Episode
About this Episode:
In this episode, Raissa talks with Cortland Dahl about the four pillars of well-being and the role contemplative practices play in health and resilience. He shares about the Healthy Minds framework and discusses initial research findings from randomized-control trials of the Healthy Minds program. Cortland offers cautions for some areas of application and highlights futures questions and anticipated developments in the field.
Presenter
About Cortland:
Cortland is a scientist, translator, and meditation teacher. His eclectic background includes eight years spent living in Tibetan refugee settlements in India and Nepal and cutting-edge research at the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the lead author of a new scientific framework for well-being and the creator of the Healthy Minds Program, a freely available app-based tool based on the Healthy Minds framework. He has published numerous scientific articles, released twelve books of translations of ancient Tibetan meditation manuals, and is the cofounder of a global network of meditation groups and centers.
