Personal Evolution, Global Evolution

with David Sloan Wilson and Rick Hanson

Darwin’s insights into biological evolution extend into societal and even personal evolution - and David Sloan Wilson has been a brilliant pioneer in the far-reaching implications. Join him and Rick Hanson to explore how these insights can expand your own healing, growing, and awakening - informed by the deep analysis of the mind in the Buddhist contemplative tradition - as well as show us a realistic path forward in our troubled world.

David Sloan Wilson

Rick Hanson

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This experiential and practical event is co-hosted with the Wednesday Meditation Program, and will follow this schedule (in Pacific Time):

5:45 pm (optional) informal initial gathering
6:00 Guided meditation
6:20 Break
6:30 Conversation with David Sloan Wilson
7:30 Closing
7:35 (optional) small discussion groups in Zoom breakout rooms, ending by 8 pm.

This event is free. Donations are welcome, and will support the work of the Global Compassion Coalition.

The Speakers

David Sloan Wilson is an evolutionary biologist and a SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biology and Anthropology at Binghamton University. David Sloan Wilson has made foundational contributions to evolutionary theory and its expansion beyond the biological sciences to include all human-related subjects. He remains active as president of ProSocial World, a nonprofit organization applying evolutionary theory to all aspects of humanity in addition to the rest of life. A complete archive of his work is available at www.DavidSloanWilson.world. His most recent books include This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution, Prosocial: Using Evolutionary Science to Build Productive, Equitable, and Collaborative Groups (with Paul W.B. Atkins and Steven C. Hayes), and his novel Atlas Hugged.

Rick Hanson, PhD is a psychologist, Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, and New York Times best-selling author. His seven books have been published in 33 languages, and include Making Great Relationships, Neurodharma, Resilient, Hardwiring Happiness, Just One Thing, Buddha’s Brain, and Mother Nurture – with over a million copies in English alone. He’s the founder of the Global Compassion Coalition and the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom, as well as the co-host of the Being Well Podcast – which has been downloaded over 25 million times. He’s lectured at NASA, Google, Oxford, and Harvard.