Forging New Spoken and Unspoken Ground: The Intersections of Mindfulness, Participatory Collaboration, and Intellectual Disability

• In Event: Building Community and Creating Knowledge Through Participatory Research: Rethinking Intellectual Disability and Educational Research

Abstract

This paper discusses the powerful and often overlooked role that mindfulness, particularly a mindful, social-justice based dialogic approach, can play in promoting authentic participatory collaboration in a group context inclusive of a diverse array of identities, abilities, and disabilities.

Author

• Jersey Cosantino, Syracuse University