In this special episode of the Wisdom 2.0 Radio Hour, Jon Kabat-Zinn begins the meditation with levity and humor: “Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere, it’s not about having some special experience — dropping into some special state, becoming ‘wise’ and more photogenic in the process. It’s about being who you already are in your fullness.” Jon invites the 2018 Mindfulness in America audience (and us listeners) to “just simply rest here in awareness”.

Chelsea Handler, Comedian, Actress, Writer, Producer and Activist, interviewed by Soren Gordhamer at the 2019 Wisdom 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. 

Ideas covered in this episode:

• Working through grief and loss
• Being still with pain
• Relinquishing control
• Meditation 
• Wisdom
• Change
• White Privilege

In this special episode of the Wisdom Radio Hour, Eckhart Tolle talks about the power of the present moment. When are present, we are no longer identified with the stream of thinking. We can see a thought without needing to follow it. We can then wake up to a more true version of us, what he calls "the essence of who we are," not based on our life story or personal history. How much of the tension and stress we feel on any given day is caused by this desire to prove something to the world, to make ourselves more, to improve on "the story of me?" Eckhart suggests, "If you do not discover who you are, you can spend your entire life trying to build up a false sense of self."

What are the benefits and challenges as technology becomes the vehicle for practicing meditation? What is the role of apps in supporting mindfulness and when do we need to put down our phones and connect to ourselves and others? Soren speaks with Sharon Salzberg, author of Real Love, at the first annual Mindfulness in America Summit in New York to explore the role apps and other technologies have in creating a more aware and loving world.

Topics and ideas covered in this episode:

How we see mindfulness emerging in America

How technology can wonderfully disseminate the voices of meditation teachers

Emphasis on the “moment of coming back”

How mindfulness allows us to look nakedly at our experience

How our motivation to practice may change over time

Turning our deep grief and perpetual outrage into action

Partnership vs. Power dynamic

Real love as awareness, where we place our attention

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Mindfulness in America 2018

David Simas was one of President Obama's key advisors in the White House and now heads up the Obama Foundation as CEO. David has experienced an America that very few of us get to see up close and personal and in this intimate discussion with mindfulness teacher, Jon Kabat-Zinn, David will share his lessons as a mindfulness practitioner in the White House, why mindfulness matters to him, and how he sees it may be incorporated in training the next generation of leaders. Together they explore the next wave of engagement and mindful leadership in our world.

Topics David and Jon discuss:

• Emphasis on the idea of “none of us have gotten to where we are by ourselves"
• Tribalism vs. Community and how trust shapes this
• Digging into the root rather than the “I’m right, you’re wrong” frame of mind
• How we can build a coalition and have difficult conversations with people who disagree
• Working from the grassroots up
• Citizen engagement and our responsibility to our community
• How we can develop policy that is truly healing and transformative

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In our debut episode, Karen May (Vice President of People, Google) sits down with Anderson Cooper (CNN, journalist, television personality, and author) to talk about mindfulness, media, his guilty pleasures and living intentionally at Wisdom 2.0’s Mindfulness in America Summit in New York. Links and more information below…

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