Retreats for Academics
November 11 – 14, 2010
The Garrison Institute
Garrison, NY
Cost: $600 single room; $450 double room; $350 double room with scholarship (a limited amount of financial assistance is available)
Educators report that deepening their own contemplative practice leads to more successful teaching and helps them design courses with a contemplative component.
Our retreats offer instruction in a variety of contemplative practices, including contemplative methods adapted for the classroom. These practices cultivate capacities central to teaching and learning--focused attention, kindness and compassion, and contemplative inquiry--and our retreats include discussions about the relationship of the contemplative perspective to teaching, learning, and knowing. Much of the time is spent in silence, including some silent meals. Our retreats are designed to appeal to participants with a wide range of experience in contemplative practice, from beginners to seasoned practitioners.
Retreat Faculty
Mirabai Bush
Associate Director & Senior Fellow, The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society
Sunanda Markus
Academic Program Coordinator, The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society
Arthur Zajonc
Director, The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society
Professor of Physics, Amherst College
For more information on our Academic Retreats, check out our report on the 2009 retreat at the Marconi Conference Center in Marshall, CA.
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Our past retreats:
November 12 - 15, 2009
Marconi Conference Center, Marshall, CA
November 13 - 16, 2008
Menla Mountain Retreat Center, Phoenicia, NY
March 6 - 9, 2008
Menla Mountain Retreat Center, Phoenicia, NY
November 1 - 4, 2007
Trinity Conference Center, West Cornwall, CT