Embracing Hope, Courage, and Compassion in Times of Crisis

His Holiness the Dalai Lama”s conversation on Embracing Hope, Courage, and Compassion in Times of Crisis with two scientists followed by a question and answer session online from his residence in Dharamsala, HP, India on December 8, 2021 organized by the Mind & Life Institute. PRESENTERS His Holiness the Dalai Lama Moderator: John Dunne, PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison John holds the Distinguished Chair in Contemplative Humanities at the Center for Healthy Minds of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he is also departmental chair of Asian Languages & Cultures. His work, which focuses on Buddhist philosophy and contemplative practice in dialogue with Cognitive Science, includes publications ranging across the Humanities and the Sciences. He is a Fellow of the Mind & Life Institute, where he previously served on the Board of Directors. Discussant: Elissa Epel, PhD University of California, San Francisco Elissa is the Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Psychiatry at University of California San Francisco. She studies how stress resilience and mindfulness interventions can protect health and promote thriving. She also studies transforming climate distress into climate action. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, President of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, and Co-Chair of the Mind & Life Institute Steering Council. Discussant: Michelle Shiota, PhD Arizona State University Michelle (“Lani”) is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of the Substance Use and Addiction Translational Research Network (SATRN) at Arizona State University. Her research investigates positive emotions, emotion regulation, emotional processes in close relationships, and emotion-related mechanisms of behavior change. She is an editor of the Handbook of Positive Emotions (Guilford) and author of the textbook Emotion (Oxford University Press). Translator: Thupten Jinpa, PhD Compassion Institute and the Mind & Life Institute Thupten Jinpa has been the principal English translator to H.H. the Dalai Lama since 1985. He is the founder and president of the Institute of Tibetan Classics as well as the Compassion Institute. Jinpa was trained as a monk at the Shartse College of Ganden Monastic University,