Micro-Residencies
Overview
We host micro-residencies for contemplative scholars, scientists, artists, technologists, and practitioners from one week to one month to contribute to the life of the CIRCL research community and incubate actionable epiphanies that advance collective research.
David Glowacki - June 9-13, 2025
David Glowacki, PhD, MA is a cross-disciplinary researcher, artist, and author whose interests span computer science, nanoscience, aesthetics, cultural theory, and neuroscience. He has worked extensively in scientific simulation, and more recently in the use of Virtual Reality to interactively visualize real-time simulations. He is the Founder and Director of the ‘Intangible Realities Laboratory’ a research group based in Northern Spain. He is also a co-founder of ‘aNUma’, which has developed the technology to support numadelic experiences which dissolve our conventional representation of self into light. Learn more about David.
Michael Lifshitz - November 11-15, 2024
Michael Lifshitz is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at McGill University and the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal. He did his PhD in Neuroscience at McGill and then a postdoctoral fellowship in Anthropology at Stanford. His work combines phenomenology, neuroscience and ethnography to shed light on the plasticity of consciousness. He studies practices that aim to transform subjective experience—from meditation and hypnosis to placebos, prayer, and psychedelics. He is particularly interested in how these practices can modulate feelings of agency, so that thoughts, actions and sensations can come to feel like they are emerging from a source beyond the self.
Donata Schoeller - November 4-8, 2024
Donata Schoeller is a professor of philosophy in Germany and Iceland. Together with Christiane Geiser she has translated A Process Model into German. She is principal investigator of the international research project Embodied Critical Thinking (ect.hi.is) and Academic Director of TECT (trainingect.com). Among her recent publications are Close Talking: Erleben zu Sprache bringen, Saying What We Mean, ed. with Ed Casey, and Thinking Thinking, ed. with Vera Saller. Her PhD on Meister Eckhart and Jakob Boehme was published in 2nd edition in 2009. She is a Focusing trainer and teaches Thinking-at-the-Edge at institutes, academies and universities in Europe, the US and Israel. She has three grown up daughters. donataschoeller.com