13.7.2016 Main building, 2nd floor, room D10b
09.00 Registration and coffee
09.15 Optional Meditation and somatic exercise taught by Docent Timo Klemola
10.00 Opening remarks: Ilmari Kortelainen and Antti Saari (University of Tampere)
THEME I Overcoming McMindfulness? (Chair: Saari)
10.15 Keynote address: Professor Ronald Purser (San Francisco State University): Beyond Neoliberal Mindfulness: Towards a Critical-Contemplative Studies Agenda
11.15 Ilmari Kortelainen (University of Tampere): Bodily Knowledge of Mindfulness in Techno-culture
11.53 Small break
THEME II Mindfulness as Resarch Method (Chair: Lehtonen&Pulkki)
12.00 Pessi Lyyra(University of Tampere): Cognitive underpinnings of (meditational) self-observation
12.45 Lunch at the restaurant Juvenes, Main building, 2nd floor
14.00 Kristina Eichel (Köln University) & Hana Sysalova (Univesrity of Warwick, cowriter of the paper): Critique on Measurements of “trait” Mindfulness
14.45 Docent Timo Klemola: On Bodymindfulness
15.30 Coffee and tea
THEME III Technê-Zen (Chair: Kortelainen)
16.00 Afternoon keynote address: John R. Williams (Yale University): Being Here Now and the End of Time
17.00 Teemu Kangas (Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki): ‘Meditation in Society: Western Artists’ Experiences’
17.45-18.30 Panel discussion on the role of body in the research of contemplative practices speakers: Researcher Kristina Eichel, Professor Ronald Purser, Lecturer Steven Stanley, documentarist WilleHyvönen(Hyvönen trough Skype)
19.30: Dinner at the restaurant von Nottbeck
14.7.2016 Main building, 2nd floor, room D10b
THEME IV Disciplined and Empowered Bodies (Chair: Väänänen)
10.00 Optional meditation: Being as Natural Presence – Guided Meditation Focusing on Effortless and Natural Awareness quided by Iina Kautiainen
Present and Connected – Practices of Embodied Self-Awareness and Interpersonal Connection guided by Sofia Peltoniemi
11.00 Keynote address: Lecturer Steven Stanley (Cardiff University): Constructing the Mindful Subject: Reshaping Experience through Mindfulness-based Interventions
12.00 Marianne Viftrup Hedegaard (University of Copenhagen): ”Mindful employees and ethical corporations: studying mindfulness practices in the Danish working life”
12. 45 Lunch at the restaurant Juvenes, Main building, 2nd floor
THEME V: Body Therapy? (Chair: Kortelainen)
13.45 Afternoon Keynote Address: Associate Professor Suvi Salmenniemi (University of Turku): Gender and therapeutic technologies
14.45 Special invited speaker: Dr. Catherine Wikholm: The Variety of Meditative Experiences: psychological effects we might not expect
15.30 Optional exercises: Meditating with Gravity – Somatic Exercises Guided by Antti Marjakangas, Somatic Movement Educator Antti Marjakangas (After exercises: Coffee)
16.15 Antti Saari (University of Tampere): Emotionalities of rule in pedagogical mindfulness literature
16.45 Associate Professor David Forbes (City university of New York): Critical Integral Contemplative Education
17.30 Optional meditation: Dr. Karen Terzano
18.10-18.30 Wrap up/ General discussion
18.30 Option for Documents and snack: The Salesmen of Happiness (2015)
Workshop in Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/354298778027200/?fref=ts
Image courtesy of Jani Henttonen:
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