Grant History

Varela Grant

App-delivered breathwork for anxiety among BIPOC college students

Maha Al-Suwaidi

Varela Grant

Developing and testing the Dialectic-Informed Stress Reduction (DISR) intervention: A brief online intervention for Asian young adults

Yikai Xu (徐毅凯)

Varela Grant

Bridging minds and nature: Integrating contemplative wisdoms for enhancing nature-connectedness, pro-ecological behavior, and well-being

Constanza Baquedano

Varela Grant

Mindfulness Without Borders: Advancing mindfulness research across disciplines through interdisciplinary studies, an international consortium, and an open science database

Ivana Burić

Varela Grant

Promoting critically compassionate reading comprehension using justice-oriented narrative texts in middle school

Eric Claravall

Varela Grant

Feasibility and acceptability of a culturally adapted mindfulness-based intervention to reduce stress among Arab, Middle Eastern, and North African Americans

Andrea Haidar

Varela Grant

Adherence in naturalistic use of digital meditation-based interventions

Zishan Jiwani

Varela Grant

Clearing the gates of perception: Examining the effects of Jhana meditation on sensory predictions in the predictive brain

Jonas Mago

Varela Grant

Mindfulness-based intervention to address mental distress and burnout among healthcare staff in Vietnam

Kathy Trang

Varela Grant

Voces de la Comunidad: MBRP providers’ considerations for culturally responsive treatment with Latinx communities

Alicia Vasquez

Varela Grant

Protecting college students’ well-being with mindfulness-infused dance movement therapy

Malena Price

PEACE Grant

“healing attempt”: A digital music-based mindfulness intervention for Black Americans with elevated race-based anxiety

Matthew Nock

PEACE Grant

Fostering compassionate communities: Enhancing empathy for diverse others by intentional listening – Behavioral, physiological, and neural mechanisms

Anat Perry

PEACE Grant

Eat Breathe Thrive with Baby & Beyond: Adapting and evaluating the feasibility & acceptability of an eating disorder prevention program among economically-diverse BIPOC birthing people in North Carolina integrated care settings

Jennifer Webb

PEACE Grant

Engaging stakeholders to nurture emotional resilience among environmental experts and stewards

Christine Wilson-Mendenhall

PEACE Grant: Samuel B. Hanser Visionary Grant

Skillful means and compassion in high school: Exploring a relational approach to compassion training with adolescents

Blake Colaianne

PEACE Grant

How are mindfulness meditation teachers implementing social justice literacy in their classes?

Ana Eclair, Julieta Galante

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

Meditation as a Path to Peaceful Living

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

Mind the Conflict in Hura’s Bedouin Community

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

Freedom Inside: Contemplative Practice for Women in Prison

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

Conscious Climate Action through Contemplative Gardening

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

The Black Child Flourishing Project

Demond Hill Jr.

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

Embracing the Heart: Yoga for Mental Health and Community Building in Dzaleka Children and Youth Refugees

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

Contemplative Art Therapy for Children and Adolescents Coping with Self-Harm

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

Forest Therapy for People with Cancer in Three Public Hospitals in Chile

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

Mindfulness Practices for Indigenous Youth

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

Healing Landscapes: Restoring the Human Land Reciprocal Relationship

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

Mindfulness Trainings for Mothers and Teachers of Escuela Don Luis Braille in Asunción, Paraguay

José Godoy

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

A B O U T  – I T: Accelerating Buffalo’s Opportunity to Upsurge Transformation-from the Inside OuT

S. Ama Wray

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

United with Uvalde

Aproteem Choudhury

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

Intimate Landscapes

Alejandra Grisales

Varela Grant

Investigating the practices, benefits and neural correlates of Tibetan Dream Yoga

Gabriela Torres Platas

Varela Grant

Mindfulness-based practices for healing intergenerational trauma among Vietnamese Americans

My Ngoc To

Varela Grant

Can applying the science of habit formation to contemplative practice improve outcomes? A randomized controlled trial of a self-touch micropractice for building self-compassion habits

Eli Susman

Varela Grant

Remote mindfulness training for health following early life adversity

Emily Lindsay

Varela Grant

Mindfulness-based interventions targeting first-generation college student retention in rural environments

Natalie Lecy, Adam Hanley

Varela Grant

Teacher equanimity for improving behavior management

Tara Hofkens

Varela Grant

Reexamining mechanisms of mind-wandering in mindfulness-based interventions

Joseph Diehl

Varela Grant

Cultivating early adults’ flourishing with mindfulness training & technology-assisted skill transfer: A pilot comparative effectiveness trial

Marisa DeCollibus

Varela Grant

Exploring experiences and features of mindfulness and contemplative practices for autistic adults

Kelly Birtwell

Varela Grant

The impact of a mindfulness-based intervention on spinal cord activity in chronic pain: A pilot crossover study

Anne Baker

PEACE Grant: Samuel B. Hanser Visionary Grant

Recovering the relational roots of compassion training: Supporting sustainable and inclusive care

Paul Condon

PEACE Grant

Exploring the use of contemplative practices in social justice student-leadership development at a Historically Black University

Bernard Richardson

PEACE Grant

Developing the Objective Awareness and Mindfulness Measure for Teachers: A novel measure of teachers’ subjective experience, objectively coded using a machine learning approach

Almut Zieher, Kylie Anglin

PEACE Grant

A compassionate decision-making model to increase compassionate behavior

James Kirby

PEACE Grant

Nurturing compassionate responding towards oneself and others through the caregiver-child relationship: A response to the youth mental health crisis

Ryan Herringa, Christine Lathren

PEACE Grant

Testing an interpersonal model of mindfulness: A randomized controlled study

Bassam Khoury, Soham Rej

Varela Grant

Developing and testing an internet-based mindfulness intervention for women diagnosed with gestational diabetes mellitus

Shufang Sun

Topics: Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

Mindfulness and the reduction of racial disparities and disproportionality in school discipline

Lindsay Romano

Topics: Education | Mindfulness | Social Change

Varela Grant

Differential effects of loving-kindness and insight meditation on self-referential thought and tacit coordination

Lionel Newman

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Self & Other

Varela Grant

The acute impact of yoga-based stretching on inflammation and its resolution: A pilot study

Dennis Muñoz Vergara

Topics: Body-based Practices

Varela Grant

Merging mindfulness and climate change education

Jyoti Mishra

Topics: Environment | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Building compassion and interconnectedness during a pandemic: Disentangling the immediate, daily, and long-term benefits of brief online loving kindness and concentration meditations

Shin-Young Kim

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Interconnection | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Documenting Mayan Milpa biocultural heritage through embodied ethnoecology

Erika Diaz-Almeyda

Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Environment

Varela Grant

Making data more accessible: Visualizing the Contemplative Coping during COVID-19 project

Quinn Conklin

Topics: Mental Health | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

Effects and mechanisms of smartphone-based mindfulness training on emotional well-being in at-risk college students

Polina Beloborodova

Topics: Interconnection | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

Biological and psychological mechanisms of mindfulness meditation-based interventions for depression

Matthew Sacchet

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness

PEACE Grant

An intensive longitudinal study on a Centering Meditation: Exploring the temporal dynamics of nondual awareness and prosociality

Daniel Gutierrez, Stephanie Dorais

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Mental Health | Social Change

PEACE Grant: Samuel B. Hanser Visionary Grant

Gratitude interventions, well-being and social networks: A 16-month longitudinal study

Sam Roberts, Peter Malinowski

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Interconnection | Self & Other

PEACE Grant

Leveraging contemplative science to build mindful digital engagement: Supporting adolescents in a hyperconnected era

Carrie James

Topics: Education | Mindfulness | Social Change

PEACE Grant

Widening the circles of compassionate action: A social justice, school-based mindfulness intervention for youth

Sharon Lambert

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Education | Social Change

PEACE Grant

Overcoming barriers to social connection and love

Abigail Marsh

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Self & Other

PEACE Grant

Happiness Curriculum and social emotional development; the role of curricula, pedagogy, reflection and teacher student relations

Jwalin Patel, Seema Nath

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Education

PEACE Grant

Cognitive mechanisms underlying increased compassion from Mindfulness and Compassion meditation

John Edwards

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Mindfulness

Think Tanks

Contemplative Environmental Mentoring Communities

Paul Wapner, Julie Tato, Matias Franchini, Matthew Hoffmann, Cristina Yumie Aoki Inoue

Topics: Education | Environment | Stress & Resilience

Think Tanks

Embodying DEI: Trauma-informed and Mindfulness-based Approaches to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Higher Education

Anita Chari, Michelle Chatman, Jennifer Cannon, Monika Son, Angelica Singh

Topics: Education | Social Change | Stress & Resilience

Think Tanks

Master Plants and Mindful Medicine: Towards Reciprocation and Recontextualization of Indigenous Practices and Western Psychedelic Research

Yuria Celidwen, Dacher Keltner, Juan Nelson Rojas, Yuniur Vazquez Rosalio, Nicole Redvers

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Self & Other | Social Change

Think Tanks

Contemplative Practices for Well-being of Low-income Children and Teachers in India

Nirmal Govindaraju, Ananya Tiwari, Jyothi Ravichandran, Prachi Khandeparkar, Sai Sudha Ramakrishnan

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Education | Stress & Resilience

Think Tanks

Resistance through Resilience: A Compassionate Approach to Interrupting Privilege

Megan Kennedy, Ralina Joseph, Jas Moultrie, Bonnie Duran, LaNesha DeBardelaben

Topics: Mindfulness | Self & Other | Social Change

Think Tanks

Community Suicide Prevention Project for Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

Romuald Adili Amani, Patricia Luck, Michael Krasner, Papy Lukeka, Marlin Bisimwa

Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

Conscious Connected Breathing for Chronic Low Back Pain: A Pilot RCT

Steven Pratscher

Topics: Body-based Practices | Mental Health | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

Music-Based Mindfulness Intervention for Black Americans

Grant Jones

Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness | Social Change | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

Tuned In! A Mindfulness-Based Affirmative Program to Virtually Address the Mental Health Needs of Sexual and Gender Minority Youth

Gio Iacono

Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness | Social Change | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

Community engagement in contemplative training and research with law enforcement

Dan Grupe

Topics: Self & Other | Social Change

Varela Grant

Cultural Variance in Self-Compassion: An Examination of the Cultural Dimensions of the Self-Compassion Concept within Tibetan Communities

Tenzin Sonam

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom

Varela Grant

A Whole Trait Theory Account of Mindfulness in Adolescence

Michael Warren

Topics: Education | Interconnection | Mindfulness | Self & Other

Varela Grant

Developing a Semantic Clustering Approach to Study the Effects of Mindfulness Training on Ruminative Thoughts

Xiaoye Zuo

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Interconnection | Mental Health | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Examining Individual Differences in Contemplative Practice Response

Tawni Tidwell

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Assessing the Implementation of Integrated Mindfulness Programs in Schools: Case Study Evaluation of the Mindfulness Director Initiative

Rebecca Acabchuk

Topics: Education | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

The role of the contemplative ecological education system in the development of social-emotional competencies during early childhood

Pooja Sahni

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Education | Environment | Interconnection | Self & Other

PEACE Grant

Creation of a performance-based measure of compassion for use with children

Tyralynn Frazier, Brendan Ozawa-de Silva

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Education

PEACE Grant

Making PEACE, one moment at a time: Mindfulness-Based Trauma Recovery for Refugees

Amit Bernstein

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Mindfulness | Self & Other | Stress & Resilience

PEACE Grant: Samuel B. Hanser Visionary Grant

How do the benefits of meditation spread? Investigating interpersonal mechanisms following practice

Christopher May, Marieke van Vugt

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Interconnection | Mindfulness

PEACE Grant

Does the contemplative practice of loving-kindness propel prosocial acts via increased neural integration? A dynamic functional connectivity approach

Barbara Fredrickson

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection

PEACE Grant

Sleep’s role in realizing the prosocial benefits of contemplative practice

Ken Paller

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Mindfulness

PEACE Grant

Balancing hope and fear: Resourcing climate activists for sustainable environmental justice work

Brooke D. Lavelle, Kristina Eichel

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Environment | Interconnection | Social Change

PEACE Grant

Aware, awake, woke: How a brief mindfulness intervention fosters prosocial/ethical attitudes

Paul Verhaeghen, Shelley Aikman

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Mindfulness | Self & Other

Think Tanks

International Society for Contemplative Research

Linda Carlson, Amishi Jha, Erin McCarthy, Harold Roth, Zindel Segal, David Vago, Fadel Zeidan

Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Education | Environment | Interconnection | Mental Health | Mindfulness | Self & Other | Social Change | Stress & Resilience

Think Tanks

Silent Illumination: Compassionate End-of-Life Care for Transgender Elders

Cathy Campbell

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Mindfulness | Social Change | Stress & Resilience

Think Tanks

Youth4Peace Mindfulness

Mridul Upadhyay, Romeral Ortiz Quintilla, Saumya Aggarwal, Bhargavi Raman, Paula Ramírez

Topics: Interconnection | Mental Health | Mindfulness | Self & Other

Varela Grant

Mindfulness-based intervention for both parents in families with mothers who have postpartum depression and anxiety

Katarina Tabi

Topics: Interconnection | Mental Health | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Linking embodiment with the neural circuitry of mindfulness and reward

Véronique Taylor

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

Neurophenomenology of felt experience at rest: brain microstate dynamics and their association with spontaneous thought

Anthony Zanesco

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science

PEACE Grant

Measuring mental states during lovingkindness meditation using individualized brain patterns: A community-engaged investigation (updated*)

Helen Weng

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Social Change

PEACE Grant

Can lovingkindness meditation support tolerant political behavior? A study into the impact of meditation on political behavior

Femke Bakker

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Self & Other | Social Change

Varela Grant

Liyan: Contemplation, well-being and ethical action in Australian Indigenous wisdom traditions

Sarah Laborde

Topics: Body-based Practices | Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection

PEACE Grant

SHAPE JOY: A program to nurture empathic happiness in children through contemplative parenting practices

Erin Tully, Laura McKee

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Interconnection | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

Mindfulness training to enhance emotion regulation in a polarizing political context: A multimethod investigation

Hadley Rahrig

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Self & Other

Varela Grant

Cultivating mindful schools to promote an equitable climate of learning

Vitaliya Droutman

Topics: Education | Mindfulness | Social Change | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

A meditation intervention for repetitive subconcussive head impact exposure in youth sports

William Flood

Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

The histories of Varela’s legacy within the contemplative sciences

Shayna Fox Lee

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

VOICES: Vocalizing Oppression and Interconnection in Contemplation and Embodiment Spaces

Richa Gawande

Topics: Body-based Practices | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness | Social Change

PEACE Grant

From violence and victims to voices and visions: Exploring the power of mindfulness to effect lasting positive change in post-conflict settings in Northern Uganda

Sarah Ssali, Evelyn Lutwama-Rukundo

Topics: Interconnection | Mindfulness | Self & Other | Social Change

Varela Grant

The role of state mindfulness and self-compassion in attenuating depressive symptoms: Early prediction through ecological momentary assessment and smartphone sensing

Nabila Farhin Jahan

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Interconnection | Mental Health | Mindfulness

PEACE Grant

Contemplative peacebuilding in Colombia: A contemplative practice-based psychosocial support program for Colombian ex-combatants

Emery Brown

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness | Social Change | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

A neuroscientific account of embodied ethics: Mindfulness training related improvements In moral reasoning

Gunes Sevinc

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

PEACE Grant

Mindfulness as a novel intervention for improving romantic relationships

Lisa Jaremka

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Interconnection | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Effects of Mindful Compassion Training on social emotion regulation in daily life

Jordan Quaglia

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Interconnection | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Think Tanks

Wise Climate Actions & Sacred Activism

Vivian Valentin, Radhule Weininger, Michael Kearney, John Foran, Kevin M Gallagher

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Environment | Interconnection | Social Change

Think Tanks

Critical Neuroscience and the Politics of Mindfulness Interventions for Youth: A Proposal for an Interdisciplinary Working Group

Suparna Choudhury, William Wannynn, Elena Hailwood, Steven Stanley, Jennifer Thomson

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Education | Mindfulness | Self & Other | Social Change

Varela Grant

Transforming habits from the heart: From good intentions to reliable prosocial response

Rémi Thériault

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Interconnection

Varela Grant

Mindfulness for the masses: Understanding the approachability of mindfulness-based interventions and measurement of mindfulness among understudied diverse communities

Amanda Shallcross

Topics: Mindfulness | Social Change

Varela Grant

Exploring the uptake and potential efficacy of brief mindfulness meditation for underserved female tobacco smokers

Samantha Davis

Topics: Mindfulness | Social Change | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

Is knowing the body knowing the mind? Mind-body coherence, interoception, and contemplative training

Sasha Sommerfeldt

Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

Measuring meta-awareness in the present moment

Thomas Anderson

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Can meditation practice ameliorate the consequences of early life adversity on telomere regulation?

Quinn Conklin

Topics: Interconnection | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

Long-term sustainability of mindfulness practice and treatment gains in women with co-occurring substance use disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder following a mindfulness-based relapse prevention program

Vanessa Somohano

Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Mindfulness for well-being and enhanced teaching in academia: A mindfulness-based program in South African higher education

Nuño Aguirre de Cárcer

Topics: Education | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

Assessing dynamic brain connectivity patterns and the phenomenology of autobiographical remembering as a function of specificity and perspective taking manipulations

Ekaterina Denkova

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Think Tanks

Mechanisms of Meditation and Consequences for Clinical Practice

Marieke van Vugt

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness | Self & Other

PEACE Grant

Testing a compassionate community actively living mindfulness (CCALM) intervention: elucidating individual and dyadic pathways to PEACE character virtues

Gloria Luong

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Mental Health | Stress & Resilience

PEACE Grant

Combining immersive virtual environments and contemplative techniques to increase empathy and decrease anger in intergroup conflicts

Yoni Levy, Eran Halperin

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Self & Other

PEACE Grant

Neurobehavioral effects of prenatal mindfulness training on maternal presence and compassionate love

Heidemarie Laurent, Larissa Duncan

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Interconnection | Mindfulness

PEACE Grant

Neurogenetic mechanisms of self-transcendence and purpose in life

Yoona Kang, Emily Falk

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy

PEACE Grant

Can emotional acceptance promote political action? Leveraging contemplative science to promote positive social action

Brett Ford, Allison Troy

Topics: Social Change | Stress & Resilience

PEACE Grant

Using a contemplative conflict resolution intervention to promote teachers’ and youth’s beneficial engagement in controversial discussions and intergroup encounters

Nava Levit-Binnun, Michal Reifen Tagar

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Education | Mindfulness | Self & Other | Social Change

Varela Grant

Overcoming the self: A multi-method investigation of trait mindfulness, self-other overlap, and egocentricity in romantic relationships

Erin Maresh

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Interconnection | Mindfulness | Self & Other

Think Tanks

Mindfulness Practices as Anti-Oppression Pedagogy: Strategies for Preparation, Implementation, and Assessment

Greta Gaard

Topics: Education | Mindfulness | Social Change | Stress & Resilience

Think Tanks

African Contemplative Practices for Healing the Past, for Transforming the Present and for Future Flourishing

Lucy Draper-Clarke

Topics: Body-based Practices | Contemplative Wisdom | Social Change

Varela Grant

The role of Contemplative Art Education in social, emotional, and cognitive development of children with low SES

Darya Zabelina

Topics: Education | Mindfulness | Social Change

Varela Grant

A real-time fMRI study to link subjective experience with brain network dynamics during craving

Kathleen Garrison

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Intersections of Buddhism and Psychology: An ethnographic study of contextual factors and contemplative practices in Bhutan

Michelle Walsh

Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Mental Health | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

Voluntarily regulated breathing practices and their effects on self-regulation, cognition, and problem solving under stress

Catherine Spann

Topics: Body-based Practices | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

Generalizing mindful emotion regulation: Toward a transdiagnostic approach to training emotion regulation with mindfulness

Kibby McMahon

Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

Cultivating mental imagery through prayer

Michael Lifshitz

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom

Varela Grant

Motivating engagement with social justice issues through compassion training: A multi-method randomized control trial

Sinhae Cho

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Interconnection | Self & Other | Social Change

Varela Grant

Mindfulness-to-Meaning theory and eudaimonic appraisals of positive autobiographical events

Le-Anh Dinh-Williams

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

PEACE Grant

Mindfulness-based Critical Consciousness Training for Teachers (MBCC-T): Development, pilot test, and comparison to two control groups

Doris F. Chang

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Education | Mindfulness | Social Change

PEACE Grant

Sustainable Compassion Training’s effects on neural threat and social support

Jim Coan

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Interconnection | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

PEACE Grant

From barriers to bridges: Investigating contemplative approaches to social justice

Annemarie Gockel, Peggy O’Neill

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Social Change | Stress & Resilience

PEACE Grant

CBCT® (Cognitively-Based Compassion Training) at the hospital bedside

Jennifer Mascaro, Charles Raison

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

Intracranial circuits underlying Deep Slow Breathing and its palliative effects

Jose Herrero

Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Eudaimonia and sleep: Effects of a mindfulness intervention in caregivers of people with dementia

Tarah Raldiris

Topics: Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Think Tanks

Core Measures for Mindfulness Studies

Rick Hecht

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

Mind & Life 1440 Grant

The effect of mindfulness training on executive function and social cognition in the developing brain: An EEG study in preschoolers practicing mindfulness

Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Education | Mindfulness

Mind & Life 1440 Grant

Teaching mindfulness in schools: A mixed method study of teachers’ mindfulness practice, professional knowledge, perspectives and experiences

Polina Mischenko

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Education | Mindfulness

Mind & Life 1440 Grant

The impact of mindfulness training on emotion regulation of primary school children in Vietnamese cultural context: Integrating electrophysiological and first-person assessments

Thy Nguyen

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Education | Stress & Resilience

Mind & Life 1440 Grant

Developing and testing the effectiveness of a self-compassion intervention for beginning teachers

Rebecca Nyquist Baelen, Brian Galla

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Education | Stress & Resilience

Mind & Life 1440 Grant

Tracking the longitudinal real-world socioemotional benefits of mindfulness meditation training in youth

Emily Shih

Topics: Education | Mindfulness

Think Tanks

Designing and implementing a contemplative practice-based program for ex-combatants in Colombia’s peacebuilding process

Juan Santoyo, Juliana M Santoyo, Alejandro Chaoul, Brooke D. Lavelle

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Social Change

Varela Grant

Staying present: Developing an empirically guided mindfulness-based intervention for transdiagnostic dissociation

Noga Zerubavel

Think Tanks

Socially-Engaged Mindfulness Interventions (SEMI) and the Promise of Making Refuge

Ronald Purser, Edwin Ng, Zack Walsh

Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection | Mindfulness | Social Change

Varela Grant

Is mindfulness only for the fortunate? The development and dissemination of a brief home-based mindfulness intervention to low-income couples

Katherine Lenger

Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness | Social Change | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

How does self-compassion influence pain and self-related functioning in patients with chronic pain? A pilot RCT trial combining fMRI and experience sampling

Jacqueline Lutz

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Mental Health | Self & Other | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

An action phase model of compassion: Predictors and effects of helping goal commitment

Lauren Ministero

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Mental Health | Self & Other