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We would like to invite you to participate a conference on the Contemplative Heart of Higher Education that will be held Amherst College April 24-26, 2009.

This year's conference will be the first to be sponsored the new Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education, which is affiliated with the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society. The conference will explore the special role that contemplative practices can play in cultivating those capacities of attention, equanimity, wisdom and compassion that are central to the lives our students and ourselves.

(Adapted from http://www.internationalpeaceandconflict.org)