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April 29, 2008

Mindfulness Conference Resources & Materials

This one-day conference was held on Saturday, February 9, 2008 in Washington, DC at Sidwell Friends School. It was co-sponsored by the Mindfulness in Education Network (MiEN), the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society (CM), the Friends Council on Education (FCE), and the Association of Independent Maryland Schools (AIMS). It was inspired by and drew heavily on a similar conference given by the Association for Mindfulness in Education (AME) in San Francisco in February of 2007.

You can download the Conference Report here (Conference Report.pdf)

Materials and Resources from the Conference

Connell Stress Management Workbook.pdf

Pichot Handout.pdf

Rouse Story.pdf

Afternoon Session Presenters

Baccala Handout 1.pdf

Baccala Handout 2.mht

Solloway Dissertation.pdf

Solloway Handout.pdf

Solloway Paper 1.pdf

Solloway Paper 2.pdf

Solloway Paper 3.pdf

Solloway Paper 4.pdf

Weierbach Handout.pdf

Presenter Links

Steven Emmanuel: Here is the link to his Web pages on Service-Learning and Community Service. Here is the link to his work in Vietnam ("Making Peace With Vietnam")

Irene McHenry: Forthcoming is the link to her version of pebble meditation on the Friends Council on Education Web site.

David Levy: Here is the link to the syllabus for his course Information and Contemplation on the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society’s Web site. Here is the link to his faculty Web site where you can find his paper “No Tine to Think.”

Kimberly Post Rowe: Here is a link to the page of downloads from her Five Seeds Web Site:

Richard Brady: His article, "Schooled in the Moment," about his class on stress reduction can be found on the resources page on his Minding Your Life Web Site. Here is a link to a preliminary version of his article, "Learning to Stop, Stopping to Learn," about his path as a contemplative educator and his use of contemplative learning in his high school geometry course on the Mindfulness in Education Network’s Web site.

Forthcoming: A link to Irene McHenry’s version of the conference closing lovingkindness (metta) meditation from the Friends Council on Education’s Web site.

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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