Virtual events explore science of well-being, feature new insights from Dalai Lama

“The World We Make 2020” is a weeklong sequence of free digital occasions to share the most recent science, well-being ideas and the chance to listen to from psychological well being consultants and leaders, together with a recorded dialogue with His Holiness the Dalai Lama (left) and Heart for Wholesome Minds founder Richard Davidson (on monitor). Heart for Wholesome Minds

On this second of stress from the COVID-19 pandemic, racial and civil unrest, and environmental disasters, many are calling for a reimagining of non-public and public life that’s extra simply, health-promoting and sustainable.

On the College of Wisconsin–Madison’s Heart for Wholesome Minds, researchers proceed to pursue the science of well-being, sharing data and steerage to assist individuals handle their stress and emotional well being throughout instances of hardship.

That’s why the middle, together with its exterior, affiliated nonprofit Wholesome Minds Improvements, is providing a weeklong sequence of free digital occasions to share the most recent science, well-being ideas and the chance to listen to from psychological well being consultants and leaders, together with a recorded dialogue with His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

The World We Make 2020, going down Oct. 5-9, poses the questions: How can our actions at present sow the seeds for a greater tomorrow? What future world are we making on this second, and the way can we every play a job in bettering the trajectory?

“It’s about tapping into our personal resilience and that of our communities to reimagine a greater future — one which’s kinder, wiser and extra compassionate,” says Richard Davidson, founder and director of the UW’s Heart for Wholesome Minds and Wholesome Minds Improvements. “For me, this problem is extra necessary than ever, with the pandemic, racial injustice, local weather change and our nation’s political division.”

The digital occasion might be freely out there to anybody who can watch on-line. It should characteristic heart analysis and lift consciousness of the significance of emotional well-being in our present local weather.

Consultants from UW–Madison and throughout the nation will discover every little thing from the neuroscience of the mind-body connection to childhood improvement and office well-being for educators.

As an example, on Oct. 5, Davidson and UW–Madison Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Melissa Rosenkranz will give a presentation on the plasticity of the thoughts, mind and physique.

Nicely-being consultants, educators and leaders from the Madison Metropolitan Faculty District — together with Tamar Jacobsohn, Jennifer Jones, Ana Salcido, and Sylla Zarov — will share their experiences on wellness at work on Oct. 7.

And on Oct. 8, Texas Tech College’s Katharine Hayhoe will be a part of different consultants — together with Gary Besaw, director of the Division of Agriculture and Meals Programs and the ex-chairman of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin — to speak in regards to the intersection of resilient minds and a resilient planet.

On the ultimate occasion of the sequence on Friday night, Oct. 9, Davidson, together with the middle’s Loka Initiative Director Dekila Chungyalpa, will air an unique prerecorded video interview and phrases of knowledge from His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Davidson and the Dalai Lama have collaborated for many years after His Holiness challenged Davidson to make use of trendy science to check optimistic qualities of thoughts along with widespread psychological well being issues. That finally led Davidson to discovered the Heart for Wholesome Minds 10 years in the past.

The Dalai Lama, who took half within the dialog with Davidson over Zoom from Dharamsala, India, displays on how humanity ought to come collectively throughout hardship and explores what new frontiers of the thoughts researchers may deal with.

For added info, together with audio system and full occasion descriptions, go to go.wisc.edu/twwm2020.