Good teachers share one trait: they are truly present in the class room, deeply engaged with their students and their subject...(they) are able to weave a complex web of connections among themselves, their subjects, and their students, so that their students can learn to weave a world for themselves. The connections made by good teachers are held not in their methods but in their hearts.
Parker Palmer, The Courage to Teach
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The Mindfulness in Education lecture series and 2007 conference is organized by the Association for Mindfulness in Education. AME is a collaborative association of organizations and individuals working together to provide support for the growing interest in including mindfulness training as a component of K-12 education. We are committed to furthering training and research in this field.
AME's steering committee includes:
Gil Fronsdal, Ph.D.
Founding teacher of the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. A mindfulness meditation teacher for 16 years, Gil has been teaching mindfulness to children for eight years.
Philippe Goldin, Ph.D.
Philippe completed his Ph.D. in Psychology at Rutgers University and his Clinical Psychology Internship at the UCSD/SDVAHS consortium. He is currently a researcher in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University. He investigates core cognitive (thinking) and affective (feeling) mechanisms in both healthy children and adults, and in patients with various forms of psychopathology. He uses state-of-the-art functional MRI and other techniques to elucidate the neural mechanisms underlying the interaction of cognition and emotion systems. He is currently evaluating the benefits of teaching Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction to child-parent pairs, and to adult patients with anxiety and social phobia.
Rev. Paul Haller, M.A.
Abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center and an innovator in bringing mindfulness training to prisons, jails, hospitals, drug and alcohol treatment centers and schools.
Amy Saltzman, M.D.
Amy has been teaching to children, parents, grade school teachers and school administrators for the past five years. She is currently conducting research through the Stanford Department of Psychology, evaluating the benefits of teaching mindfulness to child-parent pairs. She established the Mindfulness program at Kaiser Santa Clara Hospital, where she conducted research on the benefits of teaching mindfulness to patients with chronic pain and illness.
Teah Strozer
Teah has practiced meditation since 1967. She teaches primarily at the San Francisco Zen Center where she created and led retreat programs for teenagers. She earned a K-12 teaching credential with a specialty in music from the University of Southern California Music Conservatory. She is now the Chaplain for the Bay School of San Francisco.
Members of the steering committee can be contacted at info@mindfuleducation.org or by telephone at (510) 524-1996.
Collaborative Organizations
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