Organizations Filed Purposes:
BRIDGING SCIENCE AND CONTEMPLATIVE WISDOM TO FOSTER INSIGHT AND INSPIRE ACTION TOWARD FLOURISHING.
RESEARCH INSTITUTES: OUR 16TH ANNUAL SUMMER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, HELD AT THE GARRISON INSTITUTE IN JUNE 2019 WAS ENTITLED "EXPLORING MENTAL HABITS: CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICES AND INTERVENTIONS FOR INDIVIDUAL & SOCIAL FLOURISHING. THE EVENT ITSELF WAS CHARACTERIZED BY DIVERSITY OF PARTICIPANTS, WITH ATTENDEES FROM 19 COUNTRIES ACROSS 6 CONTINENTS, AND 50% OF ATTENDEES IDENTIFYING AS NON-WHITE.121 PARTICIPANTS AND 17 FACULTY WERE INCLUDED IN THIS PROGRAM.
MIND & LIFE CONVERSATION: WE HELD OUR INAUGURAL MIND & LIFE CONVERSATION IN OCTOBER 2019 IN DHARAMSALA, INDIA WITH A THEME OF "COMPASSION, INTERCONNECTION AND TRANSFORMATION". THE CONVERSATIONS WERE HELD BETWEEN THE DALAI LAMA AND TWO LEADING THINKERS AND SCIENTISTS FROM NORTH AMERICA AND AFRICA. THE THEMES WOVE IN TOPICS INCLUDING: BRIDGING AFRICAN WISDOM, SCIENCE, AND SPIRITUAL TRADITIONS TO REVEAL COMMON GROUND AND ACTIONABLE INSIGHTS; AS WELL AS DISCUSSIONS ABOUT A PARADIGM SHIFT IN EVOLUTIONARY SCIENCE AND THE ROLE THAT CONSCIOUS EVOLUTION CAN PLAY IN A SHARED VISION OF A WHOLE WORLD ETHIC TO UNITE PEOPLE IN PURSUIT OF THE COLLECTIVE GOOD. THE CONVERSATION STAYED TRUE TO THE ORIGINAL SPIRIT AND FORMAT OF THE EARLIEST MIND & LIFE DIALOGUES, AND WAS ALSO BROADCAST TO THE WORLD VIA MODERN LIVESTREAM TECHNOLOGY AND HAS BEEN VIEWED OVER 70,000 TIMES..
GRANT PROGRAMS: IN 2019, MIND & LIFE OFFERED 3 GRANT PROGRAMS, AWARDING A TOTAL OF 20 PROJECTS IN 5 COUNTRIES. THE VARELA GRANTS, NAMED FOR CO-FOUNDER FRANCISCO J. VARELA, FUND WIDE-RANGING SCHOLARLY EXAMINATIONS OF CONTEMPLATIVE TECHNIQUES, FROM NEUROSCIENCE TO ANTHROPOLOGY TO CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY. THE PEACE GRANTS SUPPORT RESEARCH THAT PROMOTES POSITIVE CHANGE IN THE WORLD BY EXAMINING WHOLESOME MENTAL QUALITIES SUCH AS PROSOCIALITY, EMPATHY, ALTRUISM, COMPASSION, AND ETHICS (PEACE). MIND & LIFE THINK TANKS GRANTS ARE 2- TO 3-DAY INCUBATOR-TYPE MEETINGS OF A SMALL, MULTI-DISCIPLINARY AND DIVERSE GROUP OF EXPERTS, FOCUSED ON A PARTICULAR PROJECT OR ISSUE WITHIN THE CONTEMPLATIVE SCIENCES FIELD.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Susan Bauer-Wu | PRESIDENT | 40 | $236,500 |
| Vivi Rogers | DIRECTOR OF ADMIN & FINANC | 40 | $108,500 |
| Phil Walker | DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS | 40 | $106,696 |
| Krista Weih | DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMS & EVENTS | 40 | $106,184 |
| Thupten Jinpa Langri | CHAIR OF BOARD | 2.5 | $40,000 |
| Lisette Cooper | DIRECTOR | 1.25 | $0 |
| Raymond Gellein | TREASURER | 2.5 | $0 |
| Carolyn Jacobs | SECRETARY | 2.5 | $0 |
| Aaron Stern | DIRECTOR | 1.25 | $0 |
| Barry Hershey | DIRECTOR | 1.25 | $0 |
| Jack Kornfield | DIRECTOR | 1.25 | $0 |
| Sona Dimidjian | DIRECTOR | 1.25 | $0 |
| Martin Davidson | DIRECTOR | 1.25 | $0 |
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