Cortland Dahl is currently serving in multiple roles across various organizations including Tergar International, Healthy Minds Innovations, Center for Healthy Minds, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In the past, Cortland was the co-founder and director of Tergar Institute and the founder and executive director of Rimé Foundation. Cortland also has a background in film production and direction from the Beyond Borders Film Festival. Cortland holds a Ph.D. in Mind, Brain, and Contemplative Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a MA in Buddhist Studies and Tibetan Language from Naropa University, and a B.S. in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Minnesota.
Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Our Mission: To cultivate well-being and relieve suffering through a scientific understanding of the mind Our Vision: A kinder, wiser, more compassionate world About the Center for Healthy Minds: Faced with mental and physical health challenges at a global scale, we conduct rigorous scientific research to bring new insights and tools aimed at improving the well-being of people of all backgrounds and ages. Our research, rooted in neuroscience, comes down to one basic question: What constitutes a healthy mind? Under the leadership of renowned neuroscientist Richard J. Davidson, we're examining contemplative practices and qualities of mind we suspect affect well-being, including attention, resilience, equanimity, savoring positive emotions, kindness, compassion, gratitude and empathy. A part of UW–Madison, one of the world’s top research institutions, we benefit from cross-disciplinary collaborations in the arts and humanities, the physical and natural sciences, and the social sciences. The Center recently founded a non-profit, Healthy Minds Innovations, Inc., which takes the discoveries and insights gleaned from Center research and transforms them into tools and services that allow for larger data collection and new ideas for additional research to continually inform the neuroscience of well-being.