Dr. Dan Siegel

Time In: Reflection, Relationships and Resilience at the Heart of Internal Education

In this presentation Dr. Dan Siegel, clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, Co-Director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center, and a Garrison Institute trustee, speaks of his pioneering work in interpersonal neurobiology, which studies how the brain is influenced by interpersonal relationships. In his view, the mind itself is both interpersonal and intrapersonal, profoundly connecting people neurologically, physiologically and socially. He called for an approach to “internal education” that teaches children to monitor both their own internal world and the interpersonal world. At the Garrison Institute’s symposium, The Art and Science of Contemplative Teaching and Learning, November, 2012.