Editors’ Blog
We’re always pleased to see collaboration among our mindful friends, and here’s one in the Boston area we thought you might like to know about. Our old friends Tami Ireland and Tara Healy, who head up the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care’s mindfulness initiative in Wellesley, have some interesting programs in the works with our new friend Ed Hauben, who runs the Newton Community Education’s (NCE) mindfulness program.
Ed is just about to launch his 6th four-week mindfulness series, this one titled Mindfulness: The Adventure of Living Well. The first time he ran this series was the most successful program NCE had ever experienced, and it continues to very popular. The program takes place on May 2, 9, 17 and 23 and is held at Newton South High School, 140 Brandeis Rd, Newton Center, MA, at 7 p.m.
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On Friday I attended the 10th Annual Center for Mindfulness Scientific Conference, with more than 400 MBSR and mindfulness teachers learning about the latest research confirming the beneficial impact of mindfulness practice. It continues to amaze me to see how the benefits of mindfulness continue to reach deep into every sector of our society.
Read more »Mindful publisher Jim Gimian and I were recently invited to take part in a special gathering of a group of people doing work in contemplative leadership that convenes periodically at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The group was the brainchild of Arthur Zajonc of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society (and now president of the Mind & Life Institute) and Jerry Murphy, a current faculty member in the grad school and a former dean.
Read more »Congratulations to our good friend and mindfulness teacher, Jeremy Hunter, who has just been appointed Professor of Practice at the Peter Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate School in California.
Jeremy has taught at the Drucker School for more than a decade—winning the most popular professor three times—and also presents leadership and mindfulness classes to business leaders through the Los Angeles area.
Read more »New York Times business writer Charles Duhigg recently mentioned in an interview that his next personal project is "being more present" with his kids.
Fresh Air's Terry Gross was interviewing Duhigg about his new book, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business. The book explores the science behind why habits exist and how they can be changed. (For more about the book, click here.) But what caught our attention was that, in the last four minutes of the interview, Gross asked Duhigg, "What habits are on your list to be broken?"—and here's what he answered:
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In this blog, the editor of Mindful, Barry Boyce, and the other editors who work on the site share their views and observations—and thoughts about what the future might bring.