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JON KABAT-ZINN VISITS OXFORD
Posted 16/11/10 to Association for Mindfulness in Education (AME)
Last week Jon Kabat-Zinn held a giant fireside chat in Oxford and recounted his remarkable Mindfulness story, which many of you will know*. Hosted by Mark Williams, one of the inventors of Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), 700 people turned out on a dark night. Why?
Mindfulness is not 'much ado about nothing', there is a 'yearning to come into deep connection with ourselves', he said. Calling the subject 'awarenessing — he regrets that 'what we most need doesn't often happen in higher education'. However, Mindfulness may be 'moving the bellcurve of society away from the homo sapiens sapiens default mode' of greed, hatred and delusion, though he works on a thousand year view!
Research papers on Mindfulness are soaring, and funding too. MBCT is being used in the UK's National Health Service. We need to pour energy into Mindfulness in education. He says this would be a 'radical act of compassion — trust it, see where it leads — we so devalue awareness compared to thinking'.
It was a heartening occasion.
Carol (www.mindfulnessforschools.com)
*Quote: 'I thought I'd died and gone to heaven' At the first scientific gathering — in 2004 in the US — of neuroscientists, psychologists, the Dalai Lama and eminent Buddhist thinkers.
Thank you for this account of the event. I found it to be a very moving experience.
Barbara
Carol has described Jon Kabat-Zinn's talk at Oxford-perfectly.He was inspiring .
Kathy
Thank you so much for posting this on the google group website. I couldn't get to the talk for various reasons but along with many others, I am Passionate about bringing Mindfulness into education.
Lynne
So sad not to have known about this event would have LOVED to have been there.
Sally
Thanks for sending around the message about JKZ in Oxford
Tamara
Talking about mindfulness in education, the Mindfulness in Schools Project is hosting a National Conference on Mindfulness in Schools on 12 March 2011 at Tonbridge school. It was developed in collaboration with the Oxford Mindfulness Centre (who hosted the Jon kabat-Zinn event) and the Well-being Institute of Cambridge University. Here's the link: http://mindfulnessinschools.org/component/seminar/?task=3&cid=4
Bernadette
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