Voices of Practice: Teaching Yoga, Sustainability, and Justice
Karen Gaul, The Evergreen State College
This webpage is an academic essay in a curriculum collection that explores a practice-based pedagogical model integrating yoga, sustainability, and social justice in higher education, detailing how contemplative practices like Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra and Gandhian principles foster embodied learning, emotional resilience, and ethical decision-making in students. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Environmental Trauma and Grief
Marie Eaton, Western Washington University
This essay explores the dimensions of environmental grief and trauma, and the strong emotions often raised in our classrooms as we and our students negotiate the dual strands of the despair and hope that are part of teaching and learning about Earth devastation. The essay examines the intersections and differences between this kind of grief and our more commonly understood kinds of bereavement, and draws on the significant work that has been done around how to manage grief in the arena of death and dying.

Minding Education's Business in an Evergreen Program: Reflections on Money's Value, Soul's Worth
Sarah Williams, The Evergreen State College; Jules Unsel, The Evergreen State College
An academic essay page from the Curriculum for the Bioregion project featuring a reflective, interdisciplinary analysis by Evergreen State College faculty on integrating cultural studies of business with sustainability education, exploring the tension between monetary value and intrinsic human worth through literary, historical, and neuroscientific lenses. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Why Sustainability Education Needs Pedagogies of Reflection and Contemplation
Marie Eaton, Western Washington University; Kate Davies, Antioch University McGregor; Sarah Williams, The Evergreen State College; Jean MacGregor, The Evergreen State College
This essay sets out a rationale and framework for pedagogies of reflective and contemplative practice and makes an argument for why they are critically important to sustainability education.

Bateson's Left Hand: What the Right Hand Can't Say about the Sacred
Elizabeth Sikes, Seattle University; Sarah Williams, The Evergreen State College
An analysis of why contemplative and religious practices don't map well onto quantitative paradigms of assessment.

Second Language Learning and Teaching and Reflective Practices
Peter Martin, Edmonds Community College
This academic essay page examines the underutilization of reflective and contemplative pedagogy in second language teaching despite its potential to enhance affective learning, offering examples of effective reflective practices within the context of sustainability and environmental science education. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Making Space for Mindful Practice in College Classrooms
R. Marie Romano, Western Washington University
Rationale and approach for initiating mindful practice in a college classroom.

The Practice of Inner Habitat Restoration: A Contemplative Approach To Sustainability Studies
Kurt Hoelting
This webpage is an academic essay within a sustainability education collection that advocates for integrating contemplative practices—such as silence and reflective awareness—into sustainability studies, drawing on the author's experience as a wilderness guide to promote ecological literacy and inner resilience amid environmental crisis. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Contemplation to Action: Role of Strategic Question Asking
Marie Eaton, Western Washington University
This educational essay page explores the integration of strategic questioning as a contemplative pedagogical tool to help students navigate complex sustainability challenges by fostering critical reflection, engaging multiple perspectives, and promoting systemic thinking in environmental science education. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.