Mindfulness Leadership Retreat:
Self Awareness Training Institute for School Leaders

Postponed
Registration Fee:
- $150 for two days ($75 discount)
- $100 for two modules ($50 discount)
- $75 for one module
Registration Closes July 12, 2020
No checks or POs.
Special Promotional Pricing for NYC DOE Leaders:
- The first 10 DOE employees to register for all three sessions can bring an additional colleague at no additional cost.
Contact Information
Email uelc@tc.columbia.edu or call 212.678.8356
Program Description:
Institute Schedule: July 22-23, 2020 (New York)
Wednesday, July 22, 2020, 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Module #1: Mindfulness Practice as a Tool for Emotional Intelligence
Thursday, July 23, 2020, 8:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Module #2: Compassion as an Imperative for Mindful Leadership
Thursday, July 23, 2020, 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Module #3: Applications for Mindful Leadership in School Settings
Why Mindful Leadership for Education?
Mindfulness has recently picked up steam in the world of education, as recent empirical research has made it impossible to deny the connections between mind and science, emotions and behaviors, development and capacity. The findings support what many have known for years - that Mindfulness practice has significant benefits for its practitioners. Further, many of these benefits have direct relevance to leadership efficacy. Through the deliberate practice of Mindfulness itself, leaders elevate their capacity to lead with compassion, empathy, resilience, focus, clarity, and adaptability, all crucial skills needed in today’s complex landscape of education.
The overarching purpose of this retreat is to provide space for school leaders to:
- Cultivate their capacity for self-awareness, a skill essential to enlightened leadership.
- Develop self-awareness as a means to recognize sensations, emotions, and cognition as distinct but intimately related experiences.
- Build skills to increase concentration, empathic capacities, skillful listening, management of conflicts, perspective taking, and being present to the complex demands placed on leaders in educational systems.
This 10-hour Institute is designed to support school leaders interested in developing their own mindfulness practices as it relates to their leadership in education. The institute builds off of the Self-Awareness Training (SAT) offered to graduate students in the Summer Principals Academy (SPA) at Teachers College, and as such will be a great opportunity for alumni of the program, and colleagues currently serving in school leadership positions, to deepen their own Mindfulness practices. Facilitation will include reintroduction of SAT and Mindfulness practices to re-energize and rejuvenate mind, body, and spirit.
The retreat is also designed into three modules that build upon each other and can also be taken individually as separate modules. The modules will deepen school leaders’ understanding of key concepts around self-awareness and compassion as it relates to their leadership presence and allow them to draw connections between their practice and their work in schools.