The fostering of academic, social and emotional student development and the cultivation of outer- and inner-life skills for all students requires a newly designed vision of education. This session will examine the re-envisioning of education through engaging participants in reflection and lively discussion about critical questions regarding realizing and embodying education by connecting the contemplative …
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Pre-Conference Workshop – Environmental Education
We are at a moment in time when the thriving of all beings on our Planet Mother is in question. What happens when we become aware and engaged as members of living systems? How does that awareness bring deeper meaning to learning within and outside of formal education systems that cultivates a more sustainable life? …
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ISCS 2014 Pre-Conference – Opening Keynote – john a. powell
A Tale of Two Movements: What Transformative and Contemplative Education Can Learn from Each Other
Pre-conference Introduction and Opening Keynote
A Tale of Two Movements: What Transformative and Contemplative Education Can Learn from Each Other How can we work together to create educational systems that support students in becoming compassionate, competent, and responsible members of the wider community? While justice and fairness are needed to support effective participation in the classroom, how do we ensure …
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Mind and Life: Exploring Big Questions of Contemplative Science
ISCS 2014
Concurrent Session 4 – The Role of Empathy in Social Cognition
Social cognition theories explain how we understand others in social interactions. A new approach, interaction theory, focuses on the phenomenological and embodied nature of what it is like to connect to andunderstand others in social interaction. This theory incorporates traditional phenomenological approaches to understanding other minds, and it also gives significant status to the role …
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The Bright Knight of the Soul
How a 13th-century myth illuminates the contemporary mission of Mind & Life
Embodying Care
Three practices that help us receive, develop, and extend care
The Paradox of Passion
The sign of a successful caring organization may reside in how its impact ultimately overshadows its origins.
Donor Profile – Penny Pilgram George
A Q&A on integrative medicine, business, and moving the culture away from distrust
