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I will present new findings from the ReSource Project, a longitudinal multi-methodological secular mental training program that aims at the cultivation of attention, interoceptive awareness, perspective taking, meta-cognition, compassion, and prosocial motivation. This study includes new ways of training the mind and socio-cognitive abilities through intersubjective dyads with another person. This study is divided in three modules allowing us to distinguish effects based on a) attention, interoceptive body awareness and mindfulness, b) socio-affective skills such as compassion, empathy and prosocial motivation and c) socio-cognitive skills such as meta-cognitive awareness and perspective taking on self and others. We assessed, in more than 200 subjects, over 90 measures, e.g. questionnaires, experience-sampling data, elicitation interviews as well as behavioral, brain, physiological and biological data. Besides presenting the history and genesis of this project I will also discuss the challenges, joys, and pitfalls of conducting such a complex study in the young field of contemplative neurosciences. I will also present first results of training-module specific findings of brain function and plasticity, stress-reduction, subjective experience and prosocial behavior. I will conclude by suggesting ways of how the cultivation of mental faculties and compassion could help formulate new economic models aiming at reintroducing secular ethics in society emphasizing the need to step into a global responsibility through personal change.
