2019-2020 Graduate Academic Catalog

GMIND 6050 Mindful Leadership and Social Change

This course investigates meanings of mindful leadership. Students explore how fundamental principles of Buddhist ethics can extend, and have been extended, into the realm of engagement with the contemporary world in the service of social change. Students gain understanding of ethical principles of mindfulness through current mindfulness texts and classical Buddhist teachings. Students investigate the meaning of these teachings in their lives; and as foundational principles for transformation at the inner, relational, and community levels.

Credits

3