Rooting Institutional Change in Personal Practice
The Wellbeing Project
Format:
Website
Publication Date:
2019/03/01/
Sources ID:
82166
Collection:
Contemplative Pedagogy in Higher Education
Visibility:
Public (group default)
Abstract:
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About seven years ago, contemplative practice had deepened my capacities for and commitment to love and presence to such a degree that I found I could no longer teach and ask students to learn in the same ways I had been. My personal life felt fine but at my small, rural, New Hampshire state university I felt enveloped by students’ distress, colleagues’ stress, and a sense of general dispiritedness and joylessness. Students who, as children, had loved reading, claimed that now, as English majors, they despised it. And so, that August, I knew I had to make a change.