Ellen Langer
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- Appearances
- 67 days ago
Happiness & Its Causes Appearance
WHY ARE WE HERE? HOW CAN WE BE HAPPY? HOW SHOULD WE LIVE?
Join the best and brightest minds in philosophy, science, psychology, spirituality and the arts in exploring these questions and more at Happiness & Its Causes 2012. Now in its 7th amazing year, Happiness & Its Causes is the world’s leading conference examining the varied causes of a happy and meaningful life.
Be motivated and inspired by an extraordinary roll call of 40+ speakers from Australia and abroad!
Keynotes include world-renowned Tibetan Buddhist teacher, Sogyal Rinpoche; founder of positive psychology Dr Martin Seligman; acclaimed ethicist, philosopher and author Peter Singer; playwright and National Living Treasure David Williamson and ground breaking journalist Ita Buttrose.
DISCOUNTS ARE AVAILABLE!
Book before 23 December and save $100 on the 2 day conference and $170 on the gold pass! PLUS given I am presenting at the event, my contacts are entitled to a further 15% discount on the conference fees. Simply call (02) 8719 5118 to register and mention my name.
Join more than 10,000 people who have enjoyed our potent mix of cutting edge research, philosophical, scientific and social perspectives and inspiring personal stories. Also featuring leading Australian and international thinkers, authors and social commentators such as best-selling author Peter FitzSimons; mother and media personality Jessica Rowe; the world’s leading Feng Shui practitioner Lillian Too; organisational expert Lissane Oliver; interfaith minister Stephanie Dowrick; comedian Ahh Do and two of Australia’s most popular broadcasters Angela Catterns and Wendy Harmer.
I am presenting a session on Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility on Day 2 of the conference at 9.30am as well as participating in the midday panel session.
I’m also presenting a post-conference workshop.
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- Appearances
- 91 days ago
Fall Program at Kripalu November 11 - 13
I will be leading a program session at Kripalu this fall, November 11-13. A description of the program is below and you can get more information about it at the Kirpalu website.
For more information, call 1-800-741-7353.
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Ellen Langer’s book, Counterclockwise, is being made into a movie starring Jennifer Aniston. Ellen’s groundbreaking studies, including the Counterclockwise study, have led to a remarkable set of findings on the practical applications of mindfulness for health: When people are taught to be mindful in a fashion very different from meditation, they become more creative, healthier, and happier. They show improvements in memory, attention, and productivity, a decrease in judgment of self and others, and a decrease in burnout. Most dramatically, the research has found an increase in longevity, an improvement in vision, and a decrease in weight, all as a result of people changing their minds.
While this might sound like work, Ellen’s approach is actually the essence of play and laughter—you can expect to have fun while you learn life-changing strategies. In this workshop, Ellen will discuss the research and ideas described in her four-book mindfulness series, guide personal and interpersonal exercises, and participate in an in-depth Q&A period.
Recommended reading Ellen Langer, Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility (Ballantine Books) and On Becoming an Artist (Ballantine Books).
CE Credits
This program is eligible for :
8.5 credits for Nurses, $20 additional charge
8.5 credits for Certified Counselors (NBCC), $20 additional charge
8.5 credits for Psychologists (PSY), $20 additional charge
8.5 credits for Social Workers (SW), $20 additional charge
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- Mindfulness
- 91 days ago
What will I do if I retire?
A problem for the large number of potential retirees is how to keep from going crazy if they retire. It’s an odd problem in that, if we’re thinking of retiring, we’re probably not our happiest at work or the issue probably wouldn’t come up in the first place.
There is no reason to expect to know exactly what we’ll want to do when we’ve never been in the position before. Those of us who can’t find the time to do the things we love doing, probably won’t have a problem in retirement. This doesn’t represent a large number of us though. The real problem is not not knowing what we’ll do but is thinking we should know. The second problem is one that existed throughout our lives and that is waiting for something to grab our interest.
As I’ve written many times before in different contexts, activities are not inherently interesting or boring. Tom Sawyer was bored watching his friends take over his fence- painting chores. If we want to find something, or someone for that matter, interesting, all we need to do is notice things about it. The more we mindfully notice, the more engaged we become and the more our decision to leave an unfulfilling job seems the right decision.
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- 271 days ago
Share the Roses Interview
Below you’ll find the video of an interview with me from the Seeing the Roses blog.
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- Mindfulness
- 285 days ago
GLADO
For the past ten years I’ve ended my courses with one version or another of a powerpoint presentation of photos of my paintings with the most course appropriate one-liners as a way to help celebrate the end of the semester and to provide an easy way to remember some of the course highlights. The one-liners were culled from years of research. They include such sayings as “Predict Today and Lose Tomorrow” to remind them of the illusion of predictability and how our predictions lead to expectations that give us tunnel vision and may prevent noticing the unpredicted, for example.
There is also a message hidden in many of the sayings that I bring to light to underscore what I feel as a personal responsibility to convey to them and feel comfortable doing so since it is a send-off celebration. The message is my recipe for a happy successful life. It is not based directly on research nor theory. Still it feels right to me.
The recipe is the acronym, GLADO. The prescription is be Generous, Loving, Authentic, Direct and Open and well being should result. It implicitly follows from years of research on Mindfulness. The mindful understanding that behavior makes sense from the actor’s perspective or else s/he wouldn’t have done it, leads us to be less evaluative of others and ourselves. As such, it removes the impediments to generosity, caring, authenticity, being direct and not fearing being open and true to ourselves.
If we practice this way of being, will all failure and rejection or open personal attack be a thing of the past? Probably not. It would be nice not to have to endure the trials and tribulations we suffer from time to time. But after all, many people out there are not embracing whatever wisdom this simple acronym holds. If we stay the course, we very well may avert some unpleasant episodes and certainly recover more quickly from others.
GLADO is easy to remember, and years later many students tell me that they call it to mind when they are feeling insecure or angry. To some this will seem like pabulum. I think they don’t realize that it’s hard to be soft. To them I say, “ try it and see.”
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