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May 2017
Equanimity in the Dharma and in Your Brain
Equanimity means not reacting to your reactions, and that is both a wonderful relief from upsets and traumas and a profound resource for spiritual growth. In Buddhism, equanimity is one of the four Brahmaviharas (Divine Abodes) and is often considered the foundation of the other…
Find out more »Awakened Action Fundraiser Talk: Relax! We’ve Got a World to Save
A conversation with Rick Hanson at the 8th Awakened Action fund-raiser. Edgehill Mansion, Dominican University, San Rafael. Reception and light refreshments at 6:30. Gentle yoga and meditation at 7:00. Interview with Rick at 7:30. Reservations: your $75 ticket supports our programs of awakened action, including Mindful Leadership…
Find out more »June 2017
IFM Annual Conference – The Dynamic Brain: Revealing the Potential of Neuroplasticity to Reverse Neurodegeneration
Attendees at IFM’s 2017 Annual International Conference (AIC) will be presented with the most recent scientific evidence on the ways in which neuroplasticity can be harnessed and optimized to prevent and treat neurodegenerative diseases, brain injury, stroke, and mental disorders. This will result in clinically…
Find out more »Positive Neuroplasticity Training, Ireland
Join New York Times bestselling author Rick Hanson for a 3-day deep experiential exploration of lasting positive brain change – the essence of self-reliance and lasting inner strength and peace in a topsy-turvy world.
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Professional Course in Positive Neuroplasticity, Ireland
The Professional Training Course includes the Positive Neuroplasticity Training (6-8 June 2017) plus practical applications for Hardwiring Happiness into your professional and private life. Deepen your practice and help others change their brains for the better!
Find out more »Mindfulness in Society – Changing the World One Mind at a Time
How is Mindfulness changing to suit these diverse contexts? How is integrity being maintained in this diversification? What does the future look like as a mindful society? How can we ensure that Mindfulness training is inclusive and accessible to Everyone? What is the relationship between mindfully being and compassionate action? Keynote speakers include Sharon Salzberg, Rick Hanson, Vidyamala Burch, Paul Gilbert and Lama Yeshe Rinpoche, and will pick up on these themes in order to explore the frontiers of Mindfulness and the unique dilemmas that are being thrown up at this tipping point moment in history.
Find out more »Positive Neuroplasticity: Two Day Workshop + Livestream
This workshop at Nirakara will be the first that Rick Hanson teaches in Spain. There is also a live-stream option for €120. We all need psychological resources such as resilience, positive emotions, and feeling cared about for the long and often hard road of life. Acquiring these…
Find out more »July 2017
No-Self in the Brain: Insights from Neuroscience
In this workshop, we will examine "self" and its release in light of Buddhism and modern brain science. These perspectives inform each other, and together they offer powerful and practical tools for deconstructing the apparent self. Topics covered: Buddhist perspectives on the interconnectedness of all things and thus the "emptiness" of any apparent thing; the four defining characteristics of the presumed "I"; the absence of these characteristics in both your experience and your brain; why the apparent "I" is not just "empty" but actually does not exist; ways to fill the hole in the heart and thus reduce self-ing; brain-savvy ways to relax the sense of self, take things less personally, feel more at peace with the world, and rest in the spacious awareness.
Find out more »September 2017
Search Inside Yourself: Webinar
Contemplative neuroscience is the idea that we are changing not only our subjective experience but also our brains through practice. Those with different backgrounds take these ideas to their apparent conclusions–a buddhist might ask "what is an enlightened brain like?" a Christian might ask "what happens…
Find out more »Positive Neuroplasticity Training
The six week online course Positive Neuroplasticity Training (PNT) is a deep experiential exploration of powerful methods for turning passing experiences into lasting inner resources - like self-compassion, mindfulness, grit, gratitude, and self-worth - encoded in your nervous system. This course is eligible for 18…
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Session 2: At the Engage mindful leadership program, you’ll develop the knowledge, tools and leadership capacities to bring the benefits of mindfulness-based emotional intelligence (EI) to your workplace or community. You’ll learn from SIYLI’s experience bringing mindfulness and EI to such organizations as Google and…
Find out more »October 2017
The Professional Course in Positive Neuroplasticity
The Professional Course is very hands-on and practical, showing you how to apply the powerful ideas and methods from the Positive Neuroplasticity Training in your work with others. It’s perfect for those who are working with others: therapists, healthcare providers, educators, business consultants, trainers, coaches, mindfulness and…
Find out more »University of Pennsylvania MAPP Talk
Rick Hanson, Ph.D. will be delivering a talk at the University of Pennsylvania as a part of the Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) program. This talk is closed to the public.
Find out more »November 2017
Stanford Contemplation by Design Summit
Mindfulness of passing mental states is great – but it is not enough to grow traits of resilience, happiness, and compassion. Due to its “negativity bias,” the brain is like Velcro for negative experiences but Teflon for positive ones. This talk will explore practical ways…
Find out more »Opening into Allness Workshop
Modern brain science is beginning to shed light on the underlying neuropsychological basis of deep experiences of present moment awareness, integrated wholeness of mind, and the sense of interdependent connection with nature and physical reality. We can use these new findings in very practical ways…
Find out more »A Dialogue Between Rick Hanson & George Silberschatz
George, an internationally known psychotherapist and psychotherapy researcher and Rick, a NYTimes Best Selling Author and clinical psychologist, will address relevant topics about how psychopathology develops, why psychotherapy works and how advances in neuroscience and Buddhist psychology have helped inform the progression of "talk therapy."…
Find out more »December 2017
Monday Night Dharma Talk & Meditation Group
Rick Hanson will be a guest teacher for this week's Spirit Rock Live: Monday Nights with Jack Kornfield & Friends. This group meets every Monday night from 7:15pm – 9:15pm in the Community Meditation Center. The sit is also available Live and On Demand through…
Find out more »January 2018
ITRC 2018 Conference
International Transformational Resilience Coalition 2018 Conference: Preparing People for Climate Change in California Conference For Social Service, Climate, Social Justice, Faith & Other Community Leaders on Building Individual and Collective Human Resilience for Climate Traumas The conference is sponsored by the International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC),…
Find out more »February 2018
Neurology of Awakening
The latest brain research has begun to confirm the central insights of the Buddha and other great teachers. And it's suggesting ways you can help your brain to enter deeper states of mindfulness and concentration, love, and happiness. Suffering, joy, and freedom all depend on…
Find out more »CANADA: 2018 Heart-Mind Conference (Vancouver)
Rick Hanson, Ph.D. will be a featured keynote speaker at the 2018 annual Heart-Mind Conference. With the theme "Take Care of Yourself," attendees will explore how self-acceptance, being kind to ourselves, and connection improves our well-being, and makes it possible for us to be more present…
Find out more »March 2018
Seattle 6th Annual Compassion & Wisdom Workshops
Rick Hanson, Ph.D. will be joined by Frank Ostaseski (March 1) and Tara Brach, Ph.D. (March 2-4) for this very special event. Rick's workshop is titled "Mindful Cultivation: Feeling and Growing the Good." Mindfulness is profoundly important—but not enough. We grow compassion and wisdom by turning…
Find out more »Monday Night Dharma Talk & Meditation Group
Rick Hanson will be a guest teacher for this week's Spirit Rock Live: Monday Nights with Jack Kornfield & Friends. This group meets every Monday night from 7:15pm – 9:15pm in the Community Meditation Center. The sit is also available Live and On Demand through…
Find out more »Book Reading and Signing at Book Passage
Rick Hanson, Ph.D. will be offering a talk, reading, and signing for his new book Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness at Book Passage in Sausalito, California. Learn more here: https://www.bookpassage.com/event/dr-rick-hanson-resilient-sausalito-store
Find out more »The Science & Practice of Resilience Workshop
This day-long workshop with Rick Hanson, Ph.D. for the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley is about developing lasting resilience using the power of positive neuroplasticity. Mental resources like determination, self-worth, and kindness are what make us resilient: able to cope with adversity and push through challenges in the pursuit…
Find out more »Book Reading and Signing at Copperfield’s Books
Rick Hanson, Ph.D. will be offering a talk, reading, and signing for his new book Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness at Copperfield's Books in Petaluma, California.
Find out more »April 2018
Mindful Workplace Summit
Rick Hanson, Ph.D. will be one of many well-respected speakers at the Mindful Workplace Summit, a conference for corporate, non-profit, government and educational leaders, HR professionals, mindfulness and leadership trainers, mindful workplace champions, and others. The summit will focus on: How bringing mindfulness into the workplace is…
Find out more »Educating Mindful Minds Conference
Rick Hanson, Ph.D. is a guest speaker for Learning & the Brain's Educating Mindful Minds conference. The theme of the conference is "The Science of Stress and Resilience". Numerous studies are finding that stress, anxiety, and mental health issues are on the rise in children…
Find out more »CANADA: Walking Evenly Over Uneven Ground Workshop (Montreal, Quebec)
Rick Hanson, Ph.D. celebrates True North Insight's annual fundraiser, Circle of Giving, by offering (in English) an evening talk on Walking Evenly Over Uneven Ground: Using Positive Neuroplasiticity to Cultivate Resilient Well-Being and a daylong meditation retreat. Rick will facilitate two events: Evening Talk: Saturday, April 21,…
Find out more »EUROPE: Positive Neuroplasticity Training (Freiburg, Germany)
Rick takes his popular training program to Germany in 2018. The Positive Neuroplasticity Training is an experiential workshop about taking charge of the structure-building process of your own brain. You will learn how to activate positive experiences, prolong and enrich them, and then heighten their…
Find out more »EUROPE: Professional Course in Positive Neuroplasticity (Freiburg, Germany)
This is the profressional training for Rick's Positive Neuroplasticity Training in Freiburg, Germany, April 27-30, 2018. With the Positive Neuroplasticity Training as a prerequisite, this practical, hands-on training applies the methods of Positive Neuroplasticity to clinical, educational, human resources, and personal growth settings. It's perfect for therapists,…
Find out more »May 2018
EUROPE: Teaching the Methods of Positive Neuroplasticity (Freiburg, Germany)
With the Professional Course in Positive Neuroplasticity as a prerequisite, this one-day workshop with Rick Hanson, Ph.D. focuses on teaching the methods of positive neuroplasticity, mindful cultivation, and the HEAL process to groups and individuals. This experiential workshop includes opportunities to practice teaching in front of others…
Find out more »Resilient: Cultivating an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, & Happiness Workshop
Rick Hanson, Ph.D. will facilitate an all-day workshop at Spirit Rock Meditation Center based on his recently released book, Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness (March 2018). The world is volatile and unreliable. So it’s vital to develop durable psychological…
Find out more »June 2018
Neurodharma: A 10-Day Vipassana Retreat
Modern brain science is beginning to shed light on the underlying neuropsychological basis of deep experiences of present moment awareness, integrated wholeness of mind, and the sense of interdependent connection with nature and physical reality. Facilitated by Rick Hanson, Ph.D and three other teachers – Leslie Booker,…
Find out more »July 2018
AUSTRALIA: Australian Meditation Conference, Evening Talk (Melbourne)
Rick Hanson, Ph.D. will offer two sessions at the Australian Meditation Conference in Melbourne. The overarching theme of this innovative conference program is 'Meditation and Society'. Beyond the view of meditation as a personal practice, speakers and delegates will share their understanding of how the…
Find out more »AUSTRALIA: Positive Neuroplasticity Training (Melbourne)
This 3 day training consists of the six experiential sessions of the PNT course offered over three intensive days and will be engaging, inspiring and practical. Like any other mental capability, inner strengths (positive states) are supported by structures in the brain. Resilience, positive emotions,…
Find out more »AUSTRALIA: Professional Course in Positive Neuroplasticity (Melbourne)
This is the profressional training for Rick’s Positive Neuroplasticity Training in Melbourne, July 23-25, 2018. With the Positive Neuroplasticity Training as a prerequisite, this practical, hands-on training applies the methods of Positive Neuroplasticity to clinical, educational, human resources, and personal growth settings. It’s perfect for therapists, coaches, educators, mindfulness or…
Find out more »August 2018
The Strong Heart: A Weekend Workshop on Resilient Relationships
It’s been said that there are two wolves in the heart – one of love and one of hate – and that everything depends on which we feed each day. This metaphor echoes the finding from evolutionary neuropsychology that our ancestors survived in large part…
Find out more »Neurodharma of Love Workshop
On the whole, we experience our greatest joys and sorrows in our relationships. Supported by both Buddhism and Western psychology, the keys to healthy relationships include empathy, compassion, kindness, equanimity, and appropriate assertiveness. These states of mind are based on underlying states of your brain.…
Find out more »September 2018
Positive Neuroplasticity & Resilient Well-Being: 5-day Workshop
The world is increasingly volatile and uncertain. So we need to develop psychological strengths such as grit, gratitude, and compassion. This unshakable core is the essence of resilience, and the foundation of lasting well-being in a changing world. In this 5-day workshop, facilitated by Rick…
Find out more »October 2018
Evolving Together: Mindfulness Meditation & Modern Science Retreat
Rick Hanson, Ph.D. is joined by Wes Nisker, Nikki Mirghafori, and Terry Vandiver (yoga) for this 6-day meditation retreat at Spirit Rock. Many of us are amazed when we read of the latest scientific discoveries about the complexity of the brain or the number of galaxies in…
Find out more »November 2018
Opening Into Allness Workshop
Modern brain science is beginning to shed light on the underlying neuropsychological basis of deep experiences of present moment awareness, integrated wholeness of mind, and the sense of interdependent connection with nature and physical reality. We can use these new findings in very practical ways to…
Find out more »February 2019
Neurology of Awakening
The latest brain research has begun to confirm the central insights of the Buddha and other great teachers. And it's suggesting ways you can help your brain to enter deeper states of mindfulness and concentration, love, and happiness. Suffering, joy, and freedom all depend on…
Find out more »March 2019
Mindfulness, Compassion & Wisdom Conference – A Special Focus on Resilience
Rick Hanson, Ph.D will present an all-day workshop on Friday, March 8th at the 7th Annual Mindfulness, Compassion & Wisdom Conference in San Diego, March 7-9, 2019, entitled "The Unshakable Core: Growing Embodied Resilience in a Turbulent World." In three segments, Rick will explore how…
Find out more »May 2019
Resilient: Cultivating an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength & Happiness Workshop & Livestream
The world is volatile and unreliable. So it’s vital to develop durable psychological resources such as grit, gratitude, and compassion: the inner core that remains unshaken no matter what life brings. This is true resilience, the foundation of lasting well-being in a changing world and…
Find out more »June 2019
Monday Night at Spirit Rock
Join Rick Hanson, Ph.D. for “Spirit Rock Live: Monday Nights with Jack Kornfield and Friends”, a Livestream of Monday Night. Now in its 34th year, the Monday Night sitting group at Spirit Rock has been a welcoming refuge to gather, hear the teachings of the…
Find out more »July 2019
Positive Neuroplasticity: How to Grow Resilient Self-Worth and Happiness
In these volatile times, it’s more important than ever to build an unshakable internal core of resilient, confident well-being. By growing the good inside and coming home to our true nature, we can find lasting happiness, self-worth and inner peace. In this experiential workshop, you’ll…
Find out more »August 2019
Neurodharma of Love Workshop
In our relationships, we experience most of our greatest joys and our greatest sorrows. The intersection of modern neuroscience and ancient contemplative wisdom offers skillful means for cultivating an open and caring heart, emotional balance during conflicts with others, and more fulfilling relationships. We will…
Find out more »September 2019
Neurodharma: A 10-day Experiential Exploration of the Deepest Roots of the Highest Happiness
with Alisa Dennis, Terry Vandiver, Tina Rasmussen and Peter Grossenbacher The combination of modern brain science and ancient Buddhist wisdom is illuminating the embodied basis of deep experiences of present moment awareness, contentment and love, and the sense of being one with everything. Join New…
Find out more »October 2019
Peaceable, Friendly, and Fearless: Using Positive Neuroplasticity to Develop Calm, Compassionate Strength
Positive neuroplasticity shows us how to turn passing experiences into lasting changes in the brain – hardwiring an unshakable calm, compassion, and courage into the marrow of our being. This experiential workshop, led by Rick Hanson, Ph.D., will offer lots of practical methods useful for both self-guided practice and in therapeutic settings.
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