• Understanding of the Social Brain
• Introduction into the Psychology of Motivation
• Training of social capacities such as empathy and compassion
• Deeper understanding of self and others
• Increased social intelligence and perspective taking
• Introcution into different meditation and mindfulness practices
• Boosting resilience and avoiding burn-out

• Identifying unique potentials
• Deepening compassion for self and others
• Transfer of mindfulness practices into everyday life and work
• Better coping with stress and difficult emotions
• Living with uncertainty and not knowing
• Increasing deep connections and social cohesion
• Widening the circles of compassion and cooperation

In the context of a large-scale 9-month mental training study, the ReSource Project, Tania Singer and team investigated the effects of three 3-months long mental training modules, 3.5 days retreats at the beginning of a given module and daily app-based meditation practices including partner-based Dyads on brain, mind and behavior. Up to now, the findings are published in more than 60+ peer-reviewed scientific publications which reveal that different forms of meditations and mental practices have indeed the potential to boost mental health, subjective wellbeing, induce brain plasticity on the functional and structural level, increase social skills such as empathy, compassion and perspective taking as well as cooperation, social cohesion and prosocial behaviors.

In another more recent study, the CovSocial Project,
a mental health study performed during the Covid19 pandemic in Berliners, Tania Singer and her social neuroscience lab team in Berlin investigated the effects of a 10-week online mental training with 12-minutes daily practices and 2h supporting online coaching sessions with teachers. In this phase2 training study, the focus was mostly on comparing the effects of classic mindfulness exercises done alone with so-called contemplative Dyads, a socio-emotional mental exercise done with a partner on a daily basis over many weeks. This form of intersubjective contemplative practice was already developed by Tania Singer in her ReSource project and further developed in CovSocial as a 10-weeks online program based on specific topical coaching sessions to deepen the specific Dyad practice to achieve deep transformation. The results show that indeed socio-emotional Dyad practice had the potential to increase social skills such as empathy and compassion for self and others as well as boost mental health (decrease anxiety, stress and depression) and resilience as well as social connectedness while decreasing loneliness.
In a follow-up study, the Edu:Social School and Healthcare Project, Tania Singer and team now bring this Dyad programs into school and healthcare settings as these environment suffer from high burn-out rates.