Mind Labs

The CCR provides the only conducive environments for long-term intensive contemplative retreat that are in longitudinal collaboration with the scientific community.

To equip contemplative practitioners with optimal conditions for training and to provide science with more replicable and high-resolution methods for studying the mind, the CCR has established mind labs, in which full-time contemplatives-in-training complete thousands of hours of meditation to achieve exceptional attention skills and introspective acuity.

CCR Mind Lab Program Outputs

Retreat Centers

Conducive environments for contemplative practice carefully tuned for practitioner flourishing and scientific collaboration.

Balanced Minds

Highly trained contemplative practitioners and teachers emerge from retreat with the capacities unleashed by sustained, advanced mind training.

A Replicable Model

Blueprints for ethical, supportive environments for professional contemplative practice and research.

A Conducive Environment

Truly supportive environments for contemplative practice are rare and particular. Space, silence, natural beauty, safety, and community combine to facilitate the full-time meditative work of the contemplative. The CCR carefully selects environments with few functional obstacles to meditation and research, while maintaining a community setting of teachers, practitioners, and scientists. Click to learn more about our Mind Lab centers in Crestone, Colorado and Castellina Marittima, Italy.

Contemplative Scientists

Star athletes, neurosurgeons, and world-class performing artists all train intensively for years and often decades to become the best in their field. Training the mind is no different. CCR meditators enter into long-term mind training at CCR mind labs after years of preparation, enabling them to practice with determination and a skillful application of refined methods to progress through advancing stages of attentional stabilization, yielding insights about the potentials of contemplative practices to balance the mind and make empirical discoveries about the nature of consciousness and reality.