Use meditation and mindfulness in your major project

Use spiritual principles or practices in your important academic project. “What!” you cry, “Academics and religion/spirituality don’t mix, like ice cream and boiled kidney!”

But . . . as you wrestle with your Major Work, do you crave less anxiety, more confidence, better work flow, even real answers to all those knotty quandaries?

Meditation and mindfulness can help. In my academic coaching practice, I’ve found, to my surprise, that many graduate students in their dissertations and professors in their articles use spiritual methods to help them through the Purgatory of academic writing. And I encourage them, primarily in two ways—meditation and mindfulness.

Member Spotlight: Dr. Joseph ‘Rocky’ Wallace

TAA Member Dr. Joseph ‘Rocky’ Wallace is an Associate Professor, Education, Campbellsville University and is a textbook author in the education and leadership disciplines.

His latest publication is Service in the Trenches: School Principals Share True Stories of Servant Leadership and he is currently working on a third book by his team of higher ed authors here in Kentucky–the theme of school safety..

Busy TAA People: Julie Reeder

Julie ReederTAA member Julie Reeder coauthored an article published in the SAGE journal Autism (2022). The article, entitled, “Mobile and online consumer tools to screen for autism do not promote equity”, found that autism screening tools are available, but they are not easily found. Barriers include inaccessibility to parents with limited literacy or limited English proficiency, and frequent encounters with games, advertisements, and user fees.

New Fall 2022 TAA Webinars – Learn and Grow

Join us as industry experts share their expertise on academic and textbook writing topics and learn and grow in 2022.

Fall 2022 Webinar Series

The Essential Actions of Academic Writing
When: Monday, September 19, 3 p.m. ET

Presenters: Nigel A. Caplan, PhD, Associate Professor and Manager, Graduate Programs and Online Learning, University of Delaware English Language Institute; and Ann M. Johns, PhD, Professor Emerita, Linguistics and Writing Studies, San Diego State University