GBL 208 US: MASSACHUSETTS, BOSTON: MINDFUL AMERICA, MINDFUL ELON
This course is designed to help students explore the history and development of mindfulness in america and consider the influence of mindfulness practices on trends in higher education. Travel is centered in boston, massachusetts-an important location for mindfulness research and training. Students also participate in a mindfulness retreat at the kripalu center for yoga and health in western massachusetts. Guided by their own experiences and research, students will return to elon consider how persuasion and advocacy efforts could be used to create a more mindful" campus. Final projects will include creative communications campaigns designed to inform and influence the elon community."