Mindfulness in Education: What is it about and what can we expect of it?
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November 13, 2018
Location: The Innovation Centre
Address: 460 Doyle Avenue Kelowna, BC V1Y 0A2
Time: 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Mindfulness in Education: What is it about and what can we expect of it?
In this introductory talk, Dr. Ergas will describe the field of mindfulness in Education as it has been developing in the past fifteen years. The talk will include the presentation of a framework for understanding what mindfulness and other contemplative practices can offer contemporary education when we conceive of them in both narrow and broad terms. Dr. Ergas will present examples from his work in implementing mindfulness with teachers and higher education students, showing the limits, the challenges and the potentials of mindfulness in engendering well-being and personal transformation.
Oren Ergas (Ph.D.) is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Education, Beit Berl College, Kfar Saba, Israel and a teaching fellow at the School of Education, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
The Innovation Centre 460 Doyle Avenue Kelowna, BC V1Y 0A2
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In this introductory talk, Dr. Ergas will describe the field of mindfulness in Education as it has been developing in the past fifteen years. The talk will include the presentation of a framework for understanding what mindfulness and other contemplative practices can offer contemporary education when we conceive of them in both narrow and broad terms. Dr. Ergas will present examples from his work in implementing mindfulness with teachers and higher education students, showing the limits, the challenges and the potentials of mindfulness in engendering well-being and personal transformation.
Oren Ergas (Ph.D.) is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Education, Beit Berl College, Kfar Saba, Israel and a teaching fellow at the School of Education, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.