The Applied Mindfulness Conference
Mindfulness Meditation: Why Now?

West Chester University

Dean’s Office
Room 205 Sturzebecker Health Sciences Center
West Chester, PA  19383
610-436-2310
STRESSREDU@wcupa.edu


Friday Keynote Address

Mindfulness Meditation: Why Now?

Michael Carroll

Michael Carroll on :

Friday, November 11th, 2011 at 7:20 p.m.

in the Philips Autograph Library - West Chester University

Mindfulness meditation: Why now?

Our fast paced society offers remarkable opportunities as well as difficult challenges and paradoxes. Whether running a business, pursuing an education, or mastering a profession, we have access to unprecedented resources and exciting prospects. Yet too often we can find ourselves feeling harried, distressed, and, at times, out of touch with our experience. Rather than learning, we find ourselves "cramming"; instead of savoring, we end up "gulping". Rather than managing, we "hurry towards success". And, too often, rather than living our lives fully, we can often find ourwelves rushing past the very things we cherish the most.

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Michael Carroll is the author of Awake at Work (Shambhala 2004) and The Mindful Leader (Shambhala 2007) and over his 28 year business career has held executive positions with such companies as Shearson Lehman/American Express, Simon & Schuster and The Walt Disney Company. Michael has an active consulting and coaching business with client firms such as Procter & Gamble, Google, AstraZeneca, Viropharma, Starbucks, National Geographic Expeditions, Gilbane, Inc. and others

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Saturday Keynote Address

Principles of Neurotheology: Implications for Mindfulness Research

Michael Newburg

Dr. Andrew Newberg on:

Saturday, November 12th, 2011

at 9:35 a.m.

in Sykes Auditorium

 

This lecture reviews the major principles that are the foundation for future neurotheological research. The principles pertain to how science and religion must interact to successfully form this new field of study. The principles also consider how science itself is performed and the capabilities and limitations of science. A variety of theological and religious ideas will also be engaged as well as the specific topic of mindfulness. Additional questions include: How might neurotheology address important moral or theological questions? Can neurotheology provide a new understanding of the human mind, the human brain, and human consciousness and mindfulness? How can we become better or mindful thinkers? The principles described will be critical to the scientist, religious or spiritual person, and the general public as this highly important topic, neurotheology, is engaged.

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Andrew B. Newberg, M.D. is currently the Director of Research at the Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University and Hospital in Philadelphia.

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