21st-25th January 2014, Davos, Switzerland. “The Role of Human Nature in Economics” (English). The lecture is in Pecha Kucha format and lasts 5 minutes. Can we train our brains to make us less power hungry and more compassionate? Tania explains how we can learn how to move to a new cooperative and caring economy.

19th-21st January 2014, Munich, Germany. “How to Train Your Mind and Your Heart” (English). On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the DLD Conference, Tania Singer speaks about her research and about how the heart and mind can be trained.

9th November 2013. Tania talks in the documentary “From Business to Being” by Hanna Henigin and Julian Wildgruber on Caring Economics — how altruism and compassion should be brought into the economy and using neurosciences and psychology to revise the outdated homo economicus model. 

19th September 2013. Tania talks about what compassion and empathy are and the differences between them by definition and from what one can see in the brain. She elaborates on compassion and empathy training and the consequences of too much empathy without compassion. 

19th September 2013. Tania talks about the process of bringing together a group of people working on compassion research to the “Life is Space” symposium held at Studio Olafur Eliason in Berlin in 2011, and how these magical four days resulted in the “Compassion” eBook. 

16th September 2013, Berlin, Germany. A collection of informal conversations between neuroscientists, psychologists, and Buddhist monks at the 2011 “How to Train Compassion” workshop on the public perception of compassion, experiences with compassion training programs, and promoting compassion training in dealing with social and political issues. 

19th October 2012. “ZDF Nachtstudio: Das neue Menschenbild – trotz allem gut statt böse?” (German). Philosopher Thomas Metzinger and Tania talk about the implementation of mental training based on meditation in schools and how this is related to research on the plasticity of the brain through experiences. 

1st January 2011, Berlin, Germany. Tania discusses compassion and the brain during the “Life Is Space” symposium held at Studio Olafur Eliasson. “Life Is Space” brought scientists, artists, scholars, dancers, theorists, spatial practitioners and movement experts together with students at the Institut für Raumexperimente to share, discuss, present, and experiment. 

8th-9th November 2010, Berlin, Germany. “Breaking the Wall between People” (English). At this conference, Tania Singer talks about her research in social neuroscience and how compassion can be trained. 

9th-11th April 2010, Zurich, Switzerland. In a Mind & Life dialogue about altruism and compassion in economic systems, Tania explains two neural routes to understanding others’ minds, their relation to compassionate thoughts and feelings, and how meditation has been shown to help people who have deficiencies in comprehending their own feelings.