Researcher. Educator. Author.
Jordan Quaglia, PhD has devoted over a decade to the study and teaching of mindfulness, compassion, and lucidity. He is currently authoring his debut book, slated for publication in 2025.
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“Compassion reveals to us that helping others versus helping ourselves need not be a tradeoff – through compassion, we can do both.”
About Jordan
Jordan Quaglia (pronounced KWAH-lee-uh), PhD, is Associate Professor of Psychology, Director of the Cognitive and Affective Science Laboratory, and Research Director of the Center for the Advancement of Contemplative Education at Naropa University. He has been designated as a Research Fellow by the Mind & Life Institute, a Contemplative Social Justice Scholar for Contemplative Mind in Society, and a Panelist for multiple United Nations Day of Vesak conferences. With a program of research supported by grants from the Mind & Life Institute and John Templeton Foundation, he employs a variety of approaches and measures to study topics such as mindfulness, compassion, and lucidity. In addition to research and teaching as part of Naropa's psychology program, he is a lead instructor of WELCOME: Mindful Compassion Training, which seeks to cultivate both self- and other-oriented compassion through an eight-week program.