Speaker - David Forbes, PhD
Emeritus Associate Professor
City University of New York
David Forbes, PhD, is an emeritus in the Urban Education Doctoral Program at the CUNY Graduate Center where he teaches a course on critical mindfulness in education. He has written on and consults with K-12 educators about pivoting from neoliberal to transformative integral social mindfulness practices in schools. His recent book is Mindfulness and Its Discontents: Education, Self, and Social Transformation (Fernwood Press 2019.) He edited Handbook of Mindfulness: Culture, Context, and Social Engagement (Springer 2016) with Ron Purser, with whom he facilitates the podcast, The Mindful Cranks.
As a counselor educator David taught School Counseling at Brooklyn College/CUNY for nineteen years and wrote Boyz 2 Buddhas: Counseling Urban High School Male Athletes in the Zone (Peter Lang 2004) about his experience practicing mindfulness with a Brooklyn high school football team. At Brooklyn he was co-recipient of a Contemplative Program Development Fellowship from the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society and is a member of the Mindfulness and Social Change Network based in the UK from which he is featured on a website, "Being Mindful of our World: A Collection of Social Mindfulness Voices."
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