#353 Monash University - Opening Minds through Mindfulness

     With Dr. Craig Hassed's leadership, Australia's "Monash University is a world leader in mindfulness programs. (They) currently offer a number of mindfulness programs designed to enhance the experience of both students and staff. (They) are working towards embedding mindfulness in the core curriculum by 2015 so that all Monash students will have the opportunity to learn mindfulness." http://monash.edu/counselling/mindfulness.html

     "Contemplation is a third way of knowing – a missing link – that complements & enhances the rational & sensory. The contemplative mind is opened and activated through a wide range of approaches – from pondering to poetry to meditation – that are designed to shift states of mind in order to cultivate such capacities as deepened awareness, concentration and insight. Historically, the contemplative has been used throughout the wisdom traditions as fundamental for developing interiority and understanding the most essential knowledge, yet it is almost entirely absent from contemporary education."
        Hart T. From information to transformation. Education for the evolution of consciousness. Peter Lang Publishing, NY, 2009.

     See also: http://healthyhealers.blogspot.ca/2013/06/empathy-basic-human-competence.html 

 

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