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 transprofessionaland transformationalpractices, 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.
Section
1. Histories - Why MBTL: From Mindfulness to Mindfulness-Based
Teaching and Learning
1. How We Got Here: From Traditional to
Secular-Scientific Mindfulness
2. Where We Are Now: Secular-Scientific
Mindfulness and the Malaise of Modernity
3. What Happened: The Mainstreaming
of Mindfulness Section
2. - Contexts - Where We Teach: MBTL in Institutional
Contexts
4. Community and Continuing Education: Beyond Institutional
Constraints
5. Healthcare: The Medicalization of Mindfulness
6. Higher
Education: From Contemplative Studies to "Student Success"
7. PreK-12
Education: Where Social-Emotional and Inquiry-Based Learning Intersect
8.
Workplace and Organizational Contexts Section
3. Theories - Why Mindfulness
Works: Theories Informing MBTL
9. Biological Theories of Embodied Cognition
and Mindfulness
10. Cognitive Processing Theories
11. Buddhist Theories of
Mindfulness and Learning Section
4. Practices - What We Teach: The What, Why,
and How of MBTL
12. Mindfulness as Body-Mind Communication
13. Mindfulness as
Social-Emotional Learning
14. Mindfulness as Inquiry-Based Learning Section
5. Methods - What We Do: Competencies and Professional Practice in MBTL
15.
Transprofessional Competencies for MBTL Specialists: The MBTL-TCF
16.
Curriculum Design for MBTL Specialists
17. Trauma-Informed Practice in MBTL
Section
6. Limits - What We Don't See: The Post-Modern Frontier of MBTL
18.
The Limits of Professionalism: Navigating the Wilds of the (Post)Modern
19.
From Self-Awareness to Ecological Awareness: Mindful Encounters with Wildlife
During Intensive Silent Retreats
Seonaigh MacPherson, PhD, is a professor in the Faculty of Education and Community Development at the University of the Fraser Valley, where she is founder and coordinator of the MBTL graduate certificate program. A certified MBSR and MBCT teacher, she lives in British Columbia, Canada.
Patricia Rockman, MD, is an associate professor at the University of Toronto Department of Family Medicine, where she is cross-appointed to psychiatry. She is co-founder of the Centre for Mindfulness Studies in Toronto where she teaches MBSR, MBCT, and mindfulness-certification programs.
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