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Long dormant in education, the natural capacity for contemplation balances and enriches the analytic. It has the potential to enhance performance, character and the depth of the student's experience. Tobin Hart, Opening the Contemplative Mind in the Classroom, Journal of Transformative Education Vol. 2 No. 1, January 2004 |
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Mindfulness as a Foundation for Teaching and Learning
Saturday, February 24th, 2007
Schedule
Speaker BiographiesGina M. Biegel, M.A. is a psychotherapist at Kaiser Santa Teresa's Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry where she piloted and replicated a randomized control trial assessing the effectiveness of the MBSR program with adolescents. She is currently exploring additional research areas using MBSR with adolescents for obesity, eating disorders, anger problems, ADHD and substance abuse. The workbook she created for her adolescent program is currently being used around the world in hospital and school settings. In addition, she has done research with counseling psychology students and is starting a new study using MBSR with mental health clinicians. She has conducted numerous workshops and presentations with business professionals, college students and doctors. Richard Brady has been a math teacher at Sidwell Friends in Philadelphia for over thirty years. He founded the Mindfulness in Education Network in 2001. He teaches mindfulness as a means of stress reduction to all ninth grade students at Sidwell Friends, and teaches a 10th grade geometry course with a contemplative component. He regularly presents workshops for educators on mindfulness and visits schools, giving presentations on mindfulness to faculty members and students. Richard C. Brown founded the Contemplative Education department at Naropa University in 1990. The department, which he continues to chair, adapts Buddhist wisdom, compassion, and skillful means to non-sectarian teacher education. Previously, Richard taught public elementary school, then seven years in a Buddhist-inspired K-12 in Boulder. He has helped develop rites-of-passage programs, and been centrally involved in the formation of several contemplative schools. Richard has written on various topics including emotion in teaching, contemplative observation, and child/adolescent spiritual development. Margaret Cullen is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a Certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Teacher. She has taught more than seventy-five series of MBSR in thirteen years. In 2004, she helped develop and write, and then taught the curriculum for the research project Cultivating Emotional Balance. CEB teaches mindfulness and emotional regulation to teachers. Since its inception, she has taught CEB to six groups of teachers, and piloted the program in Denver. She has taught MBSR for the past twelve years at Kaiser in Oakland, where she introduced the first physician program, the first graduate program and helped revise the MBSR curriculum and workbook for the entire northern California region. In 1993, she introduced the MBSR program to The Wellness Community National Headquarters in Santa Monica and continues to teach cancer patients and their loved ones at The Wellness Community in Walnut Creek. David Forbes is program head of School Counseling in the School of Education, Brooklyn College/CUNY. He is the author of Boyz 2 Buddhas: Counseling Urban High School Male Athletes in the Zone and is a 2005-6 fellow with the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society. Susan Kaiser Greenland, J.D. is the founder and Executive Director of the InnerKids Foundation and has a long practice in meditation and teaching mindful awareness practices to children. She teaches pre-school through middle-school children mindful awareness practices to develop attention, balance, clarity & compassion—the New ABCs of learning and leading a balanced life. In 2001 Susan, with her husband Seth Greenland, founded the InnerKids Foundation through which she teaches courses to children as well as classroom teachers, parents, therapists and health care professionals. Susan has taught continuing education courses to attorneys regarding mindful awareness practices and the practice of law. Susan speaks at professional programs throughout the country and consults with various organizations regarding the use of mindfulness practices with children. Dr. Patricia (Tish) Jennings is Director of the Program on Contemplation and Education at the Garrison Institute. She received her doctorate in human development from the University of California, Davis, and is affiliated with the Health Psychology Program at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). At UCSF, she directed the Cultivating Emotional Balance (CEB) Project. Offered to teachers in the context of a randomized controlled clinical trial, CEB assesses the effectiveness of offering a program that combines contemplative practice with emotional awareness to reduce destructive emotional responses, and enhance compassion and empathy. Patricia is currently conducting research to examine how greater emotional competence among teachers may translate into improved teacher-student relationships, increased student pro-social behavior, a more positive classroom atmosphere and improved student academic performance. She also has extensive research and teaching experience in the field of education. After receiving a master's degree in education, she founded and directed an experimental school in Napa Valley, California. In this setting she developed and field-tested curriculum for children from infancy through fifth grade, applying a variety of contemplative techniques in her work. Patricia later served as Director of Intern Teachers at St. Mary's College Graduate School of Education in Moraga, California, where she taught education courses, supervised student research, developed teacher training curriculum, and supervised student-teacher training. Irene McHenry, Ph.D. is the Executive Director of the Friends Council on Education. She was founding head of Delaware Valley Friends School, a founder of Greenwood Friends School and a founding faculty member of Fielding Graduate University's doctoral program in Educational Leadership and Change. Irene has taught mindfulness to all ages of students from second grade through graduate school, and to children and adults in her practice as a psychotherapist. She currently teaches mindfulness skills to educators in Friends schools and independent schools across the country. Her spiritual practice integrates Quakerism, Judaism and Buddhism. Betsy Rose s a singer, writer, educator, and music director of the Spirit Rock Meditation Center Family Program. Her songs are infused with warmth, humor, spirit and wisdom; she delights while bringing insight to her audiences. Over the past thirty years Betsy has offered her teachings and songs to children, educators (including special education teachers), parents and parenting professionals, family counselors, midwives and others attending to the birth process. Her musical leadership has been a part of conferences for groups such as California Early Childhood Educators State, Association of Humanistic Psychology, Omega Institute, and AIDS and Hospice programs. Her many recordings include Motherlight and Heart of a Child, which capture the poignancy and passion of parenting and educating young children. Amy Saltzman, M.D. is a holistic physician and mindfulness teacher. She teaches mindfulness to children in both school and community settings, and offers a course on Mindfulness and Parenting at El Camino Hospital. She is trained in Internal Medicine, a founding diplomate of the American Board of Holistic Medicine, and a founding member of the Northern California Advisory Committee on Mindfulness. Before establishing a private practice she served on the Board of Trustees of the American Holistic Medical Association, and as medical director of the Health and Healing Clinic at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. Saki Santorelli, Ed. D. is director of the Center for Mindfulness and assistant professor in the Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. For over twenty-five years, he has been engaged in the development of a range of experiential mindfulness- based professional education and development programs, and in pioneering initiatives in medical education. Cator Shachoy is the founder of Youth Yoga Dharma, a non-profit organization dedicated to offering youth the skills of meditation and yoga in a variety of environments, emphasizing disadvantaged situations. She has been a hospice volunteer for 5 years, and worked with youth in a variety of environments—including as a camp counselor, art teacher, and child care provider—since 1995. She participated in the Mindfulness-based stress reduction clinic as an intern at the Worcester Medical Center in 1995, and is a member of the Teen Council at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Cator is an Iyengar yoga instructor, and a practitioner of Visionary Craniosacral Bodywork. Teah Strozer 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. Robert Wall will discuss the elements of Tai Chi (TC) and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) used in an educational program for two groups of Boston Public Middle School boys and girls. The paper describing this program was published in the Journal of Pediatric Health Care, July-August 2005. Robert is a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner and Psychiatric Nurse Specialist. He received his degree in Divinity from the Episcopal Divinity School in 1982. He is a certified Tai Chi instructor since 1994, and member of both The Healing Tao Instructors Association and the National Qi Gong Association. He has taught meditation in the Christian, Taoist and Buddhist traditions for over 20 years. |