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Changing Your Job Without Leaving It
Joe Loizzo, M.D. Ph.D. and Elazar Aslan

This introductory talk will focus on a Buddhist approach to work and how it can be applied. Basic to this approach is the insight that our true strength does not come from our power over others, but rather from our power over our own mind state.  Research has shown the efficacy of calmness, compassion and inclusion in the workplace.  However, our training and habituated mind is more adept at creating a stress response, expressing or suppressing anger and engaging in real or perceived competitive power struggles.  By sharpening our awareness of what is really going on, strengthening our mind's ability to supervise our own hindrances and increasing our capacity to authentically support others, we change the dynamics of a relationship, team or organization enough so that we can work less, get more done and feel more fulfilled.

Friday Lecture: Jan. 27th, 7-9PM
General $25/Members: $22.50   click here to register

Presenters:

Joseph (Joe) Loizzo, M.D., Ph.D., is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and Columbia-trained Buddhist scholar with over thirty years' experience studying the beneficial effects of meditation on healing and learning. He is is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry in Integrative Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, where he researches and teaches mind/body health. He has taught science and religion, the scientific study of religious experience, and the Indo-Tibetan mind sciences at Columbia University, where he currently is adjunct Assistant Professor of Religion at the Columbia Center for Buddhist Studies.

Elazar Aslan is the CEO of Caterfly Solutions, a company engaged with CEOs and other executives to help them achieve better results through greater personal responsibility and greater service to the community at large.  Elazar combines his 20 years of Buddhist practice with his classical business training from the Wharton Graduate School to create a Buddhist inspired approach to more effective leadership.  Elazar has brought his meditative practice and his leadership principles to Fortune 100 companies such as American Express, ADP, Chase, D&B, MasterCard, as well as small and mid-sized companies.

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