Understanding Empathy and Compassion with Joan Halifax
Empathy and compassion are profoundly humanizing qualities. They are quite different as experienced. This program will explore both, with a strong emphasis on the transformative power of compassion.
Date and venue
It will be held on Zoom on Nov 20th from 6.30 pm to 8 pm GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), which corresponds to 7.30 to 9 CET (Central European Time).
Participation fee
To participate, a donation (dana) for the teacher and translator + annual membership card (25 euros) is required, to be paid via bank transfer to:
Associazione Sati Mudita – Iban IT83 E030 6909 6061 0000 0128 339 – Bic BCITITMM – Reason: Name and surname – Understanding Empathy and Compassion
Roshi Joan Halifax, Ph.D. is a Buddhist teacher, Founder and Head Teacher of Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a social activist, author, and in her early years was an anthropologist at Columbia University (1964-68) and University of Miami School of Medicine (1970-72). She is a pioneer in the field of end-of-life care. She has lectured on the subject of death and dying at many academic institutions and medical centers around the world. She received a National Science Foundation Fellowship in Visual Anthropology, was an Honorary Research Fellow in Medical Ethnobotany at Harvard University, was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Library of Congress, received the Pioneer Medal for Outstanding Leadership in Health Care by HealthCare Chaplaincy, the Sandy MacKinnon Award from Covenant Health in Canada, Pioneer Medal for Outstanding Leadership in Health Care, received an Honorary DSc from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. She has received many other awards and honors from institutions around the world for her work as a social and environmental activist and in the end-of-life care field. From 1972-1975, she worked with psychiatrist Stanislav Grof at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center with dying cancer patients. She has continued to work with dying people and their families, and to teach health care professionals and family caregivers the psycho-social, ethical and spiritual aspects of care of the dying. She is Director of the Project on Being with Dying, and Founder of the Upaya Prison Project that develops programs on meditation for prisoners. She is also founder of the Nomads Clinic in Nepal. Her books include: The Human Encounter with Death (with Stanislav Grof); The Fruitful Darkness, A Journey Through Buddhist Practice; Simplicity in the Complex: A Buddhist Life in America; Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Wisdom in the Presence of Death; Standing at the Edge:Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet; Sophie Learns to Be Brave; and her latest work, In a Moment, In a Breath. She has been involved with the Mind and Life Institute since its inception and is founder of the Varela International Symposium.
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