Across the Divides: A Pedagogy of Love
In this video, Dr. Paul Wapner delivers the inaugural address of the Arthur Zajonc Contemplative Edu...
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Watch webinars and listen to a podcast with Executive Director Daniel Barbezat and Associate Director Mirabai Bush.
Read MoreContemplative Pedagogy: The Special Role of Teaching and Learning Centers
A chapter by Executive Director Daniel Barbezat and Allison Pingree (Harvard University) providing an overview of the definition, intention, and benefits of contemplative exercises, and approaches to fostering these practices through university teaching and learning centers.
Read MoreContemplating Race, Law, and Justice: Some Notes on Pedagogy for Changing the World
Watch Rhonda V. Magee’s keynote address at the 2012 Conference of the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education.
Read MoreWe’ve Moved! Welcome to our new home
In the days following our 2012 ACMHE Conference we packed up our little one-room office and moved about a mile north to 98 King Street, Northampton.
Read MoreAnnouncing Contemplative Mind-1440 Foundation Grants to Teaching & Learning Centers
We are pleased to announce that, with support from the 1440 Foundation, we have established a new program of grants to foster and support the use of contemplative practices throughout the curriculum through Teaching and Learning Centers.
Read MoreThe Mindful Teacher
A webinar with Steven Emmanuel, Professor of Philosophy, Virginia Wesleyan College.
In discussions about contemplative pedagogy a great deal of attention has been devoted to practical applications of mindfulness in the classroom (what we might call “mindfulness-based pedagogy”). The tendency in this approach is to view mindfulness as a type of technology that can be used to enhance the quality and effectiveness of the teaching and learning experience.
While there are many wonderful benefits of this approach, it generally abstracts mindfulness from its historical roots as a practice aimed at moral and spiritual development. The purpose of this presentation is to recover the value of traditional meditation practice as a means of cultivating the capacities or virtues characteristic of the mindful teacher.
Read More2012 Retreat for Educators
The 2012 retreat is an opportunity to cultivate our awareness and inquire deeply into our professional lives, enabling us to re-engage with our work in higher education from a place of greater skillfulness, depth and insight.
Read MoreThe 2012 ACMHE Conference
Everyone sits in a different place, yet we are all inextricably connected. Bringing the benefits of contemplative education to greater numbers of students asks us to honor wider and more diverse cultural contexts.
Read MoreLegal Education as Contemplative, Multicultural Inquiry
A webinar with Rhonda Magee, Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco.
This webinar examined how we can better develop the cognitive, personal and interpersonal skills necessary to identify and effectively dismantle structures of privilege and subordination in our midst. How can we better learn, work and thrive together in diverse communities as we seek to create a more just world?
Read MoreThe 8th Summer Session on Contemplative Pedagogy
The Summer Session prepares participants to return to their institutions with a deeper understanding of the practice of contemplative pedagogy and methods adapted for classroom and co-curricular use.
Read MoreContemplative Environmental Studies: Pedagogy for Self and Planet
This Summer Institute aims to develop tools for teaching and researching environmental dilemmas with this broader sensibility in mind.
Read MoreJust Published: “Mindfulness in Higher Education”
by Mirabai Bush, Contemporary Buddhism, Vol. 12, 2011, issue 1, pp 183-197 This paper explores the introduction of mindfulness into courses in higher education.Some of these courses are taught by Buddhist scholars; others are taught by scholars within other disciplines who themselves have a meditation practice.Those scholars included here represent a much larger number in diverse settings, including state universities, liberal arts colleges, Ivy League institutions, and historically black colleges.They teach in almost every discipline, including architecture, poetry, chemistry, economics, and...
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Using Contemplative Practices to Promote Well-Being and Social Justice Awareness
A webinar with Michelle Chatman, Assistant Professor, Department of Justice Studies, University of the District of Columbia
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Lessons From the Off Ramp
As she prepares to retire, Renée A. Hill writes, "This webinar is about what I have learned in the c...
A Heartful Way of Living
Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, Psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine, will discuss ...
Knowing & Growing: Creating and Sustaining Contemplative Communities
This webinar, presented by Stephanie Briggs (Assistant Professor of English, Community College of Ba...