CSC: What If We Learned Contemplation Like We do Arts or Sports?

As with football or violin practice, young people could gain versatile life skills through routine contemplative training. CSC's Director of Research Michael Sheehy examines teaching contemplation in the classroom in an article for the magazine Psyche. "Given the current mental health and spiritual crises that young people face, it’s more important than ever for the adults who shape their education to decide whether we value the kinds of life-enhancing skills that are nurtured by contemplative practices," says Sheehy. And if we do, we must invest in them – the way we do in other critical fields of learning and growth."

Read the article in Psyche.