Event Highlights
Town Hall Meeting: Meditation, Creativity, Performance & Stress
February 11, 2014•New York City
From left: Andrew Ross Sorkin, Arianna Huffington, and Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell
‘If there’s stress, I’ll just break off and go into the meditation. It will just wash off of me,’ said Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates (the largest hedge fund in the world), speaking at the David Lynch Foundation-sponsored Town Hall meeting that covered the increasing usage of Transcendental Meditation at the workplace.
Divided into three panels in business, health and women professionals, the evening featured a stratospheric cast of experts including:
- Ray Dalio, Founder of Bridgewater Associates
- Dr. Mehmet Oz, Host of the Dr. Oz Show
- Arianna Huffington, President and Editor-in-Chief of Huffington Post Media Group
- Dr. Pamela Peeke, MD, MPH, Host of Could You Survive?, Discovery Health TV
- Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell, PhD, Dean of the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
- Dr. Norman Rosenthal, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University
- Leslie Seymour, Editor-in-Chief of MORE magazine
- Andrew Ross Sorkin – moderator, Host of CNBC Squawk Box
Funds raised from the evening will help provide TM to at-risk youth and veterans in New York City.