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So beginning March 1st, you can order your tickets here, and box office tickets will go on sale beginning March 17th.

 

 

Below you'll find a brochure with an overview of the event as well as a draft of the schedule of activities.

 

The event is open to faculty, students, staff, and others interested in contemplative practices in higher education.

 

Thanks to those of you who have already registered.

 

If you have any questions, please let Rick Chess or any of the other Mindful Campus planners know.

 

 

Creating a Mindful Campus: Adjusting Our Default Settings

March 21 – 22, 2014

DRAFT

Additional Details Coming/Subject to Change

 

Pre-Retreat Events

Thursday, March 20, 7:30 p.m.

“Shabbat, Digital Culture, and the Politics of Rest,” David Levy

                  Sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies at UNC Asheville

                  Friday, March 21, 2013

2:00 – 4:00 p.m.: Contemplative Practices in the Classroom 101

Participants will share classroom practices with each other. Whatever your level of experience, you are invited to these sessions to share and/or receive practical suggestions for ways to incorporate contemplative exercises in higher education and other educational settings.

Creating A Mindful Campus: Adjusting Our Default Settings
Retreat/Conference Begins

4:00 – 5:00: Registration and Welcome Reception

                  5:00 – 6:00: Opening Circle

6:15 – 7:30: No Time to Think: Balance, Technology and Academic Life, David Levy

Today we have the most powerful tools for teaching, scholarship, and learning the world has ever known, yet we have no time to think—no time for reading, writing, and reflecting. In this presentation, Dr. Levy will first describe the historical and technological conditions that have brought about this condition and will then discuss work that aims to address it by restoring “contemplative balance.”

Saturday, March 22

                  8 – 9: Yoga Led by Kelsey Ambruster, Innercise Yoga       

9:15 – 10 a.m.: Meditation

                  10:15 – 11:45 a.m.: Conversation on the Digital Life of the University in Four Rounds

Round 1: In what ways has digital technology changed the work life of the university? (This might include teaching, scholarship, student services, facilities management, administration, and other areas of university life.)

 

Round 2: In what ways has digital technology changed the quiet, or reflective, life of the

university?

 

Round 3: In what ways has digital technology changed the social life of the university?

 

Round 4: In what ways has digital technology changed the disciplinary life of the university? (This might include both scholarship as well as the notion of interdisciplinarity, softening or hardening boundaries, enhancing or hindering the output of particular sorts of knowledge).
 

                  12:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.: Catered Lunch

                  1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.: UNC Asheville Students Describe and Reflect on Their Experiences of
                                                      Contemplative Practices As Part of Their Education

2:15 – 3:15 p.m.: Student Centered and Led Conversations on Contemplative Practices and the
                                                      Digital Life of the University (World Café style)

 

3:30 – 4:00: Meditations, Several Options

                  4:15 – 5:15: Mindful Tech: Learning to Use Our Digital Tools More Attentively and with Less
                                                      Stress, David Levy

In this presentation, a continuation of my Friday evening lecture, Dr. Levy will talk in detail about the course he has created, called “Information and Contemplation,” and will describe some of the contemplative exercises he has created that allow students to make powerful discoveries about their relationship to their digital tools and to make healthy and effective changes.

                  5:15 – 5:30: Meditation                 

5:30 – 6:15: Closing Circle