Educators report that deepening their own contemplative practice leads to more successful teaching and helps them design courses with a contemplative component.

Our retreats offer instruction in a variety of contemplative practices, including contemplative methods adapted for the classroom. These practices cultivate capacities central to teaching and learning--focused attention, kindness and compassion, and contemplative inquiry--and our retreats include discussions about the relationship of the contemplative perspective to teaching, learning, and knowing. Much of the time is spent in silence, including some silent meals.

Our retreats are designed to appeal to participants with a wide range of experience in contemplative practice, from beginners to seasoned practitioners.

Faculty

Mirabai Bush
Associate Director & Senior Fellow, The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society

Sunanda Markus
Academic Program Coordinator, The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society

Arthur Zajonc
Director, The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society
Professor of Physics, Amherst College