Past Events
2008
Retreat for Academics
Menla Mountain Retreat Center, Phoenicia, NY, March 6-9, 2008
Mindfulness as a Foundation for Teaching and Learning
Sidwell Friends School, Washington, DC, Fabruary 9, 2008
2007
Retreat for Academics
Trinity Conference Center, West Cornwall, CT, November 1-4, 2007
Contemplative Practice Fellowship Meeting
Seasons, The Fetzer Institute, Kalamazoo, MI, October 5-7, 2007
3rd Annual Summer Session on Contemplative Curriculum Development
Smith College, August 12-17, 2006
Uncovering the Heart of Higher Education: Integrative Learning for Compassionate Action in an Interconnected World
Hotel Nikko, San Francisco, February 22-25, 2007
2006
Creativity, Consciousness, and the Academy
University of Michigan School of Music, September 30, 2006
2nd Annual Summer Session on Contemplative Curriculum Development
Smith College, August 13-18, 2006
Mindful Learners: Uses of Contemplative Practice in the Classroom
CUNY Graduate Center, April 7, 2006
Contemplative Practice in Arts Education
Boulder, CO, February 9-12, 2006
Read a report (.pdf) on this meeting
2005
Conference on Contemplative Practices and Education
Teachers College, Columbia University, February 11-13, 2005
Jon Kabat-Zinn delivered the keynote address, Education as if It Really Mattered: The Unification of Knowing through Contemplative. Arthur Zajonc gave a talk on contemplative ways of knowing, An Epistemology of Love.
Summer Session on Contemplative Curriculum Development
Smith College, August 19-24, 2005
The summer session prepared participants to return to their classrooms with a deeper understanding of the practice of contemplative teaching. 32 professors from colleges and universities throughout the US and Canada attended the week-long session at Smith College.
Contemplative Practice in Higher Education
a one-day meeting at Mary Washington College, December, 2005
2004
Executive Director Mirabai Bush moderated Contemplation and Community, a symposium for college and university chaplains at the Garrison Institute, February 2004.
2003
Regional Symposium on Contemplative Practice and Higher Education
Amherst College, May 9-11, 2003
Over 120 people attend, including several of our Contemplative Practice Fellows.