With the conclusion of the 2025-26 academic year, the Contemplative Commons building celebrates its first year since its ...

An April 5 event at the John Paul Jones Arena featuring music from Zac Brown Band and Maggie Rogers and a performance by stand-up comedian Joe Zimmerman will celebrate the UVA Contemplative Sciences ...

“Contemplative studies satisfies an urge that everyone has — to investigate what it means to be experiencing, to be alive,” said Henry Langton ’16, one of the first Brown students who will officially ...

The recent International Symposium for Contemplative Studies (ISCS), held in Denver, opened with a guided meditation-turned-keynote address by mindfulness pioneer Jon Kabat-Zinn, sitting cross-legged ...

In early January I presented a lecture on "Contemplative Science and Practice: How to Do Research You Love" to the Faculty Forum at the Wright Institute. I told my personal story (how a meeting with ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) -- The University of Virginia plans to establish a Contemplative Sciences Center with a $12 million gift from longtime benefactors. Sonia and Paul Jones of Greenwich, Conn., ...

Tenzin Gyatso, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, opened the 2nd International Symposium for Contemplative Studies (ISCS) in Boston with more than 1400 academics, researchers, practitioners and ...

A: Attentiveness (being deep into the act) and mindfulness (being deep into a thought) based techniques to better understand and train the mind for expand one’s awareness by fostering and nuturing ...

Cloudy skies didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of University of Virginia leaders and guests Friday morning as they celebrated the groundbreaking of the Contemplative Commons in person and gave several ...

The Contemplative Sciences Center at the University of Virginia will host the 2019 Dalai Lama Fellows Contemplative Leadership Assembly June 17 – 21. More than 40 young leaders from 22 different ...