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Symposia
2023 Research Symposium
June 20
Dr. Dawn Lavell-Harvard
Cultivating Empathy for Reconciliation
Dr. Thupten Jinpa
A New Way of Being
Dr. James Orbinski
Tackling Our Biggest Challenges
Mary Gordon
Setting a Place at the Table for Everyone
2021 Virtual Research Symposium
May 11 & 12
2021 Proceedings
Dr. Richard Davidson
How Do We Solve Our Crisis Of Well-Being?
Dr. Dan Siegel
Dissolving Borders Through Empathy
Dr. Michael Ungar
The Empathy Question: How Does Our Experience Of Social Justice Impact Empathy?
Jimmie Briggs and Jesse Lipscombe
Black Fatherhood: A Conversation Across Borders
Cafe 1
Dr. Michelle Borba, best-selling author, talks about her latest book Thrivers.
Cafe 2
Emma Brown, investigative reporter for The Washington Post and author of To Raise A Boy
Cafe 3
Jimmie Briggs and Jesse Lipscombe continue their dialogue “Black Fatherhood: a Conversation across Borders”
Hon. Christy Clark, Tamara Vrooman, Shahrzad Rafati
The Future Of Leadership – Three Powerful Canadian Women On What It Takes To Lead
Prof. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang
Solving The Frankenstein Problem: The Importance Of Empathy And Social Interaction In Brain Development
Dr. Andrew Meltzoff’s Interview with David Bornstein
Acting For And Against Others: The Beginnings Of Altruism And Bias In Children
Dr. Bruce Perry
The Empathy Question: Why Is Empathy Vital To The World?
Justice Murray Sinclair
Roots of Empathy Social Justice Award
2019 Research Symposium
May 16 & 17
2019 Proceedings
Baroness Susan Greenfield
Empathy: a neuroscientific perspective
Dr. Abigail Marsh
The altruistic brain
Dr. Valeria Gazzola
How embodied stimulation might help us care about others
Dr. Rebecca Spencer
Sleep on it! How children process emotions in their sleep
Dr. Frances Champagne
Dynamic epigenetic pathways in the developing brain
Dr. Margot Taylor
Social-Cognitive Abilities in Childhood and the Underlying Brain Processes
Dr. Jean Clinton
The Neuroscience of Touch – a conversation with Dr. Tiffany Field
2018 Research Symposium
May 9 & 10
2018 Proceedings
Dr. Andrew Meltzoff
Research on the attachment relationship
Dr. Christian Keysers
The Empathic Brain: From vicarious activations to empathic action
Dr. Brian Goldman
The power of kindness
Dr. David Lätsch
Roots of Empathy research study
Dr. Inga Dóra Sigfúsdóttir
Improving the lives of youth
Graham Allen
Early intervention: the UK story
Elina Marjamäki
A Youth Workers Guide to Supporting Mental Health
Dr. Ryszard Praszkier
Serendipity, Empathy, and Dance
2017 Research Symposium
April 26 & 27
2017 Proceedings
Dr. Dan Siegel
An Interpersonal Neurobiology Approach to Resilience and the Development of Empathy
Dr. Michael Ungar
The Social Ecology of Resilience: Families, Schools, and Communities
Dr. Joshua Aronson
The Elevation Education: The Art and Science of Helping Children Become Smarter, Nicer, and Happier
A Panel Discussion
Intersection of Business, Government, Philanthropy and Journalism in tackling Social Problems
Dr. Lise Eliot
Brain and gender in infant social development
Bart Weetjens
Training Rats to Save Human Lives and Training Humans to Save Humanity
Mary Black & Maurice Meehan
Improving Outcomes: Reflections from Northern Ireland
2016 Symposium
2016 Proceedings
Dr. Ed Tronick
Multilevel Psychobiological Meaning Making and Empathy
Prof. Pat Dolan & Dr. Mark Brennan
Connecting Activated Social Empathy in Youth
Dr. Jean Clinton
Understanding the Adolescent Brain
Dr. Ian Lambie
what’s happening with high risk young people in New Zealand
Michael Fullan
Perspectives on learning – the coherence framework
Dr. Peter Donnelly
A Public Health Approach to Violence Reduction
Dr. Phillip Herman
Culturally Responsive Research and Development in the Pacific
2015 Symposium
2015 Proceedings
Dr. Bruce Perry
Born for Love: Why Empathy is Essential and Endangered
2014 Symposium
2014 Proceedings
Dr. Philip Zelazo
The brain and promoting empathy in childhood
Dr. Susanne Denham
Social emotional competencies and preschooler’s early success
2013 Symposium
2013 Proceedings
Dr. Stuart Shanker
Self-regulation and the development of empathy
Dr. Susanne Denham
Social emotional competencies and preschooler’s early success
2012 Symposium
2012 Proceedings
Dr. Allan Schore
Modern attachment theory; the enduring impact of early right-brain development
Dr. Andrew Meltzoff
Empathy in the making
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