This event takes place on June 14th, 2025.
10 a.m.-14:00 p.m. EDT (New York),
4-8:00 p.m. CEST (Berlin),
10 p.m.-2:00 a.m. HKT (Hong Kong)
Registration will close 1 hour in advance of the event. Full refunds will be given for cancellation requests up to 1 hour in advance of the event.
Requirements for participation:
This program is open to everyone but tailored to young adults.
Translation from English will be offered in Chinese, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
Instead of rejecting the problems and emotions, or surrendering to them, we can befriend them, working through them to reach an enduring, authentic experience of our inherent wisdom, confidence, clarity, and joy. — Mingyur Rinpoche
This one-day event is specially designed for young adults navigating the challenges of modern life. Featuring world-renowned meditation teacher Mingyur Rinpoche and MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient and bestselling author Ocean Vuong, international Extinction Rebellion strategist and resilience expert Ronan Harrington, corporate mindfulness pioneer Uvinie Lubecki, and contemplative scientist and Tergar instructor Dr. Cortland Dahl, this event offers practical wisdom for young changemakers seeking balance, purpose, and emotional resilience.
Through engaging panel discussions, interactive exercises, and real-life insights, you’ll learn how meditation and awareness can be your superpowers for managing stress, making better decisions, and building a meaningful life. Whether you are a student, a young professional, or someone striving for clarity in today’s fast-paced world, this event provides the tools and inspiration to thrive daily.
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Mingyur Rinpoche is a world-renowned meditation teacher with personal experience of anxiety and panic attacks, which he suffered from throughout his childhood and into his teenage years, when he learned to transform his panic through meditation. Born in Nepal in 1975, Mingyur Rinpoche began to study meditation as a young boy with his father, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, himself a well-respected Buddhist teacher. As a child he became interested in contemporary science through conversations with scientists who were visiting his father, and as he grew older he began to collaborate with neuroscientists and psychologists, including Richard Davidson and Antoine Lutz at the University of Wisconsin, on research projects that study the effects of meditation on the brain and the mind.
Mingyur Rinpoche’s first book, The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness, debuted on the New York Times bestseller list and has been translated into over twenty languages. His second book, Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom, explores how difficult emotions and challenging life situations can be used as stepping stones to discover joy and freedom. In his most recent book, In Love with the World, Mingyur Rinpoche shares how his meditation practice sustained him when he left his monastery to wander through India and the powerfully transformative insights he gained from the near-death experience he had at the beginning of his journey. Mingyur Rinpoche recently appeared in the Netflix series The Mind, Explained, in an episode about the benefits of mindfulness.
As the head of the Tergar Meditation Community, Mingyur Rinpoche supports groups of students in more than thirty countries, leading workshops around the world for new and returning students every year.
Cortland is a scientist, translator, and meditation teacher who offers workshops and leads retreats around the world. He has practiced meditation for nearly three decades and has spent time on retreat in monasteries and retreat centers throughout Japan, Burma, and India, including eight years spent living in Tibetan refugee settlements in Kathmandu, Nepal. He has a Ph.D. in Mind, Brain and Contemplative Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was mentored by renowned neuroscientist Dr. Richard Davidson. He also holds a master’s Degree in Buddhist Studies from Naropa University. In addition to his work as an Instructor for the Tergar community and Executive Director of Tergar International, Cortland serves as Research Scientist and Chief Contemplative Officer at UW-Madison’s Center for Healthy Minds and the center’s affiliated non-profit, Healthy Minds Innovations. Cortland is actively involved in scientific research and has published articles on the impact of meditation practices on the body, mind, and brain. He has also published twelve books of translations of classical texts on Buddhist philosophy and meditation. He currently lives with his wife and son in Madison, Wisconsin.
Uvinie Lubecki is the founder and CEO of Leading Through Connection, where she helps leaders integrate compassion and mindfulness into organizational life. After a decade in corporate leadership at Deloitte, Aetna, and McKesson, she joined Dalai Lama Fellows, where she translated secular values — such as compassion — and meditation practices into a leadership curriculum.
She has worked with teams at Google, Volvo, Johnson & Johnson, and more, and is a certified teacher of Cultivating Emotional Balance, an emotional intelligence training developed in collaboration with the Dalai Lama. Uvinie holds a B.A. in Neurobiology and Behavior from Cornell University and a Master of Public Health from Harvard University. Her work has been featured in Forbes and GQ Magazine.
Writer, professor, and photographer, Ocean Vuong is the author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, winner of the American Book Award, The Mark Twain Award, and The New England Book Award. The novel debuted for six weeks on The New York Times bestseller list and has since sold more than a million copies in 40 languages. A nominee for the National Book Award and a recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Grant, he is also the author of the poetry collections Time is a Mother, a finalist for the Griffin prize, and Night Sky with Exit Wounds, a New York Times Top 10 Book, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Whiting Award, the Thom Gunn Award.
Born in Saigon, Vietnam and raised in Hartford, Connecticut in a working class family of nail salon and factory laborers, he was educated at nearby Manchester Community College before transferring to Pace University to study International Marketing. Without completing his first term, he dropped out and enrolled at Brooklyn College, where he graduated with a B.A. in Nineteenth Century American Literature. He subsequently received his M.F.A. in Poetry from NYU.
He currently splits his time between Northampton, Massachusetts and New York City, where he serves as a Professor in Modern Poetry and Poetics in the M.F.A. Program at NYU.
Ronan Harrington is an international keynote speaker on resilience and leadership, working with impact driven organizations to create healthy, high performance cultures. His background is in politics and activism. Ronan coordinated the political strategy for Extinction Rebellion, was a futurist for the British Foreign Office, and is the Founder of Alter Ego, a network of system change leaders advancing spirituality to cultivate deep civilizational change.
He holds a Masters in Public Policy from Balliol College and the Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University.