Mind and Life Europe

A catalyst for human flourishing: bridging contemplative practices and wisdom with up-to-date scientific research.

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Join us for a free relational installation activating sensitive conversations across disciplines and imagining forms of hospitality toward the other as a political gesture.

📍 30 May, 19:30 in Exhibition room (Ciutadella campus) & livestreamed

More info: https://t.co/bJoiUSft3x

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This week we honour the 25th anniversary of Francisco Varela's passing (September 7, 1946 – May 28, 2001), who remains one of the most influential figures in the history of cognitive science and continues to animate new ways of thinking about consciousness, life, and experience.

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Join Prof Amador Vega and Frederic Amat for a free public evening dialogue exploring contemplative practice, scenography, iconoclasm, liminality, and paradox.

📍 29 May, 19:00–20:30 at Auditorium in Ciutadella campus
🎥 Livestreamed via UPF

More info: https://t.co/tIiQnRpzen

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Join us for our next practice session on Tuesday 26th May from 19:00 - 20:15 (CEST). In this intimate series, we carve out some time and space to be present with ourselves with a kind, open awareness.

Register now: https://t.co/9hIFOMX16k

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Congrats to Inès Leferme, Óscar Soto Angona, and Michał Weiss—3 of the 8 European Varela Award recipients—recognised for their innovative interdisciplinary work in contemplative research as next-gen scientists.

👉Read more about their projects here: https://t.co/JKLqX0QTeP

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Join us on 29th April 6pm (CEST) for a Mind Matters book launch featuring philosopher and disability scholar Dr Anne-Lyse Chabert in conversation with her publisher, David Parker. Moderated by Dr Hanne De Jaegher.

Register now: https://t.co/0aGvAtsqdP

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Is it possible to feel free while deeply dependent?

In Beyond Disability, Dr Anne-Lyse Chabert reflects on life with a neurodegenerative disease, weaving together personal experience and philosophy.

Join us at the book launch on 29th April to learn more: https://t.co/ztYmQ6vsX7

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Sit with us during our next practice session on Tuesday 28th April from 19:00 - 20:15 (CEST). In this much-loved series, we carve out some time and space to be present with ourselves with a kind, open awareness with Dr Edel Maex.

👉 Register now: https://t.co/gg9sPppQpO

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Take a look at one of last year’s European Summer Research Institute panels, exploring key questions in enactive & neurophenomenological research.

Watch the full discussion here: https://t.co/RYTu8WgTGp

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A huge congratulations to Jonas Mago, Andreas Voldstad, and Eugénie Lanchou—three of the eight European Varela Award recipients—recognised for their innovative interdisciplinary work in contemplative research 👏

👉 Read more about their projects here: https://t.co/RMZaHtSv6I

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Join us for our next instalment of the MLE Friends series with Prof Giovanna Colombetti, a leading thinker in enactive and embodied approaches to cognition.

👉 Learn more and register now: https://t.co/No9S090ZKy

📷 Osias Beert. Still Life with Cherries in China Bowls. 1608

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Contribute to our vision for a more just, connected, and meaningful society.

Register now for “Power and Care: Enactive Approaches and Critical Social Philosophy”, exploring political agency and social philosophy on the final day with @UPFBarcelona

https://t.co/0m6E8Y9Btl

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Join us at our upcoming MLE Retreat at Rangjung Yeshe Gomde, Austria as we explore how to integrate a contemplative dimension into more aspects of daily life, and to develop habits that can be sustained through life’s busyness and challenges.

Apply now: https://t.co/gEExw5ev22

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A quiet but powerful question remains:

What becomes possible when we place compassion at the centre — and collaborate more deeply across disciplines to respond to today’s challenges? Share your thoughts in the comments!

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What an experience! 🥳

To celebrate His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama’s 90th year and the Year of Compassion, we were honoured to co-organise an intimate conference at the European Parliament with The Office of Tibet, Brussels, hosted by MEP Leoluca Orlando.

Read more below👇

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Throughout the day, compassion emerged not as an abstract ideal, but as an active and dynamic force — one that can shape how we act in policy, in decision-making, and in how we face adversity collectively.

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New episode of The Enactive Fold out now! Stephen Nachmanovitch delves into many resonances between his existential understanding of improvisation and several central questions animating the enactive approach.

🎧 Listen now: https://t.co/eZbhUIVLBE

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Get your tickets for our upcoming international conference, “Power and Care: Enactive Approaches and Critical Social Philosophy”, exploring the mind, body, and the sociopolitical shaping of experiences on the second day with @UPFBarcelona

Register now: https://t.co/xEGzvRiMHI