Laugher and ease in our bodies can help us be honest about the reading and own lives.

how to hold in a single frame the belief in our shared humanity and enlightenment

seamless dialogue between the personal and political, between humor and analysis, between storytelling and meditation.

why they may have felt silenced (by me or a student), if we need to pare down the workload, how they are coping with shifts in consciousness, and how we might nurture participation.

might we sometimes be looking in the wrong places for what we are seeking?

resources for such an approach have been scattered across disciplines, space, and time.

sociological articles, statistics, and time lines to using novels, poetry, and memoir.

know it is possible to survive discomfort, to move through it.

students need to be able to talk about how they relate to the course content.