Teaching Centers with CP Resources/Programming

• University of Virginia, Teaching Resource Center
• Vanderbilt University, Center for Teaching
• Brown University, Sheridan Center
• Columbia University, Center for Teaching and Learning
• Montclair State University, Research Academy for University Learning
• Iowa State University, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
• University of Arizona, Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry and the Office of Instruction and Assessment, Contemplative Pedagogy: A Faculty/Professional Learning Community
• Wake Forest University, The Teaching and Learning Center

Contemplative Pedagogy Syllabus Archive

• Center for the Contemplative Mind

Classroom Exercises

• "Leading a Centering Breath," by Sarah Berquist (UMass Stockbridge School of Agriculture)
• “Contemplative Exercises,” by Hal Roth and Tori Smith, Brown University
• "Contemplative Practices for Anti-Oppression Pedagogy," collected by Beth Berila, St. Cloud State University
• “Fostering Attention,” by Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching (video)

Books

• Contemplative Practices in Higher Education, by Daniel Barbezat and Mirabai Bush
• Contemplative Studies in Higher Education: New Directions for Teaching and Learning, by Linda Sanders
• The Heart of Higher Education: A Call to Renewal, by Parker J. Palmer, Arthur Zajonc, and Megan Scribner
• Meditation and the Classroom: Contemplative Pedagogy for Religious Studies, by Judith Simmer-Brown and Fran Grace
• Meditation as Contemplative Inquiry: When Knowing Becomes Love, by Arthur Zajonc
• Teaching Mindfulness: a Practical Guide for Clinicians and Educators, by Donald McCown, Diane Reibel, and Marc S. Micozzi
• Mindfulness for Young Adults: Tools to Thrive in School and Life, by Linda Yaron Weston
• Contemplative Learning & Inquiry Across Disciplines, by Olen Gunnlaugson, Edward W. Sarath, and Charles Scott

Webinars

• The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society maintains an archive of webinars on contemplative pedagogy, with focus on social justice, legal education as multicultural inquiry, the neuroscience of somatic attention, contemplative pedagogies and geosciences, the science of meditation, and more.

Journals

• The Journal of Contemplative Inquiry
• Religious Studies News (The June 2019 issue has a spotlight on teaching, with articles on topics ranging from contemplative reading to technology to critical thinking to not using contemplation in the classroom.)

Articles/Blogs/Papers

• "Bringing Mindfulness to Higher Education," by Olga Gershenson, UMass Amherst
• "Mindfulness in Class and Life: Mental Health and Emotional Resilience Alongside Academic Studies," by Linda Yaron Weston
• "Toward the Integration of Meditation in Higher Education: A Review of Research," Shauna L. Shapiro, Kirk Warren Brown, John A. Astin, Center for the Contemplative Mind in Society
• “Contemplative Education: a Systematic, Evidence-based Review of the Effect of Meditation Interventions in Schools,” by Lea Waters et al. Educational Psychology Review, 103-134
• “Contemplative Practices in Higher Education: the Hard Task of Not Doing,” by Robert Chmielewski
• “The Mindful PhD,” Nancy Chick
• “Reason in the Service of the Heart: The Impacts of Contemplative Practices on Critical Thinking,” by David Sable, The Journal of Contemplative Inquiry, 1(1), 1-22
• "Student Voices: The Intersection of Mindfulness, Mental Health, and Social Justice in the Classroom," by Linda Yaron Weston
• "12 Principles of Mindful Learning," by Linda Yaron Weston

Research

• Brown University Contemplative Studies
• UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center

Higher Education Meditation Resources

• UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center
• Center for Contemplative Mind in Society