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The Neuroscience of Compassion

World Economic Forum via YouTube

Overview

This course aims to teach participants how to train their brains to become less selfish and more compassionate through mindfulness and compassion exercises. The course focuses on developing skills such as attention training, emotion regulation, empathy, and perspective-taking. The teaching method includes daily core exercises, mindfulness training, and dyadic exercises with a partner. The intended audience for this course is individuals interested in neuroscience, psychology, and personal development.

Syllabus

Introduction
The Resource Project
Core Exercise
Retreat
Mindfulness Diet
The Study
The Results
Guinness Record
Economic Games
Results
Empathy and Compassion
Empathy for Pain
Network
cortical thickness
measures
composite
social cues
cortisol
stress response
plasticity
mental training
neoclassicism
system associate
system
Institutional design
Sciencebased program in schools

Taught by

World Economic Forum

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