Mindfulness and Radical Imagination
Mindfulness and creativity form a generative feedback loop, providing beneficent fuel for radical imagination toward collective liberation.
Entries by OPS
A Veteran’s Path to Connection, Meaning and Compassion through Mindfulness
Veteran and contemplative teacher Angela Caruso-Yahne shares their path towards connection, meaning and compassion through mindfulness
So You Should View This Fleeting World
How mindfulness and compassion helped me face a terrible tragedy, see the goodness in humanity, and appreciate the impermanence of this fleeting world
Exploring the Complementary Relationship Between MBSR and MSC
The research supported 8-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) programs teach complementary attitudes and skills for a more expansive sense of well-being
Resourcing Parents for Back to School Season with Fierce and Tender Self-Compassion
Alissa Keaton offers some ways that fierce and tender self-compassion can help resource parents for back to school season
Living Deliberately: Excerpts in Mindfulness from Walden
Shane Ledford explores how Henry David Thoreau’s Walden; or, Life in the Woods teaches us about mindfulness, interconnection and living deliberately
Mindfulness as Support for Growth After Trauma
Deah Robinson explores how mindfulness can help us open to life’s unavoidable challenges such as grief, trauma and loss, becoming an ally for post-traumatic growth
Mindfulness and Emotional Balance
Pam Hausner explores how mindfulness can give us the emotional balance we need to be resilient amidst the stress and challenges of life.
The Perfection of Gratitude and Joy
Tatiana Padron explores how gratitude and joy, cultivated through mindfulness, can help us let go of perfectionism so that we can live more authentically
Ferris Bueller’s Lessons on Mindfulness
Shane Ledford explores what the 37-year-old coming-of-age teen comedy, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, has to teach about being in the moment
Mindfulness Practices Can Shift Our Perspective from Perfectionism to Self-Acceptance and Self-Compassion
Jeanie Bunker explores how mindfulness and self-compassion can help transform culturally sanctioned perfectionism into a more balanced way of living
Mindful lessons from Star Wars: A New Hope
Shane Ledford shares mindful lessons that can be found in the movie Star Wars: A New Hope
A Hidden Curriculum: Conditioning in the Contemplative Classroom
On cultivating curiosity about conditioning and how it impacts our ways of being with ourselves, others, the world, and in our teaching of contemplative practices.
Another Near Enemy of Compassion: Firefighting
Firefighting makes a big splash, but doesn’t get to the root of the problem – and the long-term costs are high. Mindfulness and compassion can show us a better way.
The Transformational Power of Mindfulness Teacher Training
Angie Bahner shares how her mindfulness teacher training can help her develop a curriculum for learning about mindfulness and engaging in practices within the classroom
The Transformational Experience of Mindfulness Teacher Training
Jeanie Bunker discusses her passion for passing on her love of mindfulness to the next generation and being of service in her community
The Gifts of Everyday Mindfulness
On this day of giving thanks, I reflect on the everyday gifts of mindfulness in my own life and in the lives of all who practice and all those they touch
Meet the Teacher: Tobi Holloway
Meet our newest core teacher, Tobi Holloway, CMT-200, who is passionate about taking good care of ourselves, each other, and our planet.