MLE Friends webinar: "The Power of Compassion" with Prof. Tania Singer

Описание: Prof. Tania Singer, MLE Association member, makes a presentation entitled: "The Power of Compassion - Lessons from the ReSource Project"

ABOUT THE WEBINAR: In this webinar Prof. Singer talks about compassion and how to cultivate it. She introduces the ReSource project, a large-scale interdisciplinary one-year meditation-based mental training project that is aimed at the cultivation of 1) attention and interoceptive awareness, 2) meta-cognition and perspective taking on self and others, and 3) empathy, compassion and prosocial motivation by means of three distinct training modules in more than 200 training subjects. She presents specific findings which show that you can indeed cultivate human qualities such as compassion, altruism and prosocial behaviour and even induce structural brain plasticity, when engaging daily for about 30 minutes in different types of mental practices. She discusses these findings in terms of their relevance for different arms of society.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Tania Singer is the scientific head of the Social Neuroscience Lab of the Max Planck Society in Berlin, Germany. After doing her PhD in Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, she became a Post-doctoral Fellow at the same institution, at the Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, and at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience in London. In 2006, she first became Assistant Professor and later Inaugural Chair of Social Neuroscience and Neuroeconomics as well as Co-Director of the Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research at the University of Zurich. Between 2010 and 2018 Tania Singer was the director of the department of Social Neurosciences at the Max Planck Institute of Cognitive and Human Development in Leipzig.
Her research focus is on the hormonal, neuronal, and developmental basis of human sociality, empathy and compassion, and their malleability through mental training. She is the principal investigator of a large-scale, nine-month longitudinal meditation based mental training study, The ReSource Project, and investigates together with Dennis Snower how psychology can inform new models of Caring Economics. Tania Singer is author of more than 150 scientific articles and book chapters and edited together with Mathieu Ricard the two books Caring Economics (2015) and Power and Care (2019).

THIS WEBCAST WAS DEVELOPED FOR AND WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE MLE FRIENDS - find out more: https://www.mindandlife-europe.org/ml...