Videos & Media

For French speakers: a new podcast on extreme empathy in which I was part of the experts being interviewed.

The recording of our public Medit-Ageing meeting is now available!! Including guest speaker James Kirby at 3.15 hours on compassion meditation in science and psychotherapy:

Online Public Meeting Recording:

talking at the Association for Conflict Resolution, Chicago:

arte snapchat on empathy in which I talk about the scientific side of things:

https://www.snapchat.com/discover/ARTE__E2_80_93_FAQ/3800485503

Our intervention at the UN (with Kenneth Cloke and Jeremy Lack) from April 2020 is available online:

A short overview of the Medit-Ageing/ Silver Santé study:

For French speakers – the brain week in Marseille in 2019:

Touched by inspiring, shining, and wise young Londoners in 2012:

Talking about Empathy and Compassion in Society in London in 2012:

Discussing why conflict matters in Brussels:

Explaining the malleability of the empathic brain to school children in London in 2012:

Having the difficult task of lifting everyone’s mood after Axel Petermann described horrible crimes that shook me to the bone.

A chat with Edwin Rutsch on building empathy and compassion

http://www.compassion-training.org/en/media/player.php?id=20

https://www.news.uliege.be/cms/c_9581351/fr/l-empathie-et-les-comportements-sociaux

PODCASTS

I had the great pleasure to discuss the relation between empathy, compassion, meditation and our brain plasticity with Maria Sundell:

https://www.listennotes.com/embedded/e/4e7ff9e333994721b301537f4c33b6a1/

AUDIO of talks

Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Theologie der Spiritualität, Würzburg, Germany in 2021 (talk in German):

TELEVISION

VRPO Backlight:

Wat is de kracht van compassie? Neurowetenschapper Olga Klimecki legt uit hoe we de hersenen kunnen trainen met compassie te reageren. pic.twitter.com/JlG0rwfmm6

— VPRO Tegenlicht (@VPROTegenlicht) August 1, 2018