Luminary: Charles Halpern
Charles Halpern is the author of Making Waves and Riding the Currents: Activism and the Practice of Wisdom. A public interest entrepreneur, an innovator in education, and a pioneer in the public interest law movement, he is the Founding President Emeritus of the Nathan Cummings Foundation, a $400 million grant-making foundation in New York City. He took the lead in developing a unique grant-making program which drew together activism and the inner work that brings depth and wisdom to the work in the world.
Previously, he was the Founding Dean of the City University of New York Law School, a Professor at Stanford and Georgetown Law Schools, and a Senior Fellow at Yale Law School. He was the co-founder of the Center for Law and Social Policy and the Mental Health Law Project (now the Bazelon Center for Law and Mental Health).
Halpern has practiced meditation for the past 20 years with a variety of Buddhist teachers and leads meditation workshops for lawyers, judges and law students. A co-founder of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, he currently serves as the chair of its Board of Trustees, and as a Scholar in Residence at Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley. For the past four years, he has led the Boalt Hall Meditation Group.
Charles Halpern teleseminar on "Making Waves and Riding the Currents: Activism and the Practice of Wisdom "
Great Shift Dialogues
