This research considers the impacts of racism on the experiences of racialized people, and how mindfulness and compassion might serve as resources for their recovery and resistance. Applying ecological theories of mind and critical phenomenology, the study presents the self-reported experiences of 30 adult organized into five focus groups of practitioners and teachers of mindfulness and...
January 30, 2023Seonaigh MacPherson, Patricia Rockman1 citation
This chapter reviews the slow but steady uptake of mindfulness in modern higher education contexts, where mindfulness has tended to follow two predominant routes: As less formal extra-curricular or small-dose programmes, similar to community-based initiatives; or as integrated programmes within the formal curricula of disciplines and professional programmes. With respect to the latter route,...
January 30, 2023Seonaigh MacPherson, Patricia Rockman1 citation
This chapter begins by considering the integration of mindfulness as social-emotional learning (SEL) in preK-12 education. Just as mindfulness migrated into higher education through contemplative studies, in preK-12 it did so by being embedded within the broader SEL curricular innovations, with implications for student wellbeing and learning. It chronicles the corresponding shift from a...