Alyssa Rae’s Reviews > Teaching to Inspire Vocation: Restoring a Critical Element of Professional and Technical Education > Status Update

Pg 167 mindful breathing before a test or work meeting

Pg 123, flow, craft; humans are crafters and we’ve created a society that looks down on those who use their hands and their vocations
Pg 156 questions to all students about their motivation for taking the course
Pg 158 vocabulary outline. Practice, quality, craft
Pg 159 the original foundation of the corporation as a business rests on community service

Pg 109 college invites the reversal of one’s story and the hearing of others; hometown, year, major, and aspirations.
Pg 114 determining purpose requires judgement on what is a worthy purpose and the action to pursue that. Making judgement about a life worth living and how to pursue that involves morality which students don’t often have.

Pg 79 general contemplative guidelines
Pg 81 mindful listening techniques
Pg 83 mindful breathing
Pg 92 do this exercise with the book club
Pg 99 start each class with a contemplative pause and end with a reflection on what’s been presented

Pg. 36, as much guidance comes from what does not and cannot happen in one’s life as in what can and does -maybe more.
Pg. 37 we must help them realize that it’s possible to discover several equally compelling possibilities; it’s not necessary to narrow them down.
54. Discernment is best negotiated in community