Center for Contemplative Research
Fathom the mind. Heal the world.®
Mission
The CCR is a global network of contemplative research observatories, where professional contemplatives and researchers work collaboratively across the interface of religion, science, and philosophy. Highly trained contemplatives engage in long-term meditation retreat and collaborate with a global team of expert scientists to measure the impacts of such practices on genuine well-being. The findings inform the development of secular educational offerings for mental balance as well as encourage a dialogue and renaissance across contemplative wisdom traditions. The CCR North America currently hosts 14 full-time contemplatives collaborating with 45 scientists to fathom the nature of mind and human flourishing in a challenging era.
Ruling year
2021
Founder and President
Dr. B. Alan Wallace PhD
Co-founder
Eva Natanya PhD
Main address
PO Box 881 (1 Carmelite Way)
Crestone, CO 81131 USA
EIN
85-1666977
NTEE code
Buddhist (X50)
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Experiential: Extended Meditation Retreat
What happens when people train full-time to be the Olympic athletes of the mind?
Highly trained contemplatives engage in full-time retreat practice, training the mind in time-tested methods for cultivating exceptional mental balance, engaging in internal inquiry to gain insights into the defining characteristics of human flourishing and consciousness itself. Practitioners emerge to apply these insights practically in the world, applying their own balanced and healthy minds across disciplines and sectors.
Throughout the course of their retreats, they meet periodically with their teachers, one another, and with scientists from different disciplines, reporting on their first-person discoveries and providing scientists with the opportunity to collect third-person data.
Scientific: Contemplative Science
The elegant methods of science can support a more thorough understanding of inner discoveries of contemplative inquiry.
Interdisciplinary scientists conduct rigorous, novel research with contemplatives and publish their results. Studies explore what is widely regarded as a mystery—consciousness itself—in order to make discoveries that transform the way we inhabit our world and cultivate our minds toward balance and health. Researchers seek to empirically measure the discoveries of meditators and the impact of contemplative practice on health and well-being.
Applied: Contemplative Education
The tools of contemplative practice are for everyone.
Researchers and subject matter experts across industries develop secular, accessible, and widely applicable interventions grounded in contemplative practices and research findings to enable people and organizations to cultivate exceptional mental health, resilience, creativity, and contentment.
Educational modules are based on the CCR's Sixfold Matrix of Mental Balance, which encompasses six facets of human flourishing: conative (intention), ethical, attentional, cognitive, emotional, and spiritual.
Dialogic: Interdisciplinary Conversation
Interdisciplinary common ground is a launchpad for sharing wisdom.
Teachers and practitioners alike encourage dialogue across the world’s great scientific, religious, and wisdom traditions, nurturing inter-contemplative dialogue and rediscovering the valuable depths of the world’s diverse traditions.
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Affiliations & memberships
Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies 2020
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Center for Contemplative Research
Board of directorsas of 08/27/2023
Dr. B. Alan Wallace
Center for Contemplative Research
Term: 2020 -
B. Alan Wallace
Center for Contemplative Research
Scott Reynolds
Bloom Energy
Eva Natanya
Center for Contemplative Research
Navin Amarasuriya
Contentment Foundation
Kimberly Ferrari
Craig Neyman
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
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Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Not applicable
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- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
- We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We disaggregate data by demographics, including race, in every policy and program measured.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
- We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We measure and then disaggregate job satisfaction and retention data by race, function, level, and/or team.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
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