This handbook explores the multifaceted ethical dimensions of mindfulness, from early Buddhist sources to present-day Western interpretations of mindfulness.
The Greater Good Education Program uses a variety of methods to help education professionals understand the science behind social-emotional learning, mindfulness, ethical development, mindsets, purpose, and related topics then apply those insights to their schools, classrooms, and other educational settings.
The Handbook of Ethical Foundations of Mindfulness is a must-have resource for researchers, clinicians/professionals, and graduate students in psychology, complementary and alternative medicine, and social work as well as occupational and rehabilitation therapy, nursing, philosophy, business management, and teachers of Buddhism and meditation.
It takes a modern ethical approach to the study of mindfulness, and traces contemporary mindfulness practice from solitary journey to the global whole.
Without a strong ethical context (in Buddhism, "right mindfulness" is only one element of the eight-fold path), motivation for practice could easily become small-minded.
Thay created the Engaged Buddhism movement, which promotes the individual's active role in creating change, and his mindfulness training – an ethical roadmap – calls on practitioners to boycott products that damage the environment and to confront social injustice.
They also suggest mindfulness increases compassion and ethical decision-making, to the benefit of entrepreneurs and their customers and employees.
Understand and practice how to view education through the lens of "prosocial human development", including social-emotional learning, mindfulness, identity, purpose, mindset, and ethical development.
Understand and practice how to view education through the lens of prosocial human development, including social-emotional learning, mindfulness, identity, purpose, mindset, and ethical development.
