Check out this wonderful resource: “Toward the Integration of Meditation into Higher Education” A Review of Research,” a draft document prepared by Shauna L. Shapiro (Santa Clara University), Kirk Warren Brown (Virginia Commonwealth University), and John A. Astin (California Pacific Medical Center) for the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society. Supplemental research and editing conducted [...]

Below are some of the materials submitted to date from our 2009 conference, Mindfulness: A Foundation for Teaching and Learning, held at the University of Pennsylvania. Some audio files might also be coming.

Forbes: Finding the Zone
Half Inner Journey
Huston: Mindfulness in Teaching Communication
Peter Kaufman: Giving Voice
Patterson: Mindful Writing
Pantelaleno: Is, Is Not
Pantelaleno: Present
Pantelaleno: COPE Letter to [...]

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 [...]

The Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC) at UCLA presents:
Mindful Awareness Practices (MAPs) for Educators — A credit course for pre-K through PhD educators
Combining current research and practical application, this course is designed to provide teachers, administrators, parents, and mental health professionals the tools to develop their own personal mindfulness practice, the science behind it, and [...]

InnerKids teaches pre-K through middle school students simple self-directed games and activities that are designed to develop mindful awareness (also known as mindfulness); a state of present attention where one observes thoughts, feelings, emotions, and events at the moment they occur without reacting to them in an automatic or habitual way. These activities help [...]

The latest issue of the Minding Your Life newsletter is out. You can get it by pointing your browser to the Minding Your Life.Net website. From their website: Minding Your Life is a consulting firm that has helped educators and schools develop personal and corporate mindfulness practice since 2000.
Minding Your Life Mission
Introduce educators and [...]

“Tai Chi and mindfulness-based stress reduction in a Boston Public Middle School”
Robert B. Wall M. Div., MSN, FNP, CNS1, ,
Journal of Pediatric Health Care, Volume 19, Issue 4, July-August 2005, Pages 230-237.
Abstract
This article provides a description of a clinical project that used combined Tai Chi and mindfulness-based stress reduction as an educational program. [...]

These practices have been adapted and substantially modified by Nacho Córdova (Assistant Professor, Rhetoric & Media Studies, Willamette University), for use at Willamette University, from Larry Yang’s “Directing the Mind Toward Practices in Diversity”. 
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Building an Inclusive Community Through Self-Reflection and Practice
Adapted by Nacho Córdova, Assistant Professor, Rhetoric & Media Studies, Willamette University
Willamette is a [...]

The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society: Academic Program: The Center’s Summer Session on Contemplative Curriculum Development was recently in the news! Click here to read the article in the Daily Hampshire Gazette.
Here you can find more information about their 2006-2007 Contemplative Practice Fellowship Competition. Proposals are due November 10, 2005.

Use the following links at the Community of Mindful Living to access a worldwide list of mindfulness practice communities (sanghas). You may wish to contact a nearby community to find an experienced mindfulness practitioner interested in teaching about mindfulness practice in your educational setting, or you may wish to visit or join a community [...]