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Embracing Life and Death, Volume 2 deepens the exploration begun in Volume 1 by inviting readers to engage with the interwoven processes of living, dying, and transformation. The volume brings together twenty-two chapters written by thirty-five authors from four continents, including scholars, educators, healers, artists, caregivers, and physicians whose work bridges science, education, and lived experience.
Drawing on narrative inquiry, autoethnography, contemplative research, and arts-based approaches, contributors examine how awareness, compassion, and presence shape experiences across the life–death continuum. Chapters address themes such as mindfulness in medicine and caregiving, birth and motherhood as sites of transition, transrational ways of knowing, spirituality, social justice, and the relevance of ancient wisdom traditions in contemporary education. Across these diverse contexts, Authentic Inquiry is extended into new domains of wellness, ethics, and community, presenting inquiry itself as a relational and life-sustaining practice.
Written for educators, researchers, healthcare professionals, and contemplative practitioners, Embracing Life and Death, Volume offers integrative perspectives on what it means to live and die well. By bringing philosophical reflection into dialogue with lived experience, the volume invites readers to join an ongoing crossing—toward wisdom, wholeness, and compassionate engagement with self, others, and the more-than-human world.
Drawing on narrative inquiry, autoethnography, contemplative research, and arts-based approaches, contributors examine how awareness, compassion, and presence shape experiences across the life–death continuum. Chapters address themes such as mindfulness in medicine and caregiving, birth and motherhood as sites of transition, transrational ways of knowing, spirituality, social justice, and the relevance of ancient wisdom traditions in contemporary education. Across these diverse contexts, Authentic Inquiry is extended into new domains of wellness, ethics, and community, presenting inquiry itself as a relational and life-sustaining practice.
Written for educators, researchers, healthcare professionals, and contemplative practitioners, Embracing Life and Death, Volume offers integrative perspectives on what it means to live and die well. By bringing philosophical reflection into dialogue with lived experience, the volume invites readers to join an ongoing crossing—toward wisdom, wholeness, and compassionate engagement with self, others, and the more-than-human world.
Embracing Life and Death, Volume 2 deepens the exploration begun in Volume 1 by inviting readers to engage with the interwoven processes of living, dying, and transformation. The volume brings together twenty-two chapters written by thirty-five authors from four continents, including scholars, ed...
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Kenneth Tobin is Presidential Professor Emeritus at the CUNY Graduate Center. His decades of scholarship examine emotions, wellness, contemplative practices, and energy-based approaches, integrating inquiry, caregiving, and relational perspectives on education, health, and ethical responsibility.
Konstantinos Alexakos is Professor at Brooklyn College, CUNY. His research focuses on emotions, learning, well-being, and ethical and energetic awareness. Drawing on phenomenology, contemplative traditions, and Authentic Inquiry, he explores embodied, relational, and transrational dimensions of learning and being.
Konstantinos Alexakos is Professor at Brooklyn College, CUNY. His research focuses on emotions, learning, well-being, and ethical and energetic awareness. Drawing on phenomenology, contemplative traditions, and Authentic Inquiry, he explores embodied, relational, and transrational dimensions of learning and being.
Kenneth Tobin is Presidential Professor Emeritus at the CUNY Graduate Center. His decades of scholarship examine emotions, wellness, contemplative practices, and energy-based approaches, integrating inquiry, caregiving, and relational perspectives on education, health, and ethical responsibility....
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