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Breathing Together Through "I Can't Breathe":
The Ethics and Efficacy of Mindfulness in Working Toward Justice for All Race/Law
by Rhonda Magee, JD, MA

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April 10 - 12, 2015

Intention: Strong engagement and participation
Purpose: Elucidate values and delineate principles of ethical behavior and responsibility.
Move forward with our collective work of bringing mindfulness more fully into society.

Schedule of Events (details)

Schedule
Friday, April 10
Time	Event	Presenter
8:15 - 8:30	Are Ethics Inherent in our Definitions of Mindfulness?	Judson Brewer, MD, PhD
8:40 - 9:00	Contemplative Ethics and Contemplative Neuroscience: How Might They Intertwine?	Richard Davidson, PhD
9:00 - 9:30	Panel Discussion	David Germano, PhD & Paul Grossman, PhD
9:30 - 10:00	Participant Dialogue
11:00 - 11:20	Using Awareness to Bridge the Worlds of Business, Academia, and Philanthropy	Jeffrey Walker, MBA
11:20 - 11:50	Panel Discussion	Tish Jennings, MEd, PhD & Arthur Zajonc, PhD
11:50 - 12:20	Participant Dialogue
4:20 - 4:40	Contemplative and Ethical Leadership: Emerging Questions	Diana Chapman Walsh, PhD
Saturday, April 11
Time	Event	Presenter
8:00 - 8:20	Lineage: Mindfulness, Medicine, and the Ethos of MBSR	Saki Santorelli, EdD, MA
8:20 - 8:50	Panel Discussion	Don McCown, PhD & Michael Krasner, MD
8:50 - 9:20	Participant Dialogue
10:00 - 10:20	Breathing Together Through "I Can't Breathe": The Ethics and Efficacy of Mindfulness in Working Toward Justice for All Race/Law	Rhonda Magee, JD, MA
10:20 - 10:50	Panel Discussion
10:50 - 11:20	Participant Dialogue	George Mumford & Meg Chang, EdD
3:40 - 4:00	Mindfulness, Ethics and Intervention	Paul Grossman, PhD
4:00 - 4:30	Panel Discussion	John Kabat-Zinn, PhD & David Germano
4:30 - 5:00	Participant Dialogue
Sunday, April 12
Time	Event	Presenter
8:00 - 8:20	The 4 Boundless States: Exploring Lovingkindness, Compassion, Joy in the Happiness of Others, and Equanimity.Values/Contemplative Roots	Sharon Salzberg
8;20 - 8:50	Panel Discussion	Jake Davis, PhD & Andrew Olendzki, PhD
8:50 - 9:20	Participant Dialogue
10:15 - 12:15	Declaration Development
12:30 - 1:00	Final Sit and Words	Saki Santorelli, EdD, MA

Highlighted by this past years' cover of TIME magazine, CBS's 60 Minutes and other media reporting, Mindfulness is in full swing in society. Yet, with this public coverage many questions are emerging around how mindfulness is being delivered and used and the broader effects this may have.

Now it is time to ask ourselves hard questions: What is the role for mindfulness practice in the domains of leadership, race and social justice, science, medicine, public health, education and public service?

Now it is time to wonder aloud about the real work of mindfulness in society. Is mindfulness pushing against the dominant societal rivers of materialism, consumption, competition, haves and have-nots, and free market powers or is it in danger of being co-opted by these forces? Behind ideas and high ideals, is mindfulness offering people a thirst-quenching sense of the sacred in an increasingly secular society? Is the mercy and compassion that is the bedrock of mindfulness practice beginning to permeate our work with patients, clients, students and colleagues and in our relationships at home and work?

Now it is time to ask ourselves what those of us engaged in mindfulness practice really stand for. How might this "mindfulness movement" help forge new social values and ethics? What are we willing to give up and take on in service of our common humanity?