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What Happens in Mindfulness: Grace and the Holistic-Intuitive Model
Introduction When I think of the biggest changes in my three decades of teaching, at the top of the list is the role that mindfulness has come to play in education. In the watershed year of 1979 Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn … Continue reading
“Serving Others Includes Serving Myself:” Final SSS Reflection by Ana Gallagher
The top picture is of Ana (left) and India (right) in grade 9 participating in a flag day to raise money for charity in “Humanities I in Action,” while the bottom picture comes three years later as the two girls … Continue reading
Presence and Plant Intelligence: Best Books of 2017
Finding my first Buhner book in Dublin in July, a celebratory moment! Introduction If last year’s highlight was easy to identify – studying the Enneagram in London – then this year’s epiphany was equally obvious, coming during summer holidays on … Continue reading
“Holding Onto Letting Go” by Sharon Kim
Sharon Kim – in center in blue track pants and white top in a “Service, Society, and the Sacred” class photo – reflects in this essay on her experience with two forms of spiritual practices that taught her how to … Continue reading
Fear or Love: Meditation, Motivation and the Golden Tipping Point
Dear students, I frequently ask you to do spiritual practices in my religion classes and, regardless of the motive, most of you seem to benefit. But in this entry, I’d like to turn the spotlight on the question of motivation … Continue reading
Cultivating Heartfulness: A Practice to Develop Inner Awareness
Dear Students, Perhaps the most common truism taught about the spiritual life is the need to journey from the head to the heart. The ancient wisdom traditions of the world teach with one voice that we need to re-awaken the … Continue reading
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Tagged meditation, mindfulness, spiritual practice, teaching spirituality
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Introducing the Wisdom Way of Teaching: Educating for Social Conscience and Inner Awakening in the High School Classroom
This entry, written as an introduction for a future book, explores how the yin-yang symbol offers a model for the integration of service learning and spiritual practices in school curricula. Such an approach is needed to meet the deep needs … Continue reading
The Benefits of Meditation Five Years On: A Personal Reflection
Richard and Suzanne Friedericks and myself traveled to Assisi, Italy five years ago to do a spiritual retreat with our teacher Cynthia Bourgeault. Looking back on that time, I can now recognize the significant turning point in my life that … Continue reading
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Tagged Centering Prayer, compassion, cynthia bourgeault, meditation, mindfulness, spiritual practice, wisdom
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Be Healthier Today: Recovering the Intelligence of the Body
“How do we begin to seek the wisdom of the body? You do it one step at a time – eating experience by eating experience. Every mealtime is another chance to feed yourself in a natural way, to take care of … Continue reading
Stop, Breathe, and Be: Re-Envisioning the Practice of Prayer
“The Sanctuary,” a retreat center in Dublin, Ireland, provided the venue for my recent Mindfulness in Schools Program “Dot B” workshop, a secular mindfulness training course which paradoxically provided me with a new understanding of prayer. We did some of … Continue reading
Social Conscience and Inner Awakening 