{"id":6015,"date":"2015-03-04T15:22:18","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T20:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=6015"},"modified":"2015-03-04T15:22:18","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T20:22:18","slug":"contemplative-engagement-with-a-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/contemplative-engagement-with-a-text\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemplative Engagement with a Text"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Two years ago, we hosted a session on lectio divina<\/em><\/a> which married two prominent themes in CAT programming: our campus-wide initiative, \"Read Today Lead Tomorrow,\" and contemplative practice. The session was well-received but only hinted at the rich possibilities of contemplative reading, and some participants expressed a desire for more information.<\/p>\n

Therefore we are pleased to report that noted scholar Robert-Louis Abrahamson has published a guide on \"contemplative engagement with a text.\" This is not a technique per se<\/em>; it's more of an attitude. Nevertheless, Abrahamson does prescribe six steps in a clear pattern, with plenty of substantive advice for teachers. <\/p>\n

Download the PDF guide from this page.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two years ago, we hosted a session on lectio divina which married two prominent themes in CAT programming: our campus-wide initiative, \"Read Today Lead Tomorrow,\" and contemplative practice. The session was well-received but only hinted at the rich possibilities of contemplative reading, and some participants expressed a desire for more information. Therefore we are pleased ...continue reading \"Contemplative Engagement with a Text\"<\/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":[78,263,266],"class_list":{"0":"post-6015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-integrative","7":"tag-contemplative-pedagogy","8":"tag-reading","9":"tag-resources","10":"h-entry","11":"hentry","12":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-1z1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":757,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/beginning-with-silence\/","url_meta":{"origin":6015,"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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