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International Symposium for Contemplative Studies 2016
Thursday, November 10 - Sunday, November 13, 2016
8:30 am - 1:30 pm
San Diego
USA
Saturday, November 12, 2016
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmHealing Light Guided Imagery (HLGI) Significantly Improves Mood and Physical and Mental Quality of Life in Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis
1:00 pm - 2:00 pmLoving-Kindness Practice
 
Thursday, November 10, 2016
5:00 pm - 6:15 pmOpening Welcome and Meditation
7:00 pm - 8:30 pmYoga of Sound: Indian Classical Music as Contemplative Practice
 
Friday, November 11, 2016
10:15 am - 11:15 amNeurobiological Underpinnings of Contemplative Practices: Is There Common Ground (and who cares)?
10:15 am - 11:15 amMindfulness-Informed Acceptance-Based Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety
10:15 am - 11:15 amUnderstanding the Psychology Behind Compassion Meditation
1:00 pm - 2:00 pmThe Transdisciplinary Study of Contemplative Practices: Challenges and Opportunities
1:00 pm - 2:00 pmWhat's 'Critical' About 'Critical First-Person' Perspectives?
2:45 pm - 5:00 pmThe Vault: A Contemplative Workspace
2:45 pm - 3:15 pmSelf and No-Self in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
2:45 pm - 3:45 pmMindful Awareness and Participation in Education in Denmark: Integrative Implementation Strategies in a New Field of Investigation
2:45 pm - 3:15 pmMindfulness Based Feminist Therapy: The Intermingling Edges of Self-Compassion and Social Justice
2:45 pm - 3:15 pmA Micro-phenomenological Study of Understanding and Overcoming Writer’s Block with Contemplative Inquiry in Movement
2:45 pm - 3:15 pmIs Consciousness an Epiphenomenon?
2:45 pm - 3:15 pmTeaching Interoceptive Awareness: The Processes, Individualized Approach, and Role of Touch in Training
2:45 pm - 3:15 pmWhy We Need a Phenomenology of Emotion in Translational Affective Science
2:45 pm - 3:15 pmDifferent Clinical Strategies to Well-Being and their Effects on Reward Processes: An fMRI Examination of the Differences Between Mindfulness and Cognitive-Based Interventions on Reward Processing in Previously Depressed Patients
2:45 pm - 3:45 pmLanguage, Interaction and Happiness
2:45 pm - 5:00 pmMeaning and Method: Scientific and Contemplative Perspectives on Compassion
2:45 pm - 4:15 pmMindfulness and Other Contemplative Practices in Educational Contexts
2:45 pm - 3:45 pmPsychedelics and Contemplative Studies: The Place of Psychedelic Medicine and Research in the Field of Contemplative Studies
2:45 pm - 3:45 pmThe Use of Mindfulness Practices to Improve Parenting Among New Mothers in Treatment for Opioid Addiction
2:45 pm - 3:45 pmTraditional Contemplative Practice and Contemporary Clinical Science: Navigating New and Old Territories
3:15 pm - 3:45 pmThe Dynamics of the Subliminal Mind in Early Indian Buddhism
3:15 pm - 3:45 pmHealing Trauma in Historically Oppressed Communities: An Empirical and Conceptual Research Agenda for Contemplative Psychology and Neuroscience
3:15 pm - 3:45 pmBeing/Seen/Seeing: Dancemaking as Contemplative Practice
3:15 pm - 3:45 pmGetting Under Our Own Skin: Embodiment, Emotional Health, Contemplative Practice, and Society
3:15 pm - 3:45 pmDeveloping Subjective Reports in Cognitive and Social Sciences; From Phenomenological Interviews to Embodied Reports
3:15 pm - 3:45 pmRestructuring Reward Processing with Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement: Novel Therapeutic Mechanisms to Remediate Hedonic Dysregulation in Addiction, Stress and Pain
4:00 pm - 4:30 pmReversing Institutional Spiritual Bypassing
4:00 pm - 5:00 pmHealing Medicine: Evidence for Contemplative Practices in Cultivating Resilience, Compassion, and Well-Being in Medical Education
4:00 pm - 4:30 pmBalancing the Attentional Filters: EEG/ERP Assessment of Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Mindfulness Meditation-Based Therapy in People with Major Depression
4:00 pm - 4:30 pmEnhanced Interoceptive Awareness Contributes to the Long-Term Impact of a Mindfulness-Based Diet and Exercise Program on Fasting Blood Glucose Levels in Adults with Obesity
4:00 pm - 4:30 pmThe Second Wave of the Contemplative Law Movement: From Individual Transformation to Collective Liberation
4:00 pm - 4:30 pmContemplative Cognition: A New Integrative Framework for Diverse Contemplative States and Practices
4:00 pm - 4:30 pmMindfulness in the Context of Intractable Intergroup Conflicts: Can Mindfulness Practice Help Overcome Barriers to Conflict Resolution?
4:00 pm - 4:30 pmTask-Based Mindfulness Assessment
4:00 pm - 5:00 pmIntegrating Contemplation in Pre-Service Teacher Education
4:00 pm - 5:00 pmQuantifying Mindful Interoception
4:00 pm - 5:00 pmStress Exposure and Stress Management in Urban Youth: Perspectives From a School-based Yoga and Mindfulness Study
4:00 pm - 5:00 pmContemplating the Science of Contemplation: Square Pegs and Round Holes?
4:30 pm - 5:00 pmPioneers of Contemplative Practice in Business: A Longitudinal Study of Long Term Meditators and The Influence of Contemplative Practice on Their Personal and Professional Lives
4:30 pm - 5:00 pmResting EEG Theta/Beta Ratios Predict Emotional Experience in Intensive Meditation Retreats
4:30 pm - 5:00 pmMindfulness Meditation and Immune Function: Can a Rotation of Consciousness Improve Cellular Defense?
4:30 pm - 5:00 pmEffects of Shared Community Experiences on Well-Being and Compassion
4:30 pm - 5:00 pmLong-Range Temporal Correlations of Resting State Oscillatory Brain Activity: A Potential New Marker of Mental Health and Meditation Effects
4:30 pm - 5:00 pmThe Inherent Kindness of Presence: Brief Mindfulness Training Catalyzes Prosocial Responses Across Social Lines
4:30 pm - 5:00 pmChanges on Dispositional Mindfulness Scale Dimensions as a Product of Mindfulness Training: A Comprehensive Meta-Analysis
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-48 - Superstition Predicts Placebo Response
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-77 - Achieving Student Success through Contemplative Pedagogical Practices: A Multidisciplinary Project
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-64 - Integrating Contemplative Practice Into Education
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-71 - Associations Among Self-Compassion, Stress and Eating Behaviors in College Freshmen
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-26 - A Pilot Study of the Spiritual Counseling Method of Depth Hypnosis: Preliminary Data in the treatment of Depression, Anxiety, Post- Traumatic Stress and Change in Well-Being
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-79 - Mindfulness of “education”: Reclaiming the Mind in Curriculum and Pedagogy
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-80 - Working in Ways that Do No Harm: Mindful Engagement in Social and Environmental Justice
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-40 - Mindfulness for Children and Adolescents: Adaptations and Best Practices
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-54 - Fundamentals of Enactive Cognitive Science: Contributions From Francisco Varela to the Integration of Science and Contemplative Practices
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-18 - Is Mindfulness Still an “Alternative” Therapy? A Meta-Analysis of Direct Comparisons
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-78 - Principal Dimensions on which Teachers’ Beliefs about and Experiences with Contemplative Education Differ
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-73 - Mindfulness Pedagogy and Mixed- Methods Research in Applied Graduate Programs: Results of a New Study Among Graduate Interpreting Students
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-38 - Compassion Killers in Medicine
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-60 - Classical Yoga – a Way of Life Beyond Physical Paradigm: A Heuristic Study
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-19 - Interoceptive Awareness and Chronic Pain: The Impact of an Interdisciplinary Self- Compassion Intervention
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-75 - Improving Teachers’ Self-Care by Implementing the Call to Care Initiative: Results of a Controlled Trial
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-16 - Individuation of Auditory Information Correlates With Brain Oscillations
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-42 - Cognitively Based Compassion Training for Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Pilot Study
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-51 - Mindfulness and Personality: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations From a Third Person and First Person Perspective
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-62 - I Can Be Mindful: Developing a Mindfulness-Based Summer Camp in an Early Learning Setting
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-32 - Poor Sleep Quality, Psychological Distress, and the Buffering Effect of Mindfulness Training During Pregnancy
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-65 - Thoughtfulness and the Digital Pedagogue
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-57 - Contemplating Mindfulness at Work: An Integrative Review
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-63 - Collaboration, Contemplation & Integration: A Mixed-Methods, Multi-Year Study of the Effects of a Yoga & Meditation Practice on Middle School “At Risk” Youth
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-58 - Effects of Contemplative Training in Government Employees in Mexico
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-36 - Self-Criticism as a Negative-Factor Structure of Self-Compassion Construct in Ibero-American Primary Care Professionals
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-37 - Caring for Caregivers: Using Empirical Methods As Spiritual Care
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-28 - Emotional Responding Across Constructs: Understanding Avoidance and Approach
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-84 - Measuring Sexual Mindfulness in a U.S. Adult Sample of Men and Women
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-13 - The Functional Connectivity of the Striatum During and After Open Monitoring Meditation
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-20 - CBCT for Veterans With PTSD and Comorbid Conditions, Making Contemplation Behavioral
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-69 - Dispositional Mindfulness and the Impact of Daily Hassles on Psychological Health Among Student Registered Nurse Anesthetists
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-43 - Nonjudgment of Inner Experience Moderates the Association Between Observe and Relationship Satisfaction Among Long-term Married Couples
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-3 - Randomized Controlled Trial of a Mindfulness-Based Intervention on Psychological Stress, Executive Control and Inflammation Biomarkers: Differential Effects Between Latinos and non-Latinos
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-25 - Mindfulness and Self-Compassion With Adult Woman in Chilean Context
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-74 - The Effect of Loving Kindness Meditation on Teacher Education Students’ Empathy Development and Stress Reduction
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-11 - Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention (Mbrp) and Neural Mechanisms Implicated in Addiction Recovery
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-41 - Yoga Training in Junior Primary Schoolaged Children Has an Impact on Physical Self- Perceptions and Problem-Related Behavior
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-10 - A Brief Mindful Instruction De- Automatizes Approach-Oriented Impulses Towards Attractive Foods
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-59 - The Ignatian Faculty Forum: Emerging Leaders in Contemplative Community
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-33 - Reduced Scores of Depression and Anxiety and Psychological Feeling of Well-Being, in Elderly Practicers of Progressive Self-Focus Meditation Submitted to Cognitive Behavioral Intervention
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-76 - Teachers’ Trait Mindfulness, Work Engagement and Relation to Student Outcomes in Middle School
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-30 - Some Unexpected Relationships Between Self-Compassion, Anger and Binge Drinking
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-14 - Default Mode Network Neural Correlates of State Mindfulness: An fMRI Study
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-29 - The Effects of Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy on Functional Connectivity Networks in Bipolar Disorder
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-70 - Effects of Yogic Breathing and Cognitively Based Psychosocial Workshops for College Students on Stress Physiology and Well-Being: A Randomized Controlled Trial
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-81 - Leaves That Come From the Same Root: Cultural Dimensions of Contemplative Practice at a Chinese Buddhist Monastic Retreat in Taiwan
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-9 - Exploring Psychosocial Desire and Craving Through First-Person Experience Sampling
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-67 - A Case-Comparative Study of Mindfulness Training in Different Middle School Settings: Teacher, Classroom and Student Outcomes
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-52 - Embodied Reports; Building a Science of Subjectivity
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-6 - Life Stress and Individual Differences in Effects of Breathing Meditation on Neural Markers of Emotion Regulation in Adolescents
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-24 - Impact of a Mindfulness-Based Intervention on Anxiety, Depression, Mindfulness and Self-Compassion in Brazilian College Students
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-68 - Suraksita Antariksa – Creating Safe Space
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-5 - The Relationship Between Mind Wandering and Working Memory
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-49 - Social Eudaimonia but Not Hedonia Predicts Home Meditation Practice
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-44 - Mindfulness and Interpersonal Emotion Regulation in Romantic Relationships: Here for Me, There for You
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-1 - Different Types of Meditation Lead to Common Outcomes via Different Mechanisms
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-4 - Short-Form Practice-Focused Mindfulness Training Provides Prophylaxis from Working Memory Degradation in High-Stress Cohorts
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-82 - Grounds of Exchange Between Neuroscience and Buddhism: Cultural Consensus Modeling of Tibetan Buddhist Concepts
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-2 - The Influence of Train-the-Trainer Delivery of Short-Form Mindfulness Training on Sustained Attention and Decision Making in High Stress Cohorts
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-21 - The Influence of Training Program Duration on Cognitive and Psychological Benefits of Mindfulness and Compassion Training in Military Spouses
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-87 - Towards a Relational Concept of Uncertainty for Natural Resources Management: Can Contemplative Practices Help?
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-72 - First-Year College Students’ Health and Well-Being: The Long-Term Effects of Mindfulness Training at 3- and 6-Month Follow-up
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-27 - Mindfulness Practice Improves Cognitive Rigidity
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-47 - Mindsets Contribute to Changes in Common Cold Symptomatology and Immune Function
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-35 - Mindfulness, Self-Care and Compassion Trained Directly at the Work Place – Results of Two Studies in Palliative and Oncology Care
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-83 - The Brazilian Experience in the Foundation of a Research and Teacher Training Center on Mindfulness Based Relapse Prevention: Contextualization and Challenges of Mindfulness in Brazil
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-22 - Effects of a Focused Meditation Training on Difficulties in Emotion Regulation and Trait Anxiety
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-7 - Engaging in Contemplative Practice Predicts Social and Emotional Competencies Among Adolescents
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-17 - Mindfulness Training for Primary Care: Preliminary Results From an Integrated Care Model
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-85 - Don’t You Feel It Too?: Eight Years of Dancing Inner Life in the Public
 
Saturday, November 12, 2016
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-82 - The Second-Person Perspective in Science and Contemplative Traditions: Neurophenomenology, Buddhism and General Semantics
 
Friday, November 11, 2016
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-23 - Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Enhances Self-Compassion but Does it Appeal More to Those Who Ruminate Less?
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-45 - A Mind-Body Perspective on the Experience of Fatigue in Breast Cancer Survivors
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-31 - Detaching From Self to Motivate Healthy Eating: Third-Person Perspective Taking in the Cognitive Dissonance Paradigm
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-12 - Chanting Amitabha Buddha Helps Reduce Brain Responses to Frightening Pictures: An fMRI Study
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-66 - Mindfulness in Parenting to Promote Self- Regulation and Social-Emotional Competence in Parents and Children
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-15 - Neurofeedback Informed Meditation Techniques (NIMT) — A Methodology and Framework for a Causal and Clinical Neurophenomenology
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-55 - Violations by Madhyamaka Arguments With Modern Logic and Physics
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmP1-34 - The Effect of a Mindfulness Movement Therapy Programme on the Motor Performance of the Upper Limbs in Healthy Older Adults: A Preliminary Study
 
Saturday, November 12, 2016
9:00 am - 10:00 amMoving Together From Colorblindness to ColorInsight: Contemplative Inquiry, Research and Practice in the Work of Transformative Justice
1:00 pm - 2:00 pmThe Missing Link of Leadership Development: Cultivating Awareness in Action
2:45 pm - 5:00 pmMovement, Embodiment and Interoception in the Context of Contemplative Practices
2:45 pm - 3:45 pmExamining the Implementation, Process, and Outcomes of CARE for Teachers, a Mindfulness-based Intervention in Teacher Professional Development
2:45 pm - 3:45 pmThe Future of Meditation Research: Expanding our Field of Inquiry
2:45 pm - 3:45 pmContemplative Practice and Social Justice
2:45 pm - 3:45 pmClinical Implications of Cognitively-Based Compassion Training (CBCT)
2:45 pm - 3:15 pmA Non-Trauma Focused Mindfulness-based Exposure Therapy for PTSD in OEF/OIF Combat Veterans is Associated with Improvement in Symptoms and Increased Default Mode Network Connectivity with Attention Circuitry: Pilot RCT and Nested fMRI Study
2:45 pm - 3:45 pmImplementing Organizational Mindfulness Training for Health Care Staff: Challenges and Opportunities
2:45 pm - 3:15 pmEffects of Focused Attention and Open Monitoring Meditation on Sustained Attention - Behavioral and Neurophysiological Changes
2:45 pm - 3:15 pmSchool-based Yoga Programs As a Tool for Increasing Students' Mindfulness: Current Research and Future Challenges
2:45 pm - 3:15 pmMahayana, Madhyamika and Mindfulness-Based Interventions – Is Mindfulness really about Mindfulness?
2:45 pm - 3:15 pmApproaching Nonduality in Clinical Settings — Love and Compassion Meditation
2:45 pm - 3:15 pmMindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy for Depressed Individuals and Suppression of Irrelevant Mental Sets
2:45 pm - 3:45 pmMeasuring Multiple Components of Compassion: The Multidimensional Compassion Scale, the SOFI Scale and a Rasch Analysis of Mindfulness and Compassion
3:15 pm - 3:45 pmThe Impact of Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy on Neural Processing of Sadness-provocation in a High-risk Sample
3:15 pm - 3:45 pmEffects of Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement on Emotion-Cognition Interactions in Chronic Pain
3:15 pm - 3:45 pmRandomized Trial of Tibetan Yoga in Women with Breast Cancer Undergoing Chemotherapy
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm“Listening, Reflection and Cultivation”: Buddhist Quest for Wisdom & Paradigm for Contemplative Studies
3:15 pm - 3:45 pmTowards a CERN-inspired Collaboration Infrastructure for Contemplative Studies
3:15 pm - 3:45 pmChallenges in Teaching Secular Compassion Cultivation
3:15 pm - 3:45 pmThe Relationship between Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy and Self-Compassion, Rumination and Mindfulness
4:00 pm - 5:00 pmWhat Mediates the Effect of Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression?
4:00 pm - 5:00 pmPotential Roles of Mindfulness in the Science of Behavior Change
4:00 pm - 5:00 pmContemplative Pedagogy in Higher Education
4:00 pm - 5:00 pmEmploying Mindfulness Practices in a Pediatric Hospital: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Adoption
4:00 pm - 4:30 pmA Randomized Controlled Trial of MBSR versus CBT for Social Anxiety Disorder: Differential Mediators of Treatment Outcome
4:00 pm - 5:00 pmThe Contemplative Ground of the Jaina Tradition
4:00 pm - 4:30 pmMindfulness and Meditation As a Developmental Process: Issues and Perspectives in Research
4:00 pm - 4:30 pmMaximus the Confessor’s (580–662 AD) Concept of Dynamism: A Critique of a Christian Contemplative Tradition
4:00 pm - 4:30 pmPersonalizing the Training of Attention
4:00 pm - 4:30 pmEmbodied Dreaming, Sleep and Procedural Memory: A Nap Study of Vipassana Practitioners and Non-meditating Controls
4:00 pm - 4:30 pmBecoming a Traditional Tibetan Medical Doctor: Contemplative Practice Hidden in Traditional Pedagogies and Canonical Memorization
4:00 pm - 4:30 pmThe Ultimate Rx: Cutting Through the Delusion of Self-Cherishing
4:00 pm - 5:00 pmOff the Cushion and Into the World: Training Compassion Where It Really Hurts
4:30 pm - 5:00 pmDownward Social Comparison and Good Wishes for Others: Which Leads to a Better Psychological State in Short Term?
4:30 pm - 5:00 pmMindfulness Training in Older Adult Caregivers of Persons With Dementia: Preliminary Findings, Benefits and Barriers
4:30 pm - 5:00 pmExploring the Link Between Post-Reformation Linguistic Changes to the Concept of “Conscience” and Using Contemplative Activism to Heal Our Loss of Community
4:30 pm - 5:00 pmMindfulness and Attention: Current State-of-Affairs and Future Considerations
4:30 pm - 5:00 pmMeditation-based Introspection As Method for the Neurophysiological Study of Free Will — A Neurophenomenological Approach
4:30 pm - 5:00 pmHypnotic-Like Aspects of Dzogchen Meditation
4:30 pm - 5:00 pmMindfulness and the Transformation of the Self: Affirmation and Negation in Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Tibetan Buddhism
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-3 - Mindfulness In Public Administration: The Interplay between the Mind and Politics
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-52 - Like a Breath of Fresh Air: The Impact of Mindfulness at Work
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-65 - Designing and Teaching a Mindfulness Course for Undergraduate Students
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-69 - The Mind As Its Own Educator: Mind Wandering and Mindfulness in the Makings of the Curriculum
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-60 - Bringing Mindfulness Into the South Korean Education System: The Won Mentoring Contemplative Program
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-6 - From Egocentric to Ecocentric: Pro-Social and Pro-Environmental Actualizations of Mindfulness at an Intensive Monastic Retreat
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-26 - Effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Rehabilitation Targeting TBI and Trauma-Related Difficulties
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-14 - Using a Dialogic Narrative Approach in Mindfulness Research: Problematic Paradox or Valuable Methodological Tool?
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-78 - Teaching Meditation: Evaluating Acceptability of a Method to Address Mind Wandering
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-8 - Present-Moment Word Meditation
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-23 - The Process of Emotional Awakening in the Beginning Meditator With Chronic Disease
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-40 - Mindfulness Interventions to Foster Self- Control in Children: A Meta-Analysis
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-59 - Mindfulness Education in a Public School Setting
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-77 - Two Feet, Deep: Walking Forms and Processes for Contemplation
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-70 - The Mediating and Moderating Roles of Mindfulness in the Personality and Ethical Decision-Making Relationship in Undergraduate Business Students
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-49 - The Many Faces of the Self: Advancing Research Programs Between the Contemplative and the Academi
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-74 - Transformative Contemplative Practices in Ethnic Studies: Towards A New Contemplative Imaginary
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-51 - Leading Mindfully: Taking Workplace Well-Being to the Next Level
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-47 - The Role of Mindfulness in the Relationship Between State and Trait Eudaimonic and Hedonic Well-Being
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-27 - A Randomized Study Examining the Role of Spirituality and Mindfulness on Depression Symptom Changes in Response to Tai Chi Exercise
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-28 - Does Cognitively Based Compassion Training Improve Social Interactional Skills in Depressed Patients?
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-5 - Heart-Smile Meditation (HSM)’s Positive Effects on Self-Perception, Social Connections, and Spirituality: A Mixed- Methods Study
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-53 - The Impact of Compassion Interventions on Employee Well-Being and Business Outcomes
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-33 - A Preliminary Investigation of Compressed Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (cMBSR): A Two-Day Pause in the Workplace for Social Workers
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-21 - MBSR Marks by Less Chaotic Electronic Activity in Both Brain and Heart
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-80 - Mindfulness: Gateway to Teaching Emotional Intelligence Online
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-64 - Teaching Justice: The Use and Evaluation of Mindfulness and Compassion Practices in Social Work Education
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-29 - Selflessness, Mindfulness and Depression: Theoretical and Empirical Relationships
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-75 - Mimesis, Semiotic Perception, and Phowa: Transference of Consciousness at Death
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-18 - Mindfulness, Tobacco Dependence, Craving and Affects: A Cross-sectional Study of Treatment-Seeking Smokers
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-32 - The Effects of Singing Bowl Sound Meditations on Mood, Tension and Well Being: An Observational Study
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-38 - Dispositional Mindfulness and Depression Moderates Quality of Prenatal Bonding in Urban Expectant Parents
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-2 - Effects of a Brief Mindfulness-Meditation Intervention on Neural Measures of Response Inhibition in Cigarette Smokers
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-10 - Using a Mindfulness-Based Strategy to Reduce Procrastination and Enhance College Student Study Skills
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-15 - Assessing Mindfulness Ability: A Novel Task Reflects Changes in Emotional Responding Following Mindfulness Training
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-62 - Experiencing Wisdom Among College Students in a Mindfulness Course in Hawaii
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-71 - Expert Meditators in the Chronic Disease Population: Building Sangha in the American Health Care Setting
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-50 - Medicine Buddha, a Traditional Buddhist Healing Vision and Practice
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-43 - Mindfulness Training and Attentional Control in Older Adults: Results of a Single- Blind, Placebo-Controlled Randomized Controlled Trial
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-61 - Investigating the Impact of Mindfulness, Self-Compassion and Flow on College Student Success
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-22 - Participation in Mind and Body Exercises and Its Relation to Purchases of Psychotropic and Analgesic Drugs
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-36 - Positive Effects of a Stress Reduction Program Based on Mindfulness Meditation in Brazilian Nursing Professionals: Qualitative and Quantitative Evaluation
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-72 - Waking Up and Growing Up: Why Meditation Does Not Produce Social Justice Ethics
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-46 - Meditation Group Classes Improve Cancer Patient and Caregiver Symptom Distress
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-35 - Developing Resilience and Helping Qualities in Clinical Trainees Through Research-Based Mindfulness Training
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-37 - Active Learning and Mindfulness Teaching: Enhancing Cognitive Processes and Integral Competence
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-34 - Mindfulness and Yoga for Healthcare Professional Trainees: A Mixed-Methods Investigation of an Interdisciplinary Course
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-68 - Contemplative Pedagogies in Higher Education: Bringing Our Whole Selves to Our Work With Students and Colleagues
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-25 - Mindfulness for Schizophrenic Outpatients: A Feasibility Study in Brazil
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-7 - State Mindfulness Attenuates Self-Serving Performance Attributions
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-76 - Assessing the Impact of the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative (ETSI) in Tibetan Buddhist Monastic Populations in India
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-12 - An Open-Source System for EEGNeurofeedback and Transcranial Current Stimulation Control: Applications for Meditation Research
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-79 - Contemplative Study on Stage and Intersubjectivity: An Interdisciplinary Study at the Cross Roads of Practice, Philosophy and Cognitive Sciences
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-16 - The Role of Mindfulness, Self-Compassion and Fears of Compassion in Disordered Eating Attitudes and Behaviours
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-73 - Perceived Compassion Scale: Subscale Structure and Item Evaluation
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-57 - Adolescents’ Perceptions of Contemplative Education Programs in Schools
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-44 - Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on Slowing Down the Neurodegeneration of the Aging Brain
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-20 - Mindfulness Meditation Practice in the Treatment of Insomnia & Sleep Disorders and Underlying Neural Mechanisms
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-30 - How Psychological Context Shapes the Phenomenology of Emotion: A Case Study Exploring Transformation in the Experience of Sadness Following Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-24 - Project Living Life Fully Together (LLiFT): Treating Chronic Pain in People Living with HIV (PLHIV)
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-67 - Understanding the Potential of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Teachers: Benefits and Limits
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-42 - Mindfulness in Interpersonal Relationships Predicts Friendship Quality
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-58 - Promoting the Mental Health of Students: A Mixed-Methods Study on the Effects and Change Processes of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in Schools
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-66 - How Can We Reduce Teachers’ Resistance to Engage in Meditative Activities? Harnessing Neuroscience As a Doorway for Contemplative Practices
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-17 - A Systematic Review of Mind-Body Interventions for Outcomes of Impulsivity
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-4 - Do Expert Meditators Differ From Novice and Non-Meditators in Emotion Identification, Physiological Competitive Reactions, or Prosocial Responses?
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-45 - Mindfulness Induction Effects on Physiological Stress During Chemotherapy Treatment: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial With Colorectal Cancer Patients
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-41 - Clinical and Neural Effects of MBSR for Young Adults With Childhood Adversity
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-11 - Decoding Types of Mind Wandering During Breath Meditation
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-55 - Listening Mothers: Supporting Mother- Infant Relationships through Mindfulness, Loving-Kindness and Self-Compassion
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-39 - Mindful Mother, Buffered Baby? Mindful Parenting Predicts Mothers’ and Their Infants’ Physiological Stress Responses
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-31 - Effects of a 12-Week Mindfulness, Compassion and Loving-Kindness Program on Chronic Depression: A Pilot Within-Subjects- Waitlist-Controlled Trial
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-13 - Quantifying the Influence of Breathwork on Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Circulation Using Real-Time Phase Contrast MRI
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmP2-19 - Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention (MBRP) for Hypnotics Chronic Use and Insomnia Among Brazilian Women: Adherence Data From Different Research Settings
8:00 pm - 9:30 pmEvening Conversation - The Promises and Perils of Mainstreaming Mindfulness (Ticketed Event)
 
Sunday, November 13, 2016
9:00 am - 10:00 amDesigning and Implementing Secular Ethics and Contemplative Pedagogy-Based Degree Programs for Main Campus Students, Incarcerated Students and Others
9:00 am - 10:00 amImplementation and Evaluation of Contemplative Trainings in Applied Settings
9:00 am - 10:00 amSociocultural Influences and Issues Associated With the Implementation of Mindfulness-based Interventions (MBIs) in Developing Countries
9:00 am - 9:30 amPostural Yoga and the Extended Mind Hypothesis
9:00 am - 10:00 amExploring the Relationships between Contemplative Approaches, Social Justice, and Action
9:00 am - 9:30 amThe Effects of Intensive Insight Meditation on Telomeric Regulation
9:00 am - 9:30 amServant Leadership Contemplative Practice
9:00 am - 9:30 amA Randomized Controlled Meditation Retreat Trial: The Moderating Role of Early Life Adversity on Wellbeing
 
Friday, November 11, 2016
3:15 pm - 3:45 pmMeditation and Psychosis
 
Sunday, November 13, 2016
9:30 am - 10:00 amThe Web of Meaning: Principles of Self-Organization in Neo-Confucian Thought
9:30 am - 10:00 amSelf-related Processes in Mindfulness Meditators Differentially Change Activations in Prefrontal Mid-line Regions
9:30 am - 10:00 amWell-Being in High-Performance Environments
9:30 am - 10:00 amDancing with Chaos
10:15 am - 11:30 amClosing Remarks
10:15 am - 11:30 amClosing Remarks and Meditation
10:15 am - 11:30 amClosing Thanks
ISCS 2016
ADDITIONAL EVENTS
Saturday Night Keynote & Dessert: The Promises and Perils of Mainstreaming Mindfulness
CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDIT
Continuing Education Credits
2016 ISCS PRINTED PROGRAM BOOK 
ISCS 2016 Printed Program Book