Faculty Engagement

Research & Scholarship Faculty Community
Meets once a month to set our individual or collective research project goals, read and discuss core studies in the field, and read/comment upon each other’s drafts for conference presentation and/or publication.

CONSULTATIONS

All UVA faculty and instructors invited to meet one-on-one with one of our seasoned staff to consider ways to bring contemplative approaches into your teaching, scholarship, or personal life. Format varies depending on faculty need.

CONTEMPLATIVE INSTITUTE FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING

Building capacities for awareness, connection, and values-aligned education 

This annual Institute on UVA Grounds is open to faculty from all UVA schools, career stages, and backgrounds. It's designed to connect and support faculty who want to embrace a more holistic approach to teaching and learning that fosters student flourishing, personal renewal, and systems change. 

The Institute’s curriculum is grounded in inquiry, awareness of self, and connection to others. Through practices, discussion, and interactive exercises, participants will explore and reconnect with the values and passions that brought them to their disciplines and to teaching. Participants will develop and share concrete strategies for integrating contemplative inquiry into the design or re-design of a course or assignment to support critical thinking, foster creative expression, and deepen students’ connections with the material and one another. The Institute may also help prepare instructors to facilitate profoundly active, contemplative, and experiential learning in the class lab spaces of the Contemplative Commons, which is slated to open in 2023.

Prior experience with contemplative practice and/or pedagogy is not required but welcomed. Following the Institute participants will have the option to participate in a year-long Community of Practice during the academic year.