Temporary Hiatus
This academic year has thus far directed my online writing to other topics and my mindful work to in-person activities, so I'm on temporary hiatus from The Mindful PhD. I hope to return to it soon. Thanks for your patience & your continued support.
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The Mindful PhD
Nancy Chick is an Assistant Director at the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University and an imperfectly mindful Ph.D. in English.-
History
- Sitting Down & Staying Still
- A Room of One’s Own
- Homing In
- Reading Here & Now
- In Case of Emergency
- On Another Planet
- It’s About Our Students
- Looking into the Fire
- Up in the Clouds
- Revisiting Boice
- The Continual Unfolding of Our Work
- About Time
- Busy-Shaming
- Opening Our Eyes
- Daydream Believer
- Time, the Superbowl, & Bandwagons
- After the Honeymoon
- Doodling & Knitting
- Enduring Effects
- Support for Stressed Students
- 2013 Top 10
- Difficult Discussions
- Inspiration, Creativity, & New Ideas
- Gratitude Journals
- Labyrinths & Learning
- Reading Like Bruce Lee
- How It Works, IV
- How It Works, III
- How It Works, II
- How It Works, I
- Stories of the Slow Professor
- This Embodied PhD
- Playing with Others
- Being Fully Present in the Classroom
- Reducing Stress
- Paying Attention
- The Easy Way & The Easier Way
- A Beginning
Topics
- anger
- app
- attention
- awareness
- be here now
- body scan
- breathing
- cancer
- classroom
- compassion
- creativity
- doodling
- emotional regulation
- emotions
- faculty
- fingers
- fixed vs. growth mindset
- focus
- gratitude
- GRE
- happiness
- learning
- lovingkindness
- MBSR
- metacognition
- multitasking
- narrative
- neuroscience
- open-monitoring
- pain
- perceptions
- practice
- reading comprehension
- resilience
- self
- silence
- slow
- snowglobe
- stress
- students
- teaching
- Time
- two-minutes
- warrior
- writer's block
Tag Archives: neuroscience
Time, the Superbowl, & Bandwagons
This past week brought a kind of harmonic convergence of mindfulness in popular culture. First, Time magazine featured “The Mindful Revolution” on the cover. Then, or perhaps simultaneously, word spread (from ESPN to the blogosphere) that the Seattle Seahawks–then heading for … Continue reading
How It Works, I
My recent posts have been focused on issues of stress, mostly because I’ve seen the effects on my own life and worry about colleagues, students, and friends. Some of you have asked me to clarify how mindfulness works: what it … Continue reading
Reducing Stress
In recent weeks, I’ve talked with quite a few colleagues–faculty (full-time and part-time) and graduate students–who were nervous about teaching their first class, or their first class on this campus, the first session of a new course, or a new … Continue reading
The Easy Way & The Easier Way
I came to mindfulness only in recent years—first through a regular yoga practice and a handful of retreats, then through guided meditation, then through a mindfulness-based stress-reduction (MBSR) course and a few multi-day workshops, and now through a weekly mindfulness-teacher … Continue reading
