CUNY Academic Commons | Rick Repetti | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/rrepetti/activity/ Activity feed for Rick Repetti. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 acd94b1269cea6a6d57a9032c422f4f5 Rick Repetti joined the group CMCS Steering Committee https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/914341/ Tue, 18 Apr 2023 13:00:45 -0400 2dc2aa142dad7f682f5dd475fd397967 Rick Repetti's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/904101/ Thu, 23 Feb 2023 21:39:55 -0500 191cf6e3589f7ea573481c708958ceff Rick Repetti wrote a new post on the site Contemplative Practices https://kctlcontemplativepractice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=133 Wed, 22 Feb 2023 18:20:14 -0500 CMCS Gathering_flyer_2023 March 24

]]> 86b8ba6b0c7cf7c325242d60dd7755df Rick Repetti joined the group CUNY Mindfulness & Contemplative Studies (CMCS) https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/902502/ Fri, 17 Feb 2023 02:25:59 -0500 32313c20c14119b632d12d40ee8ba3de Rick Repetti wrote a new post on the site Contemplative Practices https://kctlcontemplativepractice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=96 Sat, 04 Apr 2020 00:39:34 -0400 Fall 2019 semester was relatively business as usual: Weekly meditations, well attended, much appreciated by attendees. The relatively new half hour meeting schedule seems to be beneficial, as most attendees report […]

]]> 732e23445594089ec63cc43509dd317a Rick Repetti wrote a new post on the site Contemplative Practices https://kctlcontemplativepractice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=93 Sat, 04 Apr 2020 00:34:21 -0400 The first week and a half of the semester were uneventful, but then in the middle of the second week NY state’s “recess” shifted us off-campus, and the remainder of the semester is online. We kept meeting online, […]

]]> 45d6f9dc27e4217d10df06e121532a64 Rick Repetti wrote a new post on the site Contemplative Practices https://kctlcontemplativepractice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=88 Tue, 28 May 2019 12:27:10 -0400 The facilitator, Prof. Rick Repetti (Philosophy) has recorded several meditations and mantras for participants to listen to at their leisure, at his website, at https://www.rickrepetti.com/meditation-to-the-people.

]]> 7901af92e28054b8f4a635c265e61b87 Rick Repetti wrote a new post on the site Contemplative Practices https://kctlcontemplativepractice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=84 Tue, 28 May 2019 12:15:16 -0400 Spring 2019 was well attended, once per week, with about a half dozen members on average per meeting. As has been the pattern for years, new members appear, older ones fade out, and then there is a shifting […]

]]> 4c5f455f67632afde336064cbd0de6ae Rick Repetti wrote a new post on the site Contemplative Practices https://kctlcontemplativepractice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=77 Thu, 07 Mar 2019 15:55:27 -0500 Our group met weekly throughout the Fall and for the Winter module, drawing the usual mix of visitors from various categories (students, administrators, faculty, staff) as well as our regulars. We are still […]

]]> c88fe87a5f56f81e4561d1b323710940 Rick Repetti wrote a new post on the site Contemplative Practices https://kctlcontemplativepractice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=75 Thu, 07 Mar 2019 15:54:33 -0500 Our group met weekly throughout the Spring and for the Summer module, drawing the usual mix of visitors from various categories (students, administrators, faculty, staff) as well as our regulars. We are still […]

]]> bd64fe443ae86a6c8c88d2534786a815 Rick Repetti wrote a new post on the site Contemplative Practices https://kctlcontemplativepractice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=71 Thu, 07 Mar 2019 15:48:54 -0500 Our group continued to meet weekly, based on the greatest doodle schedule poll results (conducted separately for the Fall and for the Winter), and to attract members from across the college (students, faculty, […]

]]> 9b5452423edd15829a36f4944363552e Rick Repetti changed the description of the group Kingsborough Contemplative Practices Group from "Led by Rick Repetti (History, Philosophy, and Political Science, Kingsborough Community College), a member of the CUNY Contemplatives Network and also of the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education (www.acmhe.org), this group meets twice a week in the Kingsborough Center for Teaching and Learning (KCTL) to engage in contemplative practices and to explore ways to integrate such practices into the teaching and learning environment. The Contemplative Practices group meets every Tuesday and Wednesday, 12:40-1:40 p.m., in M391. Our primary purpose is to actually practice meditation together, and to discuss the use of meditation and related contemplative practices (such as mindful speaking, journal writing, and other reflective exercises) in the classroom and in our own lives. Every meeting is conducted in the following manner: Typically, after a few minutes of brief greetings, announcements, and other minor exchanges, the group facilitator leads a guided meditation for approximately 20 minutes, followed by a brief reading on meditation, and then questions and comments (informal discussion about the meditation, meditation practice in general, and related matters of interest). Sometimes, an article or other handout on the subject is distributed to those present, and occasionally the group discusses a previously chosen reading. The meetings are always open not only to all interested faculty (from Kingsborough and from any CUNY campus), but to any staff or administrators as well who wish to come simply to participate in the meditations. (Staff members often come just for the meditation, and leave just afterwards, if they have only a 30-minute break.) Faculty, administrators, and staff are also encouraged to bring select students to attend the meditations. (The restriction to "select" students is due simply to the fact that our meeting room can usually only accomodate a few more people than usual, as we typically fill up all the seats around the table.) For more information or to join this group, please contact Rick Repetti at rick.repetti@kbcc.cuny.edu and take a look at our wiki http://kctlcontemplative.pbworks.com. See also http://contemplativephilosophy.blogspot.com/ for access to many of the same resources available to non-CUNY users. Useful links: http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/how-to-meditate/ http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/04/08/135146672/even-beginners-can-curb-pain-with-meditation?sc=tw http://www.mindfulnesswithoutborders.org/common/pdf/A%20Case%20of%20Contemplative%20Philosophy%20of%20Education.pdf" to "Led by Rick Repetti (Professor, Department of History, Philosophy, and Political Science, Kingsborough Community College), a founding member and director of the CUNY Contemplatives Network (http://cunycontemplatives.pbworks.com/w/page/8185079/FrontPage), member of the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education (www.acmhe.org), and a Fellow of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society (www.contemplativemind.org), this group meets weekly in the Kingsborough Center for Teaching and Learning (KCTL, M391) to engage in contemplative practices and to explore ways to integrate such practices into the teaching and learning environment. Contemplative practices are exemplified by traditional forms of meditation found in the world's great religious traditions (Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, etc.), but include a variety of reflective practices that are designed to bring about states of metacognitive awareness, introspection, inner calm, insight, and, among others, self-regulation, such as yoga, tai chi, journaling, etc. See the "tree of contemplative practices" for a visual illustration of many of these practices: http://www.contemplativemind.org/practices/tree. The Contemplative Practices Faculty Interest Group (FIG) began meeting weekly in 2006 as a satellite of the larger CUNY Contemplatives Group, situated at Brooklyn College and funded by a grant from the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society and the Fetser Institute, awarded to (now retired) Brooklyn College Professors Geri DeLuca and David Forbes. The Brooklyn College FIG met monthly, discussed previously chosen articles on contemplative pedagogy and contemplative scholarship, practiced brief meditations, and shared drafts of members' own scholarship on the subject. At Kingsborough, we began doing the same, but on a weekly basis. After some time, however, this pace was difficult to maintain, in terms of functioning the weekly readings, but interest in the weekly meditations soon began to involve invited staff and students, and eventually we dropped the formal reading requirement. For some years, the facilitator would instead read a short passage about meditation to the group before or after a brief meditation, and the group would then discuss that. At one point, the group met twice a week, to facilitate the non-overlapping schedules of several core members. The composition of the group changes regularly, as the schedule changes every semester to accommodate the greater availability of the majority of members (based on Doodle schedule polls). The group met for an hour for most of its years, but in the last year we have shortened the time to a 30-minute minimum, as the scheduled meeting time typically turns out to be during most members' lunch hours, although anyone desiring to remain longer for continued discussion is free to do so. Our primary purpose for some time now is to practice meditation together, and to discuss the use of meditation and related contemplative practices (such as mindful speaking, journal writing, and other reflective exercises) in our own lives, including the classroom. Every meeting is typically conducted in the following manner: After a few minutes of brief greetings, announcements, and other minor exchanges, the group facilitator leads a guided meditation for approximately 20 minutes, followed by a brief exchange of questions and comments (informal discussion about the meditation, meditation practice in general, and related matters of interest). Sometimes, an article or other handout on the subject is distributed to those present, and occasionally the group discusses a previously chosen reading. The meetings are always open not only to all interested faculty (from Kingsborough and from any CUNY campus), but to any staff or administrators as well who wish to come simply to participate in the meditations, as well as interested students (often faculty members will bring a handful of select students). (The restriction to "select" students is due simply to the fact that our meeting room can usually only accommodate a few more people than usual, as we typically fill up all the seats around the table.) (Staff members often come just for the meditation, and leave just afterwards, if they have only a 30-minute break.) For more information or to join this group, please contact Rick Repetti at rick.repetti@kbcc.cuny.edu and take a look at our wiki http://kctlcontemplative.pbworks.com. See also www.rickrepetti.com for access to many of the same resources available to non-CUNY users. Other useful links: http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/how-to-meditate/ http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/04/08/135146672/even-beginners-can-curb-pain-with-meditation?sc=tw http://www.mindfulnesswithoutborders.org/common/pdf/A%20Case%20of%20Contemplative%20Philosophy%20of%20Education.pdf" https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/540671/ Mon, 03 Dec 2018 14:48:23 -0500 769a9c3008a242015b7530d0e989c2fe Rick Repetti wrote a new post on the site Contemplative Practices https://kctlcontemplativepractice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=67 Wed, 19 Jul 2017 18:17:17 -0400 As with the previous semester, attendance was good: approximately a dozen regular members in attendance, after approximately 35 respondents to the schedule availability Doodle.

]]> 9247b3440e640a8050124fe933b8578c Rick Repetti wrote a new post on the site Contemplative Practices https://kctlcontemplativepractice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=65 Wed, 19 Jul 2017 18:16:18 -0400 Attendance was good: approximately a dozen regular members in attendance, after approximately 35 respondents to the schedule availability Doodle. Apparently, the reduction of our meeting time to 30 minutes (from […]

]]> fb2dd0727cb73514c738c147564ae5c1 Rick Repetti wrote a new post on the site Contemplative Practices https://kctlcontemplativepractice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=63 Wed, 19 Jul 2017 18:12:54 -0400 Prof. Repetti returned from his one semester Fall 2016 sabbatical in the Spring 2017 semester, where attendance was about the same as in his absence, under the guidance of the substitute facilitator, Diana […]

]]> ec94841bfe1d0e9a3ba35e2a537ff32c Rick Repetti wrote a new post on the site Contemplative Practices https://kctlcontemplativepractice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=58 Wed, 19 Jul 2017 18:09:35 -0400 Our usual facilitator, Prof. Rick Repetti (HIS Dept), took a semester-length sabbatical in the Fall of 2016, and Prof. Diana Treglia (Phys Ed) served as substitute facilitator for the semester. Diana engaged our […]

]]> 7c04f98fd71853fb099473acd4bc2ebf Rick Repetti changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/466358/ Wed, 19 Jul 2017 18:01:58 -0400 f0736b023381f7c5f5298506432b1e78 Rick Repetti changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/466357/ Wed, 19 Jul 2017 18:00:59 -0400 d27eed36ba59a83c3892a21986762b69 Rick Repetti's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/421380/ Mon, 23 Nov 2015 22:12:46 -0500 ccb414de8ecf73040db34c70619b1363 Rick Repetti and Janine Graziano are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/419481/ Thu, 05 Nov 2015 15:27:13 -0500 901256e3fd74e2879e0729eb5ad440de Rick Repetti wrote a new post on the site Contemplative Practices http://kctlcontemplativepractice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=41 Thu, 08 Oct 2015 18:40:37 -0400 We met only about 4 times this summer, and attendance was low. I was not as available as in previous summers, as I was focusing on a book project, and not coming in to teach at all.

]]> ee0f4e1a7aa7491718b55fdc73c63cbf Rick Repetti wrote a new post on the site Contemplative Practices http://kctlcontemplativepractice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=37 Thu, 08 Oct 2015 18:35:12 -0400 The group meets weekly on Thursdays 12:45-1:15 p.m., whereas we used to meet for a full hour. The thinking is that many need to leave early to have lunch or return to work, so I think minimizing the slot makes it […]

]]> 7103823abfccc738f18763b3e2ca0a7f Rick Repetti and Rachel Ihara are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/397148/ Wed, 17 Jun 2015 17:05:27 -0400 431b11539ba953870991e9c56a8c9294 Rick Repetti and Christoph Winkler are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/109262/ Thu, 29 Nov 2012 23:07:01 -0500 b2d8698d408a73c5e971ab800e9fcead Rick Repetti and Brian Mitra are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/63697/ Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:18:49 -0500 46207518bbf933db68432ba3509d4028 Rick Repetti posted a new activity comment https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/47535/#acomment-54437 Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:39:43 -0400 one of my professors at the grad center, Steve Schiffer, now at NYU, once said that woth the roght topic, a dissertation writes itself… yeah, right!

In reply to - Jay Bernstein posted an update I am stressed out about my paper and I wish it would write itself ]]> 18c6628243c622237f990ef200c50954 Rick Repetti posted a new activity comment https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/51833/#acomment-51834 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 12:04:10 -0400 I vote for DiFara’s in Midwood, Brooklyn, on Avenue J around East 15th Street (about a block away from the Q train). Best pizza ever, especially the Sicilian. $5 a slice. Watching him make it is itself an experience, as is watching the inscrutable dynamics of “the line” (the ordering process). He makes all the pies himself, has been there since he…[Read more]

In reply to - Rick Repetti joined the group CUNY Pie ]]> 71edeed978893e42bbce615675d445a2 Rick Repetti joined the group CUNY Pie https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/51833/ Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:52:32 -0400 029da709527dd3fb74598ab4b3ddf561 Rick Repetti and Petra are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/50679/ Mon, 16 May 2011 18:45:45 -0400 42c74cb11b5f2504b87afdca44b68c41 Rick Repetti and Bill Winter are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/50665/ Mon, 16 May 2011 16:07:19 -0400 64a594b84cef412543f34c899425cb50 Rick Repetti and Elizabeth Tompkins are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/50660/ Mon, 16 May 2011 14:21:55 -0400 2a104b04c4b05914e8353d7d42779ec9 Rick Repetti and maxtran are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/50601/ Sat, 14 May 2011 23:27:23 -0400 6cc973bfabb465270de3f1e3aafd8ba5 Rick Repetti and Jay Bernstein are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/50596/ Sat, 14 May 2011 20:19:45 -0400 180ea05d77829798fe1a0f56dcf1ce36 Rick Repetti uploaded the file: The Case for a Contemplative Philosophy of Education to Kingsborough Contemplative Practices Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/50573/ Sat, 14 May 2011 03:23:55 -0400 This article offers an overview, and an argument in support, of contemplative pedagogy.

]]> 8d19555926f1f0abe4e71444c896b02b Rick Repetti and John Acosta are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/50571/ Sat, 14 May 2011 03:12:26 -0400 7781861b93d19139db17089f6c60790e Rick Repetti created the group Kingsborough Contemplative Practices Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/50569/ Sat, 14 May 2011 01:46:50 -0400 b84dd11e2eaf482c3cb9ccafe8e1432c Rick Repetti joined the group Contemplative and Transformative Pedagogy https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/50567/ Sat, 14 May 2011 01:19:17 -0400 c87cfc83123274fd4e74e97b36c47bb4 Rick Repetti became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/50564/ Sat, 14 May 2011 01:17:16 -0400