Introduction: Towards Crafting Architectures to Nurture the
Educator’s Soul
Chapter One: Mindfulness and Mindful Alignment: A Life-Long
Professional Learning Process
Chapter Two: Wellbeing as Wholeness
Chapter Three: Positive Relationships
Chapter Four: Higher Purpose in Work and Strength-Based Living
Chapter Five: Job Crafting
Chapter Six: Mindful Awareness as a Foundation for Flourishing
Appendix
References
About the Authors
Sabre Cherkowski is associate professor and director of the Centre
for Mindful Engagement in the Faculty of Education at the
University of British Columbia.
Kelly Hanson is doctoral student at the University of British
Columbia.
Keith Walker is professor of educational leadership in the
Department of Educational Administration at the University of
Saskatchewan.
What makes this book exceptional is its focus on wholeness and
mindful alignment for individual, team, and organizational
learning. In enacting this holistic focus, the authors have
integrated two additional perspectives—the Intersubjective (how
people in groups understand each other) and Interobjective (how
people coexist with systems). The inclusion of all four
perspectives is essential in mapping out the complete
‘architecture’ of the context in which educators live and work.
This book will interest educators at the school system and
post-secondary level, as well as parents, who are curious about the
evolving educational context and the future role of
mindfulness.
*Veronika Bohac Clarke, University of Calgary*
These authors invite us to imagine workplaces in which we thrive
and that support the flourishing of the other adults and young
people who inhabit these school spaces with us. The wellbeing they
hope to bring about is about noticing, nurturing, and sustaining
human flourishing in schools by attending to positive emotions,
strong relationships, a felt sense of meaning and purpose, deep
engagement, and the satisfaction that comes with achievement.
Throughout the book, they offer powerful images and enticing
visions of supportive and collaborative workplaces filled with
laughter, fun, and joy. Reading this book will inspire educators to
reconnect with their own thriving as well as what they can do,
individually and collectively, to support the thriving of all who
inhabit schools.
*Megan Tschannen-Moran, College of William and Mary*
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