Mindfulness in the Academy Practices and Perspectives from Scholars [Hardcover]

This book focuses on the way academics understand, embrace and enact the concepts of mindfulness in approaching their work in demanding and dynamic contemporary higher education environments. It examines how they implement formal and informal mindfulness practices that increase the capacity to transform mind and body states by drawing on concepts such as compassion, kindness, gratitude, curiosity, self-awareness and non-judgemental stances. The book provides insights into and highlights the struggles of scholars through their experiences and perspectives in relation to their identities, practices and job enactment. Each chapter author explains their mindfulness practices and their motivations for implementing them, and explores how mindful ways of researching, writing, learning and teaching, leading, and engaging with others leads us to self-awareness and engagement in the present.
1 Mindfulness in the Academy: An examination of mindfulness perspectives.- Integrity, compassion, and care.- 2 Doormats & Boulders: Uncovering mindfulness traits and wise discernment during stressful experiences in the academy.- 3 Emerging into academic life: Masks of selves and mindful managing of anxiety and perfectionist performance.- Becoming, identity, and professional transitions.- 4 Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes: Changing institution, changing role, changing academic identity?.- 5 Mindful practice as professional identity work.- 6 Exploring mindfulness in teaching-learning scholarship through a reflective conversation.- Collegiality, collaboration and relationships.- 7 Trending to ourselves, tending to each other: Nurturing feminist friendships to manage academic lives.- 8 It's about fun stuff! Thinking about the writing process in different ways!.- 9 I'm not playing the academic hunger games: Self-awareness and mindful practices in approaching research collaborations.- Leadership, professional vulnerability and change.- 10 Ko wai au? Self-construction of leadership identity in l#+