The Nation Building Movement hosted Dr. Sameh Saleh, a specialist in psychiatry and cognitive behavioral therapy, to give a lecture on meditation therapy. Dr. Sameh, who works in hospitals in the French city of Montpellier, gave a lecture entitled “Cognitive Therapy Using Mindfulness Meditation.”​

The lecture dealt with the history of meditation, its emergence and development, and clarified the meaning of meditation with full awareness and the difference between it and relaxation and yoga, in addition to the therapeutic and scientific applications of meditation. The session concluded with a practical meditation experiment with the participation of the attendees.