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Check out the Greater Good Events Calendar.

The Greater Good Science Center is dedicated to building connections with the community beyond UC Berkeley. By sponsoring public lectures and participating in public symposia we encourage dialogue about the importance of promoting positive emotions and relationships in classrooms, in families, and in our communities at large.

Past Events

Discovery to Recovery: A Path to Healthy Minds

Los Angeles, CA | April 30, 2013

Presented by the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation

 

Compassion and Business Conference

Stanford University | April 30, 2013

This one-day event will explore the role of compassion and helping in business.

 

Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success

Book Passage
San Francisco, CA | April 29, 2013

Meet the youngest tenured and single highest-rated professor at The Wharton School, Adam Grant, for this FREE event.

 

Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success

Kepler's Books
Menlo Park, CA | April 24, 2013

Meet the youngest tenured and single highest-rated professor at The Wharton School, Adam Grant, for this FREE event.

 

Conversations On Compassion With James Doty, MD And Rick Hanson, PhD

Palo Alto, CA | April 18, 2013

A talk with two prominent psychologists

 

Investigating and Integrating Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society

Norwood, Massachusetts | April 17-21, 2013

A scientific conference for clinicians, researchers, and educators

 

6th Annual Meeting of the Social & Affective Neuroscience Society

San Francisco, CA | April 12-13, 2013

A meeting to promote social and affective neuroscience

 

Southwestern Psychological Association 2013 Convention

Fort Worth, TX | April 5-7, 2013

A meeting to promote the scientific, educational and professional facets of psychology

 

Spring Global Psychology Symposium

Riverside, CA | April 5, 2013

A symposium on psychology, global health, changing times, and changing practice

 

Immigrant Families as They Really Are

University of Miami
Carol Gables, Florida | April 5th-6th, 2013

The Council on Contemporary Families presents this conference on issues facing immigrant families

 
 

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Greater Good Events

Greater Good Summer Institute for Educators
University of California, Berkeley
Clark Kerr Campus
Friday, June 28 - Wednesday, July 3, 2013


Greater Good Summer Institute for Educators

The GGSC’s six-day Summer Institute will equip educators with social-emotional learning tools that will benefit both students and teachers. Registration is now closed.


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The Compassionate Mind By Paul Gilbert We're angry, fearful, depressed--and we can't help it. Societies that encourage us to compete with each other make it difficult to exercise compassion towards ourselves and others.

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