ABSTRACT

Mindfulness-Based Teaching and Learning is the first comprehensive survey text exploring the history, research, theory, and best practices of secular-scientific mindfulness. With a focus on how mindfulness is taught and learned, this book is an invaluable resource for aspiring or expert mindfulness specialists. Integrating and defining the emerging field of MBTL within a common purpose, evidence-base, and set of transprofessional—and transformational—practices, the book provides both a visionary agenda and highly practical techniques and tools. Chapters provide curriculum design and teaching tips, explore the expert-validated MBTL-TCF competency framework, and reveal insights into the ways self-awareness can evolve into ecological awareness through intensive retreats.

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

part Section I|42 pages

Histories

chapter Chapter 1|12 pages

How We Got Here

From Traditional to Secular-Scientific Mindfulness

chapter Chapter 2|17 pages

Where We Are Now

Secular-Scientific Mindfulness and the Malaise of Modernity

chapter Chapter 3|11 pages

What Happened

The Mainstreaming of Mindfulness

part Section II|100 pages

Contexts

chapter Chapter 4|10 pages

Community and Continuing Education

Beyond Institutional Constraints

chapter Chapter 5|16 pages

Healthcare

The Medicalization of Mindfulness

chapter Chapter 6|22 pages

Higher Education

From Contemplative Studies to “Student Success”

chapter Chapter 7|29 pages

PreK-12 Education

Where Social-Emotional and Inquiry-Based Learning Intersect

chapter Chapter 8|21 pages

Workplace and Organizational Contexts

part Section III|60 pages

Theories

chapter Chapter 10|22 pages

Cognitive Processing Theories

chapter Chapter 11|16 pages

Buddhist Theories of Mindfulness and Learning

part Section IV|56 pages

Practices

chapter Chapter 12|20 pages

Mindfulness as Body-Mind Communication

chapter Chapter 13|17 pages

Mindfulness as Social-Emotional Learning

chapter Chapter 14|17 pages

Mindfulness as Inquiry-Based Learning

part Section V|58 pages

Methods – What We Do

chapter Chapter 15|18 pages

Transprofessional Competencies for MBTL Specialists

The MBTL-TCF

chapter Chapter 16|17 pages

Curriculum Design for MBTL Specialists

chapter Chapter 17|21 pages

Trauma-Informed Practice in MBTL

part Section VI|26 pages

Limits – What We Don't See

chapter Chapter 18|7 pages

The Limits of Professionalism

Navigating the Wilds of the (Post)Modern

chapter Chapter 19|17 pages

From Self-Awareness to Ecological Awareness

Mindful Encounters with Wildlife during Intensive Silent Retreats