Honoring diverse meditators through community engagement and individualized neuroscience: Results from the first UCSF-EBMC neuroscience study

with Dr. Helen Weng and Mushim Ikeda

Participants in the neuroscience of meditation have historically belonged to dominant cultures. Over the past 3 years, Dr. Helen Weng has collaborated with EBMC to increase the diversity of meditators represented, including people of color, LGBTQI community, people with disabilities, and the fat community.

Dr. Weng will present the results of this exciting study – how her team adapted neuroscientific procedures to be more culturally-sensitive and inclusive, and how individualized approaches to analyzing brain data can “read your mind” during meditation. Participants may share their experiences, and we will continue to adapt research methods to honor diverse meditators.

Light dinner is provided.

Space is limited and registration is requested. 

Cost: There is no registration fee for attending this event, nor most EBMC events. However, EBMC is not independently funded. The Center and the teachers will be sustained only by your voluntary donations (the practice of generous giving, or “dana”). Please donate generously, in proportion to your ability:

* Either online (you will be offered an opportunity during the online registration process to donate to EBMC; the teachers will not receive any part of this online donation).
* Or at the event, in the two baskets at EBMC, one for the Center, the second for the Teacher.

Thank you for your generosity. EBMC will be only be sustained through our collective generosity.

Fragrance-free: In order to protect the health of community members with environmental illness, please do not wear fragranced products (including “natural” fragrances) or clothes laundered in fragranced products to EBMC.

EBMC is wheelchair accessible.