The Contemplative Sciences Center is co-sponsoring two talks with the Center for Teaching and Excellence facilitated by Professor Donata Schoeller entitled "Thinking-at-the-Edge," one for graduate students and one for faculty. 

"Introduction to Thinking-at-the-Edge for Faculty" addresses the dual role faculty inhabit as researchers and teachers.

The presentation leverages the power of reflective listening for exploring questions that deeply matter to us or intuitions we may not know how to formulate adequately.

Participants will be introduced to tools for establishing a generous space to deeply and playfully harness the richness of their “felt sense” and for supporting each other in holding the red thread of one’s thinking. Over time, TAE movements will widen practitioners’ conceptual and learned frameworks of thinking and lead to surprising moments of insight that can transform the way you research and relate.

Benefits of this method include:

• Greater patience with oneself and others when thinking;
• Increased aptitude of productively engaging with ambiguity and complexity;
• Greater skills in listening to oneself and others; and
• Confidence to find the words to say what really matters

Register and learn more: https://cte.virginia.edu/events/introduction-to-thinking-at-the-edge-1

You can find the graduate talk here: "Introduction to Thinking at the Edge for Graduate Students"