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After
hugely successful annual conferences internationally
since 2006, Happiness & Its Causes will be in
San Francisco November 24-25.
What
is happiness? Is it possible? What holds us back
from it? How to find happiness in the midst of
suffering and sadness? How to forgive? How to
bring happiness to others?
Over
four days-the two-day general session and two
days of pre- and post-conference workshops-40
of the best minds in psychology, philosophy, science,
education, business, the arts, medicine, and politics
will provide answers to these fundamental questions
and explore techniques for achieving happiness
and well-being, for ourselves and others.
Among
the speakers will be Paul Ekman, considered
one of the 100 most eminent psychologists of the
twentieth century; Melissa Mathison, award-winning
screenwriter of ET and Kundun; Robina Courtin,
center director of Liberation Prison Project;
Pam Cayton, founder of Tara Redwood School
in Soquel, California; Ross Mirkarimi,
San Francisco Board of Supervisors and co-founder
of California Green Party;
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Thupten
Jinpa, the Dalai Lama's principal translator
and Visiting Scholar in Stanford Neuroscience
Institute's Project Compassion; Yeshe Khadro,
Executive Director, Karuna Hospice, Australia;
Anne Harrington, Professor of History of
Science at Harvard; Robert Sapolsky, Professor
of Biology at Stanford Medical Center and author
of Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers; KRON 4's Pam
Moore; and Gina Gibney, a New York
City dancer, who will describe the work that her
company does with abused women and children. A
special guest will be Google's Jolly Good Fellow,
Chade-Meng Tan.
Gala
Concert: World Premier of Buddhafonias.
On the first evening of the conference, the San
Franicsco Sinfonietta will perform the world premier
of an orchestral poem, Buddhafonias, by
Guatemalan composer Jorge Sarmientos, commissioned
by Liberation Prison Project. Igor Sarmientos,
his son and a student of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, will
conduct. A cellist as well, Igor performed a five-minute
piece for cello, also written by his father, in
Guatemala for His Holiness the Dalai Lama during
his 2003 visit.
The
conference is organized by Sherab Plaza Trust
for the benefit of Liberation Prison Project and
Tse Chen Ling in San Francisco.
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