Our next webinar: Contemplation, Reflexivity, and Gender/ Sexual Diversity in the Classroom
This webinar will offer an introduction to Dr. Kerr Mesner's work developing contemplative and anti-...
True to Vision: A Response to Daniel Callahan’s “Obesity: Chasing an Elusive Epidemic”
In “Obesity: Chasing an Elusive Epidemic,” Daniel Callahan calls for an “edgier” strategy to reduce obesity levels in the United States. I felt compelled to respond to Callahan’s article because the policies he is advocating are not in line with what I believe is his vision for a healthier and happier population.
In order to guide any action, we first need a clear vision: a place to start from that answers questions such as, “What are we doing this for?” and “What is really guiding us?” Because any action that runs counter to this deeply-held vision will cause suffering to ourselves and others, even if it appears to lead to our desired outcome.
Read MoreWanting: Teaching Economics as Contemplative Inquiry
A webinar with Daniel Barbezat, Professor of Economics, Amherst College. Prof. Barbezat discusses contemplative pedagogy and the use of introspective exercises in his course, “Consumption and the Pursuit of Happiness.” First-person exercises on this subject are especially poignant for students, as they can directly discover the impact of their own wanting and how it affects their own economic decisions and the markets around them.
Read MoreMirabai Bush: Creating Contemplative Organizations
Mirabai Bush, the Center’s founding director and senior fellow, has been featured in the New York Times for her work in bringing contemplative practices and perspectives into corporate and organizational settings.
Read MoreNew Video About the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society
Watch a brief video which introduces the Center’s work.
Read MoreFor Further Listening…
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...
Read MoreFeatured Resource:
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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Contemplative Practices in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
This webinar with Dr. Patricia Owen-Smith focuses on the place of contemplative knowing and contempl...
2nd Annual Arthur Zajonc Lecture on Contemplative Education: "If the Beautiful See Themselves, They Will Love Themselves: Contemplative Practice and Cultural Healing"
A lecture by Veta Goler, Associate Professor and Chair of Dance Performance & Choreography, Spelman ...
Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing
Educator and trauma professional David Treleaven draws on a decade of research and clinical experien...