Press archive

  • For a brave management team, you need an awake and organised heart
    March 4, 2020

    4th March 2020. Ahead of her keynote address on 25 June 2020 at IMD’s inaugural OWP liVe – an innovative virtual learning experience – neuroscientist Tania Singer outlines some of her research insights on building resilient and collaborative organizational teams.


  • New Publication “Power and Care”
    February 28, 2020

    28th February 2020. This book, edited by Tania Singer and Matthieu Ricard, documents Mind & Life Europe dialogues between the Dalai Lama and internationally renowned scientists, politicians, economists and artists about the fundamental forces of power and care.


  • How 30 minutes of meditation per day changes our brain
    January 1, 2020

    January 2020. An interview with Tania Singer about the results of the ReSource project has been published in the current issue of the mindfulness magazine “moment by moment”.


  • Hier und Jetzt [Here and Now]
    December 7, 2019

    7th December 2019. The Süddeutsche Zeitung publishes an article about the effects of meditation and the scientific discoveries based on the results of the ReSource project. In this article by Katrin Blawat there are also excerpts from an interview with Tania Singer.


  • Bienestar Docente y Neurociencias
    November 28, 2019

    28th November 2019. Tania Singer presents her research at this conference hosted by the Goethe Schule in Buenos Aires, Argentina on cultivating an education for well-being through the development of our highest capacities.


  • Self-protection or selfishness? About the pros and cons of mindfulness practice
    November 18, 2019

    18th November 2019. In this report, broadcasted by rbbkultur (German only), Vera Block explores the question of whether the new social trend of mindfulness practice entails risks, and she interviews Tania Singer on her research and the ReSource Project.


  • Contemplative Science Symposium
    October 25, 2019

    25th October 2019. Tania Singer presents her research at the Contemplative Science Symposium hosted by Mind and Life Europe: a symposium on the topics of politics, education, neuro- and cognitive science, economics, and more. 


  • Science, Art & Meditation 2019 (SAM)
    October 18, 2019

    18th October 2019. Tania Singer participates in a panel discussion together with Thierry Janssen, Rose, Aurélie Godefroy and Frédéric Lopez. SAM 2019, a mix of conferences, artistic performances and workshops, took place in Strasbourg, France.


  • Tania Singer presents research at the LEAD for GOOD Symposium
    October 17, 2019

    17th October 2019. The IFLP (Institut Francais du Leadership Positif) appoints executives who reinvent their leadership, accelerate their transformation and positively influence society. Theevent took place in Lyon, France.


  • The Digital Table
    October 14, 2019

    14th October 2019. Online interview on the exploration of wellbeing in the digital age, the meeting point between digitisation and the world of consciousness and spirituality – over lunch.


  • Ageing cells are associated with changes in brain structure
    September 26, 2019

    26th September 2019. To investigate the influence of telomere length on brain structure, scientists investigated its length using leukocyte DNA from participants’ blood using PCR and calculated the thickness of the cerebral cortex using MRI scans. 


  • Tagesspiegel online reports on Tania Singer’s Talk
    August 29, 2019

    Tagesspiegel online reports on Tania Singer’s Talk at the symposium “Psychotherapy online — How? When? For who?” [„Online Psychotherapie – Wie? Wann? Für wen?“]. The symposium was organised by the Berliner Fliedner Klinik and took place on August 28th 2019. 


  • New Publication in Current Opinion in Psychology
    August 1, 2019

    In August 2019 an overview paper was published in the Special Issue Mindfulness titled “It matters what you practice: differential training effects on subjective experience, behavior, brain and body in the ReSource Project“. In this paper, the latest results of the ReSource Project are presented 


  • 2nd MLE Hub Meeting
    June 26, 2019

    The second MLE Hub Meeting of the European Neurophenomonolgy, Contemplative, and Embodied Cognition Network. From June 11th -15th the second MLE HUB Meeting took place. Topic of this workshop was States of Consciousness: Comparing Meditation, Hypnosis, Trance and Psychedelics from a first- and third-person Perspective


  • Tania Singer’s Interview for the Existential Consciousness Research Institute Congress.
    May 18, 2019

    “Different Forms of Meditation: What is good for what? Mindfulness, Awareness and Compassion”. An interview on the impacts of different forms of meditation as studied in the Resource Project. This took place at the Congress at the Akademie Heiligenfeld: Mindfulness, evolution, consciousness, being human.