Contemplative Practices And Acts Of Resistance In Higher Education Narratives Toward Wholeness

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. |Contemplative Practices and Acts of Resistance in Higher Education Narratives Toward Wholeness