An Integrated Approach to Contemplative Practice: The Mindful and Dialogical Explorations of a “Collaboratory”

Session Submission Type: Demonstration/Performance

Abstract

This presentation features a group of contemplative researcher-practitioners who will explore with the participants an integral approach to creating moments of awakening in the classroom. We are engaged in and wish to share a collaborative contemplative inquiry (our collaboratory) that grounds itself in the interpenetration of inner and outer, self and other, mind and heart, matter and spirit. Our approach integrates the methodologies of subjective mindfulness, intersubjective, dialogical encounter, and an awareness of our sociocultural, historical, and ecological situatedness. This mindful interpenetration may release consciousness from conditioned reactivity into spontaneous emergence. When consciousness can experience such generous freedom then it is truly capable of moral responsibility as well as creativity in all domains of education.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Holistic Education

Chair

• Gillian Diane Smith, Simon Fraser University

Participants

• Charles F. Scott, Simon Fraser University

• Avraham A. Cohen, City University of Seattle

• Heesoon Bai, Simon Fraser University

• Tom E. Culham, The University of British Columbia

• Sean Roswell Park, Simon Fraser University

• Shahar Rabi, Simon Fraser University

• Saskia Tait, Simon Fraser University

Papers

• An Integrated Approach to Contemplative Practice: The Mindful and Dialogical Explorations of a “Collaboratory” - Heesoon Bai, Simon Fraser University; Avraham A. Cohen, City University of Seattle; Tom E. Culham, The University of British Columbia; Sean Roswell Park, Simon Fraser University; Shahar Rabi, Simon Fraser University; Charles F. Scott, Simon Fraser University; Saskia Tait, Simon Fraser University

Discussant

• Gillian Diane Smith, Simon Fraser University