Contemplative Practices and Acts of Resistance in Higher Education (eBook, ePUB)

Narratives Toward Wholeness
Redaktion: Chatman, Michelle C.; Robinson-Morris, David W.; Costa, Leeray

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The contributors to this volume - educators, student affairs practitioners, and higher education staff - heartfully share a broad range of contemplative practices and acts of resistance used within the confines of shattered systems and institutions for themselves, their colleagues, and their students. The narratives in this volume broadly imagine, inspire, recount, and guide readers toward the fullness of their humanity and wholeness within institutions of higher education. At the same time, these accounts navigate the operational realities of daunting demands on the mind, body, and spirit, the growing turbulence of working on higher education campuses across the country, and a sense of urgency toward collective life affirmation within modern higher education institutions. Each chapter features critical framing of a concept, personal stories of this concept in action, and descriptions of contemplative practices for readers to use in their own contexts. Together, chapter authors demonstrate what it means to be a contemplative practitioner attentive to issues of power, racism, and marginalization in higher education today. With a deep breath and mindful awareness, this book invites faculty and staff at colleges and universities on a transformational journey with the contributors toward fullness in pursuit of becoming whole and inspiring change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040193167
• Artikelnr.: 72337304

Autorenporträt

Michelle C. Chatman is Associate Professor of Crime, Justice, and Security Studies, Director of the Violence Prevention and Community Wellness Program, and Founding Director of the Mindfulness and Courageous Action (MICA) Lab at the University of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC. LeeRay Costa is Executive Director of Leadership Studies and the Batten Leadership Institute, and Professor of Gender and Women's Studies/Anthropology at Hollins University, Roanoke, VA. David W. Robinson-Morris is former Executive Director of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society (CMind), the Founder of The REImaginelution, and inaugural Executive Director of the Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Contemplative Practice is an Act of Resistance Part 1:
Ever Present and Interconnected: Symphonic Journeys, Rooted Practices 2.
Teaching Best What You Most Want to Learn: The Way of the Crows 3.
Unsettling the Colonial Shadows of Contemplative Practice 4. Cajitas as My
Contemplative Practice 5. Contemplative Practices through a Black Feminist
Lens: Badassery, For Real Love and Fellowship 6. Deepening Belonging: A
Contemplative Practice of Relational Flourishing 7. Reflections Beyond
Fragmentation: A Fractal Reconfiguration Part 2: Conjuring Transformation:
We Who-Know-Know 8. Revealing Healing, Wholeness, and Power: Sitting Zazen
9. From Body Oppression to Body Sovereignty Through Contact Improvisation
10. From Practice to Purpose: Contemplative Dance as a Method for Moving
through Resistance 11. Creative Envisioning: A Contemplative Practice that
Promotes Healing, Personal Growth, and Professional Development 12. On
being (a) contemplative in higher education: 'moving' through familiar and
unfamiliar spaces 13. Conjuring Transformation: The Magic is in the Process
Part 3: Pause 14. Cool Like Jazz: A Loving Dialogue on the Multiplicity of
Black Manhood Part 4: Rhizomatic Awakenings, New Plateaus: Rhizomes,
Connection, Ruptures, and Lines of Flight David W. Robinson-Morris 15.
Showing up Audacious and Bad Ass from the Edges & On the Margins Like My
Ancestors Phyllis M. Jeffers-Coly 16. Our Skins are Membranes, Not Walls: A
Multiracial Feminist Conversation 17. Dancing Barefoot in the
University: From Burnout to Radical Presence 18. Alongside Aaron 19. My
Rhizomatic Awakening Part 5: Liberatory Relationality: Cultivating
Collective Compassion 20. Cultivating Belonging: Compassionate Practice and
Pedagogy 21. Beloved Community as Practice: Grounding Exercises, Care
Teams, and Redefining Success 22. Why am I talking? Disrupting Dominant
Narratives in Higher Education 23. Contemplative Emergence: How My
Contemplative Practices Have Supported Transformative Change in a Higher
Education Space 24. Enacting an Indigenous Decolonial Contemplative
Mentorship in Higher Education: Meditations on the Legacy of Plenty Fox 25.
Contemplative Resistance Amidst the Fires of Global Suffering 26.
Afterword: A Ritual for Resisting