It was a great honor and pleasure to participate in Mind and Life‘s recent Summer Research Institute – as contemplative faculty offering scribing of key faculty talks, and as a member of the community integrating mindfulness into current daily life. The theme of the program was “Cultivating Prosocial Development Across the Lifespan: Contexts, Relationships, and Contemplative Practices”. The sessions offered a particular nest for healing, in a week thick with reckoning after the police murder of George Floyd, and during continual Black Lives Matter protesting and awareness-raising around the world.
Some process and technical info: I worked on an iPad Pro with the Procreate application, to draw out eight pre-recorded 45-minute talks. Then for the final closing remarks, i scribed using an IPEVO document camera to share the live drawing into the Zoom meeting room. I carefully picked one palette of ~12 elemental colors at the onset; the images below show a range of various combinations. As in life, art.
A deep bow of appreciation to the entire Mind & Life team – Bobbi, Josh, Juan, and Ryan – to all the faculty, and especially to my dear friend Robert Roeser, for including me in this transformative experience and the support along the way.
