Grant History

Laurisa S. Dill Legacy Award

Compassionate Design Approaches: Co-Developing Digital Therapeutics with Emerging Adults

Denise Quesnel

Varela Grant

Engaging parents in mindfulness interventions for children and adolescents

Joanna Guan

Varela Grant

Mindfulness as a Defence Against False Realization Experiences

Juensung Kim

Varela Grant

How Racial Context Mediates the Effects of Contemplative Practice on In-Group and Out-Group Empathy: A Comparative Study of Prayer Across White and Black Churches

Josh Brahinsky

Varela Grant

Cultivating Awareness and Racial Empowerment (CARE) for Families: Assessing the Feasibility and Acceptability of a Mindful Parenting and Racial Socialization Intervention

Marissa Ferry

Varela Grant

Integrating Tibetan Dream Yoga and Western Techniques for Lucid Dream Induction

Daniel Morris

Varela Grant

Identifying Needs and Preferences for an mHealth Intervention to Support MBCT for Pain in Multiple Sclerosis

Erin Mistretta

Varela Grant

Cultivating Transformation: The Role of Contemplative Practices in Sustainability Advocacy

Johann-Justus Wachs

Varela Grant

The Urgent Need for Research in Indigenous Contemplative Science in Ecuador: A Beacon for Pluralism in Nature, Mental Health, and Well-being, with Potential Transformative Impact

Amaya Carrasco-Torrontegui, Carlos Andres Gallegos-Riofrío

Varela Grant

Measuring the Immeasurables: Feasibility of Digital Biomarkers to Detect Shifts In Compassion Within An Online Group-based Intervention For Trauma Survivors

Dilara Ally

Varela Grant

A preliminary trial with mixed methods exploring the effectiveness of compassion-focused therapy for managing distress and substance use in Latine individuals

Camila Tirado

PEACE Grant

Mitigating Compassion Fatigue and Promoting Resilience and Healing: Harnessing Global Experience to Empower Mental Health Providers in Conflict Zones

Liat Shklarski, Yael Latzer

PEACE Grant

Cultivating Awareness and Resilience in Education (CARE) for Educational Leaders: Exploring efficacy and change processes

Sebrina Doyle Fosco

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

App-delivered breathwork for anxiety among BIPOC college students

Maha Al-Suwaidi

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

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

Jonas Mago

Varela Grant

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

Malena Price

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

Adherence in naturalistic use of digital meditation-based interventions

Zishan Jiwani

PEACE Grant

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

Ana Eclair, Julieta Galante

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

“healing attempt #2”: a brief, digital music-based mindfulness intervention for stress and anxiety

Matthew Nock, Grant Jones

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

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

Healing Landscapes: Restoring the Human Land Reciprocal Relationship

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

Conscious Climate Action through Contemplative Gardening

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

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

José Godoy

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

Mind the Conflict in Hura’s Bedouin Community

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

Meditation as a Path to Peaceful Living

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

Mindfulness Practices for Indigenous Youth

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

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

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

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

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

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

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

The Black Child Flourishing Project

Demond Hill Jr.

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

Freedom Inside: Contemplative Practice for Women in Prison

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

Teacher equanimity for improving behavior management

Tara Hofkens

Varela Grant

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

Natalie Lecy, Adam Hanley

Varela Grant

Remote mindfulness training for health following early life adversity

Emily Lindsay

Varela Grant

Reexamining mechanisms of mind-wandering in mindfulness-based interventions

Joseph Diehl

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

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

Anne Baker

Varela Grant

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

Kelly Birtwell

Varela Grant

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

Marisa DeCollibus

Varela Grant

Mindfulness-based practices for healing intergenerational trauma among Vietnamese Americans

My Ngoc To

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

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

Bernard Richardson

PEACE Grant

A compassionate decision-making model to increase compassionate behavior

James Kirby

PEACE Grant

Testing an interpersonal model of mindfulness: A randomized controlled study

Bassam Khoury, Soham Rej

PEACE Grant: Samuel B. Hanser Visionary Grant

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

Paul Condon

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

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

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

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

Quinn Conklin

Topics: Mental Health | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

Documenting Mayan Milpa biocultural heritage through embodied ethnoecology

Erika Diaz-Almeyda

Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Environment

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

Merging mindfulness and climate change education

Jyoti Mishra

Topics: Environment | Mindfulness

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

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

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

Lindsay Romano

Topics: Education | Mindfulness | Social Change

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

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

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

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

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

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, Jennifer Cannon, Monika Son, Angelica Singh

Topics: Education | Social Change | Stress & Resilience

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

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

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

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

Steven Pratscher

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

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

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

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

Examining Individual Differences in Contemplative Practice Response

Tawni Tidwell

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

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

A Whole Trait Theory Account of Mindfulness in Adolescence

Michael Warren

Topics: Education | Interconnection | Mindfulness | Self & Other

Varela Grant

Community engagement in contemplative training and research with law enforcement

Dan Grupe

Topics: Self & Other | Social Change

Varela Grant

Music-Based Mindfulness Intervention for Black Americans

Grant Jones

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

PEACE Grant

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

Paul Verhaeghen, Shelley Aikman

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Mindfulness | 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

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

Ken Paller

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

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

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

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

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

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

Linking embodiment with the neural circuitry of mindfulness and reward

Véronique Taylor

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

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

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

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

Varela Grant

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

Gunes Sevinc

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

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

Sarah Laborde

Topics: Body-based Practices | Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection

Varela Grant

VOICES: Vocalizing Oppression and Interconnection in Contemplation and Embodiment Spaces

Richa Gawande

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

Varela Grant

The histories of Varela’s legacy within the contemplative sciences

Shayna Fox Lee

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness

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

Cultivating mindful schools to promote an equitable climate of learning

Vitaliya Droutman

Topics: Education | Mindfulness | Social Change | 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

PEACE Grant

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

Helen Weng

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Social Change

Varela Grant

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

Jordan Quaglia

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

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

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

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

PEACE Grant

Mindfulness as a novel intervention for improving romantic relationships

Lisa Jaremka

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Interconnection | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

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

Anthony Zanesco

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science

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

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

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

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

Samantha Davis

Topics: Mindfulness | Social Change | Stress & Resilience

Think Tanks

Mechanisms of Meditation and Consequences for Clinical Practice

Marieke van Vugt

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

Think Tanks

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

Greta Gaard

Topics: Education | Mindfulness | Social Change | 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

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

Le-Anh Dinh-Williams

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

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

Intracranial circuits underlying Deep Slow Breathing and its palliative effects

Jose Herrero

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

Varela Grant

Cultivating mental imagery through prayer

Michael Lifshitz

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom

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

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

Tarah Raldiris

Topics: Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Investigating the impact of yoga on brain aging: A randomized controlled trial

Joseph Therriault

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mental Health

Varela Grant

The impact of a mindfulness-based intervention on opioid misuse during pregnancy: A mixed methods pilot RCT

Sarah Priddy

Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

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

Lauren Ministero

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

Think Tanks

Microphenomenology and Contemplative Experience: Exploring the Intra- and Intersubjective Dynamics of Language and Embodied Experience

Andreas Roepstorff, Claire Petitmengin, Anne Klein

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom

Think Tanks

Embodiment, Contemplative Practice, and Equality: Developing a Programmatic and Research Agenda for Reducing Ingroup Bias through Embodied Inquiry and Contemplative Practice

Bo Forbes, Norman Farb, David Vago, Christine Wilson-Mendenhall

Topics: Body-based Practices | Self & Other | Social Change

Think Tanks

Educating the Heart: Cultivating Compassionate Global Citizens

Caroline Murphy

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Education

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

Think Tanks

Establishing Contemplative Studies Programs: Practices, Priorities and Problems

Harold Roth, Anne Klein, Carolyn Jacobs, Mirabai Bush, John Dunne, Judith Simmer-Brown, David Germano

Topics: Education

Think Tanks

Conceptualizing Compassion: A Heuristic Model

Brooke D. Lavelle, Paul Condon, John Dunne

Topics: Compassion & Empathy

Varela Grant

Navigating the end of life among Tibetans in exile: A transnational ethnographic study

Sara Lewis

Topics: Contemplative Wisdom

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

Mind & Life 1440 Grant

(Epi)genetic biomarkers of a school-based mindfulness program

Eric Thibodeau

Topics: Education | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Mind & Life 1440 Grant

Mindfulness in the context of intractable intergroup conflicts: Can mindfulness practice help overcome barriers to conflict resolution?

Eran Halperin, Ruthie Pliskin

Topics: Mindfulness | Self & Other | Stress & Resilience

Mind & Life 1440 Grant

Evaluation of school-based mindfulness curriculum “Learning to BREATHE”

Joshua Felver

Topics: Education | Mindfulness

Mind & Life 1440 Grant

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and early life abuse: Does attenuating inflammation reduce depressive symptoms and interpersonal dysfunction?

Tory Eisenlohr-Moul, Erin Walsh

Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Mind & Life 1440 Grant

A randomized control trial of an in-person vs. ehealth mindfulness-based intervention for adolescents with chronic illness

Nicholas Chadi

Topics: Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Mind & Life 1440 Grant

Self-compassion in adolescence: Validation and neural correlates

Michael Crowley

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Education | Self & Other

Mind & Life 1440 Grant

Heartfulness in education: The effects of mindful self-compassion training on teachers’ wellbeing, student-teacher relationships, and school climate

Kamila Dvorakova

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Education

Mind & Life 1440 Grant

Does ongoing practice of mindfulness meditation promote healthy relationships?

Norman Farb

Topics: Interconnection | Mental Health | Mindfulness

Mind & Life 1440 Grant

Engaged mindfulness in Vietnam

Thao Le

Topics: Interconnection | Mindfulness | Social Change

Mind & Life 1440 Grant

Mind/body awareness workshop for teachers living in post-conflict Northern Uganda

Kyle Matsuba

Topics: Body-based Practices | Education | Mental Health

Mind & Life 1440 Grant

The impact of mindfulness meditation training on social integration and well-being in first-semester college students

Aminda O'Hare

Topics: Education | Interconnection | Mental Health | Mindfulness

Mind & Life 1440 Grant

Impacts of yoga on self-regulation and emotion regulation in preschool education

Roxanne Rashedi

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

Think Tanks

Concepts and Nonconceptuality in Buddhist Philosophy

Evan Thompson, Robert Sharf

Topics: Contemplative Wisdom

Varela Grant

Socio-emotional effects of Insight Meditation retreat participation on practitioners and their close others

Jennifer Pokorny

Varela Grant

Comparing the efficacy of mindfulness-based training vs. working-memory training on cognitive health and resilience to acute stress in older adults

Martin Paczynski

Varela Grant

Unseaming the secular: Poetry, process, and belief in the world

William Rubel

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom

Varela Grant

The effects of mindfulness meditation on pain and heart rate variability

Adrienne Adler

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Creating implicit and phenomenological assessments of nonjudgmental orientation to experience

Jessica Peters

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

Varela Grant

Neural and endocrine mechanisms mediating prosociality

Noopur Amin

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

Varela Grant

Tracking the neural network interaction changes associated with the initiation and maintenance of regular meditation practice with longitudinal EEG data

Spencer Fix

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Improving the measurement of mindfulness: Validation of observer-rated and self-report measures of mindfulness training

Simon Goldberg

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

The Meta-Awareness Task (MAT): A novel behavioral measurement methodology of mindfulness

Yuval Hadash

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Dissecting de-automatization: The effect of mindfulness training on unconscious habit formation

Adam Hanley

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

A community-engaged approach to contemplative neuroscience in a diverse contemplative community

Helen Weng

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection | Social Change

Varela Grant

From egocentric to ecocentric: Pro-social and pro-environmental actualizations of mindfulness at an intensive monastic retreat

Brianna Morseth

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Environment | Interconnection | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

The neural bases of heightened awareness to the present moment

Sucharit Katyal

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom

Mind & Life 1440 Grant

Developing an objective measure of mindfulness in daily life

Angelina Polsinelli

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

Mind & Life 1440 Grant

Impacts of maternal mindfulness on mother-infant biological integrity

Benjamin Nelson

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

Mind & Life 1440 Grant

Studying interpersonal physiological attunement in experienced mindfulness practitioners

Yulia Golland, Nava Levit-Binnun

Topics: Interconnection | Mindfulness

Mind & Life 1440 Grant

Assessing beneficial relationship factors that support contemplative development

Willoughby Britton, Jared Lindahl

Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection

Mind & Life 1440 Grant

Assessing the effect of contemplative-based training in self awareness, self-regulation, prosocial attitudes and ethical decision making in employees of private or public organizations in Mexico

Laura Emiliana Rodriguez Morales

Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection | Stress & Resilience

Mind & Life 1440 Grant

Mindfulness, loving-kindness, & compassion meditation in group couples therapy for combat veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan and their spouses

Anthony King

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Mental Health | Mindfulness

Think Tanks

Abrahamic Contemplative Traditions

Nathan Fisher

Topics: Contemplative Wisdom

Varela Grant

Strengthening memories of compassion

Patrick Williams

Varela Grant

The effects of mindfulness and loving-kindness meditation on teachers’ emotional abilities, compassion, and prosocial classroom engagement

James Floman

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Education | Mindfulness

Think Tanks

Varieties of Contemplative Experience

Willoughby Britton, Jared Lindahl

Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Mental Health

Varela Grant

Neurofeedback Informed Meditation Techniques (NIMT) for modulating somatosensory alpha activity and acute pain perception: A novel paradigm for treatment development

Juan Santoyo

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science

Varela Grant

An ethnographic analysis of the integration of contemplatives in neuroimaging laboratories

Dylan Lott

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection

Varela Grant

The effects of mindfulness on gender stereotype threat

Jeff Yanli Lin

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Social Change

Varela Grant

Mindfulness-based intervention to examine yearning and grief specific rumination as mediators of grief outcomes in bereaved individuals

Lindsey Knowles

Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

Synchronizing brains through loving-kindness meditation

Yoona Kang

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Interconnection

Varela Grant

Rhythm induced trance: Using repetitive auditory stimulation to facilitate states of absorption and promote insight

Michael Hove

Topics: Body-based Practices

Varela Grant

Mindfulness for pre-service teachers

Matthew Hirshberg

Topics: Education | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

Mindfulness and the neurophysiological substrates of fear conditioning

Véronique Taylor

Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

Bridging the empathy gap: Effects of brief mindfulness training on helping outgroup members in need

Daniel Berry

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

Varela Grant

Is mindful meditation effective and culturally relevant for Native people?

Jeffrey Proulx

Topics: Mindfulness | Social Change

Think Tanks

Mindfulness Media Hype

Marieke van Vugt

Topics: Mindfulness

Mind & Life 1440 Grant

Impacts of tailored mindfulness training for maternal caregivers on intrapersonal wellbeing and interpersonal experiences

Ashley Mason

Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Mind & Life 1440 Grant

A test of the efficacy of compassion cultivation training for veterans with PTSD

Marcel O. Bonn-Miller

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Mental Health

Mind & Life 1440 Grant

How do thoughts about social closeness promote health and well-being?

Brett Major

Topics: Interconnection | Mental Health | Stress & Resilience

Mind & Life 1440 Grant

Bringing relief to caregivers: Evaluating the effects of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction on relational quality, psychological well-being and cognitive function in caregivers of patients with dementia

Alexandra Fiocco

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness

Mind & Life 1440 Grant

Using mindfulness meditation training to transform social relationships among lonely older adults: A randomized controlled trial

David J. Creswell

Topics: Interconnection | Mindfulness

Mind & Life 1440 Grant

Compassion training for emotional numbing in post-traumatic stress disorder

Jordan Kohn, Jennifer Mascaro

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Mental Health

Varela Grant

Investigation into the effects of compassion training for subjects and relatives on uncontrollability over pain that drives temporal summation from a first-, second-, and third-person perspective

Marie-Eve Hoeppli

Varela Grant

Mindfulness and beyond: A qualitative study of advanced Mahasi meditators’ experience

Sean Pritchard

Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Mental Health | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

The effects of contemplative training on brain structure and function in 6-year-old children

Sarah Short

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health

Varela Grant

The role of endogenous opioidergic systems in mindfulness meditation-related pain relief

Fadel Zeidan

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

Varela Grant

Embodied dreaming and procedural memory consolidation following daytime nap in Vipassana meditators and non-meditating controls: A neurophenomenological study

Elizaveta Solomonova

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Examining the relationship of meditation experience to the neural correlates of spontaneous emotion regulation

Kathrine Shepherd

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

Varela Grant

What is it about yoga? Isolating the effect of structured movement sequences on cognition, interoception, and stress markers

Chivon Powers, Laura Schmalzl

Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science

Varela Grant

Neural dynamics of attention and meta-attention during meditation

John Plass

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Does meditation cause pain relief through endogenous opioids?

Lisa May

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

Mechanisms of mindfulness and stress resilience: A mobile app mindfulness training study

Emily Lindsay

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

Varela Grant

Mindfulness Intervention to Study the Neurobiology of Depression (MIND)

Rachel Jacobs

Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

Neural mechanisms of self-transcendence: Insights from noninvasive brain stimulation

Eileen Cardillo

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom

Mind & Life Contemplative Studies Fellowship

Addressing moral distress in clinical practice: A contemplative, neuroscience-based intervention

Cynda Hylton Rushton

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy

Mind & Life Contemplative Studies Fellowship

The roles of constitutive contexts in contemplative practice

David Germano, Shauna Shapiro

Topics: Contemplative Wisdom

Mind & Life Contemplative Studies Fellowship

Subjective transformation and actual individual practice among at-risk populations engaged in cognitively-based compassion training

Chikako Ozawa-de Silva

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

Mind & Life Contemplative Studies Fellowship

Introspective reliability: Synergizing Buddhist and contemporary viewpoints

Monima Chadha

Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness

Mind & Life Contemplative Studies Fellowship

Contemplative practice, Hasidic modernism and contemporary psychology

Don Seeman

Topics: Contemplative Wisdom

Mind & Life Contemplative Studies Fellowship

Building a new theory of contemplative interactions for healthcare

Anthony Back

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

Mind & Life Contemplative Studies Fellowship

Meditation, concepts and de-reification: Investigation of possible links between contemplative and neurocognitive perspectives

Dusana Dorjee

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mental Health

Think Tanks

Interoception and Contemplative Practice

Catherine Kerr, Norman Farb, Wendy Hasenkamp

Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness | Self & Other | Stress & Resilience

Mind & Life 1440 Grant

Mindfulness in interpersonal judgments and relationships in daily life

Carrie Adair

Topics: Interconnection | Mental Health | Mindfulness

Mind & Life 1440 Grant

Trauma-Informed Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction to promote intra- and interpersonal flourishing among survivors of traumatic violence

Amber Kelly, Eric Garland

Topics: Interconnection | Mental Health | Mindfulness

Mind & Life 1440 Grant

Short and long-term behavioral, physiological, and brain changes resulting from compassion meditation training as an intervention for stress due to difficult interpersonal relationships

Julie Brefczynski-Lewis

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Interconnection | Stress & Resilience

Mind & Life 1440 Grant

Contemplative practice, emotional well-being, and the transformation of hostility in the lab and real world

Paul Condon

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

Varela Grant

Making the right choice: Combining neuroimaging, computational modelling, and first-person report methodologies to unveil neural mechanisms of human flourishing

Hans Melo

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health

Varela Grant

Intrinsic neural characteristics predict the effectiveness of MBSR training on fear extinction and stress reduction

Xiaodan (Diane) Yan

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

Varela Grant

Exploring mindfulness induced state and trait alterations in “self” networks: A combined fMRI-MEG neurophenomenological study

Aviva Berkovich-Ohana

Topics: Mindfulness | Self & Other

Varela Grant

Exploring the impact of a mindfulness intervention on adolescents’ self-compassion and emotional well-being

Karen Bluth

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

The varieties of contemplative experience

Chris Kaplan, Nathan Fisher

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mental Health

Varela Grant

The neural basis of enhanced introspective accuracy in long-term meditation practitioners

Kieran Fox

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Effects of yogic breathing on sleep and well-being in college students: Exploration of psychophysiological mechanisms

Michael Goldstein

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

Varela Grant

Compassion cultivation for physicians-in-training

Elizabeth Goodman Gurfein

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

Neural effects of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy in remitted patients with chronic history of depression

Marina Lopez-Sola

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health

Varela Grant

Self-compassion and the need of self-preservation

Dev Ashish

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Mental Health

Varela Grant

From intra- to inter-personal: Effects of MBSR on emotion regulation in social contexts

Jordan Quaglia

Topics: Interconnection | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

A longitudinal training study to delineate the specific causal effects of open monitoring versus focused attention techniques on emotional regulation skills

Monika Lohani

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

The effect of MBSR on episodic and prospective memory function in aging adults

Robert Goodman

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health

Mind & Life Contemplative Studies Fellowship

Nonattachment and Intergroup Harmony

Baljinder Sahdra

Topics: Interconnection | Self & Other

Mind & Life Contemplative Studies Fellowship

Where’s the Breath? An Interdisciplinary Investigation of Breath Awareness Placement

Harold Roth

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness

Mind & Life Contemplative Studies Fellowship

Fieldwork on Contemplative Practices with High Risk Preschoolers: Children’s Empathic, Compassionate, and Self-Regulatory Behaviors

Julie Poehlmann

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Education | Mindfulness

Mind & Life Contemplative Studies Fellowship

Meditation in Context

David McMahan

Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness

Mind & Life Contemplative Studies Fellowship

Philosophical and historical accounts for the neuroscientific investigation of human spirituality

Franco Fabbro

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom

Varela Grant

Investigating the effects of loving kindness meditation on interpersonal stress generation in chronically depressed patients

Kate Brennan

Varela Grant

Differential effects of empathy and compassion on emotional and behavioral processes

Jenny Liu

Varela Grant

Compassion- and mindfulness-based meditation: Nurturing pro-social behavior and social networks

Paul Condon

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

The eCALM Study: eTherapy for Cancer AppLying Mindfulness

Kristin Zernicke

Topics: Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

Brain mechanisms distinguishing mindfulness meditation-related pain relief from placebo analgesia

Fadel Zeidan

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Effects of open monitoring on visual search: Evidence from eye-tracking, electrophysiology, and phenomenology

Michael Lifshitz

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom

Varela Grant

Can supercharged memory consolidation during sleep boost compassion and pro-sociality?

Jessica Creery

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy

Varela Grant

An investigation of the impact of mindfulness training on the development of attention and working memory in children

Julia Ann Keller

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Education | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Yoga for Parenting Success: YPS

Grace Bullock

Varela Grant

Neural and physiological correlates of Tibetan energy-channel meditation in highly trained practitioners

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom

Varela Grant

The neurophenomenology of mindfulness: Metacognitive awareness as a mechanism for adaptive change

Micah Allen

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Effects of training in loving‐kindness meditation on underlying approach and avoidance motivations

Jessica Flynn

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Mental Health

Varela Grant

The effects of Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy on depression, pain, body awareness and brain structure and connectivity in patients with chronic pain and comorbid depression

Tim Gard

Topics: Mental Health | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

Differential effects of mindfulness and yogic breathing on cognitive and emotional processes

Andrea Hayes

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

Varela Grant

Do white matter changes contribute to improved fear extinction following mindfulness training?

Britta Hölzel

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

Varela Grant

Breath counting: Developing a behavioral measure of mindfulness

Daniel Levinson

Topics: Mindfulness

Varela Grant

The effects of mindfulness meditation training in early childhood

Kristen Lyons

Topics: Education | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

EEG spectral signatures of the impact of mindfulness meditation on perceptual-motor awareness and self-agency

Jose Raul Naranjo

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Exploring the effects of mindfulness meditation on self-control failure

Autumn Wiley

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Mindfulness-based education in the elementary school classroom: Individual and joint effects of a teacher and student program on children’s classroom behaviors, peer relations, classroom hierarchy, and stress reactivity

Eva Oberle

Topics: Education | Mental Health | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Mindful interactions: effects on couple conflict-related stress and relationship function

Shari Cordon

Varela Grant

Focused attention versus open monitoring meditation and self-referential brain processing

Rael Baruch Cahn

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

Varela Grant

Mindfulness and response inhibition: Behavioral, neural and subjective correlates in smoking cessation

Cecilia Westbrook

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Relational processes in learning mindfulness: An action-theoretical perspective

Brenda Dyer

Topics: Education | Interconnection | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Development of mindfulness-based real-time fMRI neurofeedback for smoking cessation: A preliminary study

Zev Schuman-Olivier

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Effects of short-term mindfulness intervention on depression and immunity

Erin Walsh

Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Investigating the neural basis of spontaneous thought with real-time fMRI and contemplative mental training

Melissa Ellamil

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom

Varela Grant

The impact of evaluative vs. experiential self-focus on emotional response

Emma Lawrence

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

The effect of mindfulness on physiological awareness: Blood glucose estimates and disease management in type 2 diabetics

Laura Kiken

Topics: Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

Attending to clinical social work practice: Mindful attention as holistic competence background and relevant literature

Ellen Katz

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

How mindfulness impacts selective attention during emotional challenge

Norman Farb

Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

The effectiveness of MBSR as an intervention among elderly family caregivers of persons with neurocognitive disorders

Roisin O'Donnell

Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

Mindfulness training for parents and children

Jessica Tipsord

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

Varela Grant

Effects of mind-body interventions in cancer supportive care: Oxytocin as a biological correlate of wellbeing and connectedness

David Lipschitz

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

Varela Grant

The effect of mindfulness meditation on sleep electrophysiology and duration

Tucker Peck

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom

Varela Grant

Hedonic sustainability in the BOLD response to selfish and altruistic rewards

David Perlman

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

Nonattachment, group identity, and memory of historical injustices

Baljinder Sahdra

Topics: Interconnection | Self & Other | Social Change

Varela Grant

Exploring the role of self-compassion in the establishment and maintenance of a meditation practice

Meredith Terry

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom

Varela Grant

Identifying the mechanisms of action in MBCT

Sean Barnes

Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

The interrelationship between cognitive control and affect in an intensive Vipassana retreat

Anthony Zanesco, Brandon King

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Exploring the impact of meditation on stress and psychopathology: Attentional allocation as a potential mechanism of active change following meditation training

Nicholas Van Dam

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

Varela Grant

Application of the neurovisceral integration model to mindfulness: Implications for stress regulation and the development of insomnia

Holly Rau

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

Varela Grant

School-based mindfulness training in middle school and college students

Ellen Darling, Nathaniel Lepp

Topics: Education | Mental Health | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

The FACE Study: Faces, Attention, Compassion, and Emotion

Teresa Sivilli

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

Real-time dynamics of cognitive processing during meditation: A subject-driven fMRI investigation

Wendy Hasenkamp

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

The neural and behavioral correlates of a neurofeedback-based metta meditation training

Susanne Leiberg

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy

Varela Grant

An objective comparison of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for the treatment of insomnia in individuals with cancer using wrist actigraphy: A randomized, non-inferiority trial

Sheila Garland

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

Varela Grant

Examining the psychological effects of intensive meditation retreats for teenage youth

Brian Galla

Topics: Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

Mindfulness-based kindness curriculum for preschool children: A replication and extension

Lisa Flook

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Education | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Changing our perception of others through compassion meditation

Julie Brefczynski-Lewis

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Self & Other

Varela Grant

Meditation and nonlinear neurodynamics: From state to trait

Aviva Berkovich-Ohana

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Study to design and assess the validity of the Emory Meditation Practice, Tradition, and Experience (EMPTE) scale

Brooke D. Lavelle

Topics: Contemplative Wisdom

Varela Grant

Meditative and real-time fMRI training for the cultivation of compassion

Joshua Grant

Varela Grant

How does MBSR improve psychological functioning for cancer patients?

Laura Labelle

Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

The influence of meditative experience on pain perception

Fadel Zeidan

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom

Varela Grant

Development and testing of determinants of meditation practice

Anna-Leila Williams

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom

Varela Grant

Does mindfulness training change the processing of social threat?

Britta Hölzel

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

Varela Grant

Measurement and correlates of nonattachment

Baljinder Sahdra

Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Self & Other

Varela Grant

Neural effects of mindfulness training on adults with ADD

Zev Rosen

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Efficacy of a 16-week mindfulness-based group for combat PTSD in recruiting veterans, and pilot effects on threat detection and emotion regulation neurocircuitry

Anthony King

Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

MBSR for the treatment of pediatric chronic pain

Kristen Jastrowski

Topics: Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

The dissolution of self during rhythmic motor behavior

Michael Hove

Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science

Varela Grant

Neuropeptide levels in meditation

Elizabeth A. Hoge

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

Varela Grant

A randomized controlled single-blinded pilot trial to compare effects of concentrative sitting meditation to moving meditation (tai chi) training on attentional network efficiency

Teresa Hawkes

Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom

Varela Grant

Biopsychosocial assessment of a mindfulness-oriented treatment of alcohol dependence

Eric Garland

Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Effects of mindfulness meditation on cell aging processes

Jennifer Daubenmeier

Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

Different approaches to emotion regulation: MBSR and CBT in the treatment of anxiety disorders

Joanna Arch

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

White tantric kundalini yoga: Physiological, behavioral, and EEG effects of an intensive and immersive yogic meditation experience

Heather Jaskirat Wild

Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom

Varela Grant

Compassion meditation vs. cognitive reappraisal as emotion regulation strategies to negative stimuli: An fMRI investigation

Helen Weng

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

Varela Grant

Mathematical modeling of acute effects of meditation on cognition

Marieke van Vugt

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom

Varela Grant

Mindfulness training as treatment and mechanistic probe for drug addiction

Judson Brewer

Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

Using MBCT to prevent relapse to suicidality in patients suffering from ongoing depressive symptoms

Catherine Crane, Thorsten Barnhofer

Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Neural Correlates of PTSD Prevention with MBSR in Iraq Veterans

Sandra DiVitale

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Study of mindfulness meditation on stress reduction and attention regulation in adolescents with mild learning disabilities

Radhi Raja

Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Education | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

Developing a computational model for meditation using cross cortical synchrony in EEG data

Manish Saggar

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Electrophysiological and behavioral assessment of a mindfulness-based pain management program for patients with chronic pain

Christopher Brown

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

Varela Grant

Regulating emotion in social situations: An fMRI study of experienced Buddhist meditators

Deidre Kolarick Reis

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom

Varela Grant

Mindfulness-based interventions for depression: Possible neurophysiological mechanisms

Willoughby Britton

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Feasibility, clinical acceptability, and efficacy of a mindfulness-based group therapy intervention for PTSD

Anthony King

Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Neural systems supporting interoceptive awareness in experienced and beginning meditators

Sahib Khalsa

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Neural effects of mindfulness meditation training on working memory

Adam Safron

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Trust and Christian contemplative practice: A social neuroscientific study of spiritual capital in a contemplative tradition

Michael Spezio

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

Varela Grant

The effects of mindfulness meditative training on impairments in affect regulation associated with the experience and anticipation of pain in fibromyalgia patients

David Vago

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

Varela Grant

Investigating the correlates and consequences of directed loving-kindness meditation

Cendri Hutcherson, Emma Seppala

Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Interconnection

Varela Grant

Dissociable neural modes of self-reference and emotion regulation

Norman Farb

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

Varela Grant

Establishing mindfulness and mind wandering as mediators of patient benefit in MBCT

Durwin Foster

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

Varela Grant

The neurobiology of mindfulness meditation for the control of pain

Joshua Grant

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Effectiveness of the Mindfulness Education Program on children’s social-emotional competence, psychological well-being, and stress reactivity

Molly Stewart Lawlor

Topics: Education | Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

Meditation-induced changes in anticipation and experience of pain

Brent Hughes

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom

Varela Grant

Mindfulness meditation for reduction of smoking craving: An fMRI investigation

Hilary Tindle

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Investigation of attentional modulation in visual cortex during meditation

Brian Pasley

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, well-being and immune changes among rheumatoid arthritis patients

Elizabeth Kimbrough Pradhan

Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

Neural correlates of meta-consciousness events as experienced during Zen meditation practice

Arnaud Delorme

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Cultivating Emotional Balance Classroom Project

Patricia (Tish) Jennings

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

Varela Grant

Mindfulness meditation for social anxiety disorder: Examining the neural and psychological mechanisms of therapeutic change

Philippe Goldin

Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant

Mindfulness-based interventions for depression: Possible neurophysiological mechanisms

Willoughby Britton

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

The functional plasticity of attention

Jason Buhle

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom

Varela Grant

Understanding the neural correlates of attention

Ryan Canolty

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

Varela Grant

Effects of mindfulness meditation training on attentional control in neutral and emotional contexts

Catherine Ortner

Topics: Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

Freedom is being Present

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

Loving Kindness in Family Matters

Natalie Gruber

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

Mindfulness for high-demand, high-stress cohorts in wartime Ukraine

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

Connecting and Inspiring Charlottesville Youth through Nature Immersion, Authentic Community, and Love, No Ego: A Back-to-School Contemplative Arts Program

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

Project FORE – Fostering Resilience & Peace

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

Nature and Spirituality: A Muslim Perspective

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

Peer Outdoor Education for Mental Health (POEM)

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

Transformative Theatre: Empowering Women’s Social Reintegration in Chilean Prisons through Mindfulness and Self-Compassion

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

Inspiring the Mayan children and youth of Chiapas with mindful practices

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

HEALthy ME – Mental Wellbeing of Young People at Schools in Macedonia

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

Contemplative practices in palliative care

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

Weaving Wellness: Training Hairdressers as Mindful Mental Health Allies for women with psychological Challenges.

Contemplative Changemaking Grants

Healing and Resilience after Trauma (HaRT)

Joyce Christine Nakiwala