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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.
Every month, in-depth episodes delve into the recent impact,
advancements and future implications technology has in the
human-centered care experience.
What
is empathy?
Empathy is our ability to understand another person and feel their
emotions. It's a force for change because it makes us want to help
people.
Empathy Day helps us understand each other better by using books
to step into someone else's shoes. When you read, your brain
reacts as it would to real events. This makes books the perfect
empathy boosting vehicle. Train your brain with stories!
What is Empathy Week? Empathy Week is a seven-day festival of events which
promote empathy, human connection and the recognition of our
shared humanity. Empathy Week is curated by Humainologie and is a
community initiative with numerous Calgary partner organizations
and individuals coming together to host a variety of events
Dacher Keltner, PhD
Kelly M. McGonigal, PhD
Paul Bloom, PhD
John J. Medina, PhD
Shauna L. Shapiro, PhD
Katherine Reynolds Lewis, BS
Michele Borba, EdD
Abigail Marsh, PhD
Richard W. Wrangham, PhD
Felix Warneken, PhD
Jamil Zaki, PhD
Sara H. Konrath, PhD
Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal, PhD
Erin Clabough, PhD
Robert A. Emmons, PhD
Christina M. Karns, PhD
Becky Kochenderfer-Ladd, PhD
Helen Y. Weng, PhD
Thomas E. Lickona, PhD
Karen Bluth, PhD
The UTS Empathy Symposium 2019 will be an exciting event bringing
together healthcare educators, clinicians and researchers who are
committed to better understanding the power of empathy to
transform education and improve patient care.
At the 2019 Festival we will convene renowned experts and leaders
from throughout the Americas for four days of events, workshops
and performances designed to inspire critical thinking, accelerate
and transform our business and social connections and promote
action. This year’s festival theme is “Empathy in Action” and will
showcase the people and ideas across North and South America that
are moving beyond divisions to build solutions to the most
important issues we face together.
Empathy
in healthcare: Practice, teaching and design
Royal Society of Medicine :
Mon 4 Nov 2019
This meeting will explore the latest evidence-based ways to
practice, teach, and embed empathy within healthcare settings.
Jodi Halpern
Anya De Long
Jeremy Howick
Stewart Mercer
Parallel sessions
Research and evidence
Training and education
Policy and practice
etc
Embedding empathy in healthcare education and practice
Few healthcare interventions have as much impact on a person’s
physical and emotional well-being as empathy. Yet, so often
healthcare programs only pay lip service to teaching and assessing
empathy. This symposium aims to start a conversation (or perhaps
even a ‘movement’) that leads to empathy becoming integral to
every healthcare curriculum.
The Summit brings together
patient experience leaders, healthcare CEOs, innovators, nursing
leaders, policy makers, major stakeholders, industry experts and
patients who are committed to not just the patient or caregiver
experience, but also the human experience.
What is Empathy Week?
Empathy Week is a seven day festival of events which promote
empathy, human connection and the recognition of our shared
humanity. Empathy Week is curated by Humainologie and is a
community initiative with numerous partners and Calgarians coming
together to host a variety of events.
NESCO Child and
Family Research Centre 8th Biennial International Conference
Ireland -
Program PDF
Across the globe, the perceived decline in empathy, care and social solidarity
is a cause for concern. Empathy is the ability and/or inclination to
understand and experience another’s state or condition and, where appropriate,
to respond through supportive actions. Research has shown that empathy in
individuals is essential to healthy social and emotional functioning and
contributes to the enrichment of civic society.
Conversely, where levels of empathy are compromised, studies have found an
increased propensity to engage in anti-social behavior, such as bullying,
aggression and offending behaviour. For practitioners, empathy in direct
relationship-based working is increasingly recognised as a cornerstone of good
practice in work with children, young people and their families, while for
society, there is an urgent need for empathy informed policy and action to
address structural inequalities and disparities.
The
biennial UCFRC conference draws on national and international expertise to
explore the concepts of empathy and relationship based working as they relate
to policy and practice with children, youth and families.
EMPATHIES
11th SLSAeu Conference - European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts
Basel, 21-24 June, 2017
For a number of years now, empathy has been a central topic of
public and academic debate and research. It is the subject of artistic, moral
and psychological reflections and commands interest from the humanities and
hard sciences alike, often being a driving motor of knowledge production. It
is time to take stock and consider the heterogeneity and complexity of
empathy, the values different societies and cultures have attached to it and
the various approaches that frame its investigations.
The SLSAeu Conference 2017 provides a cross-disciplinary platform for
the discussions of the following interrelated subthemes :
This conference focuses on
the idea that taking the other person’s perspective is ultimately necessary to
resolve conflict; and that conflicts are perpetuated by adopting a single
perspective. The meeting will bring together an international panel of
speakers drawn from outstanding scientists, clinicians, scholars, and
peace-building organizations focusing particularly on the potential role of
empathy in the Israel-Palestine conflict. Empathy Research
Applied Empathy Research and Peacebuilding
Click here to download the summary of the conference: State
of Mind Article.pdf
What kind of empathy is beneficial to patients and
practitioners? A growing body of evidence
suggests that when healthcare practitioners enhance the way they
express empathy, that this may improve healthcare outcomes.
Specifically, enhanced empathy appears to:
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."
"In the spring semester of 2005, the Scripps College Humanities Institute
program will focus on Empathy. What does it mean to feel (or think) as
another? When we consider the structure and obligations of social
relationships, ourselves and others, justice and equality, reason, emotion,
and values in politics and in social relationships, this is a topic of
considerable interest."
February 10: Claudia Strauss: Is Empathy Gendered and If
So, Why? A Perspective from Feminist Psychological Anthropology
January 27: Benjamin Vilhauer: Empathy and Remose
February 17: Jean Decety: The Functional Architecture of Human Empathy
February 17: Evan Thompson: Empathy and Consciousness
February 17: Dorothy Otnow Lewis: Ethical Implications of Pur Knowledge
about Violence: Biopsychosocial Characteristics of Condemned Juveniles
February 28: Stephen Darwall: Empathy, Respect, and the Second-Person
Standpoint
March 2: Jennifer Goltz: Finding the Piece: How a Performer Prepares
March 3: Alison Landsberg: Spectatorial Engagements: Empathy and the
Politics of Identification
March 3: Dominic Lopes: Empathy through Art
March 3: Marion Guck: What Music Elicits: Empathy, Antipathy, and Other
Modes of Response
March 31: William Reddy: Empathizing with What? The Emergent Character of
Emotions
March 31: Jacqueline Stevens: Empathy Research in the 1950s and 1960s
March 31: George Lakoff: Keynote Address
April 1: Norma Feschbach: "Children's Empathy: Its Potential for Social
Development and Education"
April 1: Virginia Held: "The Caring Person"
April 1: Colin Allen: "From Observation to Empathy for Animals: Is This
Moral Progress?"
April 1: Kenneth Reinhard: "Otherwise than Empathy: The Ethics of the
Neighbor in Lacan and Levinas"
April 7: Christian Hubert: Outside/in: Frank Gehry and Empathy
April 7: Juliet Koss: Thoroughly Modern Empathy
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
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
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
The 29th annual Spindel Conference will take place October 7–9,
2010 at the University of Memphis. The topic of this year's
conference is "Empathy and Ethics." The opening keynote address
will be delivered byStephen
Darwall.John
DeighandPeter
Goldiewill
also deliver keynote talks.
Opening Keynote: Stephen Darwall, Yale
“Will
the Real Empathy Please Stand Up? - Amy Coplan, Cal State
Fullerton
“Empathy, Justice, and Jurisprudence” - John Deigh, UT
Austin
“Psychopathy, Responsibility, and the Moral–Conventional
Distinction” - David Shoemaker, Tulane
Moral
Sentimentalism Author: Michael Slote, U. Miami
“Imagination,
Empathy, and Ethics: The Case of Imaginative Resistance”
Speaker: Karsten Stueber, Holy Cross
“Empathizing with Yourself” - Peter Goldie,
Manchester, U.K.
“Against Empathy” - Jesse Prinz, CUN
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 -
TEDXGodenGateED: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)
-
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
-
“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
-
“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
-
“Reasons, Suffering, and Ethical
Empathy
Sara Konrath
-
“Temporal Trends in Empathy and Related
Traits”
Jessica Tooker
-
“Processing Pain and the Cognitive
Awareness of Shared Humanity: Empathy and/in the
Playhouse.”
Heather Curtis
-
“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
-
“The Rosenbergs, Empathy and American
Identity”
Noam Schimmel
-
“The Role of Empathy in Barack Obama’s
Political Rhetoric and Vision of Social Solidarity”
Simon Calder
-
“Empathy, Casuistry, and Novel Reading”
Mary-Catherine Harrison“Empathic Bias in Interpersonal and Narrative
Empathy”
Meghan Meyer
-
“The Independent Self is an Empathizing
Self: Self-Other Overlap in Chinese Participants Increases Empathy for
Social Suffering”
Marianne Noble
-
“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."
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
Helen Riess discusses
"Empathy Research and Education" Helen Riess MD, is
Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and
Director of the Empathy and Relational Science Program in the Department
of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Judith Edersheim
discusses "American Violence: The Absence of Empathy?"
Judith Edersheim, JD, MD is an Assistant Clinical Professor of
Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, a senior consultant to the Law and
Psychiatry Service at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Co-Director of
the Center for Law, Brain and Behavior.
Physiology and Neurobiology of Empathy
Dr. Carl Marci will discuss aspects of empathic connection using the
latest findings from hie research with peripheral measures of central
nervous system activity. Additional studies using neuroimaging to
understand the latest in empathy research will also be presented.
Empathy: Panel
discussion The Development and Disintegration of Human
WBUR's Martha Bebinger moderates a conversation between the panelists on
how empathy varies between individuals, the neural basis for this
capacity, and whether we should steer people with more or less empathic
capacity to careers based on this capacity.
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 Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education
8:00am - 4:00pmLocation: Stanford University,
Video Archives
"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.
Empathy and Compassion in Society is a forum for
professionals to explore what compassion is, how it can be cultivated,
and what benefits it brings to the modern world.
Empathy and Compassion in Society aims to present universal and well
researched methods for cultivating empathy and compassion, show how
these methods can enhance one's personal and professional life, and
share concrete examples of organizations and public institutions where
these methods have been shown to be effective.
The Mind and Life Europe Symposium for Contemplative
Studies is a response to the increased need for scientific researchers
and contemplative experts to interact and network with each other. This
meeting is the culmination of a year-long collaborative effort between
individuals and institutions. It is aimed at advancing the emerging
field of contemplative studies.
San Francisco Compassion Games will be celebrating
the 65th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The
Compassion Games are designed to make our communities safer, kinder,
more just, and better places to live. The first year of the games saw
two contenders: Seattle, WA and Louisville, KY. The 2013 Compassion
Games have expanded to include Cincinnati, OH; Gurgaon, India; Houston,
TX; Louisville, KY: Milwaukee, WI; Nashville, TN; New York, NY; Orange
County, CA; Phoenix, AZ; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; and the LGBTQ
community.
Darwin und seine bahnbrechende Theorie erfreuen sich nach wie
vor größter Popularität, dem egoistischen Gen sind ganze Bücher und Debatten
gewidmet. Doch ist Egoismus wirklich das dominante, naturwüchsige
Charakteristikum des Menschen? Stehen wir uns in der Tat alle selbst am
nächsten oder gibt es konkurrierende Konzepte? Jüngsten Forschungsergebnissen
zufolge, ist Empathie kein von unermüdlichen Weltverbesserern postuliertes
neuzeitliches Phänomen, sondern eine dem Menschen angeborene Fähigkeit. Das
Bedürfnis nach sozialen Beziehungen und die Furcht vor Einsamkeit
prädestinieren den Menschen dazu, anderen Geschöpfen Empathie entgegen zu
bringen. Ziel der Konferenz ist es, den Begriff der Empathie neu zu füllen,
Bewusstsein für diese andere uns innewohnende Eigenschaft zu schaffen und den
Fokus auf unser altruistisches Potential zu legen.
The Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education
- 8:00am
- 4:00pm
CCARE is excited to announce the upcoming Compassion and Technology
conference in collaboration with Facebook and the 1440 Foundation. Stay
tuned to hear about our Compassion and Technology Competition and stay
tuned for registration details which will be posted to our website soon.
The relational trend in psychotherapy, which encourages the therapist to
embrace a co-created process based on two subjectivities of equal importance,
is a well-theorised paradigm. It is now widely accepted that a capacity for
profoundly and empathically sharing another's self-states is essential for
therapeutic change. However, what is less fully conceptualised is the role of
the body in this state of understanding the other's experience.
Dr Jean Knox - Embodied empathy and mirror neurons- their
impact on the therapist's role
Dr Vittorio Gallese - Empathic bodily selves in relation:
from mirror neurons to embodied simulation
Jon Sletvold - Embodied empathy in the clinical context:
Empathy, subjectivity and reflexivity
Dr Jean Knox - Embodied empathy in working with
borderline patients - The Conversational Model developed by Russell Meares
Dr Jon Sletvold - Using embodied empathy in your
practice: making unconscious relational experience conscious
"The goal of the conference is to shed light on various
unexplored and contested aspects of empathy. Although the word ‘empathy’ found
its way into the field of psychology just over one hundred years ago,
philosophers and artists have focused on emotions related to this term for
centuries. The vitality of research into this phenomenon during the past 15
years is mirrored by its increasing prominence in public discourse in the
media and society. This is clearly manifested, for example, by discussion of
empathy as it relates to people’s reactions towards climate change
The writings of neurologists, philosophers, psychologists and
others on the relationship between empathy and mirror neurons call for a new
approach to the question of how language and literature evoke empathy.
Literary scholars and psychologists have worked together and put considerable
effort into empathy research, but linguists have played only a minor role in
that enterprise. Collaboration of researchers in these areas is important,
however, if we are to understand how language, narrative, social structure,
and culture may interact with one another, either to evoke empathy or suppress
it."
The symposium will offer rich interdisciplinary presentations
from expert research scientists on topics such as development of executive
function skills, neurophysiological foundations of emotions, attachment, and
self-regulation, neuroendocrinology and social behaviour, the psychology,
neuroscience, and ethics of empathy, and social and emotional learning in the
early years.
.The World’s Largest, Independent Conference
Devoted to Improving the Patient Experience
As caregivers entrusted with helping people, improving the patient experience
is our collective responsibility. The Summit features expert speakers, panel
discussions and workshops about the national patient experience movement,
providing participants from all disciplines the opportunity to identify shared
challenges and inspire innovative solutions
"Empathy might seem a natural human emotion—but is it? Or does it have a
history; is it culturally produced and regulated? Is it always positive or
does it have a darker side? The speakers at this symposium explore the
question of empathy from a range of disciplines— philosophy, religion,
aesthetics, literature, film studies, history. They ask what role the creative
arts have, and should have, in the production of empathy, how different
historical cultures have viewed empathy, and whether empathy is simply a warm
inner feeling or requires outward action to be effected."
Ahimsa Center at Cal
Poly Pomona (in suburban Los Angeles) invites paper and presentation proposals
for its 6th biannual conference on nonviolence: Care, Compassion, and
Mindfulness (CCM). The deliberations and dialogues at the conference are
expected to have significant implications not only for advancing scholarship
and enriching education in the domains of care, compassion and mindfulness,
but also for generating new insights for their practical applications.
Call for Presentations: The will to understand or to attempt to
understand others by imagining what it might feel like to be them; how it
might feel to experience the world from their shoes – from inside their skin,
is arguably one of the central achievements of humankind. This is the human
trait known as ‘empathy’.
It underpins much of our lives – from the ways in which
people relate to and care for one another within families and in bigger
groups, to the ways in which we communicate with one another through
literature, art, film, advertising and digital media. Many professions – from
nursing, counseling psychotherapy and medicine, to teaching, product design,
architecture, advertising and stand-up comedy, depend at least partly, on
empathic skill.
Proposals are invited for individual contributions and for
symposia of three closely related papers that address the place that empathy
has to play in any area of human life, including: ..
Empathy and Compassion in Society Changing the Way the World
Works Thursday, November 13, 2014 at 10:00 AM - Friday, November 14, 2014
A professional conference that brings together leading experts,
shares the latest research, presents real-world examples from the workplace,
and offers practical tools to cultivate and apply empathy and compassion
successfully in your life, in all situations
The overarching theme is to explore what is state of the art in
Restorative Justice (RJ), today and what are future ambitions for engagement
with other disciplines.
The workshop will provide the opportunity to bring together academic
researchers from the RJ, Theatre and Design professions who are concerned in
their existing practice with building empathy. How empathy is built by each
profession and the methods they use are likely to be the subject of lively
discipline exchange.
The third jubilee seminar organized by the Alvar Aalto Academy, the Asko
Foundation and the Tapani Wirkkala and Rut Bryk Foundation.
Lectures by: (Video)
Roots of Empathy values the lens of research as the
organization continues to provide empathy-based programming to children
on three continents. The Roots of Empathy Research Symposia offer
engaging and thought-provoking research presentations from world
renowned international scientists.
The World’s Largest, Independent,
Inter-professional conference devoted to exploring patient experience as a key
differentiator essential to healthcare delivery.
How does empathy enable social or group identity? Does group membership affect
interpersonal understanding, and how does it modulate empathy along
in-group/out-group divides? Can groups be targets of empathy, or individuals
only? Are collaborating individuals better empathizers?
For thousands of years the art of contemplative practice has
been used to explore the nature of mind and its potential. Today the emerging
science of contemplative practice promises to shed new light on these
essential human questions. Facilitating conversation between these two worlds
may provide a catalytic mutual benefit, exploring how contemplative practice
and scientific research can best inform each other for a greater common good.
Call for Presentations
"Empathy, the will to understand or to attempt to understand others by
imagining what it might feel like to be them; how it might feel to experience
the world from inside their skin, underpins much of our lives. For instance,
it is present in the ways in which people relate to and care for one another
within families and in bigger groups, to the ways in which we communicate with
one another through literature, art, film, advertising and digital media. Many
professions – from nursing, counselling psychotherapy and medicine, to
teaching, product design, architecture, advertising and stand-up comedy,
depend at least partly, on empathic skill."
An interdisciplinary conference on the import and centrality of empathy to
human and interspecies wellbeing, legal responsibility, art appreciation,
interpersonal relations, and ethics.
Jenefer
Robinson, University of Cincinnati, Empathy through/with/for Music
Lori Gruen,
Wesleyan University - Empathy - A Defense
Heidi Maibom,
University of Cincinnati, Being someone else
Remy Debes,
University of Memphis, Understanding as Respect(ing)
CreativeMornings is all heart. We have an unwavering passion for face-to-face
connections. Each and every day, our global community challenges us to change
our perspectives and inspires us to be better humans.
Keynote Speakers Karen Armstrong–
Author, TED prize winner Ruth Padel–
Poet and Author, Great-great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin
Speakers and Workshop Leads John BallattandPenny
Campling–
Authors “Intelligent Kindness” Keith Barrow–
Leader, Shropshire Council Joan Brown-Campbell–
Chair, Charter for Compassion, USA Clare Gerada–
Past-Chair, Royal College of General Practice Paul Gilbert–
Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Derby Mohamed Keshavjee–
Scholar and Author Tori McClure–
President, Spalding University, USA Mervyn Morris–
Professor, Community Mental Health, Birmingham City University Patrick Pietroni–
Director, CPTPC University of Chester Rod Thomson–
Public Health Director, Shropshire
Empathy is a widely used concept in both social and moral domains of enquire.
Empathy deficits are supposed to explain both moral and social impairments. It
seems self-evident that empathy is a good thing: indeed, many writers think
that empathy is integral to morality.
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But what is empathy?
- The term is used to cover a wide array of cognitive and affective processes.
Which of these processes is fundamental to morality and how?
- Should we be skeptical about the claims made for empathy?
What is the difference between PCA and other models' view of Empathy?
Where is it being applied?
How can it add to the world today?
What does the future hold for Empathy?
Where would we like to see it
go?
Empathy
Neuroscience:
Translational Relevance for Conflict Resolution
Monday 7 & Tuesday 8 March 2016,
The British Academy,London
Dr Ahmad Abu-Akel,
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK Dr Cairo Arafat,
Save the Children, Ramallah, Palestine Professor Simon Baron-Cohen FBA,
University of Cambridge, UK Dr
Emile Bruneau,
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, USA Empathy in
conflict resolution Professor Bhismadev Chakrabarti,
Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics, University of Reading Professor Ruth Feldman,
Bar-Ilan University Israel, and Yale University, USA Professor Dale Hay,
Child Development Studies, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Wales Dr Talma Hendler,
Tel Aviv University Dr Ned Lazarus,
Program Officer, The Israel Institute Professor James Leckman,
Child Study Center, Yale University, USA Professor Hillel Levine,
Department of Religion, Boston University, and International Center for
Conciliation, Boston Nawal Musleh-Motut,
School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Canada Professor Sari Nusseibeh,
Al-Quds University, Jerusalem Ms Joana Osman,The
Peace Factory Dr Tawfiq Salman,
Palestinian Psychiatric Rehabilitation Center, Bethlehem, Palestine Professor Simone Shamay-Tsoory,
Social and Affective Science Lab, Haifa University, Israel Haifa Staiti,Gather
Fellow, Seeds of Peace, Canada Mr Matt Waldman,
Associate Fellow Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs,
UK
This
conference brings together empathy neuroscience research to tackle a key
translational challenge: its relevance for conflict resolution. It focuses on
the idea that taking the other person’s perspective is ultimately necessary to
resolve conflict; and that conflicts are perpetuated by adopting a single
perspective.
The conference considers the relevance of empathy neuroscience for policy
makers working in conflict resolution. The meeting brings together an
international panel of speakers drawn from outstanding scientists, clinicians,
scholars, and charities, focusing particularly on the potential role of
empathy in the Israel-Palestine conflict. The aims are to enable dialogue and
a better understanding of empathy, and to promote the development of
evidence-based interventions that foster empathy in conflict zones.
You are invited to 'Empathy and the Revolution of Human
Relationships' - a public talk by cultural thinker and writer on the art of
living and social change, Roman Krznaric.
Festival of Empathy! We are very excited to announce that the Big Lottery has
given us funding to hold a Festival of Empathy in June this year!
We think empathy is important because it is about trying to understand how
someone else thinks and feels even if they are very different from you - it's
about 'stepping into someone else's shoes'.
We want to celebrate and promote empathy because we think it helps to create
more supportive, understanding and welcoming communities.
Canadians for a Civil Society, in partnership with MacEwan
University and NAIT, invite you to a symposium on “Building Empathy and
Conquering Apathy” that will bring together educators, policy makers,
human-rights advocates, academics, non-profit and front-line service workers.
We will stress the importance of empathy-based human-rights education and
encourage individuals to see themselves as stakeholders in leading change
The seventh annual Patient Experience Summit takes place May 15-18, 2016, at
the Cleveland Convention Center in downtown Cleveland, Ohio.
Empathy
The 3rd Global Meeting of the Empathy Project
Thursday 14th July – Saturday 16th July 2016: Mansfield College, Oxford
IDNet’s
first two Global Meetings on Empathy included philosophical, ethical,
neurological and psychological discussions of the meaning and origins of
empathy, as well as presentations about, for example, empathy in literature,
theatre, the visual arts, and cinema; about empathy in news, social media and
online communication; about the ways in which considerations of empathy
influence character and plot development in TV drama, and about the
development of empathy in children and in professionals, including social
workers and health care staff.
Interdisciplinary research into empathy has, up until now, focussed mainly on
the role of empathy in mindreading and its importance for pro-social
behaviour. Empathy can, however, also be directed at a variety of different
objects beyond other people, such as literature, music, nature, and artefacts.
What is the connection between these different forms of empathy.
The aim of this conference is to bring together top researchers in the field
of empathy from philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience and to look at
empathy and its various kinds of objects in different contexts, e.g., in
ethics and aesthetics. By associating these strands of research which have, so
far, not been properly connected, and by combining perspectives from
neuroscience and psychology as well as the humanities we hope to make progress
in developing a unified concept of empathy and in defining its central role in
our interaction with the world and with other people.
Highlights this year include the latest science on empathy and compassion
shared by James Doty, talks and workshops on leadership with TED speakers
Scilla Elworthy and Jeremy Hunter, uncovering our capacity for self-compassion
with Professor Paul Gilbert, a highly innovative programme on empathy with
Mary Gordon, the streaming of a free gathering for 16 to 25 year-olds, and
much more
The Latest Research on the Science of Compassion - Dr
James Doty
Sustainable Compassion Training for Those Who Serve - Dr
Brooke D. Lavelle
The Fears of Compassion - Prof
Paul Gilbert
The Child is the Father of the Man - Dr
Arild Bjørndal
Deepening Mindfulness with Heartfulness - Frits
Koster & Erik van den Brink
How to Cultivate the Heart and Mind of the Leader - Prof
Jeremy Hunter
Pioneering
the Possible: Awakened Leadership for a World that Works - Scilla
Elworthy
Empathy in Education
- Mary
Gordon
It
All Depends on the Relationship! - Dr
Michael de Vibe
Embedding empathy in healthcare education and practice
Few healthcare interventions have as much impact on a person’s
physical and emotional well-being as empathy. Yet, so often
healthcare programs only pay lip service to teaching and assessing
empathy. This symposium aims to start a conversation (or perhaps
even a ‘movement’) that leads to empathy becoming integral to
every healthcare curriculum.
