Bias

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Focus & Attention
How Your Brain Falls for the Wrong Ideas 

Our own cognitive biases, combined with a fast-paced chaotic environment, wear down our ability to discern false narratives from facts. Amishi Jha explains the science on how to shift away from divisiveness and boost your brain’s resilience. Read More 

  • Amishi Jha
  • July 8, 2021
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Expert Interviews
Mindful Education for Anti-Racist Allies 

Sharing his own lived experience along with compassion, Emmanuel Acho helps us learn about important issues to have more constructive conversations about race—and ultimately lead to change. Read More 

  • Amber Tucker
  • July 24, 2020
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Expert Interviews
How Mindfulness Teachers Can Build Brave Space 

Mindful self-compassion teacher Steve Hickman offers advice for his fellow teachers to lovingly acknowledge the turbulence of their own hearts, and those of their students, during times where compassionate presence and action are needed more than ever. Read More 

  • Steven Hickman
  • July 8, 2020
Using Mindfulness to Break Racial Bias
Loving-Kindness & Compassion
Using Mindfulness to Break Racial Bias 

Anu Gupta, founder and CEO of BE MORE with Anu, offers five portable compassion-based tools to face and transform racial bias at work and in day-to-day life. Read More 

  • Anu Gupta
  • July 2, 2020
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Expert Interviews
Maybe it’s The Barrel: Mindful Policing Gets Real 

Founding Editor Barry Boyce speaks with mindfulness trainer and former police lieutenant Richard Goerling on how mindfulness can ground policing in humanity rather than tactics that often result in severe injury and death. Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • June 18, 2020
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