HR!Day995 - Tue 10/01/24 Forgiveness and Neuroscience - Tom Eddington, Eileen Barker, Marco Iacoboni & Loren Toussaint
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Join us for a week-long exploration of forgiveness, hosted by Humanity Rising and Ubiquity University. From personal healing to societal transformation, our esteemed speakers will guide you through the profound impact of forgiveness. In a world rife with conflict and division, practicing forgiveness is more crucial than ever.
Each day features a unique theme and expert insights to help you cultivate and understand forgiveness in various contexts. Discover how forgiveness can heal wounds, bridge divides, and foster a more compassionate and unified world. Let’s come together to learn, heal, and rise to the challenges of our time.
Moderator: Tom Eddington & Eileen Barker
Marco Iacoboni, MD PhD, studied medicine, neurology, and neuroscience at the University La Sapienza in Rome, Italy. He joined the UCLA faculty in 1999. He is Director of the Neuromodulation Lab at the Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, member of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, and member of the Brain Research Institute.
Dr. Iacoboni investigates neural systems and functional mechanisms of social cognition in health and disease, which is how we perceive, think and make decisions about other people. Using brain imaging and non-invasive brain stimulation, Dr. Iacoboni pioneered research on imitation, emotional contagion and empathy and their cognitive control mechanisms.
Dr. Iacoboni’s work, funded by the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation, has been covered by the New York Times (front page), Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Time, The Economist, and major TV networks. Dr. Iacoboni describes this work in a book for general readers titled Mirroring People, published by Farrar, Straus, & Giroux (hard cover) and Picador (paperback), and translated in thirteen languages. Recently, he has been investigating how to modulate implicit bias to reduce group prejudice, using brain imaging, brain stimulation, and virtual reality. As part of his leadership activities in the newly established UCLA-CDU Center for Neuroscience and Society, which promotes a community partnered neuroscience, Dr. Iacoboni is Co-Director of the Research and Training Core.
Loren Toussaint, an expert on the psychological and physical benefits of forgiveness, discusses emerging research demonstrating how forgiveness influences well-being and neurological factors that impact the ability to forgive.
Dr. Loren Toussaint is a professor of psychology at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. He is chair of the Discover Forgiveness Advisory Council for the Templeton World Charity Foundation, President of the Forgiveness Foundation, associate director of the Sierra Leone Forgiveness Project, a consultant to Mayo Clinic, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, and Boise State University, and a visiting professor at the Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
Dr. Toussaint’s research examines virtues, especially forgiveness, and how they can be taught and used to promote health, well-being, and personal and societal peace. Dr. Toussaint directs the Laboratory for the Investigation of Mind, Body, and Spirit at Luther College
forgivenessfoundation.org
luther.edu/faculty/loren-toussaint
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