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: 2008 Conference Report (.pdf)
Materials and Resources from the Conference:
Morning Introduction & Plenary Session (.pdf)
Pichot Handout (.pdf)
Rouse Story (.pdf)
Irene McHenry’s Pebble Meditation (.pdf)
Irene McHenry’s Practicing Goodwill (.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: 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 Time 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.
