The Garrison Institute’s Contemplative Teaching and Learning Initiative has its own Facebook page. If you’d like to know more about the growing role of contemplative practice in the lives of K-12 educators and in classrooms, and keep up with news from this field, you should like this page! The growth of contemplative education can help keep teachers teaching, keep students…
Many on the Garrison Institute staff are dedicated to providing an authentic and fulfilling experience for the thousands of people who come here for retreat. And behind the scenes, all of us are kept very busy in our work. So our annual staff retreat is a very welcome occasion, when we can be together “in retreat mode,” take some breaths,…
We recommend you take time to watch some of the videos from our recent symposium on contemplative palliative and end-of-life care, Buddhist Contemplative Care, presented in partnership with the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care. Neuroscience research has demonstrated the effectiveness of meditation and mindfulness-based techniques in both patient healing and caregiver self-care, and this symposium was designed to…
The New York Times reports from our recent Buddhist Contemplative Care Symposium: in the Personal Health blog, Jane Brody describes how doctors who care for the terminally ill may find themselves sharing their patients’ pain and facing burnout from the stresses of their jobs – and what can be done about it. Dr. Diane E. Meier, keynote speaker at the…
“The arts are an integral part of many contemplative traditions,” says Pamela Seigle, Executive Director of Courage and Renewal Northeast and Garrison Institute Education Leadership Council member. “For children, engaging in singing, drawing and moving are natural times of mindfulness and attention. The arts allow us to feel, express and understand emotions that sometimes can’t be named. They also allow…
Mindful, a new magazine published by leaders in the mindfulness movement across North America, through the Foundation for a Mindful Society, is “dedicated to helping you live a more satisfying life through the practice of mindfulness,” a likeminded goal that we share. Mindful has extended this special offer to the Garrison Institute community: Subscribe ($19.95 for a year of the magazine) and Mindful will…
What wisdom are we developing over our lifetimes? What practices are we developing to help us to be reflective and discerning about our lives – at every step on our journey? These are the questions that Garrison Institute board member Rabbi Rachel Cowan will address when she leads an upcoming interactive workshop and discussion about the later stages of life…
{youtube}zrMNqIsZmQE{/youtube} This post is copied from the Contemplative Teaching and Learning blog – we felt it deserved to be shared widely… The topics we’ll be exploring during November’s Contemplative Teaching and Learning Symposium were framed in the keynote of last year’s symposium given by Mark Greenberg, Chair of the Contemplative Teaching and Learning Leadership Council. Greenberg spoke about the need…