Mindfulness and educating citizens for everyday life : mindfulness and educating citizens for everyday life / edited by Malgorzata Powietrzynska and Kenneth Tobin.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Intro; TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; ABOUT THE COVER; 1. MINDFULNESS AS A WAY OF LIFE: Maintaining Wellness through Healthy Living; ABSTRACT; MINDFULNESS; Heuristics; Mindfully Speaking; Mindfully Listening; MEDITATION, MINDFULNESS, AND WELLNESS; Breathing Meditation; A Multilogcal View of Wellness; Jin Shin Jyutsu and Wellness; Safety Energy Locks; As It Is Above -- So It Is Below; A Personal Wellness Project; NAVIGATING COMPLICATED LIFEWORDS; REFERENCES; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; PART I: MINDFULNESS IN EDUCATION; 2. MINDFULNESS AND FLOW IN TRANSPERSONAL ART THERAPY: An Excavation of Creativity.

ABSTRACTMAPPING MINDFULNESS -- WHAT IT IS; Spiritual Roots of My Mindfulness; MINDFULNESS -- AND WHAT IT CAN BE; Since Death Is Certain But the Time of Death Is Uncertain, What Is the Most Important Thing to Do?; Mindfulness as Self-Care for Academics and Therapists; Noticing the Flow within and without; The Nexus between Mindfulness, Flow and Creativity; Art Therapy in a Nutshell; MINDFULNESS AND FLOW IN ARTS-BASED RESEARCH AND IN COUNSELING/ART THERAPY; The Myths of Apollo and Dionysius; Excavating Apollo and Dionisius -- Lily's Archaeological Excavation into Life's Struggles.

Creating a Collage as an Example of Transpersonal Art TherapyStep 2: Translating Insights from Journaling into an Artwork; Step 3: Connecting; Step 4: Stepping back and making meaning; Seeing the links; Step 5: Exiting the Process; WHAT I LEARNED FROM PRACTISING MINDFULNESS AND ART THERAPY?; Returning to the Harbor; REFERENCES; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; 3. CONCENTRATION IS THE SEED: Conscious Attention in Educational Scenarios; ABSTRACT; A BRIEF INTRODUCTION; THE GENERAL PROBLEM OF READING LITERACY DEFICIENCY; DHĀRAṆĀ: DIRECTED ATTENTION AND SUSTAINED CONCENTRATION; CONSCIOUS ATTENTION

Loving Kindness MeditationMEDITATION AND CLASSROOM TEACHING AND LEARNING; MEDITATION MAKES A DIFFERENCE; REFERENCES; APPENDIX A; ABOUT THE AUTHORS; 6. MINDFULNESS: A Lived Experience in Self-Awareness, Compassion and Understanding; ABSTRACT; I CAN'T TAKE THIS ANYMORE!; THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES: MINDFUL AWARENESS; MINDFULNESS PRACTICE IN OUR CLASSROOM; MINDFUL IMPACT: STUDENT VOICES; Self-Awareness; Compassion; Celebrating Difference; THE END: TOWARD A NEW BEGINNING OF HUMANISM AND DEMOCRACY IN URBAN EDUCATION; REFERENCES; ABOUT THE AUTHOR.

Mindfulness and Educating Citizens for Everyday Life invites readers to explore the role mindfulness can play in mediating how we enact social life in todays increasingly challenging and challenged world. The educators and researchers who have contributed to this book use mindfulness as a lens to address and untangle what is becoming a profoundly complicated way of being within the reality of global capitalism. Education is framed broadly - the research transcends the walls of classrooms and includes museums, nursing homes, hospitals, AA meetings, and homes. Hence, the chapters feature participants occupying varied social positions and spaces that may be situated in different parts of the globe. The authors address two overarching and dialectically related themes of mindfulness and wellness and collectively the chapters expand possibilities for readers to act mindfully in a world in which wellness and wellbeing are pervasive concerns as a fragile Earth adapts to a dynamic flux of human-led changes that threaten the future of lifeworlds that support humanity and myriad species that face extinction. The authors do not offer oversimplified solutions to dramatically switch direction and preserve life, as we have known it. Instead, the ideas that emerge from the research presented in this volume expand possibilities for informed conduct, self-help, and educating citizens with a goal of individuals and collectives transforming lifeworlds by embracing mindfulness-saturated ontologies.

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