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An international mindfulness conference will take place this May 2012 in Rome, Italy. Keynote speakers include Jon Kabat-Zinn and Mark Williams

Results from the 2012 UK Happiness Index indicate that happiness and anxiety are almost on par. 

This day-long conference focuses on the connections between mindfulness, compassion, and research, with keynote speaker Jon Kabat-Zinn.

This is the first study of its kind to demonstrate that meditation training affects emotional processing even when no meditation is taking place. 

Dr. Richard Davidson joins Mirabai Bush to talk about the findings in his book, The Emotional Life of Your Brain.

Congressman Tim Ryan and Dr. Saki Santorelli from the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society will discuss mindfulness in society. 

Submit your abstract, oral presentation proposal, or poster presentation proposal for the Garrison Institute's Climate Mind and Behavior Initiative symposium. 

Sign up now to attend (or present a poster at) 2013 Bridging the Hearts and Minds of Youth conference, taking place Feb. 1-3 in San Diego and presented by the UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness

Researchers at Emory University apply cognitive-based compassion training (CBCT) in a study showing how the practice allowed participants to better intuit the emotions of others. 

Dozens of people attend the weekly public mindfulness meditation sessions Diana Winston offers (for free) at the Hammer Museum in L.A. Other meditation classes are also well-attended. Find out why.