Being a Good Follower

MINDFULNESS IN PRACTICE Some Reflections on Being Good, on not Being Good and on Just Being

Some Reflections on Being Good, on not Being Good and on Just Being

Over the last 12 years, through my work at the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice (CMRP) at Bangor University, I have been engaged with colleagues (both within CMRP and from other training centres in the UK) in an exploration of how to support the development of a robust professional practice context for our own teaching team and for the growing community of mindfulness-based teachers...

Tips on Being a Good Discussant

We hope that you will find that being a discussant is a very worthwhile endeavor. Developing the skills of a good discussant pays off in several ways. It is something that economists are often asked to do. The same skills that you develop to be a good discussant will also be used in your future responsibility as a journal referee. Learning how to read other papers with the critical eye of a goo...

Being good by doing good: Daily eudaimonic activity and well-being

Eudaimonic theories of well-being assert the importance of achieving one’s full potential through engaging in inherently meaningful endeavors. In two daily diary studies, we assessed whether reports of engagement in behaviors representative of eudaimonic theories were associated with well-being. We also examined whether eudaimonic behaviors were more strongly related to well-being than behavior...

Doing Good, Being Good, and the Social Construction of Compassion