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WILLIAM ANDERECK, MD
Director of California Pacific Medical Center’s Program in Medicine and Human Values
William S. Andereck, MD is the Medical Director of California Pacific Medical Center’s Program in Medicine and Human Values, which he co-directs with his long time colleague, Dr. Jonsen. The CPMC Medical Staff appointed him to chair the hospital’s Ethics Committee at its inception in 1985, a role he still fills.
He has practiced General Internal Medicine in San Francisco since 1979. He received his undergraduate degree at Vanderbilt University and his medical degree from the University of Tennessee in 1974. There he was introduced to medical ethics by Drs. Edmund Pellegrino and David Thomasma.
He moved to San Francisco to serve his internship and residency at California Pacific Medical Center and received his board certification in Internal Medicine in 1978. In the early 1980's he studied with Albert Jonsen, Ph.D., Professor of Bioethics at the University of California, San Francisco.
Dr. Andereck has served the medical community in his own hospital, at the level of his local medical society, and in a leadership position in the California Medical Association. The members of the San Francisco Medical Society’s elected him to its Board of Directors for over 10 years. For two consecutive terms (1995 and 1996) Dr. Andereck served as editor of San Francisco Medicine, the monthly magazine of the Medical Society.
On a statewide basis, he has served on the California Medical Association’s Council on Ethical Affairs as either a member, chair of consultant since 1990. During the CMA’s annual session in March of 1996, he was elected as the first chair of the statewide delegation and later, its President. He is now a Trustee of the California Medical Association.
Dr. Andereck lives in San Francisco with his wife, Helga, and their three children. His community interests include a long standing affiliation with youth soccer and a ten year term as Director of the San Francisco Zoo. For eight years he served as Chair of the Exhibit Committee, which was charged with designing and overseeing the construction of over seventeen animal habitats. |
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SUJATHA BALIGA
Soros Justice Fellow with Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth
Baliga was drawn to restorative justice through her work involving crime victims and the accused. After working with survivors of domestic violence, rape, and child sexual abuse, she became an appellate public defender, most recently in death penalty cases. Baliga is a consultant to the Stanford Criminal Justice Center and has taught Restorative Justice at New College School of Law and the California Institute for Integral Studies. She is frequently invited to address groups of prisoners and restorative justice programs. Baliga also serves as volunteer counsel to the Liberation Prison Project, an organization dedicated to assisting Buddhist prisoners. She earned her BA from Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, her JD from the University of Pennsylvania, and has held two federal clerkships. Her research interests include victims’ voices in restorative justice practices, the forgiveness of seemingly unforgivable acts, and Tibetan notions of justice. |
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MONIKA BROECKER
Independent leadership development and personal growth consultant and former head of Google University's School of Personal Growth
Monika earned her MS in Communication from the University of Arts in Berlin, Germany. She moved to the US in 1998 to pursue training in therapy. Between 1998 and 2003, she was trained at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto in problem solving Brief Therapy and at the Brief Family Therapy Center in Milwaukee in solution-focused brief therapy. Monika co-authored a book with the bio-physicist and cybernetician Heinz von Foerster and co-edited two double volumes of the scientific journal Kybernetes: one on Heinz von Foerster and another on Gregory Bateson. She also co-edited a book on Leadership. Monika now works for Google, heading up Google University's School for Personal Growth. The School for Personal Growth's mission is to develop Googlers as whole human beings and helping them reach their full potentials on all levels: emotional, mental, physical and beyond the self. Monika frequently goes to the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California to recharge. |
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DAN BRYANT, MA
President, NetNow
Dan teaches behavioral health classes including Stress Management, Depression Management, Couples Communication, Anger Management and Forgiveness. He has a BA in English which facilitates his interest how individuals to frame beliefs to increase or reduce impediments to achieving their goals. He holds a Masters in Psychology with an emphasis on language and its use to make possible or impede self mastery.
He has facilitated organizational development projects for Fortune companies; created, developed and led seminar programs for health insurers; and in 1985 - 1990 coordinated a joint venture development project between NetNow and the Peoples Revolutionary Council of Taishan, China.
He works in Prisons where he has discovered that freedom can exist inside or outside those walls. Imprisonment is as much a product of mindset as it is of place.
Dan will speak on how widespread beliefs are impediments to meaningful relationship and show how we limit our happiness by defining successful relationship in impossible terms. Forgiveness and authentic communication are an underlying necessity if we are to bridge the rifts in relationship. |
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Science for Raising Happy Kids website |
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CHRISTINE CARTER, PhD
Executive Director, Greater Good Science Center, University of California, Berkeley
Christine Carter is the executive director of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley and the creator of the “Science for Raising Happy Kids” website. She is a sociologist who studies the childhood roots of happiness. Carter received her B.A. from Dartmouth College, where she was a Senior Fellow, and her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. Her first book, The Other Side of Silence, has been dubiously recognized as one of the books most frequently stolen out of university libraries, and is now often housed in special collections with feminist theory.
Carter has worked in marketing management, as a school administrator, and as an innovation consultant for Fortune 500 companies. She has appeared on Oprah and other talk shows, been a key-note speaker at Harvard and numerous other schools and professional groups, and been featured in dozens of local and national magazines and newspapers. She has two children and lives with her family outside of San Francisco. |
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Tara Redwood School website |
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PAMELA CAYTON
Educator, founder of Tara Redwood School
In 1972, Pamela Cayton attended the Melbourne School of Art and Decorating, in Australia and established her own design business. In 1978 she traveled to India and Nepal to study Asian philosophy and religion. She studied and worked in Nepal from 1978-1988 as an English teacher and translation instructor for the Buddhist monks and professors. She organized courses in Buddhist philosophy and meditation for western students and established The Himalayan Buddhist Meditation Center in Kathmandu. In 1989 she moved to the United States and embarked on her Montessori training with the Montessori World Education Institute and during this period established a Preschool in Soquel, California. In 1996 the Preschool expanded into a Kindergarten and Elementary school, of which Pamela was the director, teacher and the principal curriculum developer. She presently trains teachers in this unique educational approach. Tara Redwood School is the leading pilot school in the west for the development of Essential Education.
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CARLYLE COASH, MA, BCC
Spiritual Care, Bereavement and Artist
Carlyle has spent the last eight years working as a chaplain, with a focus in end of life practice. This has been intertwined with training in the arts and an adventurous mind. From a life in the theatre his path shifted after the death of his mother towards one that incorporated service more directly. After gaining a Master’s Degree in Socially Engaged Buddhism from Naropa University, he moved into the training and the work of a hospice chaplain. He has worked both in Colorado and California and currently works with Kaiser San Jose Medical Center and the Zen Hospice Project. Carlyle also works to support the work of Palliative Care around the world through film and advocacy projects aimed at raising awareness for the care of others at the end of life. He is currently working on a short film to support World Hospice and Palliative Care Day, whose theme this year is Palliative Care as a Human Right.
Carlyle is the Section Leader for the Spiritual Caregiving Section of the National Council for Hospice and Palliative Professionals, which is a support and advocacy group connected to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. He is also part of the Ethics Committee for that organization. He has presented both nationally and internationally at conferences, with a focus on spiritual care, resilience and healing. He is Board Certified through the Association of Professional Chaplains and was the first Tibetan Buddhist practitioner to be designated as such. Included in this work as a chaplain is the ongoing collaboration in a project called Organic MD, which strives to support a practice of holistic healing. |
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 Liberation Prison Project website
RobinaCourtin.com website
8 videos on YouTube.com
Robina Courtin on Wikipedia.com
Talks on Zencast.org
Talks on Lamrim.com
Talks on Archive.org
Books edited by Courtin on Books.Google.com
Buddhism Behind Bars interview in Common Ground
Chasing Robina interview on The Spirit of Things (radio)
Courtin profile on Compass: Key to Freedom (Australian tv) |
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ROBINA COURTIN
Executive Director, Liberation Prison Project
I was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1944. When I was little, I decided at Mass that I wanted to be a priest. I must have been very little, because when everyone laughed and explained that I couldn't be, I simply didn't understand the logic: it was clear that it was my job. Reluctantly I accepted, and decided to be a nun instead. When I was 12, I begged my mother, on bended knees, to let me be a Carmelite like my great hero St. Therese of Lisieux. I cried when she said no.
Twenty years later, she cried when I told her I planned to be a nun after all – a Buddhist nun. “I wish I'd let you be a nun when you wanted to be!” she said.
Clearly my connection with monasticism runs deep. And my twelve years at Sacre Coeur, a Catholic convent, played a big part in this. Because I was rebellious and proud, I had a hard time at school, but I am forever grateful for the emphasis on the importance of morality and integrity: this education gave me the infrastructure of my life.
I lived in at school the last two years there. After the emotional turmoil of a household of seven children, my very own space was like a mansion, and the unfamiliar order and discipline allowed me to discover my intellectual potential for the first time (having failed most of my exams until then, I got 94 in history one year!). And I could go to Mass seven mornings a week. It was my first taste of monastic life, and it was heaven.
Bud sadly my spiritual aspirations were not evident to my kind teachers, the nuns, who saw only my bad behavior. I was never allowed to join any of the religious groups that we called “Congregations.” “Why can't they see how much I love Our Lord and Our Lady!” I would cry to myself.
A 7" l.p. of Billie Holliday – “I wonder who “he” is?” I thought – bought for sixpence at the school fete when I was 15, opened me up to a whole new world: my spiritual aspirations began to take on social and political dimensions.
I left school when I was 16 (I didn’t finish my education), and when I was 19 I gave up God, happily choosing boys and drugs instead.
My mother persuaded me to continue my classical singing education (she'd been my teacher for ten years) in London when I was 23. But it was 1967 and I was ready and ripe for revolution. A hippie first, I was soon working full time in radical left politics. I really found my political identity as a feminist and, back in Melbourne in 1972, was part of the burgeoning movement there.
By the time I was 30, after eight intensive years of trying to bash the world into the shape I thought it should be, I began to look for something spiritual again. It was clear that I'd have to stop hating the rest of the human race. When I was a hippie, I blamed straight people for the suffering in the world; as a lefty, I blamed the rich; as a defender of blacks, I blamed whites; and as a feminist I blamed men. There was no one left but me!
I went back to Mass and tried various types of meditation, but they didn't fit. In 1976, after a couple of years of martial arts, I landed at a course on Buddhism in Queensland given by two Tibetan lamas, Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. I'd come home! By now, I'd given up sex, drugs, alcohol and cigarettes, so the logical next step was to be a nun – finally! Eighteen months later I took ordination, at the lamas’ monastery, Kopan, in Kathmandu.
For the first ten years I worked as editorial director of Wisdom Publications, in London; and for the last twenty-plus years I've taught Buddhist philosophy and meditation around the world.
As editor of an international Buddhist magazine, Mandala, since 1996 (the magazine of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition, the organization of my teachers), I'd receive letters from people in prison interested in studying Buddhism. That activity has grown into Liberation Prison Project, which takes care of the spiritual needs of thousands of inmates in the USA, Australia and other countries. I’m now based in San Francisco.
Amiel Courtin-Wilson, my nephew, showed some of our work in his film Chasing Buddha; and Vicki Mackenzie has me talking about it in her book Why Buddhism? (Allen & Unwin, Melbourne).
These people in prison are a huge inspiration to me: people with nothing good in their lives, and nothing to look forward to, having the courage to find themselves and learn to give to others – the job I'm attempting to do, too. |
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MARGARET CULLEN, MFT
Group facilitator, instructor and innovator of mindfulness-based curricula
Margaret Cullen is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a Certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Teacher. She has taught over seventy-five series of MBSR in thirteen years and trained in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy with ZindelSegal. In 2004, she helped develop, write, and then teach the curriculum for the research project Cultivating Emotional Balance (CEB). CEB teaches mindfulness and emotional regulation to teachers. Through this process she worked closely with Paul Ekman, Alan Wallace and Jon Kabat-Zinn. Since its inception, she has taught CEB to seven cohorts of teachers and school administrators in the US and Canada. She has taught MBSR for the past twelve years at Kaiser in Oakland, where she introduced the first physician program, the first graduate program and helped revise the MBSR curriculum and workbook for the entire northern California region. In 1993, she introduced the MBSR program to The Wellness Community National Headquarters in Santa Monica and continues to teach cancer patients and their loved ones at The Wellness Community in Walnut Creek, California. A frequent contributor to "The Inquiring Mind", Margaret has been practicing meditation for 28 years. |
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JAMES R. DOTY, MD, FACS
Clinical Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Stanford University and the Founder and Director of Stanford's Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education
Dr. Doty is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Stanford University. He completed his undergraduate training at the University of CA, Irvine and medical school at Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, LA. He served in the U.S. Army where he completed his neurosurgical training at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
In addition to being a neurosurgeon, 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 and Family & Children Services. 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 School of Medicine in the basic neurosciences and at his alma mater, Tulane University School of Medicine where he endowed the Chair of the Dean of the School of Medicine following hurricane Katrina.
Dr. Doty is the Founder and Director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford University where he works with both the Stanford Neurosciences Institute and a variety of scientists from a number of disciplines examining the neural, moral and social bases for compassion and altruism. He is on the Board of Directors of a number of non-profit foundations including the Dalai Lama Foundation, the USC Brain and Creativity Institute and the Friends of New Orleans. |
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Haight-Ashbury Free Clinics website |
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BEN EILAND
Director of Integrated Care Center Haight-Ashbury Free Clinics, San Francisco
Ben Eiland has been in the Health Care field for over 33 years. He is currently the Director of the Integrated Care Center for the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic, in San Francisco.
He is the founder and former Co-Director of Integrated Counseling and Consulting Services specializing in domestic violence and substance abuse problems. Previously has held positions as the director of inpatient and outpatient chemical dependency treatment programs that serve both adults and adolescents.
Ben has been a trainer and consultant in such areas as chemical dependency treatment, co-occurring disorders treatment, domestic and workplace violence, drugs in the workplace, conflict resolution/team building and cultural/gender diversity.
Ben has taught at a variety of educational institutions and is currently an Adjunct Faculty Member at J. F. K. University in Orinda and College of San Mateo.
Ben has been a Certified Employee Assistance Professional. He has held the position of Vice President for the Cross Roads Chapter of E. A. P. A. He has been a member of the California Association of Addiction Recovery and both the National and California Associations of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors. Formerly on the board of the California Association of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors (CAADAC), and the past Charter Vice President of the California Association of Drug and Alcohol Educators (CAADE), and currently the Northern California VP. He participated in the State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs committee to Re-engineer Substance Abuse Treatment in California. He is a member of the State ADP Aging and Addiction Constituent, and is a member of the National SAMHSA Recovery Month Committee.
Ben of Apache and Mexican descent has been a consultant and educator on the topic of addiction and the Native American, historical and cultural trauma for the American Indian Training Institute. |
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PulEkman.com
Books by Ekman on PaulEkman.com
Articles by Ekman on PaulEkman.com
Downloadable articles by Ekman on PaulEkman.com
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PAUL EKMAN, PhD
Among the 100 most eminent psychologists of the 20th century
Ekman was born in 1934 in Washington, DC, and grew up in Newark, New Jersey, Washington, Oregon, and Southern California. He is the son of a pediatrician.
He received a Research Scientist Award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in 1971, which was renewed in 1976, 1981, 1987, 1991, and 1997. For over forty years, NIMH supported his research through fellowships, grants, and awards.
In 2001, Ekman collaborated with John Cleese for the BBC documentary series The Human Face. He retired in 2004 as professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
Contrary to the belief of some anthropologists including Margaret Mead, Ekman found that facial expressions of emotion are not culturally determined, but universal to human culture and thus biological in origin, as Charles Darwin had once theorized. Ekman's finding is now widely accepted by scientists. Expressions he found to be universal included those indicating anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness, and surprise. Findings on contempt are less clear, though there is at least some preliminary evidence that this emotion and its expression are universally recognized.
Ekman reported facial “microexpressions” that he showed could be used to reliably detect lying, in an effort called the Diogenes Project. He also developed the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) to taxonomize every conceivable human facial expression. Ekman conducted and published research on a broad variety of topics in the general area of non-verbal behavior. His work on lying, for example, was not limited to the face, but also to observation of the rest of the body.
In his profession he also uses verbal signs of lying. When interviewed about the Monica Lewinsky scandal, he mentioned that he could tell Clinton was lying because he used distancing language.
Ekman is currently on the Editorial Board of Greater Good Magazine, published by the Greater Good Science Center of the University of California, Berkeley. Ekman's contributions include the interpretation of scientific research into the roots of compassion, altruism, and peaceful human relationships.
Ekman is working with Computer Vision researcher Dimitris Metaxas on designing a visual lie-detector.
Ekman has also contributed much to the study of social aspects of lying, why we lie, and why we are often unconcerned with detecting lies.
Paul Ekman was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago and New York University. He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Adelphi University (1958), after a one year internship at the Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute. After two years as a Clinical Psychology Officer in the U.S. Army, he returned to Langley Porter where he worked from 1960 to 2004. His research on facial expression and body movement began in 1954, as the subject of his Master's thesis in 1955 and his first publication in 1957. In his early work, his approach to nonverbal behavior showed his training in personality. Over the next decade, a social psychological and cross-cultural emphasis characterized his work, with a growing interest in an evolutionary and semiotic frame of reference. In addition to his basic research on emotion and its expression, he has, for the last thirty years, also been studying deceit.
Currently, he is the director of the Paul Ekman Group, LLC (PEG), a small company that produces training devices relevant to emotional skills, and is initiating new research relevant to national security and law enforcement.
In 1971, he received a Research Scientist Award from the National Institute of Mental Health; that Award has been renewed in 1976, 1981, 1987, 1991, and 1997. His research was supported by fellowships, grants and awards from the National Institute of Mental Health for over forty years.
Articles reporting on Dr. Ekman's work have appeared in Time Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, Psychology Today, The New Yorker and others, both American and foreign. Numerous articles about his work have also appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post and other national newspapers.
He has appeared on 48 Hours, Dateline, Good Morning America, 20/20, Larry King, Oprah, Johnny Carson and many other TV programs. He has also been featured on various public television programs such as News Hour with Jim Lehrer, and Bill Moyers' The Truth About Lying. |
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David Feldman's website
The End of Life Handbook |
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DAVID FELDMAN, PhD
Assistant Professor of Counseling Psychology, Santa Clara University, co-author, End of Life Handbook
David Feldman was born in Cincinnati and raised in Dayton, Ohio. He received his B.A. in psychology from DePauw University, through which he had the opportunity to spend several months studying in Spain, one of the most rewarding times in his life. He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Kansas, and completed an internship and postdoctoral fellowship in the VA Palo Alto Health Care System. His interests include positive psychology, health psychology, posttraumatic stress, and cognitive-behavioral therapy. The central question that inspires his research and clinical work is: How do people facing considerable adversity maintain a sense that life is meaningful? His research concerns ways in which coping is influenced by positive-psychology constructs such as hopeful thinking, meaning-making and posttraumatic growth, as well as the development of therapeutic interventions based on such constructs. He is particularly interested in exploring those phenomena in patients confronting medical stressors such as spinal cord injury, cancer, congestive heart failure, and other chronic and/or terminal conditions. He has published widely and presented work at national and international conferences. In his leisure time, Feldman enjoys photography, cooking, cozy coffee shops, running by the ocean, spending time with good friends, and watching Mexican soap operas. |
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Flanagan on duke.edu
Books by Flanagan on books.google.com
Flanagan on wikipedia.org
Flanaan discusses mind and reality (video) |
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OWEN FLANAGAN, PhD
Professor of Neurobiology, Philosophy Department of Duke University
Owen Flanagan, James B. Duke Professor and Professor of Neurobiology
Owen Flanagan (PhD 1977, Boston University) joined the Duke faculty in 1993 as Chair of the Department of Philosophy. He also holds appointments in Psychology and Neurobiology and is a Faculty Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience.
He was previously Class of 1919 Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Wellesley College.
During the 1985-86 academic year, he was a visiting member of the Department of Philosophy at Duke University.
He has also had visiting positions at Brandeis, Princeton, Harvard, and La Trobe in Melbourne, Australia as well as several fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
In 1993-94 Flanagan was President of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
In 1998, he was recipient of the Romanell National Phi Beta Kappa award, given annually to one American philosopher for distinguished contributions to philosophy and the public understanding of philosophy.
In 1999, he was invited by the Mind and Life Institute to attend a small conference in Darhamsala, India with the Dalai Lama on the topic of “Destructive Emotions.” A book on the meetings, Beyond Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Collaboration With the Dalai Lama narrated by Daniel Goleman, appeared in 2003. |
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GINA GIBNEY
Artistic Director, New York City female dance company
Gina Gibney is the Founder and Artistic Director of Gina Gibney Dance, a community action dance company with a dual mission: to create and perform contemporary choreography that draws upon the strength and insights of women, and to enrich and reshape lives through programs that give voice to communities in need.
Gibney’s work has been widely presented and commissioned in the United States and abroad at such venues as Danspace Project, The Duke on 42nd Street Theater, Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum, White Bird Dance, Yale Repertory Theater, Joyce SoHo, Central Park SummerStage, Symphony Space, The Joyce Theater's Altogether Different series, Joe's Pub and DanceNOW NYC, Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Cleveland Public Theatre, the New York platform of the Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine Saint-Denis, L'Agora de la Danse (Montréal), Maison de la Culture Frontenac (Montréal), Maison de la Culture Rosemont (Montréal), Gibraltor Point Center for the Arts (Toronto), and elsewhere. Gibney’s work has been funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and numerous prestigious foundations, corporations and individuals.
In 1997, in response to Gina Gibney's growing concern that women in professional dance were losing artistic and financial ground, the company was reconceived as an all-female troupe. Since then, Ms. Gibney and her company have developed a repertory of over six evening length works that explore the humanity and physicality of women: Coming from Quiet (1998), Objects No Longer Present (2000), Several Truths (2001), Time Remaining (2002), Thrown (2004) unbounded (2005) and The Distance Between Us (2007).
In 2000 she launched the innovative Domestic Violence Project that offers dance and creative expression to women who are survivors of domestic abuse. Since then, her company has also developed Moving the Community, a project for individuals affected by HIV/AIDS, and Keep Moving! a program of movement and creativity for youth at risk. She is the founder of Studio 5-2, an officer of Danspace Project's Board of Directors, and a trustee of Dance/USA. Gibney graduated with honors and received an MFA in Dance from Case Western Reserve University. Individuals who have influenced her work include Kathryn Karipides, Kelly Holt, Mark Morris, Jocelyn Lorenz, and the many gifted performers with whom she has worked. |
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Goldin on Google Tech Talks
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PHILIPPE GOLDIN, PhD
Head of Clinically Applied Affective Neuroscience Group, Stanford University
Philippe Goldin is a research scientist and heads the Clinically Applied Affective Neuroscience group in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University.
He spent 6 years in India and Nepal studying various languages, Buddhist philosophy and debate at Namgyal Monastery and the Dialectic Monastic Institute, and serving as an interpreter for various Tibetan Buddhist lamas. He then returned to the U.S. to complete a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Rutgers University. His NIH-funded clinical research focuses on (a) functional neuroimaging investigations of cognitive-affective mechanisms in adults with anxiety disorders, (b) comparing the effects of mindfulness meditation and cognitive-behavioral therapy on brain-behavior correlates of emotional reactivity and regulation, and (c) training children in family and elementary school settings in mindfulness skills to reduce anxiety and enhance compassion, self-esteem and quality of family interactions.
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Harrington on harvard.edu
Books by Harrington on books.google.com
Harrington on NPR.com (audio)
Q&A with Harrington in the Boston Globe
Harrington on salon.com
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ANNE HARRINGTON, PhD
Chair, Professor of History of Science, Harvard University
Anne Harrington, Chair, is Harvard College Professor and Professor for the History of Science, specializing in the history of psychiatry, neuroscience, and the other mind sciences. She is also Visiting Professor for Medical History at the London School of Economics, where she co-edits a new journal called Biosocieties.
Professor Harrington received her Ph. D. in the History of Science from Oxford University, and has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London, and the University of Freiburg in Germany. For six years, she co-directed Harvard's Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative. She also was a consultant for the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Mind-Body Interactions. Currently she serves on the Board of the Mind and Life Institute, an organization dedicated to cross-cultural dialogue between Buddhism and the sciences.
She is the author of two books: Medicine, Mind and the Double Brain (1987) and Reenchanted Science (1997). A third book, Stories under the Skin: Mind-Body Medicine and its Histories, will be published by W. W. Norton. She has also published many articles and produced a range of edited collections including The Placebo Effect (1997), Visions of Compassion (2000), and The Dalai Lama at MIT (2006). She is currently also working on a project that attempts to make historical and cultural sense of the rise of a genre of literature in our own time concerned with the “inner world” of brain disorder.
Professor Harrington's courses at Harvard include HS 175, Madness and Medicine, HS 177, Stories under the Skin (the basis for her forthcoming book), HS 176, Evolution and Human Nature, HS 171, Narrative and Neurology, HS 275, The Minded Body (graduate), and HS 278, In Search of Mind (graduate). She also teaches a research methods course for undergraduates, and oversees the department's undergraduate track in Mind, Brain, and Behavior. She is the mother of a fabulous three-year old boy named Jamie. |
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Garrison Institute website |
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PATRICIA JENNINGS, MEd, PhD
Director of the Garrison Institute's Initiative on Contemplation and Education
Dr. Patricia (Tish) Jennings is Director of the Garrison Institute's Initiative on Contemplation & Education and works with educators and scientists to help improve school environments, boost academic achievement, and support social and emotional development, especially for students exposed to risk factors such as poverty, violence, and divorce. Dr. Jennings has spent over thirty years promoting well-being and happiness in educational environments as a Montessori teacher, school administrator, teacher educator, and researcher. She received her doctorate in human development from the University of California, Davis and holds a research appointment with the Prevention Research Center for the Promotion of Human Development at Penn State University.
Previously she was affiliated with San Francisco State University and the University of California, San Francisco where she directed the Cultivating Emotional Balance (CEB) project. Dr. Jennings is currently completing the Cultivating Emotional Balance in the Classroom (CEBC) project to examine how greater well being and emotional competence among teachers resulting from the CEB training may translate into improved teacher-student relationships, increased student pro-social behavior, and a more positive classroom atmosphere. Dr. Jennings heads an interdisciplinary team developing and testing Cultivating Awareness and Resilience in Education (CARE), a professional development intervention for teachers that focuses more directly on improving classroom climate and educational outcomes.
Forthcoming in the journal Review of Educational Research is an extensive theoretical article co-authored by Dr. Jennings and Dr. Mark Greenberg presenting the Prosocial Classroom Model that highlights the importance of teachers’ social and emotional competence and well-being to their ability to provide social, emotional, and instructional support to their students.
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Thupten Jinpa on NPR.com (audio)
Institute of Tibetan Classics website
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THUPTEN JINPA, PhD
Principal translator for the Dalai Lama; Visiting Scholar in Stanford Neuroscience Institute’s Project Compassion
Thupten Jinpa was born in Tibet in 1958. He received his early education and training as a monk at Zongkar Chöde Monastery in South India and later joined the Shartse College of Ganden monastic university, South India, where he received the Geshe Lharam degree. He taught Buddhist epistemology, metaphysics, Middle Way philosophy and Buddhist psychology at Ganden for five years. Jinpa also holds B.A. Honors in Western Philosophy and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies, both from Cambridge University, UK.
Since 1985 he has been a principal English translator to H.H. the Dalai Lama and has traveled extensively in this capacity. He has translated and edited more than 10 books by the Dalai Lama including Healing Anger, Dzogchen, Path to Bliss, The World of Tibetan Buddhism, The Good Heart: The Dalai Lama Explores the Heart of Christianity, and the New York Times bestseller Ethics for the New Millennium. His own works include numerous contributions to various collections and academic journals and several works in Tibetan language. His latest works are Tibetan Songs of Spiritual Experience (co-edited with Jas Elsner), and Self, Reality and Reason in Tibetan Thought: Tsongkhapa's Quest for the Middle View.
From 1996 to 1999, he was the Margaret Smith Research Fellow in Eastern Religion at Girton College, Cambridge University, UK. At present he is the president of the Institute of Tibetan Classics in Montréal, Canada, and the editor-in-chief of the translation project The Library of Tibetan Classics, being developed by the Institute. He is on the advisory board of various educational and cultural organizations such as the Mind and Life Institute (USA), The Orient Foundation (UK & India), The Meridien Trust (UK), Global Ethics and Religion (USA), and Manjushri Buddhist Online Community. He lives in Montréal with his wife and two young daughters.
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DACHER KELTNER, PhD
Professor of Psychology University of California, Berkeley
Dacher Keltner received his BA in Psychology and Sociology from UC Santa Barbara in 1984 and his PhD in Social Psychology from Stanford University in 1989. He then was a post-doctoral fellow for three years at UC San Francisco working with Paul Ekman. In 1992 he took his first academic job, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and then returned to Berkeley’s Psychology Department in 1996, where he is now a full professor.
Dacher’s research focuses on the biological and evolutionary origins of human goodness, with a special concentration on compassion, awe, love, and beauty, as well as the study of power, status and social class, and the nature of moral intuitions. Dacher is the co-author of two best selling textbooks, one on human emotion, the other on social psychology, and in January, 2009, will publish Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life, with WW Norton Publishers, which makes the case for an evolutionary approach to the emotions that promote human goodness. Dacher has published over 100 scientific articles, and has received numerous national prizes and grants for his research, and for his teaching and mentoring was selected as the Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor in 2002, and the Outstanding Teacher, Division of Social Sciences, in 2002 as well. Dacher also serves as the Director of the Berkeley Greater Good Science Center, where he serves as co-editor of the center’s magazine, Greater Good. Dacher lives in Berkeley with his wife, an alumna of Berkeley, and their two daughters. |
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COREY KEYES, PhD
Associate Professor of Sociology, Emory University, Atlanta
Corey Keyes is associate professor of Sociology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, including editing four books and special editing two journal issues. His research centers on illuminating the “two continua” model of health and illness, showing how the absence of mental illness does not translate into the presence of mental health, and revealing that the biological and social causes of true health are often distinct processes from those now understood as causes of illness, which means that the matter of promoting better health is not simply reducing those things we know to cause illness. This work is being applied to better understanding resilience in minority populations, and to prevent mental illness through promotion. Moreover, the two-continua model and research informs the growing healthcare approach called “predictive healthcare,” which seeks to map an monitor true (physical and mental) health and to develop and apply novel responses to correct early deviations to it to maintain health and limit chronic disease and illness.
Dr. Keyes’ 2002 article on the “Mental Health Continuum: From Languishing to Flourishing in Life” that was published in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior was recognized by Barbara Gentile and Benjamin Miller, editors of the 2008 reader published by Sage and entitled The History of Psychological Thought, as the most recent addition to the classics in the history of psychology.
Dr. Keyes has given over 60 national and international presentations, keynotes, and talks to government officials and policymakers. During the past two years, Dr. Keyes gave public lectures in Scotland, England, Northern Ireland, Australia, Italy, the Netherlands, and South Africa. He is giving the 3rd Annual Gottschalk Lecture for Rochester New York and the Mental Health Association in May of 2008, will keynote a conference at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester (MN) in June of 2008, and will be a featured speaker at the statewide prevention conference in November of 2008 for the Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Providers of New York.
Corey arrived at Emory University in 1997 after spending one year as a MacArthur Post-doc in Aging at the University of Wisconsin. He was, from 1994 through 2002, a member of a MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Midlife Development, was a founding steering committee member in 2001 of the interdisciplinary society on Research on Human Development and its official journal, and was co-chair in 1999 of the first summit of Positive Psychology (along with the CEO of the Gallup Organization and the President of the American Psychological Association). In 2005, he was one of two of the annual invited Presidential Plenary speakers for the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Keyes is currently a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory, where he is a core member of the “Pursuit of Happiness” 5-year project funded by the $1. 5 million grant from the Templeton Foundation.
He was invited and participated in the 2007 National Academies of Science Keck Future’s Initiative on The Future of Human Healthspan: Demography, Evolution, Medicine and Bioengineering. Corey contributed to the World Health Organization’s publication on Mental Health Promotion Worldwide, and continues to consult and work with the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration), Public Health Canada, and the United Kingdom’s National Health Service regarding mental health and its promotion in children and adults. He is currently the only non-European scholar who is a member of the World Health Organization’s Reference Group that is producing a scoping paper on mental health as a determinant for the WHO of Europe and the Mental Health Foundation of the UK.
His model of mental health as a complete state is being adopted by Public Health Canada into its national surveillance program in all Canadian Provinces, and he is currently working with Senior Advisors (Larke Huang and Gail Ritchey) on children’s mental health to the Director at SAMHSA to create programs and research on positive mental health. He is also currently consultant to the S. Engelhard Center and the American Association for Universities and Colleges on its “College Outcomes” project, and is Co-PI on a proposed “College Outcomes Longitudinal Study” to study the effects of liberal education on college students’ mental health and academic achievement. Dr. Keyes is currently a collaborator on four nationally representative studies: the “Child Development Supplement” (which is part of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics) to study the role of mental health in positive youth development, the MIDUS (Midlife in the United States) longitudinal follow-up on successful aging, the MESS panel study in the Dutch Population (with Gerben Westerhof at University of Nijmegen), and the FORT (“Fortology”) Study in South Africa (with Marie Wissing, Project Director, Northwest University in Potchefstroom, South Africa). |
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YESHE KHADRO
Executive Director, Karuna Hospice, Australia
Yeshe Khadro is the Director of Karuna Hospice Services, a registered charity and public benevolent institution in Brisbane whose ‘hospice-at-home’ palliative and ‘holistic’ care services assists terminally ill people and their families. Yeshe comes from a diverse background of nursing, teaching, Buddhist devotion, project management and organisational management. She has served as Director of Chenrezig Institute (a Buddhist training centre) and worked for the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT). |
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