Mindfulness: Causes and Consequences

  • September 28, 2016
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 CST
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    Ellen Langer, PhD, is a professor of psychology at Harvard University and founder of the Langer Mindfulness Institute. She is the author of Mindfulness; The Power of Mindful Learning; On Becoming An Artist: Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity; and Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility.

    Marcus Aurelius wrote: *Our life is what our thoughts make it.* Ellen J. Langer, Ph.D. used this radical piece of wisdom and forever changed psychology when she published Mindfulness for a popular audience over 25 years ago. Over her career, Langer has created studies which explore what happens when you eliminate what she calls *mindlessness*: those scripts and assumptions we make on autopilot. One of her most famous studies resulted in *turning back the clock* for a group of nursing home residents. Langer¿s research can also help lawyers learn how to become more creative in developing solutions to problems, seeing multiple options, and improving outcomes in our rapidly changing world. You will think differently about learning, your work life, creativity, health, aging and indeed, the mind-body duality itself.