Dr. Kimberly Schonert-Reichl’s Social and Emotional Learning Lab is housed in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education at the University of British Columbia. The SEL Lab primarily conducts research on school-based social-emotional learning programs and mindfulness-based programs that aim to foster positive human qualities, such as empathy, optimism, happiness, gratitude, social responsibility, altruism, resiliency, and compassion.