Our presenters are curated for their quality, depth, integrity, and alignment with our educational purpose. Since 1982, a distinguished faculty of authors, educators, activists, artists, performers, and practitioners have shared their work at our Cortes Island campus and in Vancouver.
Dan Siegel, M.D.
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 co-principal investigator of the Center for Culture, Brain and Development and clinical professor at the School of Medicine.
An award-winning educator, Dan is the author of five New York Times bestsellers and other books which have been translated into over forty languages. The founding editor of the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology, he has overseen the publication of over eighty textbooks in this transdisciplinary framework focusing on the mind and mental health.
A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Dan completed his postgraduate training at UCLA specializing in pediatrics, 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.
Events with Dan Siegel, M.D.
Nine Patterns of Developmental Pathways: An Interpersonal Neurobiology View of the Enneagram SystemAugust 24 - 28, 2024
“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 In this immersive, interactive workshop retreat with…