IMPACT! Service, Contemplation and Social Justice
Guide to library research for Service Learning 192: Service Learning Residential Academic Program
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Curriculum for the Bioregion
An array of faculty communities
A collection of classroom activities (e.g. labs, assignments, syllabi) that engage students with concepts of sustainability as well as real issues in their bioregions and beyond.
Tools such as working principles related to fostering student understanding and agency in the context of direct encounters with regional issues.
Curriculum integration approach with links to cornerstone concepts and skills in academic and professional disciplines with critically important sustainability learning outcomes.
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Instructional Websites
- Contemplative Practices for Anti-Oppression PedagogyResources for teaching structural analysis of systems of oppression, while using contemplative practices cultivate an embodied self-awareness.
- Guided Meditations and TeachingsOffers several guided meditations and teachings (in the form of free audio downloads) from Dr. Mark Hart, Buddhist adviser at Amherst College. Although Buddhist in nature, these meditations will be helpful to anyone who is trying to learn to meditate, or to go deeper in an existing meditation practice.
- How To MeditateProvides some core insights on meditation from a Buddhist perspective, focusing on Breathing and Loving Kindness meditations. Also provides short videos on meditation and its benefits.
- MindUpResearch-based training program for educators and children. Offers 15 lessons based in neuroscience. Students learn to self-regulate behavior and mindfully engage in focused concentration required for academic success. MindUP™ lessons align with all state standards including Common Core and support improved academic performance while enhancing perspective taking, empathy and kindness as well as fostering complex problem solving skills.
- Search Inside YourselfGlobally-recognized program & network that provides evidence-based practices to grow in self-mastery. Bridges age-old practices of mind training with modern neuroscience and technology to help people in organizations bring out the best in themselves, from the inside out.
- The Institute for Mindful LeadershipOffers retreats and courses that explore mindful leadership training as a way to strengthen and cultivate four hallmarks of leadership excellence - focus, clarity, creativity and compassion.
- The Tree of Contemplative PracticesVisualization with contemplative practices ranging from meditation to physical movement (such as yoga, dance, or Aikido) to artistic/creative expression (such as music, singing, journaling), to political activism and volunteerism
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