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Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life with Dacher Keltner

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Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life with Dacher Keltner

Fri., Nov. 1 , 7:00 pm 9:00 pm

IN-PERSON

$45

Additional processing fees are added upon checkout. Tickets are nonrefundable.

LIVESTREAM

$25

Additional processing fees are added upon checkout. Tickets are nonrefundable.

DETAILS

Awe
The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life 
with Dacher Keltner

Fri., Nov. 1,
7 p.m. MDT, Teel Sanctuary
9075 W. Alameda Ave.
Lakewood, CO 80226

In-Person: $45 Standard (plus processing fees)

Livestream: $25 (plus processing fees)

Includes a book signing of Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life with Dacher Keltner after the event. The book is NOT included in the ticket price. You may purchase a copy at our Works of Heart bookstore on the night of the event.

If you purchase the livestream ticket, the on-demand replay will be available for 14 days until Friday, November 15.

ABOUT THE EVENT

In this compelling evening with Dacher Keltner, you will learn how to cultivate awe in your everyday life and how doing so can put you in touch with the most humane aspects of our human nature. Eye-opening science and Dacher’s appropriate sense of wonder add up to an enlightening take on the importance and potency of awe that’s relevant today.

Dacher lays out a scientific overview of awe.

He presents a radical investigation and deeply personal inquiry into the meaning of this elusive emotion. Dacher will take us on a tour of new research—how awe can transform our brains and bodies, alongside examinations of the meaning and influence of awe across history, culture, and within his own life during a period of grief after losing his brother.

He contends that awe is a “basic human need” that’s good for one’s well-being and produces a transcendent sense of dissolving boundaries between the self and the wider world.

Pondering why awe sometimes produces tears, Keltner suggests that adults might tear up as a learned reaction from childhood when one cried while feeling “small and lacking agency,” an emotion similar to the overwhelming sensation that accompanies awe. The feeling has practical applications, detailing scientific studies that found awe to be associated with lower levels of inflammation and capable of mitigating perceptions of political polarization.

Dacher outlines the “eight wonders of life” that are most likely to induce awe: moral beauty (e.g., courage in battle), collective effervescence (e.g., participating in a political rally), nature, music, visual art, spirituality, mortality, and epiphanies. Their power stems from their likelihood to remind the beholder that “we are part of many things that are much larger than the self.”

ABOUT DACHER KELTNER

EMOTION SCIENTIST, AUTHOR, PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY AT UC BERKELEY, AND CO-DIRECTOR OF THE GREATER GOOD SCIENCE CENTER

National best-selling author of The Power Paradox and Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life and The Compassionate Instinct.

His latest book is Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life with Dacher Keltner.

Dacher Keltner is an emotion scientist whose research focuses on the biological and evolutionary origins of compassion, awe, love, beauty, power, social class, and inequality. As a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and director of the Berkeley Social Interaction Lab, he is a leading scholar in the study of emotion, including his project on awe around the globe and power, class, and inequality.

He has collaborated on projects at Facebook and Google and was a scientific consultant for Pixar’s film Inside Out. His latest book is Awe: The New Science Of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life.

Dacher is an outstanding speaker who has received several national research and teaching awards. He hosts The Science of Happiness podcast, which has 50 million downloads and was ranked a top health podcast by Apple Podcasts and a top 10 wellness podcast by Oprah Magazine. Wired magazine has rated the podcasts of his “Human Emotion” course as one of the five best academic podcasts in the country. The Utne Reader named Dacher as one of its 50 visionaries of 2008. In April 2020, he was voted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Learn more about Dacher here.

Teel Sanctuary and Livestream
9075 W Alameda Avenue
Lakewood, CO 80226

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