TY - GEN digital ID - 131671317 TI - Mindfulness in the Academy : Practices and Perspectives from Scholars AU - Lemon, Narelle AU - McDonough, Sharon PY - 2018 SN - 9789811321436 PB - Singapore Springer Singapore, Imprint: Springer DB - UniCat KW - Psychology KW - Educational psychology KW - Didactics KW - Higher education KW - Psychiatry KW - Organization theory KW - HO (hoger onderwijs) KW - organisatiemanagement KW - pedagogische psychologie KW - toegepaste psychologie KW - mindfulness KW - didactiek KW - psychotherapie KW - leidinggeven KW - counseling KW - administratie UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131671317 AB - 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. ER -