the MINDFUL SOCIETY

From health care to education, music to law, police work to the environment, we have the latest developments on how people are working to move our society in the direction of greater mindfulness, awareness, and caring for each other.

Charles Halpern on the formation of the Berkeley Initiative for Mindfulness in Law—Berkeley being the first U.S. law school with a full mindfulness curriculum. 

What can meditation do for soldiers? Elizabeth Stanley in conversation with Congressman Tim Ryan.

Looking for a late-night snack, the young Martin Luther King, Jr., discovers instead the truth of interdependence.

Mindfulness is making its way into our schools. But is it an add-on or integral to education?

Through the practice of compassion meditation, Rosalind Harris transformed the grief of her son’s murder into solidarity and friendship with all young African-Americans, whose lives, marked by violence and oppression, are a national tragedy and shame.