Eating Meditation, by Richard Brady

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Eating meditation has become a regular component on the workshops on mindfulness for education that Irene McHenry and Richard Brady offer. Irene has created a section of the Friends Council on Education Website, for mindfulness resources. Richard Brady wrote the attached draft on eating meditation for inclusion in this section.
Eating Meditation
by Richard Brady
Mindfulness [...]

Center for Contemplative Mind in Society

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We wanted to remind you about this great opportunity. Mary Rose O’Reilley has joined the faculty and new evening sessions with Joseph Goldstein and Daniel Goleman have been added. Space is limited, so apply soon!
APPLICATION DEADLINE: MAY 15th
Contemplative Curriculum Development
Summer Session
August 14-20, 2005
Smith College
Northampton, MA

Learning & The Inner Life

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Friends in the Pacific Northwest, please join us for:
Learning & the Inner Life
A Conference for Educators and Parents
April 29-30
Fri 7-9pm, Sat 8:30-4:30
Seattle University
College of Education

Education is more than a transmission of facts and skills. To truly educate is to draw forth the qualities of heart and intellect that make for excellence in both human development [...]

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“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

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