European Varela Awards (EVAs) Recipients

The FO-CO Programme: Development of Contemplative Practices and Scientific Assessment Plan

UNIFESP/NEPSIS, São Paulo, Brazil

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Using Sustained Mindfulness Training to Change Brain Functioning in Patients with Persistent Depression

University of Surrey, United Kingdom

Investigating the Relationship between Equanimity and Automatic Emotional and Motivational Reactions

LAPSCO Université Clermont Auvergne, France

Realtime Neuroimaging of Mental States: Enhancing Wellbeing by Shifting Individuals' Mode of Self-Consciousness

LAPSCO Université Clermont Auvergne, France

Meeting Global Challenges from the Inside Out: Tracing the Effects of Mindfulness on Climate Change Attitudes and Actions

University Salzburg, Austria

Integrating Brain, Body and Phenomenology to Investigate Mind Wandering Eposides During Breath Focus Meditation: An Experience Sampling Study with Mindfulness Practitioners and Novices

KU Leuven, Belgium

Tracing Collaborative Reflection Moment-To-Moment: Bringing Science & Technology Studies to Contemplative Science and Vice Versa

Maastricht University, the Netherlands

The Dynamics of Mindful Conflict in Romantic Relationships

Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Corina Aguilar-Raab

The Enhancement of Compassion in Burdened Couple Relationships and Its Impact on Immune-Functioning

Universität Heidelberg, Germany

Compassionate Attitude Training in a Challenging School Context in Brussels - An Effectiveness Study Assessing the Impact on Well-Being, Prosocial Attitudes and Behavior, And Socio-Psychological Attitudes Concerning Prejudice

Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Compassionate Attitude Training in a Challenging School Context in Brussels - An Effectiveness Study Assessing the Impact on Well-Being, Prosocial Attitudes and Behavior, And Socio-Psychological Attitudes Concerning Prejudice

Leiden University, the Netherlands

Turning the Curse into a Blessing: Using Mindfulness to Reduce Suspiciousness and Paranoia in Individuals with High Positive Schizotypy

Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, United Kingdom

Tibetan Mind Science and Western Mental Health: A Cultural Congruence Framework

University College London, United Kingdom

The Differential Effects of Attention and Insight Meditations on Economic Decision-Making: Evidence on Four Behavioural Biases from a Randomised-Control Trial

University of Warwick, United Kingdom

Laying Down a Path in Walking: The Life-Worlds of Francisco Varela

Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Investigating the Deconstructive Effects of Open Presence Meditation on Neural Representations of Perceptual Objects and Bodily Signals Using Magnetoencephalography

INSERM UMR 1028 Lyon, France

Dream Work, Dream Yoga: A Comparative Neurophenomenological Study of Intentional Practices for Healing Nightmares

Swansea University, United Kingdom

Effects of Two Different Meditation-Based Programs on the Dynamics of Stress Response

Institute of Social Sciences for Contemporary Religion (ISRRC), University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Assessing the Subjective Experience of Engaged Interaction: How Asking Questions About Experience Influences Experience and Behavior in the Mirror Game, an Interactive Coordination Task

Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf (Germany)

Do Personality Traits and Brain Electric Activity Predict How Meditation Affects Individuals' Psychological and Physical Well-Being? - A Combined Electrophysiological and Mobile App-Based Experience Sampling Approach

The KEY Institute for Brain-Mind Research, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, University Hospital of Psychiatry, Zurich, Switzerland

A Micro-Phenomenological Exploration of Vipassana and Shamatha Meditators' Experiential Shifts Into Deeper Meditation

University of Southampton, United Kingdom

Mindful Movement and Skilled Attention: Quantifying Changes in Spatial Awareness Induced by a Mindful Sensorimotor Intervention Based on the Feldenkrais Method

School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Elicitation Interviews as a Contemplative Intervention: Insights from Stroke into Body Ownership and Agency

University of Newcastle, Australia

The Effects of Mindfulness Practice on Neural Correlates of Executive Functions in Elementary School Children: A Cluster-randomized Controlled Trial

Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Chile

Is the Neural Signature of Emotion Regulation following a 2-Week Mindfulness Intervention in Chronically Depressed Patients Characterized by Positive Fronto-Limbic Connectivity?

Department of Neuroradiology, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Germany

The Neurophenomenology of Meditative States: Integrating Neural Markers of Consciousness with Dimensions of Subjective Experience

Consciousness and Cognition Lab/ University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

The Effect of an Online Mindfulness-Based Intervention on Partner Acceptance and Relationship Quality

Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Mindfulness and Refugee Mental Health: Cross-Cultural Contemplative Science with a Social Mission

IRCA, University of Haifa, Israel

Risks and Adverse Effects of Meditation

University of Giessen, Germany

Second Person Issues in Contemplative Life - Polite Talk, Teasing and Debating Dyads in a Tibetan Buddhist Non-Monastic Educational Setting

University of St Andrews, Scotland

Interplay between Structural Connectivity and Resting-State Dynamics in Meditators

University of Barcelona, Spain

Investigating Modulation of Compassion by Self-Related Factors in Expert and Novice Meditators: Behavioural and Neuroendocrine Correlates

Lyon Neuroscience Research Centre, France

Investigating the Impact of Mindfulness Practice on Embodied and Subjective Dimensions of Emotion Dynamics

University of Exeter, United Kingdom

Towards Caring & Mindful Schools Model

University of Zagreb, Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, Croatia

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and maintenance antidepressant treatment: differential mechanisms in the treatment of recurrent depression

Aarhus University, Denmark

The Effects of Yoga-Based Therapy for Patients with Chronic Mood and Anxiety Disorders: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Center for Integrative Psychiatry, Lentis Mental Health Care, Groningen, The Netherlands

The Effects of Compassion Meditation on Health and Social Interaction in Depressed Patients

Institute of Medical Psychology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany

Assessing Resilience of Brain Functional Networks and Fluid Intelligence in Aging editators: A Combined TMS-fMRI Study

Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, The Netherlands

A Translational Approach to Short-Circuiting On-Going Suicidal Vulnerability: Understanding Brain Mechanisms of Action

University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry, United Kingdom

Varieties of Contemplative Experience: Anthroposophy

Bender Institute of Neuroimaging/University of Giessen, Germany