Are you interested in helping your students expand their critical thinking skills while honoring their experiential knowledge? Are you curious to try out a method for harnessing your own embodied understanding in ways that can enrich your research and work-life?

This workshop offers a taste of Thinking-at-the-Edge (TAE), a core method of Embodied Critical Thinking and Understanding (traininect.com) which seeks to expand and refine our capacity to engage with difficult questions, concepts and ideas. With straight-forward steps and starting from the rich ground of felt knowing, TAE can help us think past the “Edge" of what we can easily say. It leverages the power of reflective listening for exploring questions that deeply matter to us or intuitions we may not know how to formulate adequately.

During the session, 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.

“Side effects” 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.

This workshop will appeal to faculty in their role as teachers and researchers. This session is co-sponsored by the Contemplative Sciences Center.

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