflict reconciliation:
10:30 am Session 1
12:00 pm Session 2
CCARE proposes that its inaugural conference focus on the challenges posed by
the diverse perspectives of the different disciplines including philosophy,
neuroscience, neuroeconomics, psychology and contemplative traditions that are
engaged in the study of compassion and altruistic behavior.
Session One:
Empathy, Compassion and Altruism in Psychology.
James Doty, MD,
Thupten Jinpa, PhD,
Jeanne Tsai, PhD.,
Paul Ekman, PhD.,
Tracy Spinrad, PhD.,
Robert Sapolsky, PhD.
Session Two:
The Contemplative Perspective
Bill
Mobley, MD, PhD.,
Wendy Farley, PhD.,
Hone Dunne, PhD.,
Scotty
McLennan, PhD..
Session Three:
Compassion Research in Neuroscience.
Brian Knutson, PhD,
Richard Davidson,
PhD,
Tania Singer, PhD,
Bill
Mobley, MD, PhD..
Session Four: Perspectives from Evolution and Philosophy.
Phillipe Golden, PhD,
Felix Warneken, PhD,
Owen Flanagan, PhD,
Bill Newsome, PhD.
Session Five:
Altruistic Behavior research and Neuroeconomics.
Compassion, Empathy,
Altruism and Pro-social Behavior
Altruism: Evolutionary
Origins and Modern Expressions
Economic Research on
Altruistic/Pro-social Behavior
Introducing Prosociality
into Economic Systems
Reflections, Integration
and Future Directions for Research and Policy
2010-04-22-
Kinesthetic Empathy: Concepts and Contexts
"This peer-reviewed conference will be held on 22 and 23 April 2010 and will
bring together researchers and practitioners in fields including neuroscience,
dance, film, music, and contemporary embodied practices, to explore the nature
and role of kinesthetic empathy. The conference aimed to provide a focus for the
growing body of research and the increasing number of scholars and practitioners
who are engaging with kinesthesia, empathy and kinesthetic empathy as pivotal
concepts across different disciplines and media. This impetus is connected with
current concern with ‘affect’ as an object of enquiry, interrogation of notions
of presence, embodiment and the senses, re-examination of phenomenology, and
widespread interest in neuroscientific investigation (notably in the 'mirror
neuron' system)."
Brian Knoth
Embodied Mediation: Interactive Media Environments and the Audience
Experience of Kinesthetic Empathy
Marianne
Eberhard-Kaechele
Modalities of Kinesthetic Empathy in Dance Therapy
Bonnie Meekums
Mirroring and Embodied Subjectivity
Gayle Milburn
Empathy and Presence in the Performance of ‘ Open’ Improvisational
Dance
Tal-Chen Rabinowitch, Ian
Cross and Pamela Burnard
Musical Group Interaction and empathy - a mutual cognitive pathway?
etc
2010-04-24 -
Compassionate Seattle
The Compassionate Action Network, Seeds of Compassion and the Dalai Lama Center
for Peace and Education create an event on compassion .
Event flyer in pdf
2009-2010 -
Interdisciplinary Seminar on Empathy -
Participants
Indiana University invites applications for a post-doctoral residential fellow
on the topic of empathy and virtue as part of a research team exploring,
“Virtuous Empathy: Scientific and Humanistic Perspectives,”
2010-07-16 - 2010 -
Empathy and Innovation Summit
With a capacity crowd of physicians, hospital executives, nurses and other
healthcare professionals, the conference focused on innovations to improve the
clinical, physical and emotional experience of patients.
The Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE)
at Stanford University has announced a conference on the Language of Mental Life
scheduled for July 7-9, 2010 during which western scientists will meet with
Buddhist scholars to create a lexicon for better understanding the key terms of
mental life.
Erika Rosenberg Interview on empathy
and compassion
Dalai Lama North America Visit
(I'll post videos as they become public)
The Dalai Lama will be at Stanford for two days in
October, returning to the university to discuss compassion, altruism and
what it means to lead a meaningful life. 15th - Session Schedule:
Scientific Explorations of
Compassion and Altruism
Friday, October 22, 2010 - Rogers Centre
* Public Talk, “Human Approaches to World Peace”
Saturday, October 23, 2010 - Invitation Only with His Holiness
* Grand Opening Ceremony of the Tibetan Canadian Cultural
Centre
Sunday, October 24, 2010 - Tibetan Canadian Cultural Centre
* Long Life Empowerment and Long Life Ceremony
* Buddhist Teaching, “Eight Verses of Training the Mind”
2010-10-08
-
Pain and Empathy: 1st International Symposium (in
French)
Facebook.com/ethicsofempathycom First international symposium on the theme of "PAIN" and "Empathy".
This interdisciplinary dialogue open to all is organized by ED3C. During
the two-day conference will succeed philosophers, scientists,
sociologists, with whom you can discuss
2010-10-(29-31)
- The
Mindful Lawyer: Practices & Prospects for Law School, Bench, and Bar
ContemplativeMind.org A remarkable gathering will take place at Berkeley’s law school,
where 150 lawyers, professors, judges, and law students will come
together to review the progress we’ve made. Over the ensuing weekend,
they’ll meditate together and discuss the opportunities and challenges
facing this movement and the legal profession as a whole. University of
California at Berkeley School of Law, Contact
Doug Chermak, Conference
Coordinator and Law Program Director,
mindfullawyerconference@gmail.com or 510-821-3474.
2010-11-(19–21)
- Mind &
LIfe XXII:
New Delhi, India
Contemplative Science: The Scientific Investigation of the Effects of
Contemplative Practices on Human Biology and Behavior
At a time when polarization is the true culprit, a multi-cultural,
multi-disciplinary conference addressing fear-based belief systems, negative
stereotypes, polarization, enemy images, scapegoating, and artificial barriers
of distrust that divide us.
Dec 03, 2010 -
Seed of Compassion - Roots of Empathy
(Berkeley, CA) Greater Good
Science Center - Seminar, UC Berkeley - Dacher Keltner, Mary
Gordon Day long seminar will offer strategies for cultivating compassion, empathy,
and resilience in yourself and others.
Your quest for an
empathic culture, or a Culture of Empathy as you call it, I think
is a great quest. I don't think it's ever to late to develop
empathy. It starts so naturally... I think we should do everything
that we can to cultivate empathy and we can do it at every level.
So why would we not.
2011-03-(08-10) - Center for the
Study of Empathic Therapy, Education & Living Syracuse, New York - Dr. Peter Breggin's new Center for the Study of
Empathic Therapy, Education and Living is sponsoring an exciting, informative,
fresh and inspiring conference.
Best Selling Authors: Peter Breggin MD, Charles
Whitefield MD, Howard Glasser, Melanie Sears, Wendy West Pidkaminy, Pamela
Glasner, Hemant Thakur MD International Experts: Alberto Fergusson, MD, Bart Billings, PhD, Peter Breggin
MD Professors and Educators: Gerald Porter PhD, Adrianne Johnson PhD, Barbara
Streets, PhD, Rosemary Barnes, PhD Innovative Practitioners: Douglas Smith MD, Deborah Denome, Cindy Perlin, Daniel
Mackler, Michael Shaw MD, Sarton Weinraub PhD Advocates: Sharon Hoffman, Mathy Downing, Attorney Karl Protil, Susan
Schellenberg
2011-05-11 -A Course on Compassion Empathy in the Face of Chronic Pain
Most physicians are empathetic by nature and are drawn to medicine because they
want to “make a difference.” But the rigors of training and practice often cause
us to disconnect from our compassionate selves. The goal of the course is to
increase the attendee’s awareness of how this lack of connection interferes with
their own quality of life and ability to be effective healers. Compassion is a
trait that must be nurtured over time.
2011-05-(22-24) -
2011
Empathy and Innovation Summit - Cleveland OH
The conference focuses on innovations to improve the clinical, physical and
emotional experience of patients.
"The Empathy and Innovation Summit is a three-day,
multidisciplinary conference devoted to exploring patient experience as a key
differentiator essential to the future of healthcare delivery.
Click here to
see the complete agenda. "
2011-06-(02-03) -
From Sympathy to Empathy: Hume and Beyond Antwerp University This two day conference will be devoted to Hume’s concept of sympathy and to
contemporary accounts of empathy. The aim of the conference is threefold: a) to
address various issues related to Hume’s conception of sympathy as brought
forward in his Treatise of Human Nature; b) to confront Hume’s account of
sympathy with contemporary research on empathy and the emotions...
2011-06-11
Theme: Teach Compassion:
Making Change Happen(Richmond, CA)
Join us to explore humanity's stickiest
idea: Compassion. In true TED fashion, we promise a full day of inspiration,
insight, interaction, and delight as we learn about the new science of
compassion, and see how compassion helps transform schools and communities.
2011-07-(01-02)
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Empathy and the Blocking of Empathy International conference to be held at the Max Planck Institute for Human
Development Berlin, July 1-2, 2011 Hosted by Aleida Assmann (Konstanz), Steven
Aschheim (Jerusalem) and Ute Frevert (Berlin)
PANEL 1: Neuroscience
PANEL 2: Cultural Concepts
PANEL 3: Empathy and the Holocaust
PANEL 4: Cases of Empathy Past and Present
PANEL 5: Empathy and the Disciplines
PANEL 6: Concluding Remarks
2011-08-(10-12)
The Science of Compassion:
National Institute of Nursing Research presents. Future Directions in
End-of-Life and Palliative Care, at the Hyatt Regency in Bethesda, Maryland. The
entire program is free and open to the public.
Overall
Summit objectives include.
Examine the current status of end-of-life and
palliative care research, practice and policy
Propose strategies to overcome barriers and ensure
scientific and methodological rigor in research
Delineate new action items that galvanize progress in
this vital area of science
Envision and map pathways to ensure a future rich with
scientific endeavor and achievements
Aiming for an exploration which is neither New
Age nor overly academic, we will tackle the interesting practical questions
around compassion for our time: Can compassion be taught, can it be learned, and
how? What is the potential for compassion as a secular protocol? Can the
practice of compassion and mindfulness be scaled up from a personal to a
societal level? How can we move beyond preaching to the choir and make use of
compassion in the most difficult and contentious situations?
2011-08-(26-28)
Beyond the Brain IX The Science of Empathy and the Spirit of
Compassion
University of Winchester, UK
The conference will be focusing on
empathy and compassion through the lens of the emerging science of empathy,
which is demonstrating that we are actually wired for empathy and compassion.
Rather than seeing human beings as an outcome of the selfish gene, knowing that
empathy potential exists at a neurophysiological level gives us a completely
different understanding of human nature. To explore this reality we have brought
together a distinguished panel of presenters. The well-known writer Karen
Armstrong has been a leading proponent of the Charter for Compassion, which she
will introduce. Iain McGilchrist will explore the neurophysiology underpinning
empathy –the social brain - and its association with the right hemisphere.
2011-09-07 - Our Way - Design Academy
Eindhoven - Holland (Empathy in
Design)
We will discuss how empathy can play a role in the future of design education
with lectures, debates, more then 10 workshops
Facing complex global issues; designers need to “be in tune” to
create interdisciplinary solutions. In a
world full ideas, endless technical possibilities as well as urgent needs for
smart, sustainable and creative products and services; empathy seems to be a key
word. The ability to feel and understand emotions of other human beings or
animals is a very old achievement that is settled both in our body and mind. In
fact, according to word respected Dutch primatologist and ethnologist Frans de
Waal, empathy and not the survival of the fittest made it possible for human
beings to survive. Therefore it should play a key role in politics, commercial
institutes and society in general. How much empathy is needed for
designers?
Empathy 2.0 - Edwin Rutsch and Darci Shaver
With a focus on where compassionate communication and mediation are
headed as they pertain to
the current and future states of the online world, Darci Shaver and
Edwin Rutsch explore concepts of
connecting with others in cutting edge and empathic ways. This
workshop will delve into current
comprehensions of apathy, anonymity, empathy, compassion, and altruism
as they apply to online
living. Expect a short story or two, some Q &A, a few interesting
empathy ʻtestsʼ to participate in and lots of interesting discussion.
Sponsored by Stony Brook University's Center for Medical
Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics
Several independent lines of scientific inquiry that suggest
humans are compassionate by nature, and that those who are compassionate have
better heath and live longer compared to those who do not help others. Some
efforts to understand the health effects of compassion have turned to
neurobiology for answers, as way to study and understand how compassionate
behavior involves bodily processes that influence morbidity and mortality.
Trends in Social Science and Medicine - Stephanie Brown &
David Reinhard
Measuring Oxytocin and Progesterone - Dylan Smith
How Genetic Testing Can inform the Science of Compassion -
Michael Poulin
Studying Compassion in the Scanner - Shaun Ho
Parental Brain informs Compassionate Motivation and Behavior
- James Swain
Declining Empathy in the United States - Sara Konrath
Neuroscience and Health: Relevance of Oxytocin, Progesterone and
Stress Regulation - Heather Cameron
Whether your interest is applying mindfulness at home, in your work, for better
health, or simply to make your life more joyful and awake, you will benefit from
this groundbreaking conference on changing lives and creating a mindful society.
Growing out of a two-year grant-supported project on
"Virtuous Empathy: Scientific and Humanistic Investigations," this symposium
aims to explore theories and practices of empathy. For more information about
the Virtuous Empathy project, see
http://poynter.indiana.edu/empathy.shtml. We invite papers to explore both
virtuous and vicious forms of empathy, and to do so from a variety of
perspectives. Proposals for papers are invited in three broad categories:
Empathy and Psychology; Empathy and Ethics; and Empathy in Culture, History, and
Society.
Carolyn Dean
- (History, International Studies, Brown University), "The Longing
for Human Dignity and its Relation to 'Virtuous' Empathy"
Nancy Eisenberg -
(Psychology, Arizona State University),
"Empathy-Related Responding in Children: Relations with Positive
Moral and Social Development"
Nancy Sherman
- (Philosophy, Georgetown University),
"Recovering Lost Goodness: Self-Empathy and Self-Forgiveness"
Jason Endacott & Joseph O’Brien
- “Historical Empathy: Lost in the Shuffle of History Education”
Marilyn Edelstein
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“Empathy, Ethics, and Race: American Multicultural
Fiction and the Development of Cross-Racial Understanding”
Keith Brown - “Empathy-work in Wartime: Memoirs and
Civilian-Military Relations in Iraq, Afghanistan
and the U. S.”
Anelise Shrout
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“Distant Sufferers: Empathy and the
Origins of Transnational Humanitarianism”
Ariel Knafo, Salomen Israel, Florina Uzefovsky -
“Empathy as a Core Temperamental
Dimension: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence”
Alicia Hofelich & Stephanie Preston - “Personal Representations for
Emotion Mediate Empathy and Altruism”
Fritz Breithaupt “The Dark Side of Empathy”
Kevin Houser
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“Reasons, Suffering, and Ethical
Empathy
Sara Konrath
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“Temporal Trends in Empathy and Related
Traits”
Jessica Tooker
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“Processing Pain and the Cognitive
Awareness of Shared Humanity: Empathy and/in the
Playhouse.”
Heather Curtis
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“Picturing Pain: Evangelical
Humanitarianism & the Politics of Empathy in the Progressive Era”
Malika Maskarinec - “To Feel at Home in Space: Empathy Among German
Expressionist Painters”
John Bodnar
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“The Rosenbergs, Empathy and American
Identity”
Noam Schimmel
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“The Role of Empathy in Barack Obama’s
Political Rhetoric and Vision of Social Solidarity”
Simon Calder
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“Empathy, Casuistry, and Novel Reading”
Mary-Catherine Harrison“Empathic Bias in Interpersonal and Narrative
Empathy”
Meghan Meyer
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“The Independent Self is an Empathizing
Self: Self-Other Overlap in Chinese Participants Increases Empathy for
Social Suffering”
Marianne Noble
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“Walt Whitman, J.G. Herder, and the
Ethics of Empathy
Michelle Brown
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“Empathy, Law, and the Living Dead”
Jody Madeira
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“The Family Capital of Capital
Families: Investigating Empathic Connections
Between Jurors and Defendants’ Families in Death Penalty Cases”
This Summit will bring together scientists, researchers, palliative and
end-of-life care health professionals, educators, policy makers, members of
professional organizations and individuals with life-limiting illnesses as well
as their caregivers.
At Facebook we understand the importance of research and
practice around how people perceive, relate, and engage with each other.
In this spirit, Facebook is hosting researchers and practitioners who
work to improve our understanding of the driving forces and benefits of
compassion.
This event is open to the public and will be streaming live.
Location:Facebook Building 2, 1050 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA 9430
"Indiana University received a grant from the University
of Chicago (sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation) to study
"Virtuous Empathy: Scientific and Humanistic Investigations" from fall
2010 to spring 2012. Richard B. Miller, Poynter Center director, is the
PI for the project. Additional support came from the IU Institute for
Advanced Studies, directed by John Bodnar, the IU Office for the Vice
Provost for Research, and the College of Arts and Sciences."
2012-02-20 - Novel Readers
and the Empathetic Angel of our Nature
Suzanne Keen, Washington and Lee University
2011-04-19 - Empathy and Imagination
Eva-Maria Engelen, University of Konstanz
2011-02-24 - Rethinking Clinical Empathy
Jodi Halpern, University of California, Berkeley
2010-10-27 - Unmasking
the Criminal Psychopath: Clinical Assessment, Legal Relevance, and
Cognitive Neuroscience
"Dr. Kent Kiehl, who is Director of the Mobile Imaging
Core and Clinical Cognitive Neuroscience at the Mind Research Network
and Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the
University of New Mexico"
The Wisdom 2.0 Conference is a one-of-a-kind event in Silicon Valley that brings
together people from a variety of disciplines, including technology leaders, Zen
teachers, neuroscientists, and academics, to explore how we can live with deeper
meaning and wisdom in our technology-rich age.
"This day-long seminar will offer strategies for cultivating
self-compassion and reducing stress in yourself and others. It will be
led by Dr. Kristin Neff, a pioneer in the study of self-compassion. Will
be webcast live! Self-compassion is a skill that can be learned by
anyone. It involves generating feelings of kindness and care toward
ourselves as imperfect human beings, and learning to be present with
greater ease during life’s inevitable struggles. "
The International Symposia for Contemplative Studies grew out of discussion
among contemplative research center and laboratory directors, at a meeting
convened by the Mind & Life Institute in the Summer of 2010.
Dr. Peter Breggin's Second Annual Empathic
Therapy Conference for International Counselors, Social Workers,
Psychiatrists, Psychologists & Educators.
The theme of the
Power of Empathic Relationship relates both to individual growth and
life improvement as well as specifically addressing ways that
counselors, social workers, psychiatrists, psychotherapists,
psychologists, teachers, and others can be their very best
professionally with their clients, patients and students.
San Diego State University, UC San Diego, and the University of San
Diego are honored to host His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama’s first visit
to America’s finest city. The two-day symposium will provide a
thought-provoking forum to inspire new discoveries and expand our
understanding of humanity. His Holiness will share his views on
upholding ethics, practicing forgiveness and tolerance, and coping with
the challenges found in today’s society
'The Global Impact of Climate'.
'Cultivating Peace and Justice'.
"Upholding Universal Ethics and Compassion in Challenging Times'.
The inaugural 2012 International Symposia for
Contemplative Studies, facilitated by the Mind & Life Institute, is a
collaborative effort among Centers and Laboratories around the world to
explore the correlates and consequences of contemplative practice. The
Symposia brings together world-renowned researchers, scholars, teachers,
and students in keynote addresses, concurrent master lectures, panels,
workshops, and poster presentations.
A day-long exploration into how schools can effectively use the newly
enacted Dignity for All Students Act to create emotionally safe schools.
Join teachers, school administrators, students, and community members in
guided dialogue focused on empathy education. A central outcome of the
day will be the identification of ideas and projects that infuse
empathy education into school culture and practice.
Roots of Empathy will bring together 18 leading experts
to present their research on neuroscience and social-emotional
development, empathy and gender binary, and research on the Roots of
Empathy program. The research symposium will provide a forum for experts
to discuss a decade of research, and begin looking ahead to the next 10
years of study on the effects of the Roots of Empathy program on
social-emotional development. Together, with Roots of Empathy, experts
will determine what the new questions are, and how findings will be
measured.
Mary Gordon,
Founder/President of Roots of Empathy
The Patient Experience: Empathy and Innovation Summit is a three-day,
multidisciplinary conference devoted to exploring patient experience as
a key differentiator essential to the future of healthcare delivery.
The Summit will feature expert panel discussions about the national
patient experience movement, providing participants from all disciplines
the opportunity to identify shared challenges and inspire innovative
solutions to help transform the patient experience and elevate customer
satisfaction as a competitive differentiator.
Bureaucracy, cost, disgruntled staff and patients
complaining ... Is the system intended to make sick people better myself
so healthy? According to a growing group of stakeholders, the diagnosis
is clear: The care is suffering from a chronic lack of vitamin C. The C
of Compassion that is.
Supporting the 900+ million people who use Facebook is a
big challenge and we have found that understanding the science of how
people relate is essential in building tools that help people.
Over the last six months we've partnered with great
researchers in the field ofcommunicating
emotion and social-emotional learning. We would like to share data and
discuss what we've learned, host some of the best researchers in the
field of compassion research as well as a teacher and the youth he works
with for our summer Compassion Research Day on July 11th.
Arturo Bejar and Jake Brill, Facebook Engineering
This Post is a Problem
Marc Brackett, Deputy Director, Health, Emotion, &
Behavior Laboratory, Yale University
Robin Stern, Psychoanalyst; Program in Communication
and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
Andres Richner, Instructional Technologist; Educator
I Am Not a Shoe
Dacher Keltner, Director of Berkeley's Social
Interaction Laboratory
Emiliana Simon-Thomas, Science
Director, Greater Good Science Center, UC Berkeley
Paul Piff, Post-Doctoral Research Scientist,
Psychology Department, UC Berkeley
The Social Tuning of Compassion
Piercarlo Valdesolo, Assistant
Professor of Psychology at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont,
CA.
The Costs of Compassion and Callousness
Daryl Cameron, social psychology graduate student at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Hope Required
Jeff Duncan-Andrade, East Oakland high school
teacher, Associate Professor of Raza Studies
Royal Institute of British Architect - Portland Place - London
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This academic conference will bring together empathy researchers to
discuss the new model of empathy dynamics in dialogue, and findings from
the studies that support it, in the light of their own work. A
lively debate across disciplines is promised! Speakers include
The concept of empathy has become central to the
transdisciplinary field of memory studies with the rise of interest in
witnessing and trauma. Trauma studies has raised the question of primary
witnessing’s relations with the unrepresentable and the problems this
poses for empathy. More recently with the growing attention to mediated
memory and its travels a focus has emerged on the possibilities for
empathy in ‘postmemory’ (Hirsch), ‘secondary witnessing’ (Apel) and
‘prosthetic memory’ (Landsberg).
This one-day conference will provide a much needed interdisciplinary
forum for memory studies to engage explicitly with the question of
empathy. To date, empathy has been pitted against sympathy or
over-identification with victims of past injustice and violence.
"There has never been an international conference dedicated to
scientific inquiry into compassion from multiple methodological
perspectives. An adaptive pro-social emotion and a virtuous trait
broadly condoned across humanistic and spiritual traditions, compassion
has only recently gained the attention of science. The Science of
Compassion: Origins, Measures and Interventions conference will provide
an unprecedented opportunity for expert and aspiring researchers to
review theoretical foundations, study approaches, data, and
compassion-training approaches, to exchange and debate ideas, and to
realize consensus towards conceptually aligned, synergistic approaches
to demonstrating empirically how compassion can improve public health."
Panel 1: Origins and Conceptual Models of Compassion
Panel
2: Compassion-Building Interventions
Panel
3: Self-Report, Autonomic and Behavioral Measures of Compassion
Panel 4: Neurotransmitters, Neuropeptides, Genes and Compassion
Panel 5: Neural Indices of
Compassion
Panel 6: Future Directions in Research on Compassion
The last ten years we have witnessed an exploding
interest in the phenomenon of empathy. The wave of empathy studies is
psychology, philosophy, psychiatry and other disciplines is linked to a
parallel theoretical interest in the phenomena of feeling, selfhood,
inter-subjectivity and morality, but also to practical attempts to
understand and improve meetings between workers and clients in different
professions, such as health care professions, teaching professions,
psychotherapy or social work. To be empathic is increasingly viewed as a
must for any person working in cooperation with and/or helping other
people, although, as is also pointed out, the empathy must be
professional in character to not produce destructive intimacy or burn
out.
Learn and share in an interactive and compassionate
setting. This training will give you the tools, knowledge and resources
to conduct a happiness initiative in your city, community, business or
other organization.
As the momentum of the exciting new field of
NeuroLeadership builds don't miss your opportunity to join the
conversation with academic and corporate business presenters as they
discuss the latest neuroscience and its application in an organizational
context.
Faces Conference: Red Rock Hotel & Spa, Las Vegas, NV
Thousands of psychologists, social workers, nurses, and mental health
professionals trust us to provide the best continuing education training
and conference experiences.
London, UK.
"Almost 600 professionals and 300 young people gathered
over three days at the first Empathy and Compassion in Society
conference in London in November 2012. The conference asks what happens
when we choose to put compassion at the very centre of our professional
lives, and whether it is possible to cultivate compassion." Speakers will include
"Ashoka Switzerland invited experts with different
backgrounds related to empathy such as children and parents’
organizations, educational institutions, research and foundations to
leverage their know-how and their networks....The commitments of the
working group included communicating the models to their networks,
lobbying the Department of Education, appealing to donor partners and
identifying 25 teachers, who will become empathy ambassadors. They
formed a core team, who will organize a follow-up event with “Roots of
Empathy” in February 2013 and will work on setting up a pilot school in
Switzerland."
