Dr. Richard Brown, Naropa Institute

After a recent seminar arranged by Dr. Mark Greenberg, head of Penn State's Prevention Research Institute, and a national leader in developing approaches to implement mindfulness (meditation) into secondary schools, i had the opportunity to meet 1/1 with the presenter, Dr. Richard Brown of the Naropa University in Boulder, CO. Richard Brown

Dr. Brown developed the mindfulness-based (meditation) approach called CARE (Cultivating Awareness and Resilience in Education with folk from Mark Greenberg's group particularly Patricia Jenkins, affiliated with the Garrison Institute, which is a cornerstone of one of Mark's many efforts. CARE is focused on urban, suburban, and rural districts in central Pennsylvania as part of a two-year study being conducted at the Pennsylvania State University Prevention Research Center to complete the pilot testing and collect preliminary evidence of changes in teacher well-being and classroom outcomes as a result of the CARE program.

i described "my state" and experiences and we then discussed differences between mindfulness (Vipassana) meditation, which is Naropa's focus, and the work i was doing in "inquiry"/Rinzai Zen/Direct Path. Richard said there was nothing like that being done @ Naropa and that our work had very different aims. His work @ Naropa is in teaching teachers how to present mindfulness meditation Mindfulness Teaching, Mindfulness Teaching 2,.

Richard was most interested in and agreed with my approach that the "real work" is done 1/1.