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2024
MLE Friends Talk with Dr Elena Antonova
“Open Presence and Compassion: How Dyads Open Up the Space Between Us”
Open Presence is an approach to mindfulness meditation practice that is characterised by effortless effort. It is also referred to as ‘non-dual awareness’ and ‘non-dual mindfulness’. This way of being and experiencing is relatively easy to glimpse but can be difficult to sustain due to our habitual patterns of fixating on the ‘objects’ of perception and identifying with the experiencing ‘subject’. When this subject-object structure dissolves in Open Presence, non-referential compassion arises as the affective expression of non-dual awareness. In this webinar, we will also explore the difference between empathy and compassion and how this relates to dyadic work.
This event is jointly organised with Humanize.
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Elena Antonova is Reader (Associate Professor) in Psychology at Brunel University London, which she joined in June 2019. Prior to that she was a lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London (KCL), where she remains a Visiting Researcher. Elena’s research focuses on the effects of long-term mindfulness practice using neuroimaging and psychophysiology methods, with the application to the prevention and management of psychopathologies. She has been actively involved with the Mind and Life Institute since 2011 and Mind & Life Europe since 2013, and was elected a Mind and Life Research Fellow for her contribution to contemplative science in 2017. Elena has had a personal meditation practice since 1998 and has attended numerous meditation retreats since 2001, mainly studying and practicing Dzogchen approach.
17-10-2024 07:30 PM