
Interview with Dr. Christopher Germer
“…when mindfulness and self-compassion are in full bloom, they are nearly identical in a moment of suffering.”

“…when mindfulness and self-compassion are in full bloom, they are nearly identical in a moment of suffering.”

Grant Jones (he/him) is an artist, contemplative, researcher, and activist. Currently, he is a 3rd Year Clinical Psychology PhD candidate at Harvard University and Co-Founder of The Black Lotus Collective.

David Vago is Research Director of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Dr. Helen Weng is a clinical psychologist and neuroscientist who originally joined the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine in 2014 as a postdoctoral scholar in the Training in Research in Integrative Medicine (TRIM) fellowship. She is developing new ways to quantify meditation skills using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and machine learning to identify mental states of body awareness during meditation.

Philippe Goldin, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at UC Davis and leads the Clinically Applied Affective Neuroscience Laboratory.

Dr. Linda Carlson holds the Enbridge Research Chair in Psychosocial Oncology, is Full Professor in Psychosocial Oncology in the Department of Oncology, Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology.

Researchers are exploring mindfulness-based interventions as a long-term treatment options to address the multitude of symptoms after cancer has been treated.

How does self-compassion protect depressed adolescents? Quieting the self may be the key.

The study also highlighted how emotional well-being and self-compassion act as mediators, bridging the gap between mental toughness and aggression to strengthen the protective impact of mental toughness against aggression.

The MBSR-T program (also known as the Stressed Teens program) was created in 2004 by Gina M. Biegel, MA, LMFT

Mindfulness-based stress reduction, also known as MBSR, is an 8-week evidence-based group program that teaches participants how to cope with their pain and stress using mindfulness meditation and Hatha yoga techniques.

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, also known as MBCT, is a group-based treatment program … developed to prevent relapse in clinical populations with recurrent major depressive disorder (MDD).

Also known as MBRT, this intervention helps first responders navigate their work more mindfully

Also known as MSC, this intervention teaches people to care for themselves as much as they care for others.

“Unfortunately, today’s Western mindfulness practice often gets translated into an individualistic technique that is highly outcome-oriented.”

The growing recognition of transdisciplinarity’s powerful nature offers researchers valuable opportunities for collaboration

Does the scientific content that we read always mean what it claims?

The growing recognition of transdisciplinarity’s powerful nature offers researchers valuable opportunities for collaboration

Mindfulness practices like critical analysis can reveal the mental formations behind these tools.

After nearly three decades, a ban prohibiting public schools to offer yoga as an elective for grades K-12 has been overturned in Alabama.
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