About the workshop

Women have outnumbered men on college campuses since 1988, yet they have not moved up to positions of prominence and power at anywhere near the rate that should have followed. Even worse are the statistics for women of color. In fact, it has been estimated that, at the current rate of change, it will take more than 100 years to reach gender equality in the C-suite. Clearly something needs to change.

This workshop will explore how mindfulness and compassion can help us deal with difficult issues like individual, institutional and systemic injustice and discrimination through an inclusive and intersectional lens of gender. We will explore how practices of mindfulness and compassion can impact efforts to address and eliminate the causes of collective unconsciousness, implicit bias, systemic oppression, and inequity.

About the workshop holder

Selma Quist-Møller, Cand.psych, is a psychologist, researcher, and writer, educated from UC Berkeley, UCLA, Copenhagen University, and Lund University. 

In her work, Selma bridges science and mindfulness practices to generate action that cultivates individual, collective, and planetary well-being, health, justice, and growth. She has shared her work at the Danish Parliament, as a writer for UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center and The Danish Center for Mindfulness, and she has written and been a part of various research projects, articles, and book chapters, including a project teaching leaders at Google in a mindfulness-based leadership program for sustainability development. She has helped develop a new measurement of empathy at UC Berkeley with Dr. Dacher Keltner and she was the research coordinator at the 'Mind and Body lab' at UCLA, examining the health benefits of prosocial behavior. She is also the content expert on research at Mobius. This company bridges the top tech leaders with the world's leading experts on well-being, in their pursuit of developing technology that enhances our individual and collective well-being.

Selma is trained and mentored by Dr. Dan Siegel in the interdisciplinary approach of Interpersonal Neurobiology, and she is a 2021/2022 Garrison Institute Fellow, working with a diverse cohort of scholars, artists, and activists to blaze a new trail in the field of collective healing and growth, drawing upon and engaging with the science of interconnection, generative action, and contemplative wisdom.

Visit: https://www.selmaqm.com/