On 11/21/2021 at 7:00 PM, William Edelglass will be speaking virtually at Martha Canfield Memorial Library on Mindfulness: The History, Practice, and Use of Cultivating Mindful Awareness. What is mindfulness? Where does it come from? And how has it appeared in so many contemporary Western institutions, from schools and prisons to corporate meetings and military training? How is mindfulness studied by contemporary neuroscientists and social psychologists, and what are their findings? This lecture will address these questions by tracing the history of various forms of mindfulness from multiple traditions, starting with early Buddhist texts and ending with the secularization of mindfulness in contemporary American society.

This talk is free, open to the public, and accessible to those with disabilities. This talk can be accessed in the Library meeting room on our big screen TV or by signing up to receive the link here: https://forms.gle/jJrjo3Rvbj7SdQNGA to view from your home. For more information, contact Martha Canfield Memorial Free Library at (802) 375-6153 or martha_canfield_lib@hotmail.com or check out our website or Facebook page.

Mindfulness: The History, Practice, and Use of Cultivating Mindful Awareness is a Vermont Humanities program hosted by Martha Canfield Memorial Free Library. (Supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the NEH or Vermont Humanities.