Journal of Contemplative and Holistic Education
May 1, 2023
Heesoon Bai, Charles Farquhar Scott, Cary Campbell et al.
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This “reconstructed interview-conversation” involves the entire editorial team of the Journal of Contemplative and Holistic Education (JCHE). Together, the team dialogues around the shared visions, aspirations, motivations, and aims we have in creating this new journal platform. With this sharing, the team sends out a welcoming invitation to colleagues from around the world to get to know our...
Journal of Contemplative and Holistic Education
May 1, 2023
David C Chang
In this short narrative-essay, David Chang presents what he learned after spending a year in contemplative solitude on a remote off-grid island along the coast of BC, offering “invitations to live the stillness of the forest in the bustle of the city”. Chang makes the case that those blessed with the time and resources to practice contemplative solitude have an (educational) commitment to share...
Journal of Contemplative and Holistic Education
May 1, 2023
Denise Findlay
Throughout this reflective essay I explore Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Indigenous philosophy and contemplative education as ethical pathways to healing and reconciliation in higher education. I put forth the idea of becoming the imperfect friend in a world ethos of death by a thousand cuts as a response to the violence of colonialism perpetuated in academia. I reflect on the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh values of...
Journal of Contemplative and Holistic Education
May 1, 2023
Patricia Morgan
In this article I discuss the heuristic power of combining contemplative and creative practices using different stages of my research into learning through contemplation. This began with a realisation I had, in my first meditation retreat, about the similarities between creative and contemplative consciousness. It initiated twenty-three years of applied and theoretical research that started...
Journal of Contemplative and Holistic Education
May 1, 2023
Avraham Cohen, Thomas Falkenberg
In this interview (conducted by Heesoon Bai), Avraham Cohen and Thomas Falkenberg speak about the origin and practice of their respective inner work and about the need for and ways of bringing more inner work into the world.
Journal of Contemplative and Holistic Education
May 1, 2023
Jinting Wu
Change has become the urgency of our time, as the harrowing Anthropocene and ongoing socio-political crises are challenging the future of humanity and our planet. While systemic structural forces are often (and rightfully so) the target to blame, social activism is as much about our own path of inner change as it is about attempting to create a better world externally. This aspect of social...
Journal of Contemplative and Holistic Education
April 1, 2023
Fran Grace
This video spotlights the diverse learning environments of the University of Redlands' pioneering meditation program in its first 16 years of academic classes and community offerings. As reported in places such as Inside Higher Ed (Redden, 2007, December 18) and books published from the UCLA Higher Education Research Institute (Astin et al., Cultivating the Spirit: How College Can Enhance...
Journal of Contemplative and Holistic Education
2023
Netta Baryosef-Paz, Nirit Assaf
This paper reflects on an interdisciplinary, environmental, and contemplative course the authors taught at Kibbutzim College of Education in Tel Aviv. Entitled "I am in Nature," the course was co-taught by an ecologist and a literary scholar. It included a two-day base camping and hiking experience in the Negev Desert and three on-campus meetings. The students read Nature Writing and Ecopoetry,...