2025 Mind & Life Summer Research Institute

It's hard to explain the Mind & Life Summer Research Institute. For many years it has been a vital crossroads of scientists, practitioners, public leaders, and spiritual adepts, converging for a week at The Garrison Institute to live and learn together in close quarters, share discoveries, and practice contemplative reflection. Honored to return for a second year, I was uplifted by the theme of Education, learning many new things about how mindfulness, compassion, and an appreciation of the whole human is flourishing in schools and universities of many kinds.

Thank you to everyone who makes this rare gem happen, to the Dalai Lama for championing the sciences in the world of Buddhism, and to all the teachers, education researchers, and policy people who are laboring to prepare our young siblings for what lies ahead.

Special thanks to everyone who let me take their photo and sang along with my weird “karaokAI” experiment :-)