Full Description
This book provides background, strategies, and tips for higher education faculty and instructors interested in incorporating meditation in their classrooms. The work is based on research involving introducing brief meditation practices to college students and developing a detailed guide. Readers will learn how to develop their own meditation practice as an academic, to set the stage of introducing practice to students, to create ideal conditions for meditation in the classroom, specific, classroom-friendly meditation methods, ways to advance meditation practice with students and keep it interesting, and how to spread the culture of meditation across campus. A detailed script is provided.
Contents
Chapter 1: Listen to the Bell! The Origins of Micro-Meditations in the College Classroom
Chapter 2: Why Meditation in the Higher Education Classroom?
Chapter 3: What is Meditation?
Chapter 4: Developing Your Own Meditation Practice (As a Stressed-Out Academic?)
Chapter 5: Vipassana and Other Meditation Methods for the College Classroom
Chapter 6: Introducing College Students to Meditation
Chapter 7: Setting the Stage for In-Class Meditation
Chapter 8: Advancing the Meditation
Chapter 9: The Meditation Facilitation Guide
Chapter 10: Spreading Meditation Across Campus
