On Jan. 28 at 7 p.m. in the Library Living Room, NHTI’s Wings of Knowledge lecture series presents “Mindfulness and the Inner World of Teaching and Learning” with Dr. Leigh Burrows.
Burrows has an interest in the contemplative dimensions of education at all levels. Her background in Western forms of meditation and her experience as a Waldorf/Steiner teacher provide a foundation for embedding this dimension in curriculum and pedagogy in public schools and universities. She is passionate about the development of a secular approach to mindfulness that is more suited for Western consciousness than the more commonly seen Buddhist orientations.
Her teaching topics, supervision, consultancy, and counseling work are focused around relationships for learning, wellbeing, creating calmer classrooms for vulnerable students, alternative education and mindfulness.
For more information see Burrows’s blog: deepeningmindfulness.org.
This experiential workshop and talk includes mindfulness practices, as well as case studies and research results from Burrows’s work with educators in Australia. Case study examples will show how mindfulness practice in a teaching context can enhance both teachers’s and students’s sense of inner security in the classroom, allowing them to form connections and take the kinds of risks that make learning possible.
Launched in 2001-02, Wings of Knowledge is an annual series of cultural events presented by the college. All events are free and open to the public. For further information call 230-4028.
