Quiet Your Mind.
Build Lasting Calm and Resilience.
Free Weekly Talks and Meditations with Dr. Rick Hanson
Live Every Wednesday
A guided meditation, an insightful talk, and a welcoming community — grounded in brain science and modern psychology. No experience needed, and always free.
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Led by Dr. Rick Hanson, PhD — psychologist, Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, and New York Times–bestselling author of Buddha’s Brain, Hardwiring Happiness, and Resilient. His books have sold over a million copies in English and been translated into 33 languages, and he’s taught at NASA, Google, Oxford, and Harvard.
Recent Wednesday Meditations and Talks
Talk + Meditation: Thankfulness for What Protects and Nurtures You
Explore how to feel grounded and supported by the refuges in your life—people, places, practices, and inner strengths that steady you.
Talk + Meditation: Releasing Anxiety with Three Kinds of Insights
Find out why anxiety shows up and three small insights that can help you relax, feel safer inside, and handle life with more ease.
Talk + Meditation: Empathy and Engaged Compassion
Learn how to stay empathic without getting overwhelmed, grow real compassion, and take wise, collective action to reduce suffering at its roots.
Talk + Meditation: Letting Go of Old Baggage for a Better Future
Holding onto old regrets? Learn how to take responsibility without shame — and how forgiveness and compassion can set you free from old burdens.
Talk + Meditation: Appreciating Your Own Generosity and Good Intentions
Even our messy, reactive parts come from good intentions. Learn how to rest in your own goodness and act from it more often.
Talk + Meditation: How to Be Compassionate and Wise: Lessons from the Mahayana
Discover how compassion, wisdom, and skillful action unite to create the awakened heart of the Mahayana path.





