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Contemplative Practice and Stress Resiliency Workshop with Susan Bauer-Wu
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 Through guided practices, discussion, poetry, and story, we will explore tuning in, looking out, letting go, and opening your heart so you can be buoyant and live with joy and ease during times of change, loss, and everyday worries.

When
March 28, 2014 (12:00pm to 1:15pm)
Where
Common Ground Healing Arts
See map: Google Maps
The Spring SARC Yoga Workshop: Resilience, Renewal, and Revitalization

 The workshop will consist of 3 sessions held in Campbell Hall, led by seasoned Contemplative Sciences Center (CSC) Ashtanga instructor John Bultman.

When
March 21, 2014 to March 23, 2014 (5:45am to 8:45am)
Where
Campbell Hall
See map: Google Maps
Mindfulness: Foundation for Teaching and Learning Conference

This three-day event will explore the uses of mindfulness in education

When
March 14, 2014 to March 16, 2014 (5:00am to 11:00am)
Where
American University, Washington, DC
See map: Google Maps
Speaker Series: Meditation, Compassion, and Social Action with Bhante Wimala

Since 1986, Bhante Wimala has been the Chairperson and Spiritual Director of Triple Gem Buddhist Society, the Center for Conscious Evolution in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. He is also the Founding Director and Spiritual Advisor of Prison Ministries which provides educational and support programs in many state prisons in the USA.

When
February 24, 2014 (10:00am to 11:30am)
Where
Speaker Series: Why Should Leaders Care About Managing Their Minds with Jeremy Hunter

Jeremy Hunter is the great-grandson of a sumo wrestler as well as Assistant Professor of Practice at the Peter F. Drucker School of Management. He created and teaches The Executive Mind, a decade-old series of challenging and transformative executive education courses dedicated to Drucker’s assertion that “You cannot manage other people unless you manage yourself first.”

When
February 20, 2014 (7:00am to 9:00am)
Where
The Great Hall
University of Virginia
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The Felt Sense of Landscape as Antidote to 'the Extinction of Experience': Designing an urban park in Tel Aviv

In his talk, Ram Eisenberg will explore how the concept of “consideration” inspired the design of the democratic and ecological Kiryat Sefer Park in Tel Aviv.  The democratic participatory design process has been used as a mimicry of the iterative principle in the social realm, mimicking the iterative process of an ecosystem within a cultural context.

When
February 11, 2014 (1:00pm)
Where
Campbell Hall Room 153
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Speaker Series: Inclusivity, Identity-Safety and Maximum Performance: Notes on Contemplative Approaches to Classrooms that Work for All with Rhonda Magee

This talk is being co-sponsored by Teaching Resource Center.  The author of the article, Educating Lawyers to Meditate, Rhonda Magee is a thought and innovative practice leader in the fields of Inclusive and Identity-Safe Pedagogy and Facilitation; Contemplative Pedagogy and Facilitation; and, Contemplative Lawyering.

When
February 7, 2014 (7:00am to 8:30am)
Where
Nau Hall Auditorium Room 101
See map: Google Maps
Speaker Series: Wise Warrior, Peacemaker, Healer of Broken Systems? On Contemplative Approaches to Law, Lawyering and Social Justice with Rhonda Magee

The author of the article, Educating Lawyers to Meditate, she is a thought and innovative practice leader in the fields of Inclusive and Identity-Safe Pedagogy and Facilitation; Contemplative Pedagogy and Facilitation; and, Contemplative Lawyering.

When
February 6, 2014 (11:00am to 12:00pm)
Where
Purcell Reading Room
See map: Google Maps
Naropa University & CSC Lightning Talks

Join visiting faculty from Naropa University and faculty from University of Virginia for a series of brief talks focused on contemplative education and research.

When
January 27, 2014 (10:00am to 12:00pm)
Where
Kaleidoscope Room
University of Virginia
See map: Google Maps
Speaker Series: Real Happiness at Work with Sharon Salzberg

Sharon Salzberg is a meditation teacher and author. She is the cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Barre, Massachusetts, and has played a crucial role in bringing Asian meditation practices to the West.

When
January 24, 2014 (7:00am)
Where
Nau Hall Auditorium Room 101
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