Angel Acosta, Program Director at College for Every Student, shares some insight from his experience at ACEL and some of the ways he uses contemplative leadership in his own work.
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Diana Chapman Walsh, ACEL Core Faculty
Otto Scharmer, ACEL Core Faculty
Call to Care: Vietnam
Call to Care: Israel
Call to Care: Bhutan
Sharon Daloz Parks, ACEL Core Faculty
Concurrent Session 5 – Contemplative Initiatives for Business Education
To what extent can meditation and mindfulness help future business leaders cultivate authenticity, tolerance, and empathy, leading to a heightened sense of belongingness and responsibility to the communities in which they will live and work? Proceeding from this question, this presentation highlights the vital role contemplative practices have to play in equipping business students with …
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Concurrent Session 3 – Ideals of Human Being in Contemplative Philosophy and in U.S. Law
This presentation will bring the visions of human being promoted through the Mind & Life Institute and in various writings of the Dalai Lama into conversation with the ideals of human being promoted in U.S. law. Western philosophical traditions emphasizing human individuality and autonomy merged with chattel slavery during the formative years of the United …
Concurrent Session 2 – A Profile Is Not a Self: A Buddhist Critique of Privilege and Power in the Construction of Social Media Platforms
Taking as our starting point the appropriation of Buddhist principles such as “mindfulness” by Silicon Valley organizations, this paper outlines a normative framework for the critique of constructions of the self in online platforms, with a primary emphasis on Facebook. Through an analysis of public statements from CEO Mark Zuckerberg, we highlight tensions between the …
