Erika is an emotions researcher, educator, and world-renowned
expert in facial expression measurement.
She is also longtime practitioner and teacher of meditation. Erika
serves on the faculty of Nyingma Institute of Tibetan Studies in
Berkeley, where she teaches meditation courses and workshops
for working with emotions in daily life and the development of
mindfulness and compassion. She worked on the development of
a secular compassion cultivation training (CCT) program with
Geshe Thupten Jinpa, Ph.D. at the Center for Compassion and
Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford
University, where she is a senior teacher. She has taught CCT at
Google, to several community samples, and presented it to His
Holiness the Dalai Lama. As a consulting scientist with the Center
for Mind and Brain, at UC Davis, Erika is a senior investigator on
the Shamatha Project, a controlled intervention trial on sustained
meditation training. Currently, Dr. Rosenberg consults with and
trains a number of academic and non-academic clients.
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