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Contemplative Medicine Conversations: Love as Medicine
Monday, May 1, 2023 from 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm ET
with Dan Harris, Bianca Harris, MD, Chodo Campbell Sensei, and Koshin Paley Ellison Sensei
Dan Harris, New York Times bestselling author of 10% Happier, and Bianca Harris, MD, are going on a double date with Chodo Sensei and Koshin Sensei!
Join these New York Zen Center Contemplative Medicine Fellowship faculty members and dear friends as they talk humor, love, change, and what matters most in relationships.
In this free online webinar, they will explore the medicine of interpersonal relationships — intimate, family, professional, friendships, and more. How do contemplative approaches deepen our relationships? How do they help us work with fear and uncertainty without separating ourselves from others? And how do contemplative practices support an integrated life in relationship as we balance personal and professional commitments?
This webinar is open to all!
It is also part of a series featuring faculty from the 2023 Fellowship beginning in July. For physicians, advanced practice registered nurses, and physician assistants interested in applying for the Fellowship, the event will offer a glimpse of how contemplative practices are explored with our interdisciplinary faculty.
About the speakers
Dr. Bianca Harris is a specialist in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Her expertise is in treating patients who have been admitted to the hospital ward or intensive care unit with breathing problems due to cancer and its related-treatments. Over the past few years she has also been writing a personal narrative on imposter syndrome as it pertains to women in academic medicine. Lastly, she diverts much attention to raising her son (Alexander), husband (Dan) and 3 cats (Ruby, Toby and Steve).
Dan Harris is a fidgety, skeptical ABC News anchor who had a panic attack live on “Good Morning America,” which led him to try something he always thought was ridiculous: meditation. He went on to write the bestselling book, 10% Happier, and launch the 10% Happier podcast. Guests include legendary meditation teachers — from the Dalai Lama to Western masters — as well as scientists, and even the odd celebrity. But the show also ventures beyond meditation, bringing on leading researchers in areas such as social anxiety, bias, creativity, productivity, and relationships.
Chodo Robert Campbell is a co-founder of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care — a non-profit organization that focuses on the teaching of Zen and Buddhist practice with the goal to make them more accessible to people all around the world. The center delivers contemplative approaches to care through education, carepartnership, and meditation practice. Chodo is a dynamic, grounded, and visionary leader and teacher: he has traveled extensively throughout the U.S instructing in various institutions. Sixty-thousand people listen to his podcasts each year. His passion lies in bereavement counseling and advocating for change in the way our healthcare institutions work with the dying.
Koshin Paley Ellison, MFA, LMSW, DMIN, is an author, Zen teacher, Jungian psychotherapist, and Certified Chaplaincy Educator. After many years as a chaplain and psychotherapist, Koshin co-founded the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, which offers contemplative approaches to care through education, personal caregiving, and Zen practice. Today, New York Zen Center’s methodologies are internationally recognized—and have touched the lives of tens of thousands of individuals. Koshin is a world renowned thought leader in contemplative care. He is the author of Untangled: Walking the Eightfold Path to Clarity, Courage, and Compassion (Balance/Hachette, 2022); Wholehearted: Slow Down, Help Out, Wake Up (Wisdom Publications, 2019) and the co-editor of Awake at the Bedside: Contemplative Teachings on Palliative and End of Life Care (Wisdom Publications, 2016). His work has been featured in the New York Times, PBS, CBS Sunday Morning, Tricycle among other publications.
