Abstract In the scholarship of holistic education and spirituality in education, self-transcendence has been acknowledged as an important spiritual capacity. Still, its associations with the human existential condition of the search for meaning have yet to be fully explored. Viennese psychiatrist Viktor E. Frankl is well-renowned for his contributions to the psychology of meaning. His writings...
Our paper addresses the so-called college mental health crisis and the adoption of the strategy of mindfulness-based interventions. We offer a critique of their underlying medical–therapeutic paradigm by engaging the notion of self-transcendence in Viktor Frankl’s Existential Analysis and Buddhism in dialogue. We argue that the current mindfulness movement has decontextualized and appropriated...
We are interested in the transformative potentials of intersubjectivity as it is enacted through second-person contemplative approaches. Our work here focuses on contemplative practice as a pedagogy that reveals and enacts intersubjectivity within postsecondary education. How might contemplative higher education practice as a pedagogy enable students to access these underlying intersubjective...