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  • Daoist Cultivation of Qi and Virtue for Life, Wisdom, and Learning

    by Tom Culham, Jing Lin ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book explores Daoist philosophies of qi and virtue through inquiry into their potential as technologies for cultivating good among individuals and society within educational settings, as well as in the modern world. The first part of the book, authored by Jing Lin, examines Daoist cosmology, axiology, and epistemology. She illuminates qi cultivation’s reliance on the accumulation of virtues, ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Contemplative Pedagogies for Transformative Teaching, Learning, and Being

    Edited by Jing Lin, Tom Culham, Sachi Edwards ...
    Series series Transforming Education for the Future
    In our current systems of education, there is a trend toward compartmentalizing knowledge, standardizing assessments of learning, and focusing primarily on quantifiable and positivist forms of inquiry. Contemplative inquiry, on the other hand, takes us on a transformative pathway toward wisdom, morality, integrity, equanimity, and joy (Zajonc, 2009). These holistic learning practices are needed as ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Toward a Spiritual Research Paradigm

    Exploring New Ways of Knowing, Researching and Being

    Edited by Jing Lin, Rebecca L. Oxford, Tom Culham ...
    Series series Transforming Education for the Future
    Spirituality and spiritual experiences have been the bedrock of every civilization and together form one of the highest mechanisms for making sense of the world for billions of people. Current research paradigms, due to their limitation to empirical, sensory, psychologically, or culturally constructed realities, fail to provide a framework for exploring this essential area of human experience. The ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

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  • The Interplay of Psychology and Spirituality

    A Resource for Counselors and Psychotherapists

    by Alexandra M. Hepburn, PhD ...
    Many counseling clients find comfort and meaning in their spiritual lives, in the context of religious affiliation or the diverse viewpoints of the “spiritual but not religious.” But counselors and psychotherapists often lack training for work in this territory and may be wary of opening the door. The Interplay of Psychology and Spirituality is an exploration of the subtle, fluid relationship ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Contemplative Practices in Higher Education

    Powerful Methods to Transform Teaching and Learning

    by Daniel P. Barbezat, Mirabai Bush ...
    Contemplative pedagogy is a way for instructors to:empower students to integrate their own experience into the theoretical material they are being taught in order to deepen their understanding;help students to develop sophisticated problem-solving skills;support students’ sense of connection to and compassion for others; andengender inquiries into students’ most profound questions.Contemplative ... Read more

    $37.00 USD

  • Classic Morita Therapy

    Consciousness, Zen, Justice and Trauma

    by Peg LeVine ...
    Shoma (Masatake) Morita, M.D. (1874-1938) was a Japanese psychiatrist-professor who developed a unique four stage therapy process. He challenged psychoanalysts who sanctioned an unconscious or unconsciousness (collective or otherwise) that resides inside the mind. Significantly, he advanced a phenomenal connection between existentialism, Zen, Nature and the therapeutic role of serendipity. Morita ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Meditation, Buddhism, and Science

    Edited by David McMahan, Erik Braun ...
    The scientific study of Buddhist forms of meditation has surged in recent years, capturing the popular imagination and reshaping conceptions of what meditation is and what it can do. For perhaps the first time in history, meditation has shifted from Buddhist monasteries and practice centers to some of the most prominent and powerful modern institutions in the world, as well as non-institutional ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Inward

    Vipassana Meditation & the Embodiment of the Self

    by Michal Pagis ...
    Series series Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries
    Western society has never been more interested in interiority. Indeed, it seems more and more people are deliberately looking inward—toward the mind, the body, or both. Michal Pagis's Inward focuses on one increasingly popular channel for the introverted gaze: vipassana meditation, which has spread from Burma to more than forty countries and counting. Lacing her account with vivid anecdotes and ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Introducing Contemplative Studies

    by Louis Komjathy ...
    The first book-length introduction to an exciting new interdisciplinary field—written by an internationally recognized leader of the Contemplative Studies movementThis is the first book-length introduction to a growing and influential interdisciplinary field focused on contemplative practice, contemplative experience, and contemplative pedagogy. Written by an internationally recognized leader in ... Read more

    $36.00 USD

  • Buddhist Practice on Western Ground

    Reconciling Eastern Ideals and Western Psychology

    by Harvey Aronson ...
    This is the first book to offer Buddhist meditators a comprehensive and sympathetic examination of the differences between Asian and Western cultural and spiritual values. Harvey B. Aronson presents a constructive and practical assessment of common conflicts experienced by Westerners who look to Eastern spiritual traditions for guidance and support—and find themselves confused or disappointed. ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Contemplative Mind in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

    by Patricia Owen-Smith ...
    Series series Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
    In The Contemplative Mind in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Patricia Owen-Smith considers how contemplative practices may find a place in higher education. By creating a bridge between contemplative practices and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), Owen-Smith brings awareness of contemplative pedagogy to a larger audience of college instructors, while also offering ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Dance, Somatics and Spiritualities

    Contemporary Sacred Narratives

    Edited by Amanda Williamson, Glenna Batson, Sarah Whatley ...
    This anthology negotiates the influential, yet silent educational presence of spiritualities within the field of somatic movement dance education internationally. The expressive and integral nature of spiritual experience remains academically undefined and peripheral to our understanding of creative practice. Lack of theoretical rigour, as well as a lack of a substantive definitional and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD