{"id":2386,"date":"2013-11-07T16:16:27","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T21:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=2386"},"modified":"2013-11-07T16:16:27","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T21:16:27","slug":"a-series-of-essays-on-contemplative-faculty-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/a-series-of-essays-on-contemplative-faculty-development\/","title":{"rendered":"A Series of Essays on Contemplative Faculty Development"},"content":{"rendered":"

I've just finished up a series of six essays for College Contemplative<\/a> on the topic of \"Contemplative Faculty Development.\"<\/p>\n

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  1. Greetings & Introduction<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. My Story<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Stepping into Silence<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. The Transformative Banquet<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Sustaining the Dialog<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. What's Next<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Read at your own risk; I apologize in advance for the length. Now I'm off to the Fifth Annual Conference of the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education<\/a> to present on this same topic. Catch you on the flipside! And please don't miss our Nov. 14th workshop<\/a> on Zen meditation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I've just finished up a series of six essays for College Contemplative on the topic of \"Contemplative Faculty Development.\" Greetings & Introduction My Story Stepping into Silence The Transformative Banquet Sustaining the Dialog What's Next Read at your own risk; I apologize in advance for the length. Now I'm off to the Fifth Annual Conference ...continue reading \"A Series of Essays on Contemplative Faculty Development\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[75,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-2386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-integrative","7":"tag-contemplation","8":"tag-faculty-development","9":"h-entry","10":"hentry","11":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-Cu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":757,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/beginning-with-silence\/","url_meta":{"origin":2386,"position":0},"title":"Beginning with Silence","author":"Bart Everson","date":"September 5, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Earlier this semester, after eleven years working in faculty development, I led my first session that didn't have anything to do with technology. 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