The Blue Pearl: A Research Report on Teaching Mindfulness Practices to College Students
Format:
Website
Publication Year:
2013
Publisher:
Center for Contemplative Mind in Society
Source ID:
shanti-sources-83356
Collection:
Contemplative Pedagogy in Higher Education
Abstract:
“The blue pearl” is how one of my students described the experience of developing mindfulness. She said that the ability “to draw inwards and be peaceful shows as a concentrated blue light in my brain.” In this webinar I describe the results of my research with undergraduate students on the efficacy of and their experiences with contemplative pedagogy. I teach first-year students both techniques of meditation and contemplative approaches to making art. My presentation will focus on conceptual issues raised by my formal human-subject research with students over three years, research that included qualitative feedback from them through narrative exercises and journals, a series of quantitative questionnaires about their experiences, and their own works of art.”