On November 4, the Garrison Institute welcomed teachers, principals, researchers, neuroscientists, psychologists, health professionals and others to the inaugural “Advancing the Science and Practice of Contemplative Teaching and Learning” symposium. Participants learned about research on contemplative education from the fields of neuroscience and developmental psychology. Panels looked at the implications of science for practice in working with students, teachers and…
“This is my birthday present?” is a very entertaining article by Caitlin Kelly in the November 2011 issue of Marie Claire, opening a window on the surprises in store for the retreat first-timer at the Garrison Institute. “When Caitlin Kelly’s husband offered a weeklong silent retreat, words couldn’t describe her surprise: ‘The goal of silence was to shut out the…
Do you know that you can receive monthly updates by email from two of our initiatives, Climate, Mind and Behavior and Contemplation and Education? Click here to sign up. You can also read the same updates on each initiative’s blog (Climate here; Education here). Both fields are supported by rapidly expanding research communities and are increasingly influencing the world around…
Emily Grady of the Garrison Institute’s Climate, Mind and Behavior (CMB) initiative recently presented at the White House Council on Environmental Quality’s GreenGov symposium, which was convened to identify opportunities for greening the Federal government. She focused attention on one of the CMB program’s insights into the importance of people-centered approaches in reducing carbon emissions. Well-conceived choice architecture can generate…
As part of this week’s “Advancing the Science and Practice of Contemplative Teaching and Learning” symposium to be held at the Garrison Institute, the Initiative on Contemplation and Education recruited submissions from education programs across the country to bring us the Marketplace of Ideas, a diverse showcase of 18 promising contemplative education practices and programs which are already in use, and…
An exhibit of contemporary Tibetan art from the private collection of Shelley and Donald Rubin is currently on display in the Garrison Institute ambulatory. Selected from the show “Tradition Transformed: Tibetan Artists Respond” held at the Rubin Museum of Art in 2010, these works by Tsherin Sherpa and Palden Weinreb explore contemporary issues – personal, political, and cultural – by…
Garrison Institute board chairman Jonathan Rose is quoted in an interesting piece by Barry Boyce in the November 2011 issue of Shambhala Sun. “The Joy of Living Green” reports on the new environmentalism that recognizes that what you do counts more than what you believe, and seeks therefore to change how we behave day in and day out, and how…
This illuminating new video about the Hawn Foundation’s MindUp Program is a good introduction to the today’s contemplative practices in the classroom. And it features Garrison Institute Initiative on Contemplation and Education Director Tish Jennings, Advisory Board member Dan Siegel and Education Leadership Council member Kim Schonert-Reichl.
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