Tag: Meditation
Tag: Meditation
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Raising Happiness: Handling Bad Behavior in Public Places: Alternatives to the Supermarket Squeeze
By Christine Carter | September 9, 2009
Articles: Global Compassion
By Paul Ekman | Winter 2009A conversation between the Dalai Lama and Paul Ekman
Articles: Book Review: The Cure Within
By Mirka Knaster | Summer 2008The Cure Within: A history of mind-body medicine
By Anne Harrington, W. W. Norton, 2008, 354 pages
Articles: Book Review: Forgive For love
By Meera Lee Sethi | Spring 2008Forgive For love: The missing ingredient for a healthy and lasting relationship
By Fred Luskin
HarperOne, 2007, 240 pages
Articles: Book Review: The Happiness Hypothesis
By Christine Carter | Spring/Summer 2006By Jonathan Haidt
Basic Books, 2006, 297 pages
Articles: Book Review: Pursuing the Science of Happiness
By Mirka Knaster | Fall/Winter 2005-06A review of Happiness: Lessons From a New Science by Richard Layard and Happiness: The Science Behind Your Smile by Daniel Nettle
Articles: Book Review: Field Notes on the Compassionate Life
By Jason Marsh | Fall/Winter 2005-06By Marc Ian Barasch
Rodale, 2005, 367 pages
Articles: Feeling Like Partners
By Philip A. Cowan, Carolyn P. Cowan, Neera Mehta | Fall/Winter 2005-06When it comes to romantic relationships, empathy is essential, but it isn’t always easy, say family researchers Philip A. Cowan, Carolyn Pape Cowan, and Neera Mehta. They explain the obstacles couples face—and how to overcome them.
Articles: Book Review: Coming to Our Senses
By Pat Soberanis | Spring/Summer 2005by Jon Kabat-Zinn
Hyperion, 2005, 631 pages
Articles: Caring for the Caregivers
By Sarita Tukarama | Fall 2004To help teachers deal with the stress of their job, new programs are drawing on some unconventional—and research-tested—techniques.
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Why Compassion in Business Makes Sense
April 15, 2013Emma Seppala explains how compassionate workplaces are good for employee health and the corporate bottom line.
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How to be a Happy Working Dad, Part One
March 27, 2013A new report finds that fitting work with family isn't just a women's issue. Jeremy Adam Smith offers 10 tips for helping fathers to navigate a changing landscape at home and on the job.
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When Getting Angry Makes You Happy
April 2, 2013A new study shows how seeking happiness at the right time may be more important than seeking happiness all the time.
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Why Lent Makes People Happy (and Netflix Doesn’t)
March 21, 2013New research suggests that cutting back on life’s pleasures helps us enjoy them significantly more.
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‘Free the Mind’ film
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Free the Mind: Hope after Trauma
May 17, 2013A new documentary reveals the power of mindfulness and neuroplasticity. Bay Area residents can catch a screening tonight at Stanford University.
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Greater Good Summer Institute for Educators
University of California, Berkeley
Clark Kerr Campus
Friday, June 28 - Wednesday, July 3, 2013
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University of California, Berkeley
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Friday, June 28 - Wednesday, July 3, 2013
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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"Gratitude and Prosocial Behavior"
Finds that feeling gratitude produces kind and helpful behavior, even when that behavior is costly to the individual actor.
- "Compassion: An Evolutionary Analysis and Empirical Review"
Compassion evolved as a distinct affective experience whose function is to enable cooperation and protection of those who...
- "From Jerusalem to Jericho"
This article on bystander intervention in emergency situations suggests that we are likely to help a “shabbily dressed”...
- Center for Investigating Healthy Minds
The Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, runs a state-of-the-art neuroscience...
- Northeast Foundation for Children
Northeast Foundation for Children is a non-profit educational organization that offers educators the Responsive Classroom...
- Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship
Based at the University of Michigan Business School, this is a networking community for researchers and practitioners...
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Why We Cooperate
Nature and nurture interact to inform, and reform, cooperative behavior. Infants and apes are both able to share, but only the two-year-old will pick up that thing you dropped in front of her.
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