Integration made visible is kindness and compassion

Using science to bring more compassion and empathy to this world

Neural integration – the linkage among differentiated aspects of the brain – allows for flexibility and adaptability, and expresses itself outwardly as harmony, kindness and compassion.

About Dan

ABOUT DAN

Dan Siegel is the executive director of the Mindsight Institute and founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA, where he was also principal co-investigator of the Center for Culture, Brain and Development and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine.

An award-winning educator, Dan is the author of five New York Times bestsellers and over fifteen other books which have been translated into over forty languages.  As the founding editor of the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology (“IPNB”), Dan has overseen the publication of over one hundred books in the transdisciplinary IPNB framework which focuses on the mind and mental health.

A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Dan completed his postgraduate training at UCLA specializing in pediatrics, and adult, adolescent, and child psychiatry.  He was trained in attachment research and narrative analysis through a National Institute of Mental Health research training fellowship focusing on how relationships shape our autobiographical ways of making sense of our lives and influence our development across the lifespan.

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New book helps parents become present with their kids

Good Morning America Interview

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Presence, Parenting and the Planet

Dan @ Google

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Mind, Self and Consciousness

Garrison Institute 

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Testimonials

Dan is a natural storyteller. The lectures are both an accessible guide into understanding the human mind and an eloquent examination of relationships that are scientifically accurate and understandable to the lay clinician.

Mario Cepeda, MFT

Freud’s theory of the unconscious and Darwin’s model of evolution continue to help us understand the findings from current research on human behavior....Daniel Siegel’s theory of Mindsight— the brain’s capacity for both insight and empathy—offers a similar 'Aha!' "

Daniel Goleman

Author, Emotional Intelligence

I am excited to use the Wheel of Awareness to foster integration in my patients, who I treat with a fusion of neurology and yoga.

Amelia Barrett, M.D.

Neurologist

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Wheel of Awareness

Learn the basics of Dan’s groundbreaking mindfulness practice, the Wheel of Awareness, that has been used with hundreds of thousands of people around the world.

Invite Dan to Speak

Dr. Dan Siegel’s unique ability to make complicated scientific concepts easy to understand and exciting has led him to be invited to address diverse local, national and international groups of mental health professionals, neuroscientists, corporate leaders, educators, parents, public administrators, healthcare providers, policy-makers, and clergy.

He has been invited to lecture for the King of Thailand, Pope John Paul II, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Intel, Nike and the Parliaments of the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Ireland.

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