Resources

• Contemplative Studies in Higher Education, Special Issue of New Directions for Teaching & Learning

• Contemplative Higher Education in Contemporary America, Mirabai Bush, Senior Fellow, Center for Contemplative Mind in Society

• Opening the Contemplative Mind in the Classroom, Tobin Hart

• Mindfulness Infographic

• Making Peace, Becoming Awake: Contemplative Practice in Education, Arthur Zajonc, Ph.D.

• The Beauty of Compassion, Sari Roth-Roemer, Ph.D.

• Meditation: A Simple, Fast Way to Reduce Stress, Mayo Clinic

• The Benefits of Meditation, Anne Trafton, MIT and Harvard neuroscientists explain why the practice helps tune out distractions and relieve pain.

• Meditation Education Infographic, Edutopia

Contemplative Programs at Colleges or Universities or Organizations with a Higher Education Focus

• Brown University's Contemplative Studies Initiative, A group of Brown faculty with diverse academic specializations who are united around a common interest in the study of contemplative states of mind, including the underlying philosophy, psychology, and phenomenology of human contemplative experience.

• Center for New Designs in Learning & Scholarship at Georgetown, Since 2000, CNDLS has supported Georgetown University’s faculty and graduate students with tools, resources, and opportunities for new learning environments.

• Emory Collaborative for Contemplative Studies, An interdisciplinary group of faculty, postdocs and students at Emory University who share and investigate the application of contemplative practices in our modern society.

• Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA, MARC was created to bring to a renowned mental health research institution the ancient art of mindful awareness in a scientifically supported and rigorous form.

• The Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford University, Creating a community of scholars and researchers from various disciplines, including neuroscientists, psychologists, educators and philosophical and contemplative thinkers around the study of compassion. Offers a teacher certification program.

• UCSD Center for Mindfulness, The UCSD Center for Mindfulness is a multi-faceted program of clinical care, professional training, education, research and outreach.

• Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education (ACMHE), A project of The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society; a professional association that promoting the emergence of a broad culture of contemplation in the academy.

• Mindfulness in Education Network (MiEN), Manages an active Yahoo Group/mailing list with news, announcements and events for educators who want to bring a contemplative awareness to their work.