Lessons from the ReSource Project: How to Train Mind and Heart towards a Paradigm Shift in Education
Our modern world including educational systems is marked by increases in socio-emotional and stress-related diseases. The field of contemplative Neuroscience has recently developed mental training programs that improves social skills and resilience and teach how to better cope with stress and the complexity of our times. This lecture will show scientific results from a 9-month mental training study on compassion and mindfulness, the ReSource Project, and discuss its relevance for a paradigm shift in Education.
The ReSource Project
The ReSource Project is a unique, large-scale study on Eastern and Western methods of mental training. Over a period of eleven months, participants practiced a wide range of mental exercises that are designed to enhance attentional control, body- and self-awareness, healthy emotion regulation, self…
Compassion – Bridging Practice and Science
What is the difference between empathy and compassion? Is it possible to train compassion? Can it be measured? How useful is compassion training in schools, clinical settings, and end-of-life care? Can the brain be transformed through mental training?
Tania Singer (Scientific Head at Social Neuroscience Lab) #TOA19 – YouTube
The Neuroscience of Training Mind and Heart Tania will talk about multiple results of the ReSource Project, a large-scale multi-methodological one-year secular mental training program in which participants were trained in three different modules, focusing on a) attention-based mindfulness, b) comp…
Tania Singer – Open Hearts
A world expert on empathy, Tania Singer explores how improved cognitive and mental skills foster stability of mind, open hearts and encourage cooperation. After a short talk on the neurobiological basis of compassion, she’ll leads a special DLD workshop based on her freely downloadable multi-media eBook “Compassion. Bridging Science and Practice.” Developed through a cooperative effort of neuroscientists, therapists, contemplative scholars and monks, the book describes a variety of secular mental training programs, their use in education, clinical settings and for everyday life, as well as scientific findings on the resulting changes of brain, health and general well-being.
