The Contemplation by Design Summit is a campus-wide, multidisciplinary series of events.
Enjoy the power of the pause.
Oct. 20 - Nov. 3, 2023
Please click on the session titles for the full description, which are being updated when they become available.
Below is the 2023 Summit Schedule.
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Free events will be offered Oct. 24 - Nov. 3, 2023, to further individual and community health and well-being, and creative excellence to serve the greater good in these unprecedented times. Contemplation By Design is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, campus-wide program cultivating resilience, well-being, wisdom, compassion, and sustainable, ethical, purposeful service. Summit participants will have the opportunity to cultivate perspective, meaningful purpose, and contemplative practices that refresh and renew the mind-body-spirit.
Faculty, staff, students and the community are invited. Please register to reserve your place in the sessions. Thank you.
Contemplation Calendar
Oct. 20 - Nov. 3, 2023
All 2023 Summit sessions are FREE. Most sessions are on Zoom. There also are 8 in-person sessions. These are noted by "in-person" in the session's title in the schedule below. When you register for an in-person session, a hybrid option is offered for 3 of the 8 if you are not able to attend in person.
Green text indicates Guided Practices sessions or Interactive workshops.
Blue text indicates lectures, which will include Q&A and may include a guided practice.
Gray text indicates an opportunity for a self-directed contemplative practice.
Fri. 10/20/23 |
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| 12:00-1:00pm | Introduction to the 2023 Contemplation by Design Summit—Enhancing Relationship Skills for Being a Compassionate Citizen, Community Member, Colleague, and Companion, Tia Rich, PhD |
Sat. 10/21/23 |
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| 8:30-9:30am | In-person Interactive Workshop: “The Power of the Pause” Illuminates the Light Within to Transform Society, Tia Rich, PhD Location to be Announced |
| 10:00-11:00am | In-person Interactive Workshop: “The Power of the Pause” Illuminates the Light Within to Transform Society, Tia Rich, PhD Location to be Announced |
Sun. 10/22/23 |
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| 9:00-10:30am | In-person Keynote—See No Stranger: A journey into Revolutionary Love, Ecologies and Social Change, Valarie Kaur, JD, MTS, Location: CEMEX |
Mon. 10/23/23 |
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| 7:00-8:15pm | In-person Keynote—Moral Ecologies and Social Change, Anne Snyder, MPS |
Tues. 10/24/23 |
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| 4:30-6:00pm | The Power of Self-Compassion, Chris Germer, PhD |
| 7:00-8:15pm | The Mental Health Benefits of Breathwork, David Spiegel, MD |
Wed. 10/25/23 |
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| 7:45-9:00am | Lessons from the ReSource and CovSocial Projects: Ways of addressing a mental health crisis, Tania Singer, PhD |
| 9:00-4:00pm | In-person Opportunity to Walk the Labyrinth at Stanford’s Memorial Church. No registration necessary. |
| 12:00-1:15pm | Compassionate Wise Action: Cultivating Presence from Cushion to Corporation to Chamber Floor, Michelle Maldonado, JD |
| 4:30-6:00pm | Interactive Workshop: Practicing Self-Compassion in Daily Life, Chris Germer, PhD |
| 6:30-7:45pm | Compassionate Communication: The Art and Science of Getting Along, Thom Bond |
Thurs. 10/26/23 |
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| 7:30-8:15am | iPause Guided practice #1, Giving and Receiving Compassion, Chris Germer, PhD |
| 12:00-1:30pm | From Chauvet Cave to Star Wars: Art, Myth, and a Spiritual Futurism, Netanel Mile-Yépez, DD |
| 4:30-7:00pm | Interactive Workshop: The Art and Science of Getting Along: The Experience, Thom Bond |
| 7:30-8:15pm | iPause Guided practice #2, Breathing Practices for Mental Health and Well-being, David Spiegel, MD |
Fri. 10/27/23 |
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| 7:30-8:15am | iPause Guided practice #3, Charis Meditation (Charis, Greek for “Grace”), Netanel Miles-Yépez, DD |
| 12:15-1:30pm | The Courage of Contemplative Connections, Furyu Nancy Schroeder |
| 4:45-6:00pm | The Bodhisattva with Boundaries: The Paradox of Selflessness and Self-Care, Mei Elliott |
| 6:15-7:00pm | iPause Guided practice #4 Practicing with the Emptiness of Self, Mei Elliott |
| 7:30-8:30pm | The Healing Power of Embodied Connection with Oneself and with Other People, Elysabeth Williamson |
Sat. 10/28/23 |
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| 7:00-8:30am | Ancient Wisdom, Present Freedom: How mindfulness becomes natural in meditation and in life, Will Kabat-Zinn, MA |
| 10:00-11:30am | Interactive Workshop: The Paramita Pyramid: Practices for Cultivating Wisdom and Compassion, Mei Elliott and Kodo Conlin |
| 12:30-2:00pm | Interactive Workshop: Finding Your Seat as Self and Community, Furyu Nancy Schroeder |
| 2:15-3:45pm | Interactive Workshop: Exploring Embodied Connection through Doing Partner Yoga, Elysabeth Williamson |
| 4:00-5:15pm | Becoming Radiance: Six Practices for Selflessness and Compassionate Action, Kodo Conlin |
| 5:30-6:15pm | iPause Guided practice #5 Nourished by Tenderness: Practicing with Loving-Kindness for Self, Kodo Conlin |
| 7:00-8:30pm | Interactive Workshop: Ancient Wisdom, Present Freedom: How mindfulness becomes natural in meditation and in life, Will Kabat-Zinn, MA |
Sun. 10/29/23 |
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| 11:00am-12:00pm | In-person in Memorial Church UPW: Love as Meditation: Devotional Poetry and the Contemplative Practice of Love, Kenneth Lee |
| 12:15-1:15pm | In-person in Memorial Church UPW Guided Practice: Kirtan, bhajan and abhanga: An Introduction to the contemplative practice of Indian devotional music, Kenneth Lee |
| 2:15-3:45am | iPause Guided practice #6 Back-to-Back Sacrum Connection (partner yoga), Elysabeth Williamson |
| 4:00-5:30pm | Interactive Workshop: Everyday Mindfulness, Will Kabat-Zinn, MA |
| 7:00-8:30pm | Mindfulness, Indigenous Prophecy, and the Time of the Sixth Sun, Brenda Salgado, MS |
Mon. 10/30/23 |
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| 7:30-8:15am | iPause Guided practice #7 Practicing Finding Your Seat as Self and Community, Furyu Nancy Schroeder |
| 10:30-11:45am | Embodying Beloved Community, Gabriel Wilson, MEd |
| 12:00-1:30pm | Ubuntu: I in You and You in Me, The Very Rev. Michael Battle, PhD |
| 5:00-5:45pm | iPause Guided practice #8, Inclusive Awareness and the Open Way, Will Kabat-Zinn, MA |
| 7:00-8:30pm | Interactive Workshop, Evolving Worldviews, Gabriel Wilson, MEd |
| 8:45-9:30pm | iPause Guided practice #9, Cultivating Your Inner Wisdom and Intuition, Helen Weng, PhD |
Tues. 10/31/23 |
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| 7:30-8:15am | iPause Guided practice #10 Practicing Ubuntu, The Very Rev., Michael Battle, PhD |
| 12:00-1:30pm | Self-transformation through Contemplative Experience: A Neurobiological Perspective, David Vago, PhD |
| 4:00-5:30pm | Interactive Workshop, Healing with the Ancestors - Toltec Practices for Intergenerational Flourishing, Brenda Salgado, MS |
Wed. 11/01/23 |
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| 7:30-8:15am | iPause Guided practice #11 , Cultivating Self-awareness and transformation: A Noting and Labeling Practice, David Vago, PhD |
| 9:00am-4:00pm | In-person Opportunity to Walk the Labyrinth at Stanford’s Memorial Church. No registration necessary. |
| 12:00-1:30pm | Islands of Belonging and Resilience in a Sea of Climate Chaos, Kritee Kanko, PhD |
| 4:00-5:30pm | Grounding & Expanding, Psyche & Cosmos, Friendship with Self, Others, the Universe: Toward a “Cosmic Religion” (Einstein) and Human/Planetary Survival, Rev. Matthew Fox, PhD |
| 7:00-8:30pm | The Role of Interoceptive and Exteroceptive Stimulation in the Enhancement of Health. Contemplating the Body as a Means of Modulating Brain Circuits, David Spiegel, MD and Manuela Kogon, MD |
Thurs. 11/02/23 |
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| 7:30-8:15am | iPause Guided practice #12 , Finding the Divine (the “I am”, the Christ, the Buddha Nature, the Tselem or Image of God) Within, Rev. Matthew Fox, PhD |
| 9:00-9:45am | iPause Guided practice #13, Practices for developing trusting relationship with the human and more-than-human world, Kritee Kanko, PhD |
| 12:00-1:30pm | Interactive Workshop Recovering the Sacred Masculine and the Divine Feminine, Rev. Matthew Fox, PhD |
| 3:00-4:30pm | Emotional Rescue: How to Work with Your Emotions to Transform Hurt and Confusion into Energy That Empowers You, Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche |
| 5:15-6:45pm | Internal Family Systems Skills for Compassionate Contemplative Practice, Richard Schwartz, PhD |
Fri. 11/03/23 |
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| 7:30-8:15am | iPause Guided practice #14 , Nourishing Self-compassion through Applying Internal Family Systems (IFS) Skills, Richard Schwartz, PhD |
| 12:00-1:30pm | Can the contemplative life support bonding across our differences?, Pamela Ayo Yetunde, JD, ThD |
| 4:30-5:45pm | Transforming Heart and Mind: Developing inclusive approaches to studying the neuroscience of meditation, Helen Weng, PhD |
All Contemplation By Design SummitTM sessions are FREE. If you wish to make a donation, please do so here.
We look forward to being with you in the Summit sessions you attend.
