This summer energize your teaching about environmental affairs!CONTEMPLATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: Pedagogy For Self and PlanetA workshop/retreat for professors July 28 - August 3, 2013Lama Foundation, San Cristobal, New MexicoWORKSHOP OVERVIEW:* How can higher education best address global environmental challenges?* How can we most meaningfully teach and research about environmental issues?* How can we cultivate our inner lives through active engagement with environmental challenges?This workshop explores the contribution of contemplative practices to scholarly inquiry and teaching in environmental studies. Through discussions with distinguished scholars, focused conversations among colleagues, artistic exercises, and regular contemplative practice (e.g. meditation, journaling, and nature walks), participants will investigate ways to deepen their teaching, research, and lives at this historic moment of environmental intensification.Part workshop and part retreat, this 6-day summer institute provides an opportunity to step back from the frenetic pace of our lives, and cultivate our inner resources and nurture the resiliency we need as teachers committed to education on a fragile and wild planet.The Summer Institute is co-sponsored by the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society and is supported by the Global Environmental Politics (GEP) Program in the School of International Service at American University, Washington DC.LEARN MORE & APPLY:SETTINGThe Institute will take place at the Lama Foundation in the mountains of northern New Mexico. Lama is a beautiful, off-grid community committed to sustainable and mindful living. It sits on 100 acres surrounded by National Forest land and draws its power from the sun, water from a spring, and much of its food in the summer directly from the garden. At 8500 feet, it provides an ideal setting for reflection and engagement with contemplative environmental issues.FACULTY* Daniel Barbezat, Professor of Economics, Amherst College, and Director of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society.* Matthew Jelacic, Assistant Professor of Environmental Design, University of Colorado Boulder.* Nicole Salimbene, visual artist whose work explores themes of sustainability, political voice, and devotion, and leader of workshops that use art to deepen political and vocational engagement.* Paul Wapner, Professor of Global Environmental Politics in the School of International Service at American University and author of Living Through the End of Nature and Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics.* Jeff Warren, meditation instructor, journalist, and author of The Head Trip: Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness.COST:$950 (includes all meals, workshop fee, and workshop materials)QUESTIONS?Visit the CES website:or email Paul Wapner at pwapner@american. edu
Professor Paul Wapner
Global Environmental Politics Program
School of International Service
American University
4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington DC 20016
(202) 885-1647
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