Mindfulness-based Interventions – Moving from Health Outcomes to Self-Transcendence

This On-Demand Learning opportunity explores the Benefactor Practice, a Tibetan-inspired meditation adapted by Lama John Makransky. This session provides practical insights into using guided visualizations to help embrace unconditional love and acceptance from trusted benefactors. By visualizing "benefactor moments"—times of feeling deeply loved and accepted— can develop tools to address difficult emotions, rebuild trust in relationships, and lay the foundation for extending compassion to others. Learn how to integrate this evidence-informed approach into your mindfulness or therapeutic practice

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Featured Speaker: Dr. David Vago

Dr. David Vago is Research Associate Professor and Director of the Contemplative Neuroscience and Mind-Body (CNMB) Research Laboratory in the Department of Psychology at Vanderbilt University. He is core training faculty for the Vanderbilt Brain Institute and Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology, and Inflammation. Dr. Vago maintains a research associate position in the Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Vago is also Research Lead for the mental health and well-being platform, Roundglass. Dr. Vago has previously held the position of Research Director at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Vanderbilt and Senior Research Scientist for the Mind & Life Institute. Dr. Vago is currently a  Mind and Life Fellow, supporting the Mind and Life mission by advising on strategy and programs. He is also a consultant for the mindfulness, well-being, and psychedelic research and industry community. He received his Bachelors Degree in Brain and Cognitive Sciences in 1997 from the University of Rochester. In 2005, David received his Ph.D. in Cognitive and Neural Sciences with a specialization in learning and memory from the department of Psychology, University of Utah. Dr. Vago has completed post-doctoral fellowships in Biological and Social Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatric Neuroimaging, and Mind and Body Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Weill Cornell Medical School, and University of Utah School of Medicine.