richard davidson. i have known you for many years.a professor at the university of wisconsin and director of the center for investigating healthy minds. he will be leading off with a careful scientific treatment on the study of happiness and well-being. presenter was, for 14 years, president of boston college. diana walsh. diana is also on the executive committee of mit's board of directors. she was the founding board chair of the m.i.t.-harvard growth of research. ring our leadership effort at the academy for ethical leadership at the mind and life institute. finally, we have an added new participant, otto scharmer. and he willm.i.t. teams ofng to the leadership, mindfulness, and the new kinds of thinking that can work in the complexities of our contemporary society. i will be acting as the facilitator. it is a pleasure to ask richard davidson to begin our discussion. >> thank you. wonderful to be with you again, your holiness. i would like to begin by expressing my gratitude to arthur brooks and the graciousness with which the has a

of course there is richard davidson known to many years, your holiness, as a professor at the universityof wisconsin and the director of the center for r investigating and he will lead the study of happiness and well-being and the florida shame based on the sciences and psychology and its implication for the education and the second presenter was for 14 years president of rosalie college. diana is also on the executive committee of the mit board of directors and she was the founding boar board chair of tht harvard so-called institute for genomic research and was extraordinary leadership and in fact chairing the leadership effort into so-called academy of ethical leadership at the mind and life institute. finally, we have an added new participant, adam who works at mit and is the founder of the presidency institute and he will be speaking to the themes of leadership, mindfulness and the kind of things that can work and the complexities of our contemporary society. i will be acting as the facilitator, and it is a pleasure to ask richard davidson to begin the discussions. >> it is wonderful