Art, Emotions, and Social Transformation

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Ana Teresa Fernandez

Art, Emotions, and Social Transformation

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What You'll Learn

  • Explore the role that emotion plays in art, and the power that art has to impact social change

  • Watch as Ana shares three of her most powerful “social sculptures” which challenge our minds and hearts to open to painful and difficult realities, yet invite us to touch beauty and be transformed in the process

  • Hear about the role that contemplative practice plays in Ana’s artistic process

About Ana Teresa Fernandez

Ana Teresa Fernandez is a full time artist, surfer and social change interventionist. You can learn more about her work and art on her website and connect with her on Instagram. You can help support Ana Teresa's "On The Horizon" project through her gofundme here: website

About Eve Ekman, PhD

Eve Ekman is a contemplative social scientist focusing on emotional awareness working in health care, wellbeing, and technology. Eve draws from interdisciplinary skills and first-person experiential knowledge from clinical social work, integrative medicine, contemplative science, and meditation. Eve is a Senior Fellow at the University of California Berkeley Greater Good Science Center, Director of Cultivating Emotional Balance Training Program, and volunteer clinical faculty at the UCSF Department of Pediatrics. Eve is a second-generation emotion researcher and has collaborated with her father, Paul Ekman, on the Atlas of Emotions project. Eve shares her dad's deep love of bagels and is a devout practitioner of cold water ocean play.

To learn more about her work you can visit the Atlas of Emotions, an online website for emotional awareness commissioned by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and co-created by Eve and Paul Ekman. You can also learn more about a contemplative science training for learning emotional balance that was founded by Alan Wallace and Paul Ekman and is currently lead by Eve Ekman and a global teacher network at Cultivating Emotion Balance.

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