Program
Overview
Please note the times listed are in local time for Chapel Hill(EST).
Pre-conference workshops
Click here to view a detailed overview of each workshop
8.00am – 5.00pm
Registration Desk Open
Location: Atrium South
8.00am – 5.00pm
Meditation Room Open
8.30am – 10.00am
Workshop 1: Part I Mind-Body Practices in Psychedelic Therapy: Developing Protocols for Research, Training, and Integration
David Vago, Rael Cahn, Kirk Warren Brown, Fadel Zeidan, Linda Carlson, Anthony King, Christopher Timmermann, Geoff Bathje, Amanda Giesler, Michael Mithoefer and Gita Vaid
Location: Dogwood AB
Workshop 2: Part I The Arc of Evaluation – A Model Framework for Mindfulness-Based Interventions and Organizational Change
Michael Coplen
Location: Redbud AB
10.00am – 10.30am
Coffee Break
Location: Blueberry Hill
10.30am – 12.00pm
Workshop 1: Part II Mind-Body Practices in Psychedelic Therapy: Developing Protocols for Research, Training, and Integration
David Vago, Rael Cahn, Kirk Warren Brown, Fadel Zeidan, Linda Carlson, Anthony King, Christopher Timmermann, Geoff Bathje, Amanda Giesler, Michael Mithoefer and Gita Vaid
Location: Dogwood AB
Workshop 2: Part II The Arc of Evaluation – A Model Framework for Mindfulness-Based Interventions and Organizational Change
Michael Coplen
Location: Redbud AB
Workshop 4: “How is everybody going on?” A Preconference Workshop featuring an Interdisciplinary Panel and an Interactive Art Expression (ISCR REACH Committee)
Zev Schuman-Olivier, Doris Chang, and Richa Gawande
Location: Bellflower AB
12.00pm – 1.30pm
Lunch
Location: Blueberry Hill
1.30pm – 3.00pm
Workshop 5: Universities in Crisis: Contemplative Practices as support in Speaking Truth to Power (ISCR REACH Committee)
Jennifer Rioux
Location: Dogwood AB
Workshop 6: From Me to We: Advancing Contemplative Praxis from Inner Growth to Outer Change
Lisa Napora
Location: Bellflower AB
Workshop 7: Teaching Attention: Practical Exercises for Ethical and Intellectual Presence
Katie Leonard and Michael Vazquez
Location: Redbud AB
3.00pm – 3.30pm
Coffee Break
Location: Blueberry Hill
3.30pm – 5.00pm
Workshop 8: Beyond John Henryism: When Persistence Harms and Embodied Authenticity Heals for Black Women
Millicent Robinson
Location: Bellflower AB
Workshop 9: Six Healing Breaths and Daoist Perspective on Longevity
Jun Wang
Location: Dogwood AB
Workshop 10: The Arc of Life and Death through Radical Compassion in Feeding Your Demons: a Jungian and Buddhist Overview and Guided Practice
Kate Greer Dickson
Location: Redbud AB
5.00pm – 7.00pm
Opening Session & Keynote Speaker
Can the Arc of Life and Death Culminate in a Single Moment?
Bridging Worlds of Body and Consciousness in Tibetan Tukdam Meditation
Tawni Tidwell, PhD, TMD (click for bio)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Location: Grumman Auditorium
7.00am – 8.00am
Contemplative Practice Session
Karen Bluth: Compassion for Self and Others
Location: Windflower AB
8.00am – 4.30pm
Registration Open
Location: Atrium South
8.30am – 10.00am
Keynote Speaker
Griefwork as Contemplative Practice: Reframing Mindfulness through Humanistic Inquiry
Anne Vallely (click for bio)
University of Ottawa
Toward a Science of Awakening
Kathryn Devaney, The Consciousness Foundation
Location: Grumman Auditorium
10.00am – 10.30am
Coffee Break
Location: Blueberry Hill
10.30am – 12.00pm
Panel 1 – Innovations in Resilience Research for Contemplative Science: Opportunities for Optimizing Whole Person Health Restoration (v)
Jennifer Baumgartner, NCIH,
Elissa Epel, University of California,
Emily Lindsay, University of Pittsburgh,
Caitlin Conley, University of Kentucky
Location: Grumman Auditorium
Oral Session 1 – Mindfulness Based Interventions
O1.1 Evaluating Complementary and Integrative Health Interventions to Reduce Stress Related Illnesses in African American and Hispanic Populations: A Systematic Review
Raven Wright-Smith, The University of North Carolina
O1.2 Evaluating the effectiveness of mindfulness practice in the general population through personalization – a randomized controlled experiment
Sarah Strohmaier, Victoria University Melbourne
O1.3 Integrating Brief Mindfulness Interventions into Routine Medical Pathways: Pain and Anxiety Relief in the Clinic Waiting Room
Kennedi Childs, Florida State University
O1.5 A Full Circle Model of Trauma-Informed Communication for Health Care Providers and Patients on the Cancer Journey: Highlighting the Role of Mindfulness
Barbara Ley, University of Delaware
Location: Dogwood AB
Oral Session 2 – Contemplative Approaches to Learning, Career, and Self-Discovery in Higher Education
O2.1 Cultivating curiosity for well-being: findings from a first year course at a STEM-focused university
Alicia Walf, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
O2.2 Mindfulness and the Arc of Becoming: Cultivating Career Adaptability Through Emotional Intelligence
Hyunhee Kim, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
O2.3 Personal Transformation Through an Undergraduate “Walking Seminar”—A Thematic Analysis and Gallery
Donald Mccown, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Location: Redbud AB
Oral Session 3 – Life, Death, Breath and Knowldge: Buddhist and Daoist Investigations
O3.1 A Thread in the Life-Death Matrix: Revisiting the Garbha Metaphor in Early East-Asian Buddhism
Michel Mohr, University of Hawaii at Manoa
O3.2 Daoist Microcosmic Orbit Meditation (Xiǎo zhōutiān 小周天): Kinesthetic Contemplation as Transformative Epistemic Technique
Steven Geisz, University of Tampa
O3.3 When Breath is not Breath: Daoist Contemplative Perspectives
Larson Di Fiori, Brown University
Location: Bellflower AB
12.00pm – 1.30pm
Lunch
Location: Blueberry Hill
12.30pm – 1.30pm
Mentorship Session
Location: Dogwood AB
12.30pm – 1.30pm
Science of Awakening Social
Location: Redbud AB
12.30pm – 1.30pm
Contemplative Practice Session
Beth Palmer – Expressive Journeys: Therapeutic Engagement with Mixed Media Art
Location: Windflower AB
1.30pm – 3.00pm
Panel 3 – Exploring the Nexus of Life and Death at the Intersection of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Contemplative Traditions and Science (v)
Renee Ford, Aarhus University,
Michelle Walsh, Contemplative Practice Lab
Location: Grumman Auditorium
Panel 4 – The emerging science of advanced meditation: Interdisciplinary investigations of advanced meditative absorption, insight, and cessations of consciousness
Matthew Sacchet, Massachusetts General Hospital, Michael Lifshitz, McGill University,
David Zarka, Université Libre de Bruxelles,
Winson Yang, Massachusetts General Hospital, Shawn Prest, Monash University
Location: Dogwood AB
Panel 5 – Mindfulness and Social Well-Being: It’s More Complicated than We Thought
Polina Beloborodova, University of Wisconsin,
Erika Blair, Virginia Commonwealth University, Daniel Berry, Radford University,
Kirk Warren Brown, Carnegie Mellon University
Location: Redbud AB
Oral Session 4 – Mindfulness and Mindful Self-Compassion Interventions
O4.1 Mindful Self-Compassion Decreases Symptoms in Anxiety Disorders and Depression
Elizabeth Hoge, Georgetown University Medical Center
O4.2 Self-critical rumination as a mediator between adverse childhood experiences and therapeutic effects of a mindfulness-based intervention
Diane Joss, Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School
O4.3 Uncovering Mechanisms of Change in Compassion-Based Interventions: Is Self-Criticism the Key? A Mediation Meta-Analysis
Aida Palacios, Instituto Polibienestar, University of Valencia
O4.4 What do patients with chronic pain gain from mindfulness interventions? Phenomenological cluster analysis in a clinical trial of Mindfulness-Based Pain Reduction (MBPR)
Wolf Mehling, University of California
Location: Bellflower AB
Oral Session 5 – Neuroscience & Contemplative Practice
O5.1 Testing the Relationship Between Anxiety, Mindfulness, and Cognitive Control
Resh Gupta, Washington University
O5.2 An Initial Neuroscientific Analysis of Contemplative Sleep Practices
S. Gabriela Torres Platas, Northwestern University
O5.3 Note More Worry Less: Neural and Behavioral Insights into the Noting Technique for Reducing Worry
Lia Antico, Brown University
O5.4 A neurophenomenological case study of an advanced nondual practitioner receiving the psychedelic 5-MeO-DMT for the study of deconstructed consciousness
Christopher Timmermann, University College London
Location: Azalea
3.00pm – 4.00pm
Contemplative Practice Session
Rebecca Acabchuk: Tactical Reset
Location: Windflower AB
3.00pm – 4.30pm
Roundtable 1: Rehearsing Death: demystifying and preparing for death and dying in art institutions, spiritual communities, and public spaces
Location: Dogwood AB
Roundtable 2: The Virtue Gap: Rethinking Scientific Ethics Through Personal Virtues and Contemplative Practice
Location: Redbud AB
4.30pm – 6.00pm
Poster Session 1 with drinks
Location: Atrium
7.00am – 8.00am
Contemplative Practice Session
Lama Justin von Bujdoss: Ati Yoga
Location: Windflower AB
8.00am – 4.30pm
Registration Open
Location: Atrium South
8.30am – 10.00am
Keynote Speaker
Towards a Developmental Contemplative Science
Robert W. Roeser, PhD (click for bio)
Emory University
Location: Grumman Auditorium
10.00am – 10.30am
Coffee Break
Location: Blueberry Hill
10.30am – 12.00pm
Panel 6 – From Micro-Practices to Meditation Retreats: Dose-Response Effects of Meditation Training
Yuval Hadash, Carnegie Mellon University,
Simon Goldberg, University of Wisconsin,
Sarah Strohmaier, Victoria University Melbourne,
David Creswell, Carnegie Mellon University,
Nicholas Bowles, University of Melbourne
Location: Dogwood AB
Panel 7 – Numadelic Virtual Reality as a Medium for Exploring Mortality, Contemplative Practice, and the Neuroscience of Self-Transcendence
Justin Wall, CiTIUS~Centro Singular de Investigación en Tecnoloxías Intelixentes,
Melanie Boly, University of Wisconsin,
Joseph Hardy, Numadelic Labs,
Adam Liddle, University of Virginia
Location: Redbud AB
Panel 8 – Curiosity and Openness: Building technologies for transformation
Jesse Flemming, University of Nebraska,
Cassandra Vieten, University of California,
Marjan Sharifi, University of California
Eve Ekman, Greater Good Science Center
Location: Bellflower AB
Oral Session 6 – Critical and Philosophical Perspectives on Contemplative Practice (v)
O6.1 Zen Buddhism on the Limits of Knowledge and the Practice of Wisdom
Bret Davis, Loyola University Maryland
O6.2 Role of Death Awareness in shaping Human Existence – A Philosophical Inquiry
Ashmeet Kaur, University of Delhi
O6.3 Fractal Epistemology for Past Lives: Hunting the Hidden Dimension
Cai Carvalhaes, Pacifica Graduate Institute
O6.4 The Mindfulness Revolution and Zizek’s Critique
Karsten Struhl, New School for Public Engagement
Location: Grumman Auditorium
Oral Session 7 – Contemplative Training in Educational and Clinical Contexts
O7.1 Standards-based approaches to contemplative studies for adolescent learners
Sasha Manu, Pine Street School
O7.2 The development of emotion regulation competence for in-service teachers through mindfulness-based interventions: a literature review
Dumitrita Margineanu, Babes Bolyai University
O7.3 Understanding Why Healthcare Professionals Attend a Workplace Resiliency Training Program
Phoebe Franco, Dell Children’s Medical Center
O7.4 Healing Historical Trauma among Vietnamese Americans through Contemplation: A Pilot Study of the WEALTH Program
My Ngoc To, Colorado State University
Location: Azalea
12.00pm – 1.30pm
Lunch and AGM (Begins 12.45pm in the Grumman Auditorium)
Location: Blueberry Hill
12.30pm – 1.30pm
Contemplative Practice Session
Claudia Wang: Baduanjin (Eight Pieces of Brocade)
Location: Windflower AB
1.30pm – 3.00pm
Panel 9 – Looking Within to Reveal the Mechanisms of Mindfulness Meditation: Internal Attention and Internally-Directed Cognition
Yuval Hadash, Carnegie Mellon University,
Amit Bernstein, University of Wisconsin & University of Haifa,
Sahib Khalsa, University of California,
Norman Farb, University of Toronto
Location: Redbud AB
Panel 10 – Yoga and Spirituality: The Underlying Psychophysiology and the Research Evidence in Healthy and Patient Populations
Sat Bir Khalsa, Harvard Medical School,
Crystal Park, University of Connecticut,
Stephanie Sohl, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Location: Dogwood AB
Panel 11 – Understanding the Neuroscience of Mindfulness for Migraine and its Importance for the Pipeline through Undergraduate Neuroscience Education (v)
Rebecca Wells, Wake Forest University School of Medicine,
Fadel Zeidan, University of California,
Zev Schuman-Olivier, Cambridge Health Alliance,
Michael Datko, Harvard Medical School,
Licia Grazzi, Fondazione Instituto Neurologico
Location: Grumman Auditorium
Oral Session 8 – Moral and Social Dimensions of Contemplative Practice
O8.1 Moral effects of long-term meditation: A large-scale, in-person cross-sectional study of real-world ethical cognition, emotion, and behavior
Kevin Berryman, Monash Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies
O8.2 Beliefs about suffering and responses to hypothetical challenges and real-life intergroup conflict
Christine Lathren, University of North Carolina
O8.3 Views Regarding Mindfulness-Based Program Participation in Emerging Adults from Different Racial/Ethnic Groups
Christyn Dolbier, East Carolina University
O8.4 Examining Self-Compassion and Subclinical Cardiovascular Disease in Black American Women
Kennedy Blevins, University of California
Location: Bellflower AB
Room 5 – Oral Session 9 – Religious Studies & Psychology
O9.1 The Defining Line of Life and Death in Buddhist Psychology
Chulthim Gurung, McGill University
O9.2 The Resurrected Self – An Enactive Lens on the Goals of Classical and Contemporary Jewish and Islamic Contemplative Paths
Nathan Fisher, McGill University
O9.3 The Psychology of Tsongkhapa’s Analytical Meditation on Death
Jacob Lindsley, Oregon State University
Location: Azalea
3.00pm – 4.00pm
Contemplative Practice Session
Jena Leake: He(art)work: Meeting the Moment with Courage, Creativity and Compassion
Location: Windflower AB
3.00pm – 4.30pm
Roundtable 4: Contemplative Arts / Contemplative Action
Location: Dogwood AB
Roundtable 5: Connections as Pathways: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue on Heartfelt Confidence
Location: Redbud AB
4.30pm – 6.00pm
Poster Session 2 with drinks
Sponsored by Mind and Life
7.00am – 8.00am
Contemplative Practice Session
Carlos Santiago and Felipe Kalatauma Rosario: Sonya’s Sequence
Location: Windflower AB
8.00am – 4.30pm
Registration Open
Location: Grumman Auditorium
8.30am – 10.00am
Keynote Speaker
The Arc of Life and Death: Courageous, Contemplative Reflection on Family, Foundation, and Future to Foster Harmony and Well-Being
Cheryl Woods Giscombé, PhD (click for bio)
UNC-Chapel Hill School of Nursing
Location: Grumman Auditorium
10.00am – 10.30am
Coffee Break
Location: Blueberry Hill
10.30am – 12.00pm
Panel 12 – Psychedelics and the Self: Mechanisms, Methodologies, and Mindfulness (v)
Fadel Zeidan, University of California,
Eric Garland, University of California,
Patrick Finan, University of Virginia,
Luana Colloca, University of Maryland Baltimore
Location: Grumman Auditorium
Panel 13 – Nurturing the Mindful Researcher: Integrating Contemplative Practices to Promote Life Giving Cultures in Mindfulness Research
Caitlin Elsaesser, University of Connecticut,
Gio Iacono, University of Connecticut,
Jeffrey Proulx, Brown University,
Vivien Roman-Hampton, University of Connecticut
Location: Dogwood AB
Panel 14 – Transforming higher education through contemplative practices in diverse settings: From individual classes to institutional change
Jennifer Daubenmier, San Francisco State University,
Yikuan Lee, San Francisco State University,
Andrea Malouf, Salt Lake Community College,
Ranjeeta Basu, California State University
Location: Redbud AB
10.30am – 12.00pm
Contemplative Practice Session
Kessonga Giscombe: “Speak Less, Listen More: The Power of Mindful Communication”
Location: Windflower AB
12.00pm- 1.30pm
Lunch
Location: Blueberry Hill
12.30pm – 1.30pm
Contemplative Practice Session
Kim Clark: Introduction to Oppositional Cultural Practice (OCP)
Location: Windflower AB
1.30pm – 2.30pm
Panel 15 – Meditation and Psychedelic Assisted Therapy
Anthony King, The Ohio State University,
Michael Lifshitz, McGill University,
Rael Cahn, University of Southern California,
Simon Goldberg, University of Wisconsin
Location: Dogwood AB
Panel 16 – Bringing evidence-based contemplative practices into clinical settings: Lessons from the OPTIMUM trial (v)
Jessica Barnhill, University of North Carolina,
Isabel Roth, University of North Carolina,
Holly Thomas, University of Pittsburgh,
Gabriela Castro, University of North Carolina, Keturah Faurot, University of North Carolina
Location: Grumman Auditorium
Panel 17 – Using Mindfulness Training to Support College Students’ Stress Management, Mental Health, and Academic Engagement
Brian Galla, University of Pittsburgh,
Matthew Hirshberg, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Zishan Jiwani, University of Wisconsin,
Polina Beloborodova, University of Wisconsin
Location: Redbud AB
2.30pm – 3.00pm
Coffee Break
Location: Blueberry Hill
3.00pm – 4.00pm
Panel 18 – Interdisciplinary Reflections on Psychedelic Science, Contemplative Practice, and Mystical Experience in Grief Healing: UVA PIRC
Jennifer Penberthy, University of Virginia,
Tamika Braveheart, University of Virginia,
Donna Chen, University of Virginia,
Melissa Frost, University of Virginia ,
Adelaide King, University of Virginia
Location: Dogwood AB
Panel 20 – Exploring the Role of Mindfulness in Advancing Equitable Instruction in Schools (v)
Doris Chang, New York University,
Lindsay Romano, University of Colorado Boulder, Patricia Jennings , University of Virginia,
Dennis Williams Ii, University of Virginia
Location: Grumman Auditorium
4.00pm – 4.45pm
Closing Session
Location: Grumman Auditorium
Pre-conference workshops
Click here to view a detailed overview of each workshop
8.00am – 5.00pm
Registration Desk Open
Location: Atrium South
8.00am – 5.00pm
Meditation Room Open
8.30am – 10.00am
Workshop 1: Part I Mind-Body Practices in Psychedelic Therapy: Developing Protocols for Research, Training, and Integration
David Vago, Rael Cahn, Kirk Warren Brown, Fadel Zeidan, Linda Carlson, Anthony King, Christopher Timmermann, Geoff Bathje, Amanda Giesler, Michael Mithoefer and Gita Vaid
Location: Dogwood AB
Workshop 2: Part I The Arc of Evaluation – A Model Framework for Mindfulness-Based Interventions and Organizational Change
Michael Coplen
Location: Redbud AB
10.00am – 10.30am
Coffee Break
Location: Blueberry Hill
10.30am – 12.00pm
Workshop 1: Part II Mind-Body Practices in Psychedelic Therapy: Developing Protocols for Research, Training, and Integration
David Vago, Rael Cahn, Kirk Warren Brown, Fadel Zeidan, Linda Carlson, Anthony King, Christopher Timmermann, Geoff Bathje, Amanda Giesler, Michael Mithoefer and Gita Vaid
Location: Dogwood AB
Workshop 2: Part II The Arc of Evaluation – A Model Framework for Mindfulness-Based Interventions and Organizational Change
Michael Coplen
Location: Redbud AB
Workshop 4: “How is everybody going on?” A Preconference Workshop featuring an Interdisciplinary Panel and an Interactive Art Expression (ISCR REACH Committee)
Zev Schuman-Olivier, Doris Chang, and Richa Gawande
Location: Bellflower AB
12.00pm – 1.30pm
Lunch
Location: Blueberry Hill
1.30pm – 3.00pm
Workshop 5: Universities in Crisis: Contemplative Practices as support in Speaking Truth to Power (ISCR REACH Committee)
Jennifer Rioux
Location: Dogwood AB
Workshop 6: From Me to We: Advancing Contemplative Praxis from Inner Growth to Outer Change
Lisa Napora
Location: Bellflower AB
Workshop 7: Teaching Attention: Practical Exercises for Ethical and Intellectual Presence
Katie Leonard and Michael Vazquez
Location: Redbud AB
3.00pm – 3.30pm
Coffee Break
Location: Blueberry Hill
3.30pm – 5.00pm
Workshop 8: Beyond John Henryism: When Persistence Harms and Embodied Authenticity Heals for Black Women
Millicent Robinson
Location: Bellflower AB
Workshop 9: Six Healing Breaths and Daoist Perspective on Longevity
Jun Wang
Location: Dogwood AB
Workshop 10: The Arc of Life and Death through Radical Compassion in Feeding Your Demons: a Jungian and Buddhist Overview and Guided Practice
Kate Greer Dickson
Location: Redbud AB
5.00pm – 7.00pm
Opening Session & Keynote Speaker
Can the Arc of Life and Death Culminate in a Single Moment?
Bridging Worlds of Body and Consciousness in Tibetan Tukdam Meditation
Tawni Tidwell, PhD, TMD (click for bio)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Location: Grumman Auditorium
7.00am – 8.00am
Contemplative Practice Session
Karen Bluth: Compassion for Self and Others
Location: Windflower AB
8.00am – 4.30pm
Registration Open
Location: Atrium South
8.30am – 10.00am
Keynote Speaker
Griefwork as Contemplative Practice: Reframing Mindfulness through Humanistic Inquiry
Anne Vallely (click for bio)
University of Ottawa
Toward a Science of Awakening
Kathryn Devaney, The Consciousness Foundation
Location: Grumman Auditorium
10.00am – 10.30am
Coffee Break
Location: Blueberry Hill
10.30am – 12.00pm
Panel 1 – Innovations in Resilience Research for Contemplative Science: Opportunities for Optimizing Whole Person Health Restoration (v)
Jennifer Baumgartner, NCIH,
Elissa Epel, University of California,
Emily Lindsay, University of Pittsburgh,
Caitlin Conley, University of Kentucky
Location: Grumman Auditorium
Oral Session 1 – Mindfulness Based Interventions
O1.1 Evaluating Complementary and Integrative Health Interventions to Reduce Stress Related Illnesses in African American and Hispanic Populations: A Systematic Review
Raven Wright-Smith, The University of North Carolina
O1.2 Evaluating the effectiveness of mindfulness practice in the general population through personalization – a randomized controlled experiment
Sarah Strohmaier, Victoria University Melbourne
O1.3 Integrating Brief Mindfulness Interventions into Routine Medical Pathways: Pain and Anxiety Relief in the Clinic Waiting Room
Kennedi Childs, Florida State University
O1.5 A Full Circle Model of Trauma-Informed Communication for Health Care Providers and Patients on the Cancer Journey: Highlighting the Role of Mindfulness
Barbara Ley, University of Delaware
Location: Dogwood AB
Oral Session 2 – Contemplative Approaches to Learning, Career, and Self-Discovery in Higher Education
O2.1 Cultivating curiosity for well-being: findings from a first year course at a STEM-focused university
Alicia Walf, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
O2.2 Mindfulness and the Arc of Becoming: Cultivating Career Adaptability Through Emotional Intelligence
Hyunhee Kim, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
O2.3 Personal Transformation Through an Undergraduate “Walking Seminar”—A Thematic Analysis and Gallery
Donald Mccown, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Location: Redbud AB
Oral Session 3 – Life, Death, Breath and Knowldge: Buddhist and Daoist Investigations
O3.1 A Thread in the Life-Death Matrix: Revisiting the Garbha Metaphor in Early East-Asian Buddhism
Michel Mohr, University of Hawaii at Manoa
O3.2 Daoist Microcosmic Orbit Meditation (Xiǎo zhōutiān 小周天): Kinesthetic Contemplation as Transformative Epistemic Technique
Steven Geisz, University of Tampa
O3.3 When Breath is not Breath: Daoist Contemplative Perspectives
Larson Di Fiori, Brown University
Location: Bellflower AB
12.00pm – 1.30pm
Lunch
Location: Blueberry Hill
12.30pm – 1.30pm
Mentorship Session
Location: Dogwood AB
12.30pm – 1.30pm
Science of Awakening Social
Location: Redbud AB
12.30pm – 1.30pm
Contemplative Practice Session
Beth Palmer – Expressive Journeys: Therapeutic Engagement with Mixed Media Art
Location: Windflower AB
1.30pm – 3.00pm
Panel 3 – Exploring the Nexus of Life and Death at the Intersection of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Contemplative Traditions and Science (v)
Renee Ford, Aarhus University,
Michelle Walsh, Contemplative Practice Lab
Location: Grumman Auditorium
Panel 4 – The emerging science of advanced meditation: Interdisciplinary investigations of advanced meditative absorption, insight, and cessations of consciousness
Matthew Sacchet, Massachusetts General Hospital, Michael Lifshitz, McGill University,
David Zarka, Université Libre de Bruxelles,
Winson Yang, Massachusetts General Hospital, Shawn Prest, Monash University
Location: Dogwood AB
Panel 5 – Mindfulness and Social Well-Being: It’s More Complicated than We Thought
Polina Beloborodova, University of Wisconsin,
Erika Blair, Virginia Commonwealth University, Daniel Berry, Radford University,
Kirk Warren Brown, Carnegie Mellon University
Location: Redbud AB
Oral Session 4 – Mindfulness and Mindful Self-Compassion Interventions
O4.1 Mindful Self-Compassion Decreases Symptoms in Anxiety Disorders and Depression
Elizabeth Hoge, Georgetown University Medical Center
O4.2 Self-critical rumination as a mediator between adverse childhood experiences and therapeutic effects of a mindfulness-based intervention
Diane Joss, Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School
O4.3 Uncovering Mechanisms of Change in Compassion-Based Interventions: Is Self-Criticism the Key? A Mediation Meta-Analysis
Aida Palacios, Instituto Polibienestar, University of Valencia
O4.4 What do patients with chronic pain gain from mindfulness interventions? Phenomenological cluster analysis in a clinical trial of Mindfulness-Based Pain Reduction (MBPR)
Wolf Mehling, University of California
Location: Bellflower AB
Oral Session 5 – Neuroscience & Contemplative Practice
O5.1 Testing the Relationship Between Anxiety, Mindfulness, and Cognitive Control
Resh Gupta, Washington University
O5.2 An Initial Neuroscientific Analysis of Contemplative Sleep Practices
S. Gabriela Torres Platas, Northwestern University
O5.3 Note More Worry Less: Neural and Behavioral Insights into the Noting Technique for Reducing Worry
Lia Antico, Brown University
O5.4 A neurophenomenological case study of an advanced nondual practitioner receiving the psychedelic 5-MeO-DMT for the study of deconstructed consciousness
Christopher Timmermann, University College London
Location: Azalea
3.00pm – 4.00pm
Contemplative Practice Session
Rebecca Acabchuk: Tactical Reset
Location: Windflower AB
3.00pm – 4.30pm
Roundtable 1: Rehearsing Death: demystifying and preparing for death and dying in art institutions, spiritual communities, and public spaces
Location: Dogwood AB
Roundtable 2: The Virtue Gap: Rethinking Scientific Ethics Through Personal Virtues and Contemplative Practice
Location: Redbud AB
4.30pm – 6.00pm
Poster Session 1 with cocktails
Location: Atrium
7.00am – 8.00am
Contemplative Practice Session
Lama Justin von Bujdoss: Ati Yoga
Location: Windflower AB
8.00am – 4.30pm
Registration Open
Location: Atrium South
8.30am – 10.00am
Keynote Speaker
Towards a Developmental Contemplative Science
Robert W. Roeser, PhD (click for bio)
Emory University
Location: Grumman Auditorium
10.00am – 10.30am
Coffee Break
Location: Blueberry Hill
10.30am – 12.00pm
Panel 6 – From Micro-Practices to Meditation Retreats: Dose-Response Effects of Meditation Training
Yuval Hadash, Carnegie Mellon University,
Simon Goldberg, University of Wisconsin,
Sarah Strohmaier, Victoria University Melbourne,
David Creswell, Carnegie Mellon University,
Nicholas Bowles, University of Melbourne
Location: Dogwood AB
Panel 7 – Numadelic Virtual Reality as a Medium for Exploring Mortality, Contemplative Practice, and the Neuroscience of Self-Transcendence
Justin Wall, CiTIUS~Centro Singular de Investigación en Tecnoloxías Intelixentes,
Melanie Boly, University of Wisconsin,
Joseph Hardy, Numadelic Labs,
Adam Liddle, University of Virginia
Location: Redbud AB
Panel 8 – Curiosity and Openness: Building technologies for transformation
Jesse Flemming, University of Nebraska,
Cassandra Vieten, University of California,
Marjan Sharifi, University of California
Eve Ekman, Greater Good Science Center
Location: Bellflower AB
Oral Session 6 – Critical and Philosophical Perspectives on Contemplative Practice (v)
O6.1 Zen Buddhism on the Limits of Knowledge and the Practice of Wisdom
Bret Davis, Loyola University Maryland
O6.2 Role of Death Awareness in shaping Human Existence – A Philosophical Inquiry
Ashmeet Kaur, University of Delhi
O6.3 Fractal Epistemology for Past Lives: Hunting the Hidden Dimension
Cai Carvalhaes, Pacifica Graduate Institute
O6.4 The Mindfulness Revolution and Zizek’s Critique
Karsten Struhl, New School for Public Engagement
Location: Grumman Auditorium
Oral Session 7 – Contemplative Training in Educational and Clinical Contexts
O7.1 Standards-based approaches to contemplative studies for adolescent learners
Sasha Manu, Pine Street School
O7.2 The development of emotion regulation competence for in-service teachers through mindfulness-based interventions: a literature review
Dumitrita Margineanu, Babes Bolyai University
O7.3 Understanding Why Healthcare Professionals Attend a Workplace Resiliency Training Program
Phoebe Franco, Dell Children’s Medical Center
O7.4 Healing Historical Trauma among Vietnamese Americans through Contemplation: A Pilot Study of the WEALTH Program
My Ngoc To, Colorado State University
Location: Azalea
12.00pm – 1.30pm
Lunch and AGM (Begins 12.45pm)
Location: Blueberry Hill
12.30pm – 1.30pm
Contemplative Practice Session
Claudia Wang: Baduanjin (Eight Pieces of Brocade)
Location: Windflower AB
1.30pm – 3.00pm
Panel 9 – Looking Within to Reveal the Mechanisms of Mindfulness Meditation: Internal Attention and Internally-Directed Cognition
Yuval Hadash, Carnegie Mellon University,
Amit Bernstein, University of Wisconsin & University of Haifa,
Sahib Khalsa, University of California,
Norman Farb, University of Toronto
Location: Redbud AB
Panel 10 – Yoga and Spirituality: The Underlying Psychophysiology and the Research Evidence in Healthy and Patient Populations
Sat Bir Khalsa, Harvard Medical School,
Crystal Park, University of Connecticut,
Stephanie Sohl, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Location: Dogwood AB
Panel 11 – Understanding the Neuroscience of Mindfulness for Migraine and its Importance for the Pipeline through Undergraduate Neuroscience Education (v)
Rebecca Wells, Wake Forest University School of Medicine,
Fadel Zeidan, University of California,
Zev Schuman-Olivier, Cambridge Health Alliance,
Michael Datko, Harvard Medical School,
Licia Grazzi, Fondazione Instituto Neurologico
Location: Grumman Auditorium
Oral Session 8 – Moral and Social Dimensions of Contemplative Practice
O8.1 Moral effects of long-term meditation: A large-scale, in-person cross-sectional study of real-world ethical cognition, emotion, and behavior
Kevin Berryman, Monash Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies
O8.2 Beliefs about suffering and responses to hypothetical challenges and real-life intergroup conflict
Christine Lathren, University of North Carolina
O8.3 Views Regarding Mindfulness-Based Program Participation in Emerging Adults from Different Racial/Ethnic Groups
Christyn Dolbier, East Carolina University
O8.4 Examining Self-Compassion and Subclinical Cardiovascular Disease in Black American Women
Kennedy Blevins, University of California
Location: Bellflower AB
Room 5 – Oral Session 9 – Religious Studies & Psychology
O9.1 The Defining Line of Life and Death in Buddhist Psychology
Chulthim Gurung, McGill University
O9.2 The Resurrected Self – An Enactive Lens on the Goals of Classical and Contemporary Jewish and Islamic Contemplative Paths
Nathan Fisher, McGill University
O9.3 The Psychology of Tsongkhapa’s Analytical Meditation on Death
Jacob Lindsley, Oregon State University
Location: Azalea
3.00pm – 4.00pm
Contemplative Practice Session
Jena Leake: He(art)work: Meeting the Moment with Courage, Creativity and Compassion
Location: Windflower AB
3.00pm – 4.30pm
Roundtable 4: Contemplative Arts / Contemplative Action
Location: Dogwood AB
Roundtable 5: Connections as Pathways: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue on Heartfelt Confidence
Location: Redbud AB
4.30pm – 6.00pm
Poster Session 2 with cocktails
Sponsored by Mind and Life
7.00am – 8.00am
Contemplative Practice Session
Carlos Santiago and Felipe Kalatauma Rosario: Sonya’s Sequence
Location: Windflower AB
8.00am – 4.30pm
Registration Open
Location: Grumman Auditorium
8.30am – 10.00am
Keynote Speaker
The Arc of Life and Death: Courageous, Contemplative Reflection on Family, Foundation, and Future to Foster Harmony and Well-Being
Cheryl Woods Giscombé, PhD (click for bio)
UNC-Chapel Hill School of Nursing
Location: Grumman Auditorium
10.00am – 10.30am
Coffee Break
Location: Blueberry Hill
10.30am – 12.00pm
Panel 12 – Psychedelics and the Self: Mechanisms, Methodologies, and Mindfulness (v)
Fadel Zeidan, University of California,
Eric Garland, University of California,
Patrick Finan, University of Virginia,
Luana Colloca, University of Maryland Baltimore
Location: Grumman Auditorium
Panel 13 – Nurturing the Mindful Researcher: Integrating Contemplative Practices to Promote Life Giving Cultures in Mindfulness Research
Caitlin Elsaesser, University of Connecticut,
Gio Iacono, University of Connecticut,
Jeffrey Proulx, Brown University,
Vivien Roman-Hampton, University of Connecticut
Location: Dogwood AB
Panel 14 – Transforming higher education through contemplative practices in diverse settings: From individual classes to institutional change
Jennifer Daubenmier, San Francisco State University,
Yikuan Lee, San Francisco State University,
Andrea Malouf, Salt Lake Community College,
Ranjeeta Basu, California State University
Location: Redbud AB
10.30am – 12.00pm
Contemplative Practice Session
Kessonga Giscombe: “Speak Less, Listen More: The Power of Mindful Communication”
Location: Windflower AB
12.00pm- 1.30pm
Lunch
Location: Blueberry Hill
12.30pm – 1.30pm
Contemplative Practice Session
Kim Clark: Introduction to Oppositional Cultural Practice (OCP)
Location: Windflower AB
1.30pm – 2.30pm
Panel 15 – Meditation and Psychedelic Assisted Therapy
Anthony King, The Ohio State University,
Michael Lifshitz, McGill University,
Rael Cahn, University of Southern California,
Simon Goldberg, University of Wisconsin
Location: Dogwood AB
Panel 16 – Bringing evidence-based contemplative practices into clinical settings: Lessons from the OPTIMUM trial (v)
Jessica Barnhill, University of North Carolina,
Isabel Roth, University of North Carolina,
Holly Thomas, University of Pittsburgh,
Gabriela Castro, University of North Carolina, Keturah Faurot, University of North Carolina
Location: Grumman Auditorium
Panel 17 – Using Mindfulness Training to Support College Students’ Stress Management, Mental Health, and Academic Engagement
Brian Galla, University of Pittsburgh,
Matthew Hirshberg, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Zishan Jiwani, University of Wisconsin,
Polina Beloborodova, University of Wisconsin
Location: Redbud AB
2.30pm – 3.00pm
Coffee Break
Location: Blueberry Hill
3.00pm – 4.00pm
Panel 18 – Interdisciplinary Reflections on Psychedelic Science, Contemplative Practice, and Mystical Experience in Grief Healing: UVA PIRC
Jennifer Penberthy, University of Virginia,
Tamika Braveheart, University of Virginia,
Donna Chen, University of Virginia,
Melissa Frost, University of Virginia ,
Adelaide King, University of Virginia
Location: Dogwood AB
Panel 20 – Exploring the Role of Mindfulness in Advancing Equitable Instruction in Schools (v)
Doris Chang, New York University,
Lindsay Romano, University of Colorado Boulder, Patricia Jennings , University of Virginia,
Dennis Williams Ii, University of Virginia
Location: Grumman Auditorium
4.00pm – 4.45pm
Closing Session
Location: Grumman Auditorium
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