News & Events
Events
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
Mindfulness Conference: Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice
Bangor University | April 9-11, 2011Center for the Study of Empathic Therapy, Education & Living
Syracuse, New York | April 8-10, 2011This two-day conference is aimed to help change individuals’ lives, minds, cultures, and improve world through independent, empathic therapies, education, and living.
The Science of a Meaningful Life: Building Compassion, Reducing Stress
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, San Francisco, CAOr Live Webcast | April 8, 2011
A day-long seminar led by Dacher Keltner, and featuring Stanford University biologist Robert Sapolsky, that offers strategies for cultivating compassion, happiness, and reducing stress in yourself and others. Will be webcast live!
Investigating and Integrating Mindfulness in Medicine, Healthcare and Society
Worcester, Massachusetts | March 30 - April 3, 2011The 2011 Conference which is dedicated to John Werner Kluge, will feature more than 75 presentations that include research forums, presentation dialogues, workshops, keynotes, breakfast roundtables, and post-conference institutes.
Healing Moments in Trauma Treatment
UCLA Ackerman | March 11-13, 2011This conference brings together a guest faculty, including experts in the fields of mindfulness, attachment, trauma, interpersonal neurobiology, and trauma-based disorders
Christine Carter talk at Palo Alto Mother’s Symposium Committee
Palo Alto Mother's Symposium Committee, Palo, CA | Saturday, March 5, 2011Christine Carter talks on personal happiness, raising happy kids, compassion, gratitude, and a range of other topics.
Morality Before Religion: Empathy, Fairness and Prosocial Primates
Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford UniversityStanford, California | March 1, 2011
In this lecture, primatologist Frans B. M. de Waal will discuss how empathy comes naturally to a great variety of animals, including humans.
Christine Carter talk at Oneness-Family School
Oneness-Family School, Washington, DC | Saturday, February 26, 2011Christine Carter talks on raising happy kids and a range of other topics.
Wisdom 2.0 Conference
Silicon Valley, CA | February 25-27, 2011The Wisdom Conference has brought together people from a variety of disciplines, including technology leaders, Zen teachers, neuroscientists, and academics to explore how we can live with deeper meaning and wisdom in our technology-rich age.
Happiness Within Reach
Stanford, CA | February 12, 2011Speakers from the fields of neuroscience and the psychology of human happiness will present the latest research and practices for human happiness and compassion.
*Event is sold out*
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