This Think Tank will convene a team of teaching and mindfulness experts to explore the science, the benefits, and potential risks of using mindfulness as an anti-oppressive pedagogy—an approach that helps students recognize the ways that most people are variously privileged and oppressed, understanding how both relations perpetuate suffering for others and for oneself. The team will include 21 faculty from 18 disciplines and 6 institutions. Outcomes will include a coherent set of learning objectives, practices, and assessments for using mindfulness pedagogies in higher education—not only for stress reduction and self-compassion, but also for unlearning oppression and addressing trauma on intrapersonal, interpersonal, social and cultural levels. Within nine months after the Think Tank meeting, participants will contribute or coauthor essays culminating in a book of discipline-specific mindfulness practices for unlearning oppression and addressing trauma in higher education.
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