Introduction to Mindfulness for Critical Educators

Description Formula Guidelines: Mindfulness has gained popularity in education spaces for the past three decades, with a particular increase during the Covid-19 pandemic highlighting schools’ impact on students’ physical and mental health. At the same time, educators are dealing with increasing pressures due to the ever-changing social and political climate and its impact on the education system. Most mindfulness in schools promote individual self-care practices, while largely ignoring the social context that creates the need for such practices. This course is an introduction to both mindfulness and critical pedagogy, the latter of which seeks to critique and transform the unequal social power dynamics that are reflected in schools. This course provides those who are interested in learning about mindfulness and critical pedagogy with the tools and techniques to support a mindfulness practice that can be applied both personally and professionally for the purpose of personal and social change. This course is for “educators,” though that term can be applied to educators in the school, community, or home.