Prof. Katherine Weare explores some key learning about cultivating mindfulness in education, including the messy challenges and joys helping ‘fix it’ educators begin with themselves, and to see the links between inner work and the system change they rightly demand. Prof. Katherine Weare is internationally known for her varied work on mindfulness and contemplative approaches in education, including recently heading up two policy major networks, keeping a handle on the empirical evidence base, writing an inspirational book with Thich Nhat Hanh and teaching mindfulness to local secondary school teachers.
This talk took place over Zoom at the Virtual Festival of the Middle Way on 19th April 2020, and is followed by questions from the audience.
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Q&A Session with Iain McGilchrist
This 30 minute question and answer session with an audience over Zoom followed a screening of the film about Iain McGilchrist, ‘The Divided Brain’. This took place at the Virtual Festival of the Middle Way, on 18th April 2020.
Brain Lateralisation and the Middle Way – Iain McGilchrist
Iain McGilchrist explains the difference between the capacity of the two hemispheres to understand what is meant by the Middle Way. Lack of awareness of this fact explains some apparently paradoxical’ aspects of experience. This talk was given over Zoom at the Virtual Festival of the Middle Way on 19th April 2020, and is followed by questions from the audience.
Meditation Session with Vishvapani
This meditation session was led over Zoom by Buddhist mindfulness teacher and author Vishvapani Blomfield at the Virtual Festival of the Middle Way, on 19th April 2020.
Arts Symposium: Iain McGilchrist and Stephen Batchelor
Iain McGilchrist, author of ‘The Master and his Emissary’, and Stephen Batchelor, author of books on secular Buddhism, draw on their personal experiences of appreciating and practising the arts to discuss the ways in which they can contribute to our inspiration and development. Both they and some members of the audience share some moving examples of moments of inspiration from the arts. This video was recorded on Zoom at the Virtual Festival of the Middle Way, 18th-19th April 2020. The chair is Robert M. Ellis.