10/14/16 Marcus Autism Center Grand Rounds
Location: 2nd Floor Bellsouth Conference Room
Transcending Workplace Bias: Cultivating Compassion – in conjunction with the workshop ”Multi-cultural Awareness and Workplace Well Being”, hosted by Emory University, Department of Pediatrics’ Committee on Faculty Diversity
Featured Presenters
Samuel Fernandez-Carriba, Ph.D.
Senior Psychologist, Assessment Core
Marcus Autism Center
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Emory University School of Medicine
and
Geshe Lobsang Tenzin Negi, Ph.D.
Professor of Practice, Department of Religion
Director, Emory-Tibet Partnership
Co-Director, Emory-Tibet Science Initiative
Co-Director, Emory Collaborative for Contemplative Studies
Emory University
Learning Objectives
Following the education, the learners will be able to:
- Formulate strategies to become sensitive to sociocultural differences in the work place
- Define CBCT® (Cognitive Based Compassion Training), a systematic training in compassion, and assess its empirically validated benefits
- Describe impartiality and empathy, key components of CBCT®, as traits with an evolutionary basis that can be trained
A light lunch will be provided to those who register by noon on Wednesday, October 12th.