Mindfulness 2020 Conference Topics
“Be Mindful, Teach Mindfully, Teach Mindfulness.“
1 CONTEXTUALIZING MINDFULNESS & PRACTISING MINDFULNESS
- Current interpretations of mindfulness
- Mindfulness, compassion, ethics and cultural intelligence in context and society
- Mindfulness as a tool for personal development and self-awareness
- Mindfulness in the digital age
- Mindfulness as a private vs. social or collective practice
- Autopilot vs. awareness
- Self-observation as a consequence of mindfulness training
- Critical comparisons of mindfulness practices
- Methodological issues in mindfulness, empathy and compassion research
- Meditation: theories and practices
- Selfness
- »Appreciative inquiry« technique
- Mindfulness WORKSHOPS, Meditation, Relaxation techniques.
2 COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE OF MINDFULNESS
- Mindfulness, cognition and consciousness
- Brain anatomy and brain function in relation to mindfulness
- Altering the brain with mindfulness
- Changes in conceptual systems (ways the brain process meaning)
- Metacognition, mindfulness and neuroscience
- Teaching with the brain in mind
- Mind wandering and the default mode network
- Decentering (realizing experientially that mental events are not facts)
- The relationship between neuroscience of mindfulness and mind-body / consciousness research
- Mindfulness and health care
- Practicing mindfulness for chronic pain relief
- Healthy living, healthy minds
3 MINDFULNESS IN THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT (Experiencing connection with nature and with true self)
- Natural environment teaching (interdisciplinary integration, projects, camps, nature schools)
- Promoting environmental protection in connection with the natural environment
- Creativity in the natural environment (artistic, musical, literary)
- Developing social skills in the natural environment
- Project learning and collaborative learning in a natural environment
- Relaxation exercises in the natural environment, meditation, yoga for children, …
- Activities for children with special needs (and with gifted ones) in the natural environment
- Benefits of connecting children with nature (in the kindergarten, primary school, secondary school, college)
4 MINDFULNESS IN EDUCATION & MODERN APPROACHES TO TEACHING USING MINDFULNESS
- The opportunities and challenges of mindfulness
- Building a mindful school
- Applications of mindfulness in education: research, issues, new directions
- Promoting social and emotional learning
- Applications of mindfulness in education
- The appropriateness of different mindfulness approaches for educational environments
- The experiences of mindfulness in schools from the perspective of students of different ages
- Implementation of mindfulness in interdisciplinary learning
- Mindfulness and multiculturalism
- Integration of mindfulness and loving kindness as a method of transformation
- Cultivating resilience
- Metacognition and attentional efficiency
- Compassion cultivation training
- The impact of mindfulness on the expression of creativity and innovation
- Mindfulness in school – psychology’s influencei
- Mindfulness for special-needs students
- Wellbeing of students and teachers
- Mindfulness training for educators
- Enhancing the social and emotional sensitivities of educators in the classroom
- Self-care
- Creative teaching methods
- Stimulating creative thinking and innovation in pupils and students
- Solving authentic problems by critical thinking
- Alternative teaching methods and knowledge evaluation by integrating mindfulness
- Team teaching and interdisciplinary cooperation
- International schools co-operation in designing joint projects and learning process
- Mindfulness and project work
- Handling difficult emotions
- Handling conflicts
- Boosting creativity
- Overcoming stress using affective skills
5 MINDFULNESS IN HEALTH CARE AND SOCIAL WORK
6 MINDFULNESS IN BUSINESS