We shall also look a bit at American cinema of the 1940s and 1950s, time permitting.
Mindfulness permits nonjudgmental attention to ones own mental and physical processes.
Self-knowledge develops from becoming informed about how our internal and external environments affect us. This course will examine mindfulness and self-knowledge. We investigate how mindfulness develops and may be encouraged, including the perspectives of education, professional development, religion, philosophy, psychology and psychotherapy. We will examine self-knowledge in terms of finding out what psychological research has shown about the effects of environment and thought processes on behavior and emotions. We will look at the literature, case studies, exemplars visiting our class, and self-exploration.