Peter Malinowski Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Liverpool John Moores University Peter Malinowski, PhD, is the founding director of the Meditation and Mindfulness Research Group at the Research Centre for Brain and Behaviour, Liverpool John Moores University and Honorary Lecturer at the University of Liverpool. In his work he builds on his expertise in Cognitive Neuroscience and on his extensive experience in practicing and teaching meditation within the Karma Kagyu / Diamond Way tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. His research focuses on investigating how meditation practice influences psychological functions and the related brain processes. He is particularly interested in advancing meditation as a preventative approach and a way of unveiling inherent qualities of mind. In addition to research concerned with the underlying mechanisms of meditation, Dr Malinowski’s projects also take an applied focus, for example addressing the questions: 1) if and how regular meditation practice can help staying cognitively fit in older age, 2) if and how meditation training in the workplace can unfold beneficial effects, 3) whether mindfulness-based surgery preparation can improve recovery, and 4) how mindful compassion practice can support carers of terminally ill individuals. He has published widely on meditation, ranging from cognitive neuroscience to positive psychology perspectives and including contributions to the Blackwell Companion to Consciousness and the Oxford Handbook of Happiness. He serves on the Board of Directors of the International Association Consciousness, Mindfulness, Compassion and is Associate Editor of Mindfulness. Dr Malinowski’s meditation research blog and more information on his work can be found at: www.meditation-research.org.uk Participant In: Science and the Big Questions: Roundtable Series on the Physical and Spiritual World, the Brain-Mind Connection, and Human Development and Genetics Through 2015 Past Event The Helix Center is pleased to announce receipt of a grant from the John Templeton Foundation in support of a series of fourteen roundtables addressing big questions in the physical, natural, and biological sciences and the humanities. The topics are: Knowledge and Limitations; The Span of Infinity; Complexity and Emergence; The Search for Immortality; The Sublime Experience; The Meditative State; The… read more » The Meditative State Saturday, March 12, 2016 2:30 - 4:30 pm Past Event Watch the video » What is meditation? As difficult as it may be to define this state of mind, its beneficial effects on mental and physical health are incontrovertible. What are the respective roles of conscious and unconscious processes in this voluntarily invoked mental state? How might the experience of meditation differ from trance and hypnotic states? What neuroscientific… read more »
Science and the Big Questions: Roundtable Series on the Physical and Spiritual World, the Brain-Mind Connection, and Human Development and Genetics Through 2015 Past Event The Helix Center is pleased to announce receipt of a grant from the John Templeton Foundation in support of a series of fourteen roundtables addressing big questions in the physical, natural, and biological sciences and the humanities. The topics are: Knowledge and Limitations; The Span of Infinity; Complexity and Emergence; The Search for Immortality; The Sublime Experience; The Meditative State; The… read more »
The Meditative State Saturday, March 12, 2016 2:30 - 4:30 pm Past Event Watch the video » What is meditation? As difficult as it may be to define this state of mind, its beneficial effects on mental and physical health are incontrovertible. What are the respective roles of conscious and unconscious processes in this voluntarily invoked mental state? How might the experience of meditation differ from trance and hypnotic states? What neuroscientific… read more »