Faculty Development Groups

Weekly online meetings for 20-minute meditations followed by optional Q&A and open discussion about meditation, related contemplative practices, and how to maintain balance in the college community. Open to faculty, staff, and students at all levels of meditation practice. Meditative practice and group discussions support a sense of belonging, community, and overall wellbeing. No attendance commitments: come whenever you are willing and able.

Learning Goals/Outcomes: 
•  To meditate together, to share in contemplative dialogue, community building, and belonging.

•  To cultivate a sense of presence, responsiveness, emotional stability, mental clarity
•  To explore how to integrate contemplative practices into our own lives and in the classroom. 

About the facilitator Dr. Rick Repetti:

Rick Repetti, is Professor of Philosophy (HIS), PSC-CUNY KCC-Chapter Grievance Counselor, member of KCC College Council, VP and Co-director of Board of Examiners of the American Philosophy Practitioners Association (APPA), APPA-certified philosophical counselor, author of Buddhism, Meditation, and Free Will: A Theory of Mental Freedom (Routledge, 2019), editor of Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Meditation (2022) and Buddhist Perspectives on Free Will: Agentless Agency? (Routledge, 2016), author of dozens of articles and chapters, Assistant Editor of the Journal of Buddhist Ethics, meditation and yoga instructor for decades, Chief Philosophy Officer at Knowledgecoin.io, and 4th degree blackbelt in Shotokan karate.

For more information or to join, please contact Rick (Rick.Repetti@kbcc.cuny.edu)