Contemplative Science Symposium Beyond Confines - Integrating Science, Consciousness and Society

October 25 - 27, 2019, Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany

Contemplative Science Symposium 2019 1 Welcome and Greetings

On behalf of Mind & Life Europe and all those who were involved in organizing this Symposium, we are delighted to welcome you to THE Contemplative Science Symposium ‘Beyond Confines - Integrating Science, Consciousness and Society’.

We have selected this overarching theme, and We hope to pose such and more questions, the different topics we will be examining, as we and offer, through our distinguished speakers recognize that in our world of increasing pro- and panelists, some indications for your own fessional specialization and focus, we need to thought processes. It is at the intersection of undertake sustained and deliberate efforts to modern science and established contemplative explore the value of interrelationships, collab- practices, and by engaging first person reflec- orations, and unlikely partnerships. It is when tive methods with third person scientific ap- we extend beyond our own personal and pro- proaches, that we can go beyond confines in fessional confines that we engage in what can these areas. It is our hope that in this process become a surprising alchemy of complex ap- we can contribute to human flourishing and the proaches that may be, and likely are, needed reduction of suffering. for deep systemic change. Both inter- and intra- thematic dialogue are needed to achieve a per - Beyond that, the Symposium offers you oppor- spective that is both broad and deep, just as tunities for different experiences, whether yoga, a combination of introspection and contempla- contemplation, singing, dance or discussions. tion can fructify scientific inquiry, and vice versa. We hope you can take full advantage of the This helps us move beyond confines, and this is architecture and structure of these few days. our hope and the purpose of this Symposium. We have gathered an outstanding group of di- verse presenters and practitioners from differ - The six topics - politics, nutrition, economics, ent fields and professional and scientific disci- philosophy, neuro-and cognitive science and plines to share with us over the coming days, education - form a set of engagements and dis- and engage, challenge and inspire our own ciplines that in a number of respects are defining thinking and ultimately our actions. If this can for society. Each is complex in its own right, and be enriched and supported by the discussions, it is our hope that we can explore innovations, meetings and encounters that often are a part of alternatives and developments, backed by re- such gatherings, the purpose of the Symposium search and science, as well as empirical evi- will be reached. dence, in each area. At the same time we hope to better understand how these domains can The Content Committee has therefore tried to effectively engage and fructify each other. create an event bringing together scholars, practitioners, artists and contemplatives and Each domain is multifaceted and has profound where senior researchers and scholars as well systemic dimensions. Yet we also recognize and as students and contemplative practitioners wish to legitimize the necessity of personal en- have a forum for engaged debate, exchange gagement and action, and the consciousness and encounter on these important themes. and state of mind that inform these engage- ments. It is here that personal transformation As a former Cistercian monastery, Veranstal- that includes contemplative practices can en- tungsforum Fürstenfeld was a place where hance and benefit traditional approaches. outward worldly distractions were replaced by quiet contemplation and reflection on the na- In other words, parallel to innovations in these six ture of the human being and its relationship to domains we can also ask: who is doing the in- a higher order. In a vastly different and contem- tegrating of science, how do we think about and porary context, we experience the value of ac- relate to our own consciousness and how can tively combining reflection and contemplative we connect these insights within our societies? practices with the exigencies and full demands

2 Contemplative Science Symposium 2019 Contemplative Science Symposium 2019 3 GREETINGS FROM FÜRSTENFELDBRUCK

of current life and science, rather than with- from the Symposium: 1) a new friend, colleague Dear Symposium Presenters and Guests, drawing from them. It is indeed the integration or collaborator, 2) a new idea or inspiration that and interconnection of science and conscious- you can utilize and integrate in your profession on behalf of the district of Fürstenfeldbruck I in the South of Germany, this former Cistercian ness that we feel will bring us beyond our con- or daily life, and 3) inspiration and a decision would like to welcome you here. I am very de- monastery is also a place of spirituality and con- fines and forward with societal issues. towards a new project, goal or activity. lighted that Fürstenfeldbruck can host you as templation. May this be a source of inspiration renowned scholars and experts from all over the for the Symposium. I wish you valuable insights We hope that in these few days we can actively Once again, our warm welcome and best re- world. The Event Forum Fürstenfeld is not only and a pleasant stay! encourage you to take away at least three things gards, one of the leading event and conference centers

MARTINA DRECHSLER Deputy District Administrator

Amy Cohen Varela Cornelius Pietzner Chair of the Board Managing Director

“ The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. ” ~ Albert Einstein

4 Contemplative Science Symposium 2019 Contemplative Science Symposium 2019 5 The Six Fields of the Symposium

Politics Education Nutrition Neuro- and cognitive science

Over the last 10 years, forms of contemplative ‘Beyond confines’ – the need for a connected Food and nutrition are at the heart of human and During the 21st Century, neuroscience and the practice have found their way into the domain of education. planetary wellbeing and existence. The World cognitive sciences have become increasingly im- government, particularly in the form of mindfulness Health Organization (WHO), the directing and portant for our understanding of what it is to be training programs undertaken by legislators for Education is at the heart of efforts to meet the coordinating global authority for health within the human. However, the shift in perspective from their own health, wellbeing and self-management. challenges that face us in the 21 st century, and United Nations system, broadly defines “health molecules, cells and networks to issues of mean- The fruits of this personal practice have since is deeply tied to all the themes of this Sympo- as a state of complete physical, mental and so- ing, value and understanding have not left these led some politicians to become interested in the sium. Traditional education has only partially cial well-being and not merely the absence of discipline(s) unaffected. Neuro- and the cogni- transformative potential for contemplative training addressed what it means to be fully educated, disease or infirmity”. tive sciences currently compose one of the most interventions at both interpersonal and policy lev- focused as it is almost exclusively on cognition important fields in this perspectival shift, and are els. Mindfulness training has now been delivered and knowledge, assessed by tests, within an By researching the effects of contemplative major actors in the transdisciplinary research nec- in various forms in 10 national legislatures, includ- ethos of individualistic competition and future practices and introspective methods on the hu- essary to move beyond confines and out of es- ing Denmark, France, Iceland, Ireland, Sweden personal gain. In the face of growing evidence, man mind and brain, contemplative science may tablished disciplinary silos and approaches. This and the Netherlands. Participants have reported classical education looks increasingly outdated be able to demonstrate that relatively simple panel brings together four innovative researchers that the training helps them to develop attention and out of synch with the needs of current so- practices such as meditation and mindfulness who, each from their position, have challenged control (including listening ability), impulse control, cieties. The pressures it creates only add to the can improve our mental health and social well- how and why one conducts neuroscience. perspective-taking and kindness. burgeoning mental health crisis in the young. being. Its application can be harnessed further We can and must do better by building an ed- to explore the untapped potential of contempla- The panel will focus on how mental exercise One of the first mindfulness courses for elect- ucation that connects us with ourselves, with tive practices in regulating food and eating hab- and contemplation affects neural processes, ed officials was established in the British Par- others and with the planet. its, lifestyles and overall health. and what that tells us about general workings liament in 2013, which, after about 18 months, of the brain. Collaborations between neuro- led to the formation of an All-Party Parliamenta- Our presenters will argue that in a rapidly chang- There is an increasing awareness of the impor - scientists and expert practitioners in meditation ry group on mindfulness (MAPPG). This policy ing world the skills and attitudes that are needed tance of food for our own wellbeing and the may open up a field of inquiry that challeng- group conducted a year-long inquiry into the are fundamentally personal, social, critical, con- wellbeing of our planet. It is hard to imagine es established conventions, e.g. about affect, science behind mindfulness and its implications templative and environmental. We need forms solving complex food related challenges and emotions and pain. These lines of research may for society. Members of the MAPPG increasing- of education that can help us be fully present improving our own wellbeing without ourselves have ethical potentials and implications, as they ly speak of the potential for mindfulness train- in our own lives, protect our own wellbeing and becoming more conscious about what and how come to address notions of truth and issues of ing to help transform the political process and work cooperatively with others to challenge the we eat, and how this impacts our health and the mental health and flexibility. Researchers in the policymaking culture itself, as well as reporting forces that are undermining social cohesion, environment we live in. The multi-dimensional field have become increasingly aware of the im- positive changes in relationships and behavior democracy, civilisation and the health of our relationship between food and mind is essential, portance of culture for these processes. Thus, in Parliamentary settings. Some politicians have planet. We need to understand and work with and relatively unexplored. cross-cultural research increasingly demon- suggested that training helps them to align their our mind/body and our evolutionary inheritance strates how a cultural framework may help to behavior with their values. In the last year, ini- and neurobiology. We will hear how innovators in In the Nutrition Panel we will hear from experts, interpret biological and neural events in partic- tiatives have emerged with the explicit intention education are finding ways to develop schools including scientific research that shows the ef- ular ways. This opens the way for a new under - of bringing more compassion into politics. Em- and universities which can cultivate the human- fectiveness of repeated mindful intervention by standing of brain processes: they are not just phasis at this stage is upon compassion as a ity of the whole person, including vital attributes ‘naïve’ meditators, the epigenetics of health and ‘free-floating’, but fundamentally embodied and consideration in policymaking, although there such as self-knowledge, emotional self-under- well-being, and perspectives from an interna- embedded in cultural contexts. are plans to deliver compassion training for leg- standing, resilience, compassion, connected- tional food production concern and the issues islators. As they develop a new kind of familiarity ness, contemplative awareness, critical judg- that it confronts in balancing financial impera- Such findings create a novel challenge for re- with their own inner lives, and feel the benefit of ment, and mindfulness. We will explore where tives, science, and the health of consumers. searchers: how do we create a shared lan- cultivating particular qualities of heart and mind, and how such shifts are already happening, the guage, which works across scientific disciplines some politicians are starting to ask whether theory, science and evidence that underpin this and cultural traditions? contemplative training like mindfulness might of- movement, and the practical ways in which we fer more than targeted interventions for specific can work together to help a new, more collabo- issues, and in fact contribute to the flourishing rative education become mainstream. of society more broadly.

6 Contemplative Science Symposium 2019 Contemplative Science Symposium 2019 7 Food at the Symposium

Philosophy Economics The Content Committee is pleased to provide May 2019, points out that biodiversity is decli- participants with meals. As nutrition is import- ning globally at rates unprecedented in human Philosophy is the bridge that takes us beyond “I look forward to the emergence of a new kind ant for our well-being, we wish to provide food history. This loss of biodiversity is directly linked the confines of natural science and contempla- of economic system that combines the dyna- that corresponds to ecological and ethical con- to human activities and particularly to intensive tive disciplines. Historically, Western philosophy mism of the market with an explicit concern for siderations, as well as to the current scientific farming. Agricultural expansion is the most wi- has been the conceptual matrix for ancient Greek more equitable distribution of its fruits” evidence of its impact on individual health and despread form of land use change, with over one and modern European science. But philosophy - His Holiness the Dalai Lama environment. third of the terrestrial land surface being used for also embodies a crucial aspect of contemplative cropping or animal husbandry. Nature, good he- disciplines. Indeed, philosophy at its highest in- More and more indices point to viable alternati- According to a recent University of Oxford stu- alth and biodiversity are essential for human exis- volves a powerful reflective gesture, a project of ves to the traditional models of competitive mar - dy, food production is responsible for more than tence and the quality of life for all sentient beings. full engagement of the knower in what is to be ket economies. We have a growing awareness a quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions, con- known. Maurice Merleau-Ponty put it this way: of the urgency of economic justice and equity tributing to global warming. Researchers found We carefully reviewed what food to provide “Philosophy is the set of questions in which what and a deeper understanding of how human and that the environmental impact of different foods during the Symposium and discussed diffe- is at stake is the one who questions”. ecological wellbeing are linked to indices other varies hugely. Their findings showed that meat rent aspects of the decision - emotional, ethi- than GDP or narrow financial metrics. It is evident and other animal products are responsible for cal, health, and ecological. Some members on Our inquiry will take the opportunity of this two- that a sense of decency and fairness in income more than half of food-related greenhouse gas the Committee felt that we should provide only fold ability of philosophy to act as a bridge be- distribution contributes to civil stability and that emissions, despite providing only a fifth of the vegetarian, or even vegan, food, while others tween the scientific and contemplative stances. a “common good” approach to the economy calories we eat and drink. felt that we should not decide on behalf of those The panel will first focus on phenomenology, a takes into account wider interests relevant to a who chose not to avoid meat and dairy. philosophical approach that works upstream of sustainable society than the highly individualistic Of all the products analysed in the study, beef scientific knowledge to disclose its source in interests of “raw capitalism”. This awareness can and lamb were found to have the most dama- We are aware of the impact our individual lived experience. Phenomenologies of the West take many concrete forms, such as the deploy- ging effect on the environment. They concluded choices have on the health of our planet, and will be compared with Indian Buddhist pheno- ment of investment capital for a “blended value” that cutting meat and dairy products from our at the same time we also want to respect indi- menologies. Such central concern for lived ex- of social and ecological benefits as well as finan- diet can reduce an individual‘s carbon footprint vidual choices. Accordingly, we decided to pro- perience will be further investigated in a work- cial return. from food by two-thirds. These findings echo re- vide 80% vegetarian and vegan fare and 20% shop about first-person approaches, including commendations on how individuals can lessen organic fish. Ultimately, we feel it is up to you to psychoanalysis, contemplative practices and Indeed, new models of a regenerative economy climate change by the Intergovernmental Panel mindfully decide what you want to eat. We hope microphenomenology. But the panel will also linked to principals found in nature are all gai- on Climate Change (IPCC). you enjoy the food at the Symposium! explore an alternative conception of everyday ning credence and receiving growing attention 1 and scientific knowledge that crucially involves and interest. These are just a few of the steady Poore & Nemecek, Reducing food’s environmental impacts through pro- Additionally, the report from the Intergovern- ducers and consumers, Science, 2018) 2 the first-person standpoint of the knower: Enac- signals heralding new approaches to economics, mental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity IPBES Global assessment for Policy makers – May 6th 2019 – UNESCO –Paris, France tion, a theory in which an organism does not business, banking and finance that embody hu- and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) released in www.ipbes.net/news/ipbes-global-assessment-summary-policymakers-pdf passively receive the world, but shapes it and is manistic values and an orientation towards col- shaped by it through an active interaction with it. laboration instead of competition. In the panel This study of alternative views of the process of and workshops on economics we will explore knowing will be further developed in a workshop neuroscientific research on pro-social behavior on “knowledge by resonance”, a concept de- reflected in economic principles, as well as the veloped in contrast to the idea that knowledge common good-and gift-economy, and personal is acquired through distance and control. accounts of transformation, among other issues.

8 Contemplative Science Symposium 2019 Contemplative Science Symposium 2019 9 Program Details

Friday, October 25, 2019 Saturday, October 26, 2019 Sunday, October 27, 2019

Experience: Experience: 07:00-08:00 07:00-08:00 Yoga (Ebner) 7 Dancing (Felber) 5 Meditation (Steindl-Rast) 1 Yoga (Ebner) 7 Dancing (Felber) 5 Meditation (Dunne) 1

08:00-08:30 Morning Coffee & Tea 2 08:00-08:30 Morning Coffee & Tea 2

Welcome & Organisation (Tolle); Welcome & Organisation (Tolle); 08:30-08:45 1 08:30-08:45 1 Experience: Meditation (Dunne) Experience: Meditation (Dunne)

Morning Coffee & Tea 08:45-09:00 2 08:45-09:00 Keynote (Tressel) 1

09:00-09:15 Keynote (Siegel) 1 09:00-09:15 Experience: Meditation (Steindl-Rast) 1

09:15-09:30 09:15-09:30

09:30-09:45 Welcome MLE (Cohen Varela, Pietzner) & Welcome (Drechsler) 09:30-09:45 1 Panel: Education Immordino-Yang, Siegel, Tressel, Weare (Roepstorff) 1 Opening Keynote: "Beyond Confines - A Personal Perspective" 09:45-10:00 09:45-10:00 (Steindl-Rast) 1 Panel: Nutrition Gaussères, Kaliman, Mayer, Papies (Hangartner) 1 10:00-10:15 10:00-10:15 Panel: Introduction to the Six Fields: Economics (Pietzner); Education (Weare); Philosophy (Bastien-Ventura); Politics (Grabbe); Neuro- and 1 10:15-10:30 10:15-10:30 Cognitive Science (Roepstorff); Nutrition (Hangartner) Coffee & Tea Break and Poster Session 2 10:30-10:45 10:30-10:45 Experience: Meditation (Halifax) 1 Experience: Singing (Wirth) 1 10:45-11:00 10:45-11:00 Workshops: Coffee & Tea Break 2 Coffee & Tea Break and Poster Session 2 11:00-11:15 H. Education: Siegel 1 11:00-11:15 I. Philosophy: Bitbol, Damiano, Morley 7 11:15-11:30 J. Cross-Over: Bristow, Felber, Gaussères (Tideman) 4 11:15-11:30 Experience: Singing (Wirth) 1 K. Cross-Over: Immordino-Yang, Kaliman, Papies, Tressel (Roepstorff) 5 11:30-11:45 11:30-11:45 Panel: Philosophy Carpenter, Damiano, Lysenko, Morley (Bitbol) 1 11:45-12:00 Transition Break 11:45-12:00 Panel: Neuro- and Cognitive Science Dunne, Immordino-Yang, Lutz, W. Singer (Roepstorff) 1 12:00-12:15 12:00-12:15 12:15-12:30 Panel: Cross-Over 12:15-12:30 Bristow, Gaussères, Immordino-Yang, Lysenko, Mehta, Siegel 1 12:30-12:45 (Pietzner) 12:30-12:45 Poster Introduction (Tolle) 1 12:45-13:00 12:45-13:00 Lunch 2

13:00-13:15 Closing (Pietzner) 1 13:00-13:15 Poster Session 2 13:15-13:30 13:15-13:30 Experience: Yoga (Ebner) 12:30-13:15 7 Lunch 2 13:30-13:45 13:30-13:45 Film Viewing (Pre-Premiere): Epochè 12:30-13:30 4 Poster Session 2 13:45-14:00 13:45-14:00 Lunch 2 Experience: Yoga (Ebner) 13:00-13:45 7 14:00-14:15 14:00-14:15 Poster Sessions 2 14:15-14:30 14:15-14:30 14:30-14:45 14:30-14:45 Panel: Economics Felber, Mehta, T. Singer, Wötzel (Pietzner) 1 14:45-15:00 14:45-15:00 15:00-15:15 15:00-15:15 Panel: Politics Bristow, Grabbe, Ruane, Ouwenhand (Tideman) 1 15:15-15:30 15:15-15:30 Transition Break 15:30-15:45 Film Viewing (German Premiere): 15:30-15:45 The Dalai Lama - Scientist 4 Workshops: 15:45-16:00 D. Economics: Felber, Mehta, T. Singer, Wötzel (Pietzner) 5 15:45-16:00 Transition Break 1 E. Nutrition: Gaussères, Kaliman, Mayer, Papies (Hangartner) 16:00-16:15 F. Philosophy: Bitbol, Cohen Varela, de Galbert, Halifax, 4 16:00-16:15 Rietdijk (Morley) Workshops: 16:15-16:30 G. Harmonic Presence: Hykes 7 16:15-16:30 A. Neuro- and Cognitive Science: Dunne, Immordino-Yang, 1 Lutz, W. Singer (Roepstorff ) Program subject to change. 16:30-16:45 B. Politics: Bristow, Grabbe, Ruane, Ouwenhand (Tideman) 5 C. Singing: Wirth 7 Coffee & Tea Break and Poster Session 2 16:45-17:00

17:00-17:15 1 Stadtsaal (civic hall): welcomes, panels, keynotes, closing; morning meditation; concert; workshops A, E, H Coffee & Tea Break and Poster Session 2 17:15-17:30 Keynote (Halifax) 1 2 Tenne (threshing-floor): lunch, breaks; poster session 17:30-17:45 Conversation (Halifax, Steindl-Rast) 1 4 Kleiner Saal (small hall): morning dancing; workshops F, J; films 17:45-18:00 Experience: Music (Hykes, Wirth) 1 5 Säulensaal (pillar hall): workshops B, D, I 18:00-18:15 Experience: Harmonic Presence (Hykes) 1 7 Seminarbereich (seminar area): morning yoga, lunch yoga; workshops C, G, K 18:15-18:30

18:30-18:45 Closing (Tolle) 1 For detailed locations, please see Venue Overview on the last page of this brochure. Concert - 20:00-21:30 Evening Daphne Rességuier and Fanny Kammerlander 1 Supporters Dinner (on invitation) - 19:30-21:00 4 Gabriela Montero (pianist & improviser) #beyondconfines # css19 #mindandlifeeu

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14 Contemplative Science Symposium 2019 Contemplative Science Symposium 2019 15 DAMIANO, Luisa the Revue de Psychologie Analytique, and enjoys Presenters Luisa Damiano (Ph.D. in translating articles on philosophy and psychoanal- Epistemology of Complex ysis from French into English. Leslie has followed Mind & Life Europe is deeply grateful to the presenters and artists for Systems) is Associate the Mind & Life Institute dialogues since their be- contributing their participation without fees. Professor of Philosophy of ginning in the 1980’s, and is an associate member Science at the University of of Mind & Life Europe. Messina (Italy), where she coordinates the Research Group on Epistemology of DUNNE, John D. BITBOL, Michel CARPENTER, Amber the Sciences of the Artificial (RG-ESA). Her main John D. Dunne (Ph.D. Michel Bitbol is a resear- Amber Carpenter (Yale- research fields are: Epistemology of the Scienc- 1999, Harvard University) cher at the CNRS/Ecole NUS College) has pub- es of Complex Systems; Epistemology of the serves on the faculty of Normale Supérieure, Par- lished widely on Plato’s Cognitive Sciences and Philosophy of Mind, with the University of Wiscon- is, France. He received a ethics, moral psychology, a focus on Cognitive Extension, Minimal Cogni- sin-Madison, where he M.D., a Ph.D. in Physics epistemology, and meta- tion, Inter-subjective Cognition, Embodiment and holds the Distinguished and a “Habilitation” in phi- physics; her monograph on Enaction; Philosophy of Biology, with a focus on Chair in Contemplative losophy. After a start in sci- Indian Buddhist Philosophy self-organization, Autopoiesis, Minimal Life, Ori- Humanities, a newly en- entific research, he turned appeared in 2014. She has gins of Life; Epistemology of the Sciences of the dowed position created through the Center for to Philosophy of Science, editing texts by Erwin held research fellowships with the Einstein Forum Artificial, with a focus on the Synthetic Modeling Healthy Minds. He also holds a co-appointment Schrödinger and formulating a neo-kantian phi- (Potsdam), the Templeton Religious Trust (‘Ethical of Life and Cognition, in particular in Synthetic in the Department of East Asian Languages and losophy of quantum mechanics. He then studied Ambitions and their Formation of Character’, The Biology and in Cognitive, Developmental and So- Literature and is participating in the creation of the relations between physics and the philosophy Beacon Project), the University of Melbourne, and cial Robotics. On these topics she wrote many a new program in Asian Languages & Cultures. of mind, in collaboration with Francisco Varela, the University of York. She continues to publish articles, published two books (Unità in dialogo, Previously, he was an Associate Professor in the and drew a parallel between Buddhist dependent about Greek and Indian Buddhist philosophy sep- Mondadori, Milano 2009; Living with robots, with Department of Religion at Emory University, where arising and non-supervenient relations in quan- arately, while also pursuing questions that bring P. Dumouchel, Harvard University Press, 2017) he co-founded the Collaborative for Contempla- tum physics. He also developed a first-person the two into critical conversation, focusing usu- and co-edited several journal special issues. Her tive Studies. conception of consciousness expressed from the ally on the ethical implications and underpinnings philosophical exploration of the above-mentioned John Dunne‘s work focuses on Buddhist philo- standpoint of an experience of meditation. More of metaphysical and epistemological arguments. domains of contemporary science is based on sophy and contemplative practice, especially in recently, he engaged a debate with the philosoph- She is currently co-editing a volume of Portraits ongoing collaborations with scientific teams (e.g., dialog with Cognitive Science and Psychology. ical movement called “speculative realism”, from of Integrity. University of Salento, Italy, and ELSI, Japan, SB-AI His publications appear in venues ranging across the same standpoint. Project; Ritsumeikan University Graduate School both the Humanities and the Sciences, and they of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Kyoto, Ja- include works on Buddhist philosophy, contem- COHEN VARELA, Amy pan, Artificial Empathy Project). plative practices and their empirical examination, BRISTOW, Jamie Amy Cohen Varela is Chair- and interpretation within scientific contexts. His Jamie Bristow is director person of the Mind & Life current research focuses especially on core fea- of the world‘s first policy Europe Board and involved DE GALBERT, Leslie tures—such as meta-awareness and dereifica- institute about mindful- with Mind and Life since Leslie de Galbert, B.A. in tion—that are found in numerous styles of con- ness, which grew out of its inception. She is also a Philosophy, Hollins Univer- templation. John Dunne speaks in both academic a program of mindfulness clinical psychologist spe- sity; D.E.S.S. in Clinical and public contexts, and he occasionally teaches teaching for politicians cialized in psychodynamic Psychology, University of for Buddhist communities. In addition to serving in the British Parliament. therapy and philosophy. Paris. She’s a member of as a faculty member for the Center for Healthy The Mindfulness Initiative Amy studied comparative literature at Brown and the International Associa- Minds, he is a Fellow of the Mind & Life Institute, provides the secretariat to the UK Mindfulness Columbia Universities before moving to Paris in tion of Analytical Psycho- where he has previously served on the Board of All-Party Parliamentary Group and helps politicians the early ‘80’s, where she received her degree in logy and the Association of Directors, and he is an academic advisor to the to publish the seminal Mindful Nation UK policy clinical psychology at the University of Paris 7, with Graduate Analytical Psychologists in Zurich. Born Ranjung Yeshe Institute in Kathmandu, Nepal. report. Jamie now works with politicians around a specialty in psychodynamic theory and practice, and raised in the United States, she has lived in the world to help them make capacities of mind and in parallel, completed psychoanalytic training. Paris, France since 1972. As a clinical psycho- and heart serious considerations of public policy. logist, Leslie worked in the public hospital sys- He was formerly Business Development Director tem in Paris, in geriatrics and palliative care. As a for the meditation app, Headspace. psychoanalyst, she had a private practice in Paris and was a member of the Société Française de Psychologie Analytique. Leslie has published arti- cles in the Cahiers jungiens de psychanalyse and

16 Contemplative Science Symposium 2019 Contemplative Science Symposium 2019 17 EBNER, Raphael different positions, he has been closely involved ence Foundation Fellowship in Visual Anthropolo- for ten years at the Cathedral of Saint John the Rafael Ebner is a Yoga in most of the nutrition research programs of Da- gy, was an Honorary Research Fellow in Medical Divine in New York and the first westerner to meet teacher working inde- none and contributed to scientific research behind Ethnobotany at Harvard University, and was a Dis- and collaborate with overtone musician-practi- pendently in Vienna, several brands. tinguished Visiting Scholar at the Library of Con- tioners from Tibet, Tuva, and Mongolia. David has Austria. He has previously gress. Between 1972 and 1975, she worked with offered concerts in sacred art and music festivals worked as a lawyer and psychiatrist Stanislav Grof at the Maryland Psychi- both East and West, for H.H. the Dalai Lama, Dz- event-manager. Rafael GRABBE, Heather atric Research Center with dying cancer patients. ongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche, Chokyi Ny- has explored a wide range Heather Grabbe is direc- She has continued to work with dying people and ima Rinpoche, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, the Rangjung of disciplines of Yoga as tor of the Open Society their families, and to teach health care professio- Yeshe Institute, the Gyuto Monks… and is a no- practitioner and teacher since more than 25 years. European Policy Institute nals and family caregivers the psycho-social, ethi- ted “sacred cinema” composer (Dzongsar Khyen- His main interest is to find and integrate the es- in Brussels. From 2004 to cal and spiritual aspects of care of the dying. She tse Rinpoche’s “Travelers and Magicians”, Peter sence of Yoga into his own life, and practice and 2009 she was senior advi- is Director of the Project on Being with Dying, and Brook’s “Meetings with Remarkable Men”, Ron work with his students. He is currently teaching a sor to then European Com- Founder of the Upaya Prison Project that develops Fricke’s “Baraka”, two films by Terrence Malick, discipline known as Yin-Yoga featuring a gentle, missioner for Enlargement programs on meditation for prisoners. She is also and many others). His artwork focused on the on- subtle and meditative approach to Yoga practice. Olli Rehn, responsible in founder of the Nomads Clinic in Nepal. She stud- going Harmonic Visions series, creating evocative In addition to teaching Yoga, Rafael is part of the his cabinet for the Balkans and Turkey. Before ied for a decade with Zen Teacher Seung Sahn visual mandalas and imagery with his voice and NGO „Hands with Hands“ supporting self-sustain- joining the commission, she was deputy direc- and was a teacher in the Kwan Um Zen School. special software, translating harmonics into cor- able help projects in Nepal, and involved in several tor of the Centre for European Reform, the Lon- She received the Lamp Transmission from Thich responding visual wave patterns. He was grant- projects in the areas of meditation, self-explora- don-based think tank, where she published widely Nhat Hanh, and was given Inka by Roshi Bernie ed awards from the UNESCO, the USA National tion and alternative living. on EU enlargement and other European issues. Glassman. A founding teacher of the Zen Peace- Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Founda- Her writing has appeared in the Financial Times, maker Order and founder of Prajna Mountain Bud- tion, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and The dhist Order, her work and practice for more than Edwards Art Fund, the Threshold Foundation and FELBER, Christian Guardian, among others. Her academic career four decades has focused on engaged Buddhism. the Flying Elephants Foundation. David has 12 Christian Felber is a writ- includes teaching at the London School of Eco- Her books include: The Human Encounter with albums to date, including “Hearing Solar Winds” er, university lecturer, IASS nomics, and research at Oxford and Birmingham Death (with Stanislav Grof); The Fruitful Darkness, and directs Pommereau, a contemplative retreat Affiliate Scholar and con- universities, the Royal Institute for International Af- A Journey Through Buddhist Practice; Simplicity center in France. temporary dancer in Vien- fairs (Chatham House, London), and the Europe- in the Complex: A Buddhist Life in America; Be- na. He is the initiator of the an University Institute (Florence). Her publications ing with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Wis- “Economy for the Com- include 2019 European Parliament Elections Will dom in the Presence of Death; and her recently IMMORDINO-YANG, mon Good” and the “Co- Change the EU’s Political Dynamics, Could an Illib- released Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Mary Helen operative for the Common eral Europe Work?, Defending EU Values in Poland Where Fear and Courage Meet. Mary Helen Immordi- Good”. He has also written several bestsellers in- and Hungary (with Stefan Lehne, 2017, Carnegie no-Yang is a Professor cluding Change everything - Creating an Economy Europe), The Closing of the European Mind –and of Education, Psycholo- for the Common Good and Money - The new rules How to Re-Open It, Can the EU Survive Populism? HYKES, David gy and Neuroscience at of the game, which was awarded the getAbstract and The EU‘s Transformative Power: Europeanisa- David Hykes is a com- the University of Southern International Book Award 2014. The Economy tion through Conditionality in Central and Eastern poser-singer, teacher of California. She studies the for the Common Good received the Zeit-Wissen Europe (2006, Palgrave). music and meditation, vi- psychological and neuro- Award in 2017. sual artist and conference biological development of emotion and self-aware- presenter. He founded the ness, and connections to social, cognitive and HALIFAX, Harmonic Presence Foun- moral development in educational settings. She GAUSSERÈS, Roshi Joan dation in 1981 to explore uses cross-cultural, interdisciplinary studies of nar- Nicolas Roshi Joan Halifax, Ph.D., resonant relationships be- ratives and feelings to uncover experience-depen- Dr. Nicolas Gausserès has is a Buddhist teacher, Zen tween mind, music, meditation and the medicine dent neural mechanisms contributing to identity, more than 25 years of ex- priest, anthropologist, and of healing harmonization. He shares the Harmon- intrinsic motivation, deep learning, and generative, perience in Research and pioneer in the field of end- ic Presence work internationally through retreats, creative and abstract thought. Her work has a spe- Innovation. His main sci- of-life care. She is Founder, conferences and concerts. He has been a con- cial focus on adolescents from low-SES commu- entific expertise is in nu- Abbot, and Head Teacher templative faculty member of Mind & Life Europe nities, and she involves youths from these com- trition, public health, nutri- of Upaya Institute and Zen and the Mind & Life Institute. In 1975, he founded munities as junior scientists in her work. A former tion physiology and eating Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She received Harmonic Chant, an approach to a primordial „mu- urban public junior high-school science teacher, behavior with a background in food science. He her Ph.D. in medical anthropology in 1973 and sic of the spheres“ based on the harmonic series, she earned her doctorate at Harvard University in has a strong experience in managing collabora- has lectured on the subject of death and dying at present in all music, and throughout the universe 2005 in Human development and Psychology and tive research programs and science innovation many academic institutions and medical centers since the beginning (the cosmic microwave back- completed her postdoctoral training in social-affec- in the food industry. In the last 25 years, through around the world. She received a National Sci- ground, or CMB). He was an artist-in-residence tive neuroscience with Antonio Damasio in 2008.

18 Contemplative Science Symposium 2019 Contemplative Science Symposium 2019 19 Since then, she has received numerous awards for science-cooking book on food for brain health with in Indian and Western civilizations. During the last and affords them a level of respect rarely found in her research and for her impact on education and the cook Miguel Aguilar, published by Odile Jacob 15 years, she has been studying methods and Western Medicine. He has been involved in doc- society, among them an Honor Coin from the U.S. (Nourrissez votre cerveau; 2017). She is the au- ideas of the Indian epistemology of perception umentary film productions about the Yanomami Army, a Commendation from the County of Los thor of La ciencia de la meditación: de la mente a (pratyaksha), debated by classical Buddhist and people in the Orinoco region of Venezuela, and the Angeles, a Cozzarelli Prize from the Proceedings los genes (The science of meditation: from mind to Brahmanical philosophers, and compares them Asmat people in Irian Jaya. He has recently co-pro- of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences edito- genes) published by Kairos in 2017. with some contemporary issues in Western phi- duced the award-winning documentary In Search rial board, and early career achievement awards losophy of consciousness. She has based this re- of Balance and is working on a new documentary from the AERA, the AAAS, the APS, the Interna- search on her translations into Russian of original Interconnected Planet. He is a strong believer in tional Mind, Brain and Education Society (IMBES), LUTZ, Antoine Sanskrit texts. For this project she has become a Buddhist philosophy, was a member of the UCLA and the Federation of Associations in Behavioral Dr. Antoine Lutz is inte- 2019 Grantee, The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foun- Zen Center for several years, and got married in a and Brain Sciences Foundation (FABBS). Immor- rested in understanding dation Program in Buddhist Studies. Her current Tibetan monastery by Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche in dino-Yang is a Spencer Foundation mid-career fel- the neural counterparts to academic activity is connected with her attempts Kathmandu. He regularly pursues meditative prac- low. She served on the U.S. National Academy of subjective experience and, to introduce -through intercultural, or cross-cultur- tices. Dr. Mayer has been interviewed on National Sciences committee writing How People Learn II: more generally, the mecha- al philosophical discourse -Indian and, especial- Public Radio, PBS and by many national and inter- Learners, Contexts and Cultures and on the Aspen nisms underlying mind- ly, Buddhist philosophy into the curriculum of the national media outlets including the Los Angeles Institute’s National Commission on Social, Emo- brain-body interactions. In contemporary consciousness studies in Russian Times, Atlantic Magazine and Stern and Spiegel tional and Academic Development. the first part of his research, philosophy and neuroscience. She contributed to Online. He has spoken at UCLA TEDx on the Mys- he is studying the role neuronal oscillations during the organization and development of the project terious Origins of Gut Feelings in 2015, and his various mental states (voluntary attention, emotion „Fundamental Knowledge“ dedicated to the dia- best-selling book The Mind-Gut Connection was KALIMAN, Perla generation). The emphasis of his work is in the use logue between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and published by Harper & Collins in July of 2016, now Dr. Kaliman holds a Ph.D. in of introspective, or first-person, data in order to Russian scientists. translated into twelve languages. Biochemistry from the Uni- understand the function of these large-scale dy- versity of Buenos Aires (Ar- namical processes (Neurophenomenology). In the gentina), specializing in the second part of his research, he is studying the re- MAYER, Emeran MEHTA, Nipun relationships between pro- lationship between mental training, as cultivated in Emeran A. Mayer is a gas- Nipun Mehta is the found- tein structure and function. contemplative traditions, and neuroplasticity. More troenterologist, neurosci- er of ServiceSpace.org, an She was a postdoctoral fel- precisely, he is looking at the impact of standard entist and Professor in the incubator of projects that low at the Faculty of Medi- meditation techniques on basic affective, cogni- Departments of Medicine, supports a gift culture. In cine-University of Nice (France), at the Faculty of tive and social functions and on the brain mecha- Physiology and Psychiatry his mid-twenties, Nipun Biology-University of Barcelona (Spain) and a vi- nisms that subserve these processes. at the David Geffen School quit his job to become a siting fellow at the School of Medicine-University of of Medicine at UCLA. He „full time volunteer“ and California San Diego, where her works focused on is the Executive Director of over the last 15 years, his cell signaling, differentiation and metabolism. Cur- LYSENKO, Victoria the G. Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of work has reached millions, attracted more than rently, she is a professor at the Universitat Oberta Victoria Lysenko, D.Sc. Stress and Resilience at UCLA, and co-director of 500 thousand volunteers, and mushroomed into de Catalunya (UOC) and a research collaborator in Philosophy (Institute of the CURE: Digestive Diseases Research Center. numerous projects like Daily Good, Awakin Cir- at the Center for Healthy Minds (University of Wis- Philosophy, RAS, 1998), As one of the pioneers and leading researchers in cles, and Karma Kitchen. Among his many presti- consin Madison) exploring the epigenetic impact is an indologist and bud- the role of mind-brain-body interactions in health gious accolades, President Obama appointed him of meditation, as well as in the Shamatha Project dhologist, chief researcher and chronic disease, his scientific contributions to on a council for social change, the Dalai Lama rec- at the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain. Her at the Institute of Philoso- U.S. national and international communities in the ognized him as an “Unsung Hero of Compassion”, professional activity includes scientific research on phy, Russian Academy of broad area of basic and translational enteric neu- and Germany’s OOOM magazine named him Top epigenetics of healthy lifestyles (nutrition, physical Sciences, where she star- robiology with wide-ranging applications in clinical 100 Most Inspiring People of 2018. Tirelessly, he exercise and meditation) and undergraduate and ted to work in 1990. Now she runs the Institute’s GI diseases and disorders is unparalleled. He has has addressed thousands of gatherings around postgraduate teaching at the universities of Bar- Department of Oriental Philosophies (since 2012). published more than 350 scientific papers, and the world, speaking next to wide-ranging leaders celona, Zaragoza, Strasbourg, Toulouse and Lyon. She graduated from the Philosophy department co-edited 3 books. He is the recipient of the 2016 from Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, to author She collaborates to a European research consor- at Lomonosov Moscow State University (1976), David McLean award from the American Psycho- Elizabeth Gilbert, to civil rights legend John Lew- tium, investigating the impact of meditation prac- and pursued her postgraduate studies at the In- somatic Society and the 2017 Ismar Boas Medal is. One of his most formative experiences was a tices on cell ageing. She also collaborates with the stitute for History of Science and Technology at from the German Society of Gastroenterology and six-month walking pilgrimage across India, with his international organization Innocence in Danger for the Russian Academy of Sciences (1976-1979). Metabolic Disease. His most recent work has fo- wife. This journey’s profound lessons also became the protection of children against all forms of vio- Victoria Lysenko’s philosophical concerns focus cused on the bidirectional interactions within the the subject of his widely read address at UPenn lence and abuse in Colombia. She has published on topics of Indian and intercultural perspectives brain gut microbiome axis and its role in inges- commencement. Nipun‘s mission statement in life numerous scientific articles, chapters and reviews. on thought. She elaborated the concept of ato- tive behavior, obesity, and chronic inflammatory reads: “To bring smiles in the world and stillness She co-edited the book Epigenetics of Lifestyle mistic mode of thinking, and on its basis proposed and functional diseases of the gut. Mayer has a in my heart.” (Bentham eBooks) and is the author of a neuro- a linguistic hypothesis on the origins of atomism long-standing interest in ancient healing traditions

20 Contemplative Science Symposium 2019 Contemplative Science Symposium 2019 21 MONTERO, Gabriela of contemplative thought and practices. After re- liament, together with Marianne Thieme, the party formed a cross-party group which held the Mindful Gabriela Montero was born ceiving a doctorate in Psychology from Duquesne leader. The Party for the Animals became the first Nation Parliamentary Inquiry in 2015. Since then, in Venezuela, where she University, he held teaching positions in Connecti- political party in the world to gain parliamentary Chris has spoken at many national and interna- made her solo debut at the cut, India, and the UK before returning to the U.S. seats with an agenda focused on a better future tional conferences on mindfulness in the political age of 5, and her concerto in 2003. At Ramapo College, he has served as for our planet and all its inhabitants. Esther is a setting, including Sydney, Toronto, Washington, debut at age 8. After study- president for his faculty and is the founding direc- political street fighter, praised by supporters and Aarhus, Nijmegen, Lyons, Paris, Dublin, Galway, ing at the Royal Academy tor of the Krame Institute of Contemplative Studies opponents for her strong debating skills and her Lisbon, Mexico City, Tallin, Brussels, Helsinki, of Music in London and and Mindful Living. His research interests are in knowledge. Her main dossiers are Biotechnology, Stockholm, Reykjavik, the Alpbach Forum and winning the bronze medal the phenomenology of imagination and the appli- Fisheries, Agriculture, Animal Welfare and Climate the UN. Working with the MI, he helped to intro- at the International Chopin Competition, Gabrie- cation of phenomenological thought to qualitative & Nature. In her free time, she likes to join a good duce mindfulness into 9 legislatures around the la came to international prominence, playing with methodology and South Asian thought. He co-ed- protest and talk to people on the streets about the world and developed mindfulness contacts with the world‘s most prestigious orchestras and in ited the text “Merleau-Ponty: Interiority and Exteri- food choices we make. a further 40 legislatures. This international activity the most celebrated concert halls, including the ority” (SUNY Press, 1999) and, with James Phil- culminated in the world‘s first international confer- New York, Los Angeles and London Philharmon- lips, a collection of essays titled “Imagination and ence for politicians who meditate, held in London ic Orchestras, the Chicago, Boston, Pittsburgh, its Pathologies” (MITPress, 2003). Since 2013, he PAPIES, Esther in 2017. Chris has also been a board member of Cleveland, Houston, Detroit and San Francisco has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Esther K. Papies (Ph.D.) is the OMC for the past four years. Chris‘ mindful- Symphony Orchestras, the Philadelphia Orchestra, of Phenomenological Psychology. Over several a senior lecturer at the Insti- ness journey has inspired a wider interest in the the Gewandhaus Orchestra, The Academy of St. years, he has also studied yoga in the Krisnam- tute of Neuroscience and issues of wellbeing and human flourishing. He Martin-in-the-Fields, the Zurich Kammerorches- acharya tradition and is a certified yoga instructor Psychology, University of re-established the cross-party group on Wellbeing ter, Wigmore Hall, the Berlin Philharmonic, the with an emphasis on breath practice and medi- Glasgow. Esther received Economics in the UK Parliament and will speak at Elb Philharmonic in Hamburg, and Carnegie Hall. tation. In 2017 and 2019, he participated in the her Ph.D. in 2008 from the OECD Conference on Wellbeing in October. Celebrated not only for her interpretations of the Mind and Life Contemplative Phenomenology re- Utrecht University, and Chris is also an officer on two further parliamentary classical repertoire, Gabriela is a prolific improviser, treats and supports the idea that phenomenology moved to Scotland with cross-party groups on the Human Gut and Art, composer and activist in the field of Human Rights, is an intrinsically contemplative practice as much her family in 2015. She studies the psychological Culture and Health. a portfolio of diverse disciplines that has led to a as it is also the basis for a contemplative approach interplay of personal motivation and environmental variety of appointments and awards. She has won to science. factors in health behavior. Her laboratory’s current a Latin Grammy as a pianist and composer for „Ex research addresses questions like: How does our RIETDIJK, Willeke Patria“ (2011), her composition protesting the col- living environment trigger healthy and unhealthy Growing up with Eastern lapse of Venezuela; 2 ECHO awards; 2 Grammy OUWEHAND, Esther desires, and what role does the body play in these philosophy and the teach- nominations; the Heidelberger Frühling Prize; the Already as a teenager processes? How can we shape these processes ings of J. Krishnamurti, she Rockefeller Award, and the Beethoven Prize for Esther thought that our to foster healthy and sustainable behavior? How developed a strong interest Music and Activism. Gabriela is the first Honorary society should deal with do health inequalities arise, and how can we re- early on in how as humans Consul of Amnesty International, and has spoken animals more respectfully. duce them? Esther is passionate about combi- we can fulfil our deepest twice at the World Economic Forum in Davos. In After her study in Policy, ning fundamental laboratory work with field exper- potential, psychologically 2009, Gabriela was invited to play at the inaugu- Communication & Organi- iments, and about developing effective strategies and spiritually. This led her ration of US President Barak Obama. Her disco- zation at the Free Univer- to enhance people and planet health, including to study clinical psychology and psychology of graphy includes four solo albums on the EMI label, sity in Amsterdam, she mindfulness-based strategies. religion at the Radboud University Nijmegen, the and two orchestral albums on the Orchid Classics became a marketing manager for a magazine Netherlands, graduating in 1997, whilst keeping Label. Her most recent recording, released in Sep- publisher. Her plan was to work in a commercial RUANE, Chris engaged in Eastern religion and philosophy. tember 2019, includes her own Piano Concerto environment for about ten years, and then use her Chris Ruane is a British After working as a psychologist she moved to En- No.1, the „Latin Concerto“. This July, Gabriela experience to create a better world for animals Member of Parliament who gland to become a residential teacher at an interna- made her Carnegie Hall debut performing her own and humans alike. After about five years, howev- was first elected in 1997. tional secondary school founded by Krishnamurti, a piano Concerto. er, she had seen enough of the business world. Chris was a teacher and form of contemplative education. She worked here She had lost her faith in the animal-friendliness of deputy head teacher in for five years in various roles, and qualified with a status quo political parties, and she was imme- a large Catholic Primary Master’s of Education alongside, before transition- MORLEY, James diately enthusiastic about the idea of a party that school prior to being elect- ing into educational research at the University of James Morley is a Profes- stands up for animal interests and the future of our ed. He has been practicing Southampton. She was involved with a range of sor of Clinical Psycholo- planet. She joined the Party for the Animals. In the mindfulness for the past 12 years. Working with educational projects here for 10 years, and, follow- gy at Ramapo College of two years that followed, she set up the party orga- Oxford University Mindfulness Centre (OMC) and ing her lifelong interests, conducted Ph.D. research New Jersey. He grew up nization, coordinated campaigns, developed their Professor Lord Richard Layard of the LSE, he in- on micro-phenomenological processes and mech- near New York City where website, supported newly created working groups troduced mindfulness into the UK Parliament in anisms of insight meditation alongside, which she he was fortunate to be and provided training. After the 2006 Dutch par- January 2012. With the help and support of the will defend this autumn. exposed to many forms liamentary elections, Esther was elected to par- Mindfulness Initiative (MI), Parliamentarians then Francisco Varela’s and Claire Petitmengin’s work

22 Contemplative Science Symposium 2019 Contemplative Science Symposium 2019 23 have been key influences to her thesis, and Mind & SINGER, Tania Brain Research in Frankfurt, Founding Director bers of religious orders in the United States and Life Europe events such as the Contemplative Phe- Tania Singer is the scientif- both of the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Stud- Canada. Since the 1970s Brother David has been nomenology workshops have been inspirational. ic head of the Social Neu- ies (FIAS) and of the Ernst Strüngmann Institute a member of cultural historian William Irwin Thomp- Her academic study of meditation has been deeply roscience Lab of the Max for Neuroscience (ESI) and Director of the Ernst son’s Lindisfarne Association. interwoven with her personal Vipassana practice Planck Society in Berlin. Strüngmann Forum. His research focuses on the For decades, Brother David divided his time be- and her training and practice as a mindfulness After doing her Ph.D. in neuronal substrate of higher cognitive functions, tween periods of hermit’s life and extensive lecture teacher to adults and children. In 2018 she ob- Psychology at the Max and especially on the question how the distri- tours on five continents. On a two-month lecture tained a European Varela Award (EVA) to conduct Planck Institute for Human buted sub-processes in the brain are coordinat- tour in Australia, for example, he gave 140 lec- further studies into the micro-phenomenology of Development in Berlin, ed and bound together in order to give rise to co- tures and traveled 12,000 miles within Australia insight meditation. Currently she is post doc at the she became a Post-doctoral Fellow at the same herent perception and action. These studies are without backtracking. His wide spectrum of audi- Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam, investigating chil- institution, at the Wellcome Department of Ima- performed with electrophysiological techniques ences has included starving students in Zaire and dren’s phenomenological experiences of wonder ging Neuroscience, and at the Institute of Cognitive in behaviorally trained monkeys and with non-in- faculty at Harvard and Columbia Universities, Bud- and the importance of wonder in the classroom. Neuroscience in London. In 2006, she first became vasive imaging methods in human subjects. dhist monks and Sufi retreatants, Papago Indians Assistant Professor and later Inaugural Chair of So- and German intellectuals, New Age communes cial Neuroscience and Neuroeconomics as well as and Naval Cadets at Annapolis, missionaries on SIEGEL, Daniel J. Co-Director of the Laboratory for Social and Neural STEINDL-RAST, David Polynesian islands and gatherings at the United Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. is a Systems Research at the University of Zurich. Be- David Steindl-Rast was Nations, Green Berets and participants at inter- graduate of Harvard Medi- tween 2010 and 2018 Tania Singer was the direc- born Franz Kuno Steindl- national peace conferences. Brother David has cal School and completed tor of the department of Social Neurosciences at Rast on July 12, 1926, in brought spiritual depth into the lives of countless his postgraduate medical the Max Planck Institute of Cognitive and Human Vienna, Austria, and spent people whom he touches through his lectures, his education at UCLA with Development in Leipzig. Her research focus is on his early years there and in workshops, and his writings. training in pediatrics and the foundations of human social behavior and the a small village in the Alps. He has contributed to a wide range of books and child, adolescent, and adult neuronal, developmental, and hormonal mecha- He spent all of his teen periodicals from the Encyclopedia Americana and psychiatry. He is currently a nisms underlying social cognition and emotions, years under the Nazi occu- The New Catholic Encyclopedia, to the New Age clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School such as empathy and compassion. Moreover, she pation, was drafted into the army, but never went Journal and Parabola Magazine. His books have of Medicine, founding co-director of UCLA’s Mind- investigates the psychological and neuroscientific to the front lines. He eventually escaped and was been translated into many languages. Gratefulness, ful Awareness Research Center, founding co-in- effects of mental training, mindfulness, and com- hidden by his mother until the occupation end- the Heart of Prayer and A Listening Heart have vestigator at the UCLA Center for Culture, Brain passion on brain, mind, health, and cooperation. ed. After the war, Franz studied art, anthropology, been reprinted and anthologized for more than two and Development, and executive director of the Prof. Singer is the Principal Investigator of the Re- and psychology, receiving an MA from the Vienna decades. Brother David co-authored Belonging to Mindsight Institute, an educational center devoted Source Project, a large-scale one-year longitudinal Academy of Fine Arts and a Ph.D. from the Uni- the Universe (winner of the 1992 American Book to promoting insight, compassion, and empathy in mental training study, co-funded by the European versity of Vienna. In 1952 he followed his family Award), a dialogue on new paradigm thinking in individuals, families, institutions, and communities. Research Council. She holds a cooperation with who had emigrated to the United States. In 1953 science and theology with physicist, Fritjof Capra. Dr. Siegel’s psychotherapy practice spans thirty the economist Prof. Snower on the topic of Caring he joined a newly founded Benedictine community His dialogue with Buddhists produced The Ground years, and he has published extensively for the Economics. They investigate how biology and psy- in Elmira, NY, Mount Saviour Monastery, where he We Share: Buddhist and Christian Practice, co-au- professional audience. He serves as the Found- chology can inform new economic models and de- became “Brother David.” In 1958/59 Brother David thored with Robert Aitken Roshi. His most recent ing Editor for the Norton Professional Series on In- cision-making. Tania Singer is the author of more was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University, books are Words of Common Sense for Mind, terpersonal Neurobiology which includes over 70 than 150 scientific articles and book chapters. She where he also became the first Roman Catholic Body and Soul; Deeper than Words: Living the textbooks. Dr. Siegel’s books include his five New has published her findings in many high-impact to hold the Thorpe Lectureship, following Bishop Apostles’ Creed; 99 Blessings: An Invitation to Life; York Times bestsellers: Aware: The science and peer-reviewed journals and edited together with J.D.R. Robinson and Paul Tillich. The Way of Silence: Engaging the Sacred in Daily practice of presence; Brainstorm: The Power and Matthieu Ricard the two books Caring Economics After twelve years of monastic training and studies Life; Faith beyond Belief: Spirituality for our Times; Purpose of the Teenage Brain; Mind: A Journey (2015) and Power and Care (2019). in philosophy and theology, Brother David was sent and his autobiography, i am through you so i. to the Heart of Being Human, and two books with by his abbot to participate in Buddhist-Christian Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D.: The Whole-Brain Child dialogue, for which he received Vatican approval and No-Drama Discipline. His other books in- SINGER, Wolf in 1967. His Zen teachers were Hakuun Yasutani TRESSEL, Jamila clude: The Developing Mind (2nd Ed.), The Pock- Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Roshi, Soen Nakagawa Roshi, Shunryu Suzuki Ro- Jamila Tressel is a young et Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology, Mindsight, Wolf Singer studied Me- shi, and Eido Shimano Roshi. He co-founded the author, speaker, trainer and The Mindful Brain, The Mindful Therapist, Parent- dicine in Munich and Paris, Center for Spiritual Studies in 1968 and received coach, empowering young ing from the Inside Out (with Mary Hartzell, M.Ed.) obtained his MD from the the 1975 Martin Buber Award for his achievements people to unfold their po- and The Yes Brain (also with Tina Payne Bryson, Ludwig Maximilian Uni- in building bridges between religious traditions. To- tential and make a change. Ph.D). He has been invited to lecture for the King versity in Munich, and his gether with Thomas Merton, Brother David helped After many negative expe- of Thailand, Pope John Paul II, His Holiness the Ph.D. from the Technical launch a renewal of religious life. From 1970 on, riences in the traditional Dalai Lama, Google University, and TEDx. University in Munich. He he became a leading figure in the House of Prayer school system, she started is Director em. at the Max Planck Institute for movement, which affected some 200,000 mem- to campaign for a drastic change of the education

24 Contemplative Science Symposium 2019 Contemplative Science Symposium 2019 25 system at 12 years old and since then has been Thich Nhat Hanh and gives regular Dharma talks WÖTZEL, Rudolf speaking at national and international conferences at Sharpham Barn retreat center. Rudolf Wötzel, born in and leading trainings for students, teachers and 1963 in Munich, studied managers, often in collaboration with her former at the university in Mu- headmistress Margret Rasfeld, founder of “Schule WIRTH, Gerald nich and further received a im Aufbruch” (Schools in Transformation). In order Gerald Wirth received his Master of Business Admin- to give children a voice in the education debate first musical training as istration at the renowned she wrote a book with two fellow schoolmates a member of the Vien- INSEAD Institute before his when she was 14 and they received the EduAction na Boys Choir and at the career led him to positions Award for their engagement in 2018. Her goal is Anton Bruckner University as top management consultant and investment to inspire other people to change the school sys- in Linz, Austria, where he banker. Today, he devotes his summer time to tem so that other students will get to experience a studied voice, oboe and Gemsli, a traditional hut in the Alps near Klosters happy and sustainable time in school as well. piano. In 2001, he became in Switzerland and moreover considers himself to the artistic director of the Vienna Boys Choir and be „entrepreneur of his life“. in 2013, its president. Wirth was a choirmaster WEARE, Katherine of the Vienna Boys Choir and chorus master at Katherine Weare is known the state theater Salzburg. After 1991, he took internationally for her work over the direction of the Calgary Boys’ Choir, and on cultivating well-being, became the musical director of the Calgary Civic mental health and mind- Symphony in Canada. Gerald Wirth has conduc- fulness in education, and ted choirs and orchestras all over the world. He has published widely in the holds workshops all over the world, and can get field, developing both the- practically anyone and anything to sing. Most of ory and the evidence base his compositions are vocal works. He has written and advising policy makers and governments three children’s operas, several large oratorios, such as the UK government, EU and WHO. She masses, motets, and songs. “Carmina Austriaca”, has developed and led programs and practical his most recent large-scale work, is a cycle of “ This world is our dance together - not my projection, nor yours: it‘s something strategies across most European countries in- medieval songs for large orchestra, mixed chorus, we do together, and what we do changes what the world is like. cluding the UK’s Social and Emotional Aspects and boys’ choir. Gerald Wirth is often inspired by ” of Learning (SEAL) program, and the European myths and philosophical texts. Over the years he ~ Francisco J. Varela Network of Health Promoting Schools. She has developed his own method of music pedagogy. In recently been appointed as co-lead for Educa- 2003 he founded the Wirth Music Academy in or- tional Policy for the UK government’s Mindfulness der to educate music teachers and choir directors Initiative, guiding national policy and practice sur- according to the Wirth method which combines rounding mindfulness and wellbeing. She is an classical music theory, consciousness for sound, associate member for Mind & Life Europe and training in listening, rhythm training and singing principle investigator on an ambitious new initia- within a holistic approach. Gerald Wirth trains tive to develop a ‘Community of Contemplative teachers in schools with little or no access to mu- Education’ Europe. She leads the postgraduate sic, and supports a number of organizations offer- diploma/MSc course on Mindfulness Based Ap- ing workshops for refugees –children and adults proaches at the University of Exeter and teaches -in Jordan, Greece and other countries. To him, MBCT/MBSR courses to a wide range of groups. music is the language of emotions understood by Her recent book, co-written with Thich Nhat Hanh everyone; through music, other subjects become ‘Happy Teachers Change The World: a guide to accessible. “Music is a gateway to learning, and cultivating mindfulness in education’ has proved this is particularly important for children who have to be a best seller, and is currently being translat- never been to a school.” He is convinced music ed into a wide range of languages and launched has a positive influence on every aspect of a per- across the world. She lives with her family and son’s being. various animals in Devon in the UK, where she is nourished by regular contact with wilderness and nature. She is supported by a somewhat eclectic personal practice, inspired particularly by vipas- sana, secular Buddhism and the teachings of

26 Contemplative Science Symposium 2019 Contemplative Science Symposium 2019 27 Experiences at the Symposium

We are grateful to offer three extraordinary events and meditation they come to see the contours of during the Symposium. specific micro-acts and micro-events that appear to be key for our ability to suspend judgment.

Piano Concert Directed by Christian Suhr and Claire Petitmengin; filmed Friday, October 25, 2019 (20:00) by Christian Suhr; edited by Mette Bahnsen. Produced by Christian Suhr, Mette Bahnsen, Claire Petitmengin, Natalie Depraz, and Michel Bitbol. Concluding the first day, Symposium participants A Mind & Life Europe workshop produced by the Initiative are invited to a special musical event. for Contemplative Phenomenology (ICP).

The evening begins with a performance by young composer Daphne Rességuier, who has com- Film Screening (German Premiere): posed an original piece for the Symposium and will “The Dalai Lama: Scientist” perform it on the piano. Daphne will be joined by Sunday, October 27, 2019 (15:00) Munich-based cellist Fanny Kammerlander. Mind & Life Europe will host the German premiere The program continues with Gabriela Montero, who of the film “The Dalai Lama: Scientist” on Sunday is known worldwide for her extraordinary piano im- afternoon. Around the world, His Holiness the Dalai provisations. “Montero’s playing had everything: Lama is one of the most recognized leaders on crackling rhythmic brio, subtle shadings, steely pow- our planet today. Everyone knows him as a man er in climactic moments, soulful lyricism in the rumi- of peace, a great Buddhist teacher, an advocate native passages and, best of all, unsentimental ex- for humanity. “The Dalai Lama: Scientist” tells the pressivity” Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times. story of the man you do not know; the Dalai Lama that very few people have seen. For the past thir- ty-five years, The Dalai Lama has been engaged in Film Screening (Pre-Premiere): an ongoing series of dialogues with leading, world “EPOCHÈ” class scientists. They have covered subjects rang- Saturday, October 26, 2019 (12:30) ing from quantum physics and cosmology to neu- robiology and destructive emotions. On Saturday during the lunch break, we will present a pre-premiere of the film “Epochè”. The film cen- “The Dalai Lama: Scientist” immerses the viewer ters around the following questions: the suspension in these profound dialogues, explores the correla- of verbal and perceptive judgments on lived expe- tions between science and Buddhism; and shares rience is the common ground of both phenome- personal life experiences from The Dalai Lama that nology and meditative practice. But how does one have had a deep impact on his development as a suspend judgment? How does it feel? What kinds of world leader - and also, on the world itself. As the understanding of ourselves and our relation to others Dalai Lama says, “While scientific findings offer a and to the world may unfold through this particular deeper understanding of such fields of knowledge operation? as cosmology and neuroscience, it seems that Buddhist explanations can sometimes give scien- In May 2019, 40 phenomenologists and medi- tists a new way to look into their own field of study.” tators met near the Loire valley (France) to form a living laboratory. Their purpose was to investi- An international assembly of distinguished personalities gate the experience of épochè, a central concept helped to produce the film. in phenomenology, often referred to as the act of Executive Producers: Ivan Suvanjieff and Barry Hershey. suspending judgment. This film documents how Producers: Rip and Jacque Gellien. Associate Producers: Victoria Silvstedt and Emma Bean- new understandings emerge in interactions be- land of Monaco. tween phenomenologists and experienced medi- The film is the sixth title in PeaceJam’s Nobel Legacy Film tators. Through microphenomenological interviews Series. Written and Directed by Dawn Gifford Engle.

28 Contemplative Science Symposium 2019 Contemplative Science Symposium 2019 29 Poster Sessions

Education Economics

The Value of Transpersonal Research Methods for Studying Yoga and Mindfulness in Bethany Butzer - University of New York in Prague Yoga, Mindfulness and Consumerism Ph.D. Audrey Girard, HEC Montreal Schools

The FO-CO program: an intervention to promote socioemotional learning and Ph.D. Tatiana de Castro Amato¹ - UNIFESP/NEPSIS; Emérita Sátiro Opaleye; Isabel compassionate living among vulnerable adolescents in Brazil. Weiss; Juliane Almeida; Carla Zuquetto; Juliana Grasso; Ana Regina Noto Nutrition

Mindfulness and reactivity to food: The role of domain specificity in a brief decentering Betül Tatar; Ph.D. Esther K. Papies - University of Glasgow Mindfulness-Based Design Practice (MBDP): A Novel Mindfulness-Based Learning induction Ph.D. Kumanga Andrahennadi Framework for Designers within 21st Century Higher Education

Philosophy Neuro- and Cognitive Science Complementarity of Spiritual Traditions Through Interfaith Dialogue and Academic Corina Greven1 ; Nienke Sieblink2; Shireen Kaijadoe2; Fylis van Horssen1; Josanne Isaac Portilla - University of St Andrews Mindfulness for children with ADHD and their parents: Holtland1; Prof. Susan Bogels3; Prof. Jan Buitelaar1; Prof. Anne Speckens1 - 1 Research Feasibility and effects Radboud Univeristy Medical Centre, Nijmegen; 2 Karakter Child and Adolescent Psychiatry University Center; 3 University of Amsterdam Kim Lien van der Schans¹; Junior professor Johan Karremans¹; Jacques van Politics Effects of mindfulness training on pro- and anti-social orientations, Damme²; Teun-Pieter de Snoo²; Prof. Rob Holland¹ - and individual well-being among the Dutch Police. ¹ Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen; ² Police Academy, The Netherlands A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Effects of a Mindfulness-Based Intervention on Otto Simonsson¹; Stephen Fisher¹; Maryanne Martin¹; Prof. John Jost²; Vivien Political Attitudes Among University Students Hasan¹; Mehul Vaghani¹ - ¹ University of Oxford; ² New York University Karin Matko¹; Prof. Peter Sedlmeier¹; Ph.D. Holger Bringmann² - Differential and Incremental Effects of Mantra Meditation, ¹ Chemnitz University of Technology; ²Charité – Physical Yoga Exercises and Ethical Principles of Yoga Universitätsmedizin Berlin Mindful governance, can mindfulness based behavioural economics improve decision Ph.D. Rachel Lilley - Aberystwyth University making, address bias and support more collaborative government?

Ritesh Mariadas; Prof. Peter Sedlmeier; Saskia Fischer - TU Chemnitz - Towards measuring the Brahmaviharas and the Trivisa Institut für Psychologie Other Clara Snijders¹; Ph.D. Julian Krauskopf; Ph.D. Ehsan Pishva; Ph.D. Lars Eijssen; Circulating serum microRNAs as potential biomarkers of post-traumatic stress disorder: Barbie Machiels; Jos Kleinjans; Gunter Kenis; Daniel van den Hove; Marco Boks; Ph.D. Emerita Satiro Opaleye¹; Ph.D. Mayra Pires Alves Machado¹; Prof. Sarah Feasibility of Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention to Treatment for Substance Use A pilot study Christiaan Vinkers; Eric Vermetten; Elbert Geuze; Bart Rutten; Laurence de Nijs - ¹ Bowen²; Prof. Ana Regina Noto¹ - Disorders in Brazil: A mixed methods analyses Maastricht University ¹ Universidade Federal de São Paulo; ² Pacific University

Mindfulness intervention effects on the anticipatory cognitive appraisals and associated Liudmila Gamaiunova¹; Prof. Pierre-Yves Brandt¹; Prof. Matthias Kliegel² - cardiovascular profiles. ¹University of Lausanne; ² University of Geneva Understanding Wrong Mindfulness for Right Mindfulness. Heena Kamble - University of Mumbai

From thoughtless awareness to effortful cognition: alpha - theta cross-frequency Julio Rodriguez-Larios; Prof. Kaat Alaerts - KU Leuven - University of Leuven Contemplative Scientific Collaboration: a CERN-inspired vision for a mindful academic Ph.D. Wolfgang Lukas - Contemplative Scientific Collaboration / Yoga Science dynamics in experienced meditators during meditation, rest and arithmetic culture Foundation

Ruth Levin-Vorster¹; Prof. Fleur M Howells¹; Ph.D. Laurie Rauch¹; The neurobiological markers of a Theatre-Based Relational Health Intervention: an Ph.D. Natalie Cunningham² - ¹ University of Cape Town; ² University electroencephalography and heart rate variability study. Humanization, the working alliance and perception of related outcomes. Natalia Mineeva - Higher School of Economics Moscow of Pretoria

Ph.D. Masahiro Fujino¹; Ph.D. Yoshiyuki Ueda¹; Prof. Vimara Inoue²; Yuuki Ooishi³; Evidence of Difference in Emotion Regulation between Focused Attention Meditation Ph.D. Norimichi Kitagawa; Prof. Michio Nomura¹ - ¹Kyoto University; Nature and ecological research as a phenomenological path to human welfare and Ph.D. Carolina Puerta-Piñero - Institute of Agricultural Research and Training of and Open Monitoring Meditation ²Health Science University; ³ NTT Communication Science Laboratories; Ritsumeikan environmental sustainability Andalusia (IFAPA) University

Heather McDonald¹; Mariam Babunashvili; Ariane Finn; Prof. Paul Chadwick; Investigating the Relationship between Positive Schizotypy, Ph.D. Lucia Valmaggia; Ph.D. Elena Antonova - ¹King's College London, Using mindfulness-acceptance-commitment trainings to improve the mental health the Experience of Creativity and Mindfulness Karoly Schlosser - Goldsmiths, University of London Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience astronaut crews and flight controllers

Selflessness and Happiness in Everyday Life: An Experience Sampling Method Based Nicolas Pellerin; Prof. Eric Raufaste; Prof. Michael Dambrun - France Study Ethics in Action: Engaged Ethnography in the Silver Santé Study Mareike Smolka - Maastricht University

Emily Thomas¹; Ph.D. Tom Freeman²; Patrick Poplutz¹; Kane Howden¹; Ph.D. Contemplating a ‘smart’ drug: A randomized controlled experimental study of Chandni Hindocha¹; Ph.D. Michael Bloomfield¹; Ph.D. Sunjeev Kamboj¹ - ¹University Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Cardiovascular Disease and Risk Factors in the modafinil’s interaction with a brief mindfulness-based attentional strategy Tonya Sanchez - Brown University College London; ²University of Bath United States: A Systematic Review of Effectiveness and Implementation Data

Meditation-based lifestyle modification (MBLM): a mind-body program for mental health Holger Carl Bringmann - Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin and human flourishing

30 Contemplative Science Symposium 2019 Contemplative Science Symposium 2019 31 Mind & Life Europe Contemplative Science Symposium

Mind & Life Europe is a non-profit association, Mind & Life Europe convenes and catalyses ORGANISING TEAM BOARD OF DIRECTORS based in Switzerland, that bridges contemplative diverse platforms and activities for developing Alfred Tolle Amy Cohen Varela practices with modern research to understand the approaches to pioneering research in the con- Symposium Director Charles-Antoine Janssen mind and cultivate the heart. Established in 2008, templative sciences and applied areas reaching Astrid Lunkes it operates in geographical Europe. from education to nutrition, philosophy, neuro- Cornelius Pietzner Erick Rinner phenomenology and neuroscience. Activities Managing Director Andreas Roepstorff Mind & Life Europe and the Mind & Life Institute include, among others, an annual Summer Institute, Wolf Singer (USA) have a shared mission to alleviate suffering Contemplative Science Symposia, and initiatives Nina Bürklin Christian Thalhammer and promote human flourishing worldwide as part in applied fields, such as education. Communications Manager of the vision of their founders, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, neuroscientist Francisco Varela, and Mind & Life Institute is our sister organization. We Ute Brandes HONORARY BOARD businessman Adam Engle. have a shared history and values, but we are in- Executive Assistant dependent and autonomous and cover different Roshi Joan Halifax Together with the world’s leading scientists, con- geographic regions. We are grateful to see our Matthieu Ricard templative scholars and practitioners, Mind & Life collaborative relationship continue to grow. Tania Singer Symposium Content Committee Europe creates open and interdisciplinary dialogues between cutting-edge research and wisdom tradi- Catherine Bastien Ventura tions in order to enable unique collaborations for Diego Hangartner the advancement of contemplative science and Andreas Roepstorff applied practices.

Poster Review CommitteE Thorsten Barnhofer Giuseppe Pagnoni Fabienne Picard Donata Schöller Sander Tideman Katherine Weare

“ Clarity and insight arise in the gap between thoughts, the open ground of Being. ” ~ Francisco J. Varela

We would like to express our gratitude to all of our volunteers who helped us to go beyond confines with this event.

32 Contemplative Science Symposium 2019 Contemplative Science Symposium 2019 33 Special Thanks Venue Overview

Special Thanks to our Sponsors:

We would like to especially thank our financial supporters who helped to make this 1 Stadtsaal 2 Tenne Fußweg

nach Fürstenfeldbruck Mühlanger event possible. 3 Stadtsaalhof 14

4 Kleiner Saal MÜNCHEN, - Garrisson Institute International, Netherlands 5 Säulensaal P S-Bahnhof 6 Kartenservice/Verwaltung

- Hershey Family Foundation, USA 7 Seminarbereich - Philipp Haydn, Austria 8 Waaghäusl

Zisterzienser Weg - Hanna and Dieter Paulmann, Germany 9 Amperauen 10 Obstwiese/Spielplatz Fürstenfelder Straße 11 fürstenfelder Restaurant P 12 fürstenfelder Biergarten 13 fürstenfelder Seminarräume 14 fürstenfelder Hotel P 15 Neue Bühne Bruck 28 16 Radier-und Malwerkstatt P 17 Kulturwerkstatt Haus 10 27 18 Kunstwerkstatt Alte Schmiede H 10 29 2 26 19 Reitzentrum H 3 13 20 Seminarräume VHS 21 Bildungsagentur Fürstenfeld 4 11 1 12 S-Bahn 22 Klosterladen 1 21 23 Wirtshaus Klosterstüberl 5 6 8 20 24 Klostergalerie 7 22 23 25 Stadtmuseum 15 17 24 25 16 26 Klosterkirche 9 27 Polizeifachhochschule P 28 Barockgarten 29 Bauernmarkt 18 Am Engelsberg H Bushaltestelle 19 ÜBERSICHTSPLAN Fußweg n. Fürstenfeldbruck FÜRSTENFELD

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The Contemplative Science Symposium is a non-profit event. Mind & Life Europe is deeply grateful to the presenters and artists for contributing their participation without fees.

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