Mindfulness: Skills for Powerful Learning & Inner Peace

Posted by admin on 12 21st, 2004 | no responses

Mindfulness: Skills for Powerful Learning & Inner Peace
January 26-28, 2005 (Philadelphia Area)
Register online at the Friends Council web page.
This workshop develops a series of skills that cultivate inner awareness, observation capacity, concentration power, relaxation for stress reduction, and physical and emotional well-being. Participants will learn mindfulness meditation skills, research and classroom application for promoting stillness, [...]

Nurturing Peace in Our Hearts and in Our Educational Settings

Posted by admin on 12 21st, 2004 | no responses

Mindfulness in Education
Nurturing Peace in Our Hearts and in Our Educational Settings
With Lyn Fine and Jenn Biehn
Saturday, January 22, 2005
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
(please come at 12:45 pm for registration)
Location: 3897 Whittle Ave, Oakland
(at Wilbur, one block north of Lincoln.
Exit off Rte 13 or 580)
How can we approach education
from a place of joy, [...]

Holistic Learning: Breaking New Ground

Posted by admin on 12 17th, 2004 | no responses

Call for Proposals
Holistic Learning: Breaking New Ground
OISE/UT
Toronto, Canada
October 28 – 30, 2005
Download the Call Here.
The fifth international conference on “Holistic Learning: Breaking New Ground” explores learning as a process that engages body, mind, emotions and spirit. The theme of the conference is Journey of the Spirit. The keynote speakers include [...]

Recent Posts

Resources

“Opening the contemplative mind in schools is not a religious issue but a practical epistemic question... Inviting contemplative study simply includes the natural human capacity for knowing through silence, pondering deeply, beholding, witnessing the contents of consciousness and so forth.

These approaches cultivate an inner technology of knowing and thereby a technology of learning and pedagogy without any imposition of religious doctrine whatsoever. If we knew a particular and readily available activity would increase concentration, learning, well-being and social emotional growth, and catalyze transformative learning, we would be cheating our students to exclude it.

Long dormant in education, the natural capacity for contemplation balances and enriches the analytic. It has the potential to enhance performance, character and the depth of the student's experience."

Tobin Hart, Opening the Contemplative Mind in the Classroom, Journal of Transformative Education Vol. 2 No. 1, January 2004

Meta

Powered by Wordpress | Design by ElegantThemes