The Doshi Bridgebuilder annual event honors scholars and activists who make connections across cultures and disciplines, highlighting issues of vital concern. This year's topic will be Artificial Intelligence.
The following persons and organizations will be honored at LMU on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024.
Please RSVP here.
Center for Humane Technology (CHT), sponsor of The Social Dilemma, a film highlighting delicate issues surrounding social media and conceptions of self. Randima Fernando, co-founder, will receive the award for CHT. Fernando served as founding Executive Director of Mindful Schools for seven years, teaching mindfulness to millions of kids and over 30,000 educators worldwide.
Fritjof Capra, author, physicist, systems theorist, and deep ecologist, founded the Center for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley and is on the faculty of Schumacher College. He has published several books, including The Tao of Physics, The Hidden Connections, and The Systems View of Life.
Jack Kornfield trained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, India, and Burma. He holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and is a founding teacher of the Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts and Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California. A key teacher of mindfulness practice since 1974, his 16 books have sold more than two million copies.
Trudy Goodman, Ph.D., is the founding teacher of InsightLA, as well as guiding teacher and co-founder of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is a contributing author to several books, including the Clinical Handbook of Mindfulness and Compassion and Wisdom in Psychotherapy.
Schedule:
8 to 9:40 am | Viewing of The Social Dilemma
10 to 11:15 am | Student panel in response to The Social Dilemma
Lunch
12 to 1:30 p.m. | Artificial Intelligence and the Tacit, Embodied Intelligence of Life
Fritjof Capra and LMU Student and Faculty Response
2 to 3:30 p.m. | Social Media and Mindfulness: Does Artificial Intelligence Change the Equation?
Randima Fernando and LMU Student and Faculty Response
4 to 5:30 p.m.| Meditation and Transformation of Self
Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman with Student and Faculty Response
6 p.m. to 8 p.m. | Dinner for honorees, presenters, and selected guests
LMU Faculty from all disciplines are invited to integrate student attendance to this event into their spring 2024 classes. Please fill out our brief survey below by Nov. 15, 2023, and let us know if you're interested in participating in this event. Questions? Please get in touch with Chris Chapple, Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology.