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Conference for Contemplative Practices to

Promote Child and Family Well-Being October 14 & 15, 2013

Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery (WID)

Union South

Nancy Nicholas Hall

University of Wisconsin– Madison

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Monday, October 14th

Time Event Location

7:00-8:00am Yoga led by Scott Anderson of Alignment Yoga WID Atrium

7:30-8:45am Breakfast buffet and conference check-in Atrium

8:45-8:50am Welcome, Dr. Soyeon Shim Dean of the School of Human Ecology

WID DeLuca Forum

8:50-9:00am Introduction to Conference, Dr. Julie Poehlmann Director of the Center for Child and Family Well-being

DeLuca Forum

9:00-10:30am Keynote Nurturing Awareness and Compassion in Schools: Advancing the Science and Practice of Contemplative Practices in Education Dr. Mark Greenberg, The Pennsylvania State University

DeLuca Forum

10:30-10:45am Break

10:45-11:45am The Preventive Health Promise of Compassion Training: Focus on Brain--Immune System Interactions Essential for Health and Well-Being Dr. Charles Raison, The University of Arizona

DeLuca Forum

11:45-1:15pm Lunch Atrium

1:15-2:15pm Mindfulness-based Childbirth and Parenting Skills Training in the Perinatal Period Dr. Larissa Duncan, University of California, San Francisco

DeLuca Forum

2:15-2:45pm Break

2:45-3:45pm Caring for the Caregivers: Mindfulness Training for Teachers Dr. Robert Roeser, Portland State University

DeLuca Forum

3:45pm-5:30pm Break

5:30-6:30pm Mindfulness for Adolescents: Windows of Opportunity Dr. Trish Broderick, The Pennsylvania State University

Nancy Nicholas Hall

6:30-7:30pm Poster session and networking reception (Light appetizers and beverages provided)

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Contemplative Practices To Promote Child and Family Well-being

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Tuesday, October 15th

Contemplative Practices To Promote Child and Family Well-being

Time Event Location

7:00-8:00am Yoga led by Scott Anderson of Alignment Yoga WID Atrium

7:30-8:45am Breakfast buffet and conference check-in Atrium

8:45-10:00am Keynote

Educating the Mind and Heart: Perspectives from

Contemplative Neuroscience

Dr. Richard J. Davidson, University of Wisconsin-Madison

WID DeLuca Forum

10:00-10:15am Break

10:15-11:15am Contemplative Practices in Childhood: Implications for the Development of Self-reflection and Social

Understanding

Dr. Philip Zelazo, The University of Minnesota

DeLuca Forum

11:15-11:45am Break

11:45-1:00pm Lunch Varsity Hall Union South

1:00-2:30pm Conversation with Mark Greenberg and Richard Davidson

Varsity Hall Union South

2:30-2:40pm Closing remarks Dr. Soyeon Shim

Varsity Hall Union South

Sponsored by:

The Center for Child and Family Well-being

School of Human Ecology http://www.sohe.wisc.edu/familycenter/index.htm

and

The Center for Investigating Healthy Minds

Waisman Center http://www.investigatinghealthyminds.org/

Please note the location change. We hope you enjoy Madison’s beautiful campus.

If you are applying for CEUs, please pick up an evaluation form at the registration desk.

Note you will need an evaluation form for each talk.

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Speakers

Patricia Broderick, Ph.D. is a Research Associate with the

Prevention Research Center at Penn State University and former

director of the Stress Reduction Center at West Chester University

of PA. She holds a Master’s degree in Counseling from Villanova

and a Ph.D. in School Psychology from Temple University. She is a

licensed psychologist, certified school psychologist (K-12), certified

school counselor (K-12). and certified teacher. She was trained in

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) at the Center for

Mindfulness (CFM) at UMASS Medical Center and has taught

MBSR since 2003. Her research interests include mindfulness in

education, gender differences in coping styles of early adolescents,

and relationships between rumination and the development of de-

pression. Her developmental psychology textbook, The life span: Hu-

man development for helping professionals (Broderick & Blewitt, 2010) is

now in its third edition. She is also the creator of Learning to

BREATHE, a school-based mindfulness curriculum for adoles-

cents.

Richard J. Davidson, PhD, is a renowned neuroscientist and

one of the world’s leading experts on the impact of contemplative

practices, such as meditation, on the brain. He is the founder and

chair of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman

Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is perhaps best

known for his groundbreaking work in studying emotion and the

brain. A friend and confidante of the Dalai Lama, he is a highly

sought after expert and speaker internationally. Time magazine

named him one of the most influential people in the world in 2006.

Dr. Davidson has published hundreds of scientific papers and edit-

ed 14 books. A New York Times bestselling author, he has been fea-

tured widely in popular media, including ABC’s Nightline, National

Public Radio, Time magazine, Newsweek, O, the Oprah magazine, PBS’s

the Charlie Rose Show, Harvard Business Review, and many other na-

tional and international news outlets. Dr. Davidson is the William

James and Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, Director

of the Waisman Brain Imaging Lab and the Lab for Affective Neu-

roscience – all at the UW-Madison, where he has been a faculty

member since 1984.

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Speakers

Larissa G. Duncan, Ph.D.is an Assistant Professor in the Uni-

versity of California San Francisco Department of Family and Community Medicine and a core faculty member of the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine. Dr. Duncan is a develop-mental psychologist and integrative medicine researcher who com-pleted training as an MBSR instructor. Her program of research focuses on studying mindful parenting and testing the impact of mindfulness interventions delivered to families during two key de-velopmental transitions: pregnancy and early adolescence. She is funded by NIH/NCCAM to investigate the effects of a mindful-ness enhancement to the Centering Pregnancy group care model of prenatal healthcare delivery on biological and psychological aspects of maternal stress in the perinatal period. She conducted the first study of the Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting (MBCP) program and she is currently collaborating with Nancy Bardacke, CNM on several related studies testing the effects of MBCP. With Dr. Doug Coatsworth and Dr. Greenberg at Penn State University, she is the co-developer of a mindfulness-based enhancement to a widely used prevention program for families of young teens .

Mark Greenberg, Ph.D., holds The Bennett Endowed Chair in

Prevention Research in Penn State's College of Health and Human

Development. He is currently the Director of the Prevention Re-

search Center for the Promotion of Human Development and the

Associate Director for the Penn State Consortium on Children,

Youth and Families. Since 1981, Dr. Greenberg has been examining

the effectiveness of school-based curricula (The PATHS Curricu-

lum) to improve the social, emotional, and cognitive competence of

elementary-aged children. Since 1990, he has served as an Investiga-

tor in Fast Track, a comprehensive program that aims to prevent

violence and delinquency in families. His research has focused on

the role of individual, family, and community level factors in pre-

vention.

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Speakers

Charles Raison, MD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and at the John and Doris Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Arizona. Prior to this, he was an Associate Professor and Clinical Director of the Mind-Body Program at Emory University. Dr. Raison received his medical de-gree from Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, where he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha and won the Missouri State Medical Association Award. He completed residency training at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital in Los Angeles. The recipient of several teaching awards, Dr. Raison has received re-search funding from the National Institute of Mental Health, Na-tional Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. His research focuses on bi-directional relationships between neuroendocrine and im-mune systems, especially as these pertain to depression in response to stress or medical illness. His research ranges from immune sys-tem effects on central nervous system functioning to the applica-tion of compassion meditation as a strategy to reduce inflammatory responses to psychosocial stress. Dr. Raison has also done pioneer-ing studies on the use of cytokine antagonists for the treatment of major depression. In addition to his activities at University of Ari-zona, Dr. Raison is the mental health expert for CNN.com.

Robert W. Roeser, Ph.D. is a Professor of Psychology in the

Department of Applied Psychology at Portland State University and the Senior Program Coordinator for the Mind and Life Insti-tute. He received his Ph.D. from the Combined Program in Educa-tion and Psychology at the University of Michigan (1996) and holds master's degrees in religion and psychology, developmental psy-chology and clinical social work. In 2005 he was a United States Fulbright Scholar in India, and from 1999-2004 he was a William T. Grant Faculty Scholar. Dr. Roeser's research focuses primarily on how schools, as central cultural contexts of human development, affect both academic and non-academic aspects of "whole persons" across childhood, adolescence, and emerging adulthood. Currently, Dr. Roeser has established the Culture and Contemplation in Edu-cation Laboratory (CaCiEL) at Portland State University to study how the introduction of developmentally and cultural appropriate contemplative practices (i.e., mindfulness meditation) into main-stream schools may prove to be a novel way of reducing stress, en-hancing well-being, strengthening motivation and self-regulatory capacity, and cultivating clear and compassionate forms of aware-ness among educators, staff, and students alike.

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Speakers

Philip David Zelazo, Ph.D. is the Nancy M. and John E. Lin-

dahl Professor at the Institute of Child Development in the Univer-

sity of Minnesota. He has received several awards for his distin-

guished contributions to the research of cognitive development,

including "Canada's Top 40 Under 40" award. Dr. Zelazo studies

the development and neural bases of executive function, or the

conscious control of thought, action, and emotion. He does so us-

ing a variety of approaches, from experimental to cross-cultural to

electrophysiological (EEG/ERP), and his work has focused on a

number of influential ideas, including the notion that the executive

function depends, in part, on the development of the ability to use

increasingly complex, higher-order rules —part of the Cognitive

Complexity & Control theory.

Scott Anderson. With a background in physics and biomechan-

ics, Scott deeply explores anatomy and how the body's systems

work together. He has a grounded, creative and fun teaching pres-

ence. Scott studied with Hatha Yoga masters including Dona Hol-

leman and Ramamand Patel, and spent six years studying intensive-

ly with Roger Eischens. Through the teachings of Eischens and

Holleman, Scott came to recognize the human body as a micro-

cosm of the greater natural world.

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Yoga Instruction

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Conference Locations

Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery 330 N. Orchard Street Madison, WI 53715 Nancy Nicholas Hall 1300 Linden Drive Madison, WI 53706 Union South (also location of the Wisconsin Union Hotel) 1308 W. Dayton Street Madison, WI 53715

Hotels Double Tree Hotel 525 W Johnson Street Madison, WI 53703 Memorial Union 800 Langdon St. Madison, WI 53706

Thank you to our generous School of

Human Ecology sponsors!

Yolanda Jenkins

Dorothy O’Brien

Mary Sue & Mike Shannon

Elizabeth Scharr