Applied Mindfulness Practicum

Catalog description

This practicum course offers the opportunity for the student to apply and refine the four skill sets of stewardship, homiletics, guidance, and inquiry, through supervision, self-reflection, and empirical research on the student's own teaching. Students will deliver their applied mindfulness curriculum as developed in HEA 652 to the group or individuals of their choice, while receiving teaching supervision from certified faculty to ensure fidelity, safety, and refinement of skills of teaching. Students will maintain a reflective journal about the teaching experience, and will perform the mixed methods research study designed and submitted for IRB approval in HEA 652 . Final project is a 5,000-word paper integrating personal reflections on mindfulness practice and pedagogy, the supervision process, analysis of participant evaluations, and analysis of the outcome data of the research study. Paper will include plans for improving the future structure, content, and delivery of the curriculum.