No, that is all right. So welcome to the open up for summit plus PGG feedback session I think most of these faces are pretty familiar But if you haven't attended this before this is where we open up to the community to hear what you liked what you maybe didn't like Any questions that you may have around the logistics as well as the content that we had here this week Kindle here is showing the ether pad Where we are gathering responses feel free to jump in there and start typing around these different categories But we also have a mic here if you'd rather just talk through it with us Here with us we have so kindle and I are from the foundation who hosted the event But we also have our amazing production team effintech in the back as well as tippet who manages all of our software and schedule So if you have feedback, this isn't like something where we want you to be like everything was great Like we want to hear it because we want to fix it. It's a community event So you as a community can help us fix things that may not have gone well for you So that said the way that we organize this as we put some different categories up here So we go ahead and go through those and see what folks are saying So first we'll start with location Vancouver is awesome. Yeah, I agree. It's pretty you can see it. Yeah Exhibit exhibit a yeah Okay, this is who here is coming to the Vancouver open stack or open in for summit for the first time Okay, who's went to 2018? All right, and who went to 2015? All right. Okay. Oh, okay. Thanks y'all Okay It's diverse. Okay. We did have people from over 50 countries, which is really exciting And for 50% of the people here are new to an open in for events. So also great Diverse let's go to the venue the Wi-Fi Wi-Fi's worked great Clark thinks it was flaky for him, but what what devices do you have? I didn't hear that one Thanks It's been a day during the labs was slow to load. Okay 15 oh, that's great. I mean that's great for one part of it Okay, 15 people for the labs made it hard some androids. Well, that's because you're using an Android Let's be real More people love Vancouver Okay attendance Did you get to meet some cool people? I So I put attendance on there with regards to the sessions the individual sessions as opposed to overall Yeah, so we're we're forum sessions well attended were your talks well attended was it standing room only? That sort of thing. Yes. No Yeah, people are typing personally. This is my only session and it looks pretty good Forms were pretty well attended good My keynote went pretty well. Yeah, you're keynote data her demo worked.  Oh, sorry Metrics corner, but her G is our metrics partner Here do you want to just say it out loud? There's a mic right here. Yeah, we love our official metrics partner, but her yeah, thank you. Thank you One thing that I like better last year at the Berlin event was that we had breaks And so we could have our sessions in between breaks and people walking through in between sessions This time it was a little harder. Yeah that's good feedback and I I Email with y'all a few times and I was like, oh, that's true. We didn't like create that this time So that's really good feedback on that. What about the positioning? We're all good in the marketplace I know you're in the hallway the last time was this better. We're same Okay, boys level is too high Issues loading the schedule from time to time. I think that we figured out what that bug was tip it. Yeah Yeah It was a day one bug Okay A couple forum sessions were standing remotely. That's great t-shirts. Yeah Anyone who's seen someone wearing a we are open in for t-shirt. They ask us this question immediately So yes, we did tote bags this time, but we do Have, huh? Coolers, excuse me They could be a tote bag too, but anyways, so I would also like a hell t-shirt We do have we actually have finally stood up an online store of some sorts where we can actually distribute T-shirts and other kinds of swag more efficiently and we've been testing it out over the last few months because it has Store or like warehouses throughout the world. So our community is really diverse So is this swag store concept? And so it actually decreases a lot of the costs that we initially found so I'm hoping that even between events t-shirts swag Everything will become more accessible But not for a hell t-shirt whenever that might be Okay, oh the hallway track was good. Oh There's a there's a microphone, sorry Wes What if we want an extra cooler we have extra coolers, so if you would like one they are here They're down at registration. So we have around 75 extra. We ordered extra just to be sure we had at one for everyone So if you'd like to take one home to the family or a community member in your area that wasn't able to attend Please do so off-site lunch great to get out of the venue for air and space. That's great Did y'all feel like it was enough time for off-site lunch that you could come back and still attend sessions and get to the marketplace Yeah, okay, that's good Great location. Thanks, Michael. Oh board meeting enough time. Yeah Board meeting was yes. Thank you to Microsoft for hosting That location was really sweet All right marketplace So I know we have a few folks who actually staffed the booths in the audience as well as folks who? Ideally attended them as well any feedback on the layout what the booths provided the swag that you got No, I see a little tight It would have been nice if the patio was a bit more I don't know like you could sit out there or something Yeah, so similar to like Berlin where it was like a much larger space Yeah, I mean it just kind of set out where it kind of forces you to only be there for like a few minutes Okay, that's good to know So more signage around that being an area where you can go and take your mouth, okay Mario, please mix for every day. Okay Can you put your name next to it so you can sponsor it or your company? Yeah, no Appreciate the honesty Can you figure okay afternoon keynote so this one definitely was a switch up I'll provide a quick thing around the reasoning just because we had a limited load in and so we wanted to make sure that The entire summit footprint as well as the keynotes was exactly what was perfect for our community So The keynotes were awesome. It was a nice captive of the day. That's great. Thank you all for attending because yeah Jet lag hit pretty hard. Yeah, me too That's nap time It's after a really long day. That's that's fair Did the like snacks help though like having something to like eat like as a refreshment Yes, good. Yeah beer You miss the keynotes Jet lag by the complimentary beer might have been a jet lag issue Perfect you merge snacks were great the late-time help for those of us with delayed flights. Oh, that's a really good point Okay, I know we had quite a few folks. I think this whole CERN team was delayed I know and we they had to see us call them out because it's a keynote All right, so forum Good, I'm gonna skip the set so if you have boff or presentations feedback Feel free to drop that in but we're gonna go down to the things that already have comments to discuss The forum good time content and good discussions Glad to have a lot of operators joining awesome almost all forum sessions were packed. That's great 30 minutes was a little short in time So an hour so increasing to an hour. It looks like it's a really popular so For the like timing of the forum sessions we had 30 minute sessions and we had 70 minute sessions and In order to meet the demand with regards to the number of submissions that we got a lot of them Only we only had space for 30 minute sessions only a few made it as 70 minutes so we Expanded into a third day instead of just having it for the first two days and that gave us a little bit more flexibility But we still only had so many 70 minute sessions But something to think about for the future Maybe we flip flop it and have more 70 minute sessions unless 30 minute sessions, but that will be less forum sessions overall then so pros and cons Do people have opinions on the forum and PTG overlap? Because that happened for both days of the PTG I guess like from that perspective like is it better to have I mean because even someone said sorry. Thank you Even someone said I was reading down that like it concurred with interesting talks So is it I mean I know in the ideal world, of course I would assume that the PTG would not overlap with anything from the summit or the forum Is that like that's the ideal like everything works world? Okay What is like if the PTG had to overlap with something? What could it overlap with that would have the least amount of impact on the PTG itself and the involvement? It's it's adjustable I feel so little Now I know that we the PTG was brought in at the last minute in the contract and that's why there was the overlap I mean, I think the most ideal solution is Sessions with some form overlap and then like if we were Monday through Wednesday with some in itself And then changed Wednesday to the Friday or Thursday to Friday. I think is the most ideal I mean it it still means more hotel room for folks But at least you're saving on the flights Yeah, so I think it's more hotel rooms and it's more space for the production side So yeah, so there's definitely a lot of budget impacts with that But like in the future like I mean a lot of times as the events have you know changed and evolved like things are gonna Have to overlap. So maybe it's an ongoing conversation with what overlap provides the most productivity to continue because You know because we have our staff looked at all of the schedule before it went out and huge thanks to Clark actually he Highlighted I think it was like 20 or 30 changes He's like we need to move these sessions from overlapping and when the PTG schedule went live We were like, okay, these sessions need to change the Nova ironic people can't be in the same space at the same time Like so we actually proactively made sure that like specific projects or specific topics didn't overlap as much as we could So it's definitely something that's evolving. It's something that we welcome community participation on to ensure we have but But yeah, it's a little unavoidable sometimes Also, we welcome your feedback on that So if you look at the schedule a week two weeks out and you see something that is a glaringly obvious conflict Please let us know and we will do our best to address it because we Look at it day after day after day after day and it's all shuffling and changing and sometimes things get missed because we're a finite number of people I want to give a huge shout out to Josh. So Josh works at the foundation and And he single-handedly has been updating the schedule like tickets have been Flying in for the past several weeks and every day. I'm like Josh, are you okay? Like it's definitely been a lot He's been stationed at reg meeting all of the speakers for the conference getting them situated So it's really a huge shout out because it's a lot sometimes and all the club There's a lot of conflicts at once. So thank you Josh. This is his first summit. So he's like a little newbie back there Okay Having an in-person PTG is nice and having it together or directly after the summit is good But maybe not in the middle of the cycle. Okay Not many developers came to the PTG sessions Do you mean that who and you whoever you put it in the etherpad or say it out loud that? Developers on site didn't go to the PTG sessions or developers from the community didn't come to the in-person PTG Sorry Okay, so we did have yeah, so he was saying that the community didn't come here So we did have a lot of challenges with that in terms of international travel budgets or people's willingness to travel So it was our first in-person PTG in Four years in Shanghai. Yeah, so it was definitely we were considering they were seeing how it was But was it a particular project that was impacted or do you mean overall? neutron, okay Can we put coffee servers in the PTG room that was an intentional we left it up here to drag like to Attract more attention to like the sponsors who are helping us put on this event and to thank them for paying for that coffee But we could try and make it either closer or something like that But a lot of that does come down to budget and cost And if you want to sponsor it, we will put it down there for you Room was empty a couple times. I went there Okay, it was a big large room But a lot of the feedback that we actually got ahead of time is that some people wanted to zoom people in so I was hoping that With the distributed or the large room folks could distribute and maybe have more conversations that weren't as impacted by the noise regional cafe, okay Oh, this was great So all present teams being in the same room enabled cross-team conversations and collaboration opportunities That is what we have the PGG for so that's fantastic It would have been great if we could have nailed down times and locations before the start But overall my team is happy. What team was this who wants to oh? Cotted containers. That's fantastic. Okay Times and locations for before the start we can work on that and like kind of front-loaded a little bit more ahead of time That's that's great feedback Please don't overlap with the forum Yeah, that's what I was who's going to overlap overlap with the summit recorded sessions not the forum, okay?  It was actually supposed to only be Tuesday And then we extended it to Wednesday as well. So that one it's yeah, we can work on that a bit more But we did try a little bit this time Yeah, okay printed list. Okay, so yeah So some PTG bought feedback so it's getting Adjusted it for you. Yeah, I know I already adjusted it So it was more the having to look at multiple places Yeah, I did hear that feedback So the schedule for the summit not having the PTG schedule in it and having to go to the PTG bought to find it And also the lack of the app being updated for The app the mobile app. Yeah. Oh, okay So you would go there and you could at least click through to the schedule and do it on the website Mm-hmm, even if there was maybe a link in there to the pgb Peachy there is in the PTG collaborative session Description there should be a link to the PTG bot. I mean I intentionally put my session right after the speed mentoring So that I would remember that my session was taking place so background the reason why we Didn't have all the PTG sessions in the like official summit schedule is because it's really Set up to be signed up for impromptu sessions Like some teams will plan quite far ahead and others You know, we're signing up for time like yesterday for today or vice versa And so keeping that up to date would probably make Josh's life of living hell And we like Josh and we want him to stick around so we didn't make him do that this time but We can definitely look into trying to integrate and import things especially as there is now Ikel Support being merged into the PTG bot so that you can import those sessions on your own calendar So something to look into in the future for sure, but that was why for this time. We like Josh Yeah, yeah Connecting members who weren't able to make it to the summit worked well But just because the room was big and pretty empty. It's almost no background noise. That was intentional. We did that on purpose So, yes Okay, yeah, that's a hardware ask. Yeah This time we didn't have the budget for that but something we can try to consider for the future definitely Why Omaha, Nebraska Is it an international airport even I Kind of don't think it is No, I know I don't think they do which means like that's off the list then Lots of people like soul. I like soul the food's great people are awesome public transit is stellar there People are very excited about soul Yeah, do we want to go back through one more quick time? Oh if people have feedback on the sef day, too I have a spot for that towards the bottom Sef day has anybody attended any of the sef day sessions. Did we know sef day was happening one guy? Yeah, buddy Those good sessions it's still taking place. Yeah. Yeah, I think so. Yeah good for them Except they may not have been here for the whole week So they're not as burnt out as we all are so we had ten minute breaks between the sessions and we thought that because of the Proximity of the breakout sessions to each other and the forum sessions and the PTG that ten minutes would be sufficient But did it not feel like it did it feel like you were having to rush and not have any time for a break or to grab coffee Or a snack or something. I have no idea what you just what? Okay, but you had enough time so sessions running over impacted that, okay You kind of met okay. No, I'm a little back around no app. So no app. Okay Kind of miss event right app for scheduling. I don't even know what the scheduling capability was there So what schedule if this person doesn't mind what scheduling capability do you miss from event bright? Or do you mean sked or do you mean? Okay, you meant sked Okay, so what capability do you feel like you're missing can you use the mic triva? Having this sked app and having like reminders ten minutes for a session started that is super helpful Especially when like you're like running from room to room I missed a couple of things because I was having to load up the actual webpage because iOS is a jerk and didn't want to subscribe to the Calendar Link that was provided which was great by the way, but okay So you didn't want to put it to your calendar, but sked would actually send those through its own Notification system. Okay. It's good feedback. Oh, okay. I cal had problems with that Another thing that I've noticed that sked does is it will also send you like a preview of your day So it'll be like these are all the sussing sessions you have on your schedule Now you get to type on somebody else's laptop. Let's all enjoy this It's going pretty well no app. Yeah, do we One two three four five six Are you Android people or are you iOS people one Android? Android Android Android produce Was there wasn't No, there wasn't an actual app umbrella. We haven't had an absence. Oh, I see I see I see Yes No, but kind of miss yeah Website the I cal export lacked room and location information. Okay. That's good feedback Too many conflicts that is the Summit curse it is hard. There's that's great that there's a lot of things that you want to attend though So that's a positive Even when we had a whole and that was even a bigger problem because then you're more exhausted It's hard to grab a pointer to a specific session from the schedule. Oh A link. Okay. My laptop died during a workshops and there weren't any sockets to charge. Okay On the app question can I'm just curious what you wanted the app to do that the website doesn't do Anybody has any input we'd love to hear it What do people miss from the mobile app And JP oh, don't write he said cashing the data as well.  That's because Creating that I don't think know if there'd be as much demand, but we do have Someone's wearing it today. Terry right Terry. What you wearing? So yesterday he had on a we are open in for shirt that does not have a location I'm proud Laundry is important No, so we do have an open in for we are open in for sure if it does not have a location on it And that we do have in a store. So if you run a community group if you want just want it for you and your team We welcome. Oh It's thought who liked the otter this week Where's Lola stand up girl Lola created the otter And she actually while you're standing she created all of the awesome design and the graphics and she makes us look good So, thank you Lola. We can do a map in the future. That was that's a good call We thought about it, but we know there's a lot in the proximity, but we should have done it Yeah, great location. Thank you. Oh all-day coffee was great, right? Sarah over there she does all of our coffee and snacks. She makes sure that you're fed and caffeinated. So I've called her a lot this week. So she's she's brought it She also makes excellent cookies Yeah, you can sponsor those too. Did it what did the folks think about the day one breakfast? Yeah, you really liked it. Okay. We were worried because like keynotes are in the morning are usually a pretty significant way to get people in the building get everyone excited get everyone engaged so I'm glad that that worked and I mean I came in here and it was Squishy, so Some people are Some people are gross. Can someone clarify? It was not me Add whiteboards to the forum rooms, okay. I see Amy. How about thank you, okay? Okay, actually here so The future summits so that is a question I was telling West earlier I think I've fielded 20 times this week and I think it might have actually been 20 times today So this is something that I mean raise your hand if you're at the keynotes Okay, good, okay So we announced our two new regional hubs one in Europe and one in Asia as that is where we as a foundation are seeing the most growth from a membership perspective an individual contributor perspective and an adoption perspective So the challenge is like who's been to a summit any summit before? Okay, so you know that like getting that international travel approved can be difficult And it's something that we're hearing more and more and we also had a Significant number of visas that were canceled for this event. So something that we're exploring is Rethinking how we do events and how we do the summit So for a short answer, we don't have a location yet We do not have a month or day yet, but what we want is to make this a community Defined decision we need to know where are your companies willing to send you? Where are you as a person willing to go because the hard part is as events work when we're able to go together And that requires Budget that includes management approval includes taking time off to be able to engage in the conference so Right now it is a little bit of an open question because post-pandemic the event landscape has completely changed You know, there's we went from two summits a year to one But we also went from even getting approval to go to like three separate events of any kind can be really difficult So Rethinking are there other events we should? Co-locate with like FOSDM has come up a lot this week who goes to FOSDM Yeah So like thinking about events that we could you know go not have any overlapping content But encourage audiences to go to both events Are you raising your hand? No, okay? So like who Like okay between Asia and Europe so we'll start with Europe Like who knows that they would have travel or would assume they would have travel funding to go to an open infrastructure summit in Europe All right. Thanks, JP How about Asia? Okay, and thanks Helena. Yeah, our team is really being responsive and What like what about it depends like what are some of the factors that when you ask your management team for approval? They're like what are some of the questions that are asking you and particularly related to the open infrastructure summit that Gets approval or that changes approval to a maybe or changes approval even to a no What's the cost okay cost like total travel cost plus this the pass? Yep Okay What's your benefit to your employer? Yeah, like to in terms of revenue like does it need to be revenue driven? Yeah, what's your goal to be there? Okay, and what about does it differ between? What number of attendees number of it that's interesting, okay What is the threshold for that who said that that shows is that you a number of attendees? Okay, okay? Thank you What about so PTG versus summit so does having the PTG at the summit make it easier to justify it for you for those of you Who want to participate with the PTG? Yes, yes Okay Even though it's what it's a bad idea. Well some bad ideas can be good Yeah What other events are you going to that have similar audiences that you're like they should be at an open infrastructure summit You don't get to you don't get to go to other things. I'm sorry Tony computing, okay Why would Fosden be really hard for some people I can't hear you sorry One of the issues with Co-locating with Fosden is that there's so many other fringe events So like I know centos and the chaos project already have a presence there So it's almost like we need to co-locate with event. That's already co-located. They're such as one of those communities Thank you. What about Kubecon who goes to Kubecon? Alright Hey, I just say Fosden is doing a weekend So maybe it's easier like to do a summit like this during the week and then we can like Kubecon There are a lot of chances with doing it with Kubecon, but that would be two weeks Maybe or so even longer so maybe hard as well. Yeah, okay. That's good feedback Frozen winter challenges that is a yes, Jeremy. I know your your color on neether pad But it's very fair like the frozen tundras do not travel well during the winter I do not want to go to Minnesota or no, Mahon, Nebraska No Who what's flock connect? Okay, please add a link Okay, yeah So another question I have because I've realized we have a lot of PTG folks in the audience, which is great So considering like going to some of these events and having more of a regional Like regional presence versus like making it this massive global thing What are thoughts on we talked about this a little bit at the board meeting this week But what are your thoughts on the PTG and you know, does vert could virtual supplement that? I know that Everyone has a varying opinion on virtual, but you know How important is having the in-person PTG versus a virtual component? That wasn't a yes or no question So the virtual allows us to have more people at PTG So we get more interaction that way But as we've said throughout the week at the board meeting and other sessions We lose some of the cross-pollination Mm-hmm, and that's the fear so I Don't think the answer is to have virtual and only some people show up in person But that may be what happens, you know like so a representative of it who went to virtual then comes in person So I don't know what the exact answer is But we have increased our diversity by having virtual and at the same time we've limited ourself Diversity including newcomers as well, or is it mainly diversity for established contributors? I Don't know the numbers on the new contributors. I would say diversity in projects Diversity and project diversity of more people could attend because they couldn't get travel. Yeah. Yeah, okay But if folks don't know about the PTG if they're not working at a company They may not see oh, here's an event that's gonna be local to me that I can maybe go to and learn and join That's good feedback. Can y'all hear him? I'm coming to you So my impression is that virtual PTG was fine And we were able to do a lot of things in Newton team But there was like if there was session to get feedback from operators There was almost nobody and forum sessions here in person were much much better It's way easier to just Have a big room and go from one table to another table in a moment when you just are not interested in something So I used to jump from table to table and this is really really hard in Virtual PTG and it's nice to actually See them in person as always like in big companies everything is happening between the coffee shops and the coffee corner So yeah in person. I would also say that Virtual PTG's were more tended with when COVID hit but in the last year It was like dropping dropping dropping when the people were returning back to offices So it's become less attendance and it was like as a beginning. So, okay So one other quote here is pulled down though So one other question I have when thinking about events to either co-locate it with or have a presence with Gesundheit is around who goes to know who has been to an open in for day or an open-stack day or something like that Okay, and who goes to their local meet-ups just in their community Okay, so that I think is another option that we've thought about because a lot of the different open and for days have you know Especially particularly in Southeast Asia have particularly built a very large following I think Korea had like 1,100 people last year Vietnam had several hundreds. So thinking about ways to work with them Dmitri, yeah, yeah, so I actually have idea if we can connect to these local leaders and Well ask or propose them to know Get speakers from different regions to say events to get you know this connection links because right now I feel especially Asia is pretty much disconnected from what we are doing and they were But kind of represented or something so you might not know what they want what they need and So we kind of need to reconnect with this local events in a way Yeah, but it's basically up to like local leaders to invite some someone Yeah, and I think the really good thing about that though is that we just announced the open in for Asia and open in for Europe hubs and Every community organizer or almost every from those regions is actually participating in there So I think that those hubs will actually be a vehicle to channel those conversations up to the broader global community Or that's our hope But if you'd like to participate, please let me know So in terms of Co-locating with an open in for a day. We'd have to be careful not to Like in the career one most people would be speaking Korean right and then we get a whole bunch of International people coming and then ever suddenly the fast communication is slow because we've don't change the language Absolutely, and that's one of the things that makes those the most like so successful. Yeah So that is our agenda, but we want to open it up for any questions or comments Frustrations or for the production team if y'all have any other questions that y'all would like to know Well, thanks y'all. This is actually really helpful and feel free to keep adding to this ether pad We are going to keep looking at it over the next couple of weeks and as we plan for the next summit But again a huge shout out to our production team fntech who helped bring all of this to life For over 10 years over 20 events Uh Tip it as well. So we have JP Sebastian Gabrielle. They bring all of our digital signs our schedule Anything that your mouse clicks on they basically help us build Lola for all the design and then our the foundation staff So me and Kendall are not the only ones we have Wes and Fungi and Clark and Treva and Ildeco and By teary I see you behind that sign. I yeah in a different shirt Kristen Helena So, yeah, we couldn't do this without all of you and we really appreciate not only all of your feedback But just being here this week collaborating talking about your open-source experience Have fun with open-infra. Yeah


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So good morning. Welcome to what is mindfulness anyway. I'm Beth Renestis and I'm going to be introducing our speaker today and I'm a member of the Diversity Committee at the iSchool at San Jose State University. Everyone's talking about it as a way to distress. So we're going to discuss today what is mindfulness anyway. Be more productive and improve mental health. It's now a billion-dollar business that includes corporate trainings, apps, products and online courses. But what actually is mindfulness anyway? This webinar will examine the recent popularity of mindfulness in Western society as well as its history and tradition as a Buddhist spiritual practice. What parts of mindfulness have been embraced and adopted by our culture and which portions have been ignored? What do its proponents rave about and what do its critics argue? Is mindfulness a cultural movement or is it a fad? Is it a spiritual endeavor or an intellectual one? Is it political or apolitical, activist or apathetic? Is it an example of globalization or is it cultural appropriation? These are some of the questions that will arise during the exploration of this topic. You'll come away with a greater understanding of mindfulness, be able to detangle the ongoing conversation surrounding it and perhaps develop a curiosity to learn more. We encourage you to place questions into the chat. We will however not be addressing questions until the end of Jamie's presentation. So a little about our speaker today. Jamie Lin is a librarian, educator and designer living in Southern California. She's a 2014 graduate of the San Jose State University School of Information and has worked as a corporate researcher as well as an instructional designer in online higher education. It's my pleasure to introduce Jamie Lin. Thank you Beth and hi everybody. Just hearing the description of my talk for today. I was like wow that was really ambitious. And you know thankfully I think I pretty much tried to stick to what I had described but there is a lot that that I will be covering today. And so first of all thank you so much for taking time out of your day. Thank you for joining me. This is a topic that I'm sure you hear a lot about and maybe you have positive feelings about mindfulness.  We see it on newsstands at the grocery store and in our online news and social media feeds. And there are so many books about mindfulness and not just books to read but activity books, coloring books, puzzles, games, workbooks, books for kids, books for parents, books for teachers, books for all ailments. And there are apps, lots of them. This article is actually from three years ago. So that number is outdated. In fact the first market research report on mindfulness came out in 2017 and it forecasted an animal growth rate of 11.4% for this industry. So in 2017 that was $1.21 billion expected to be $2.08 billion by 2022. So I did a little bit of math and I calculated that our current app market might look something more like this. And I used to work in corporate research which is all about data. So here's a little bit more data. Google trends data is a great way to track popularity of a topic. And so here we can see the circles for mindfulness have increased by a factor of four in the last 10 years. And all these slides do is illustrate the extent to which this topic captures our collective interest. One last chart here just because I think it's so delightfully librarian-ish. This is from a scholarly article published in 2017 and it uses Lexis-Nexis data for news articles about mindfulness, which are shown in pink. So there's about 33,000 of them published in 2015. Scholarly articles shown in blue outpace these in growth from about 200 in 2005 to 1100 in 2015. And that's really incredible. That is five and a half times growth. And as for the question of what are all these articles examining, you know, I that's unfortunately another talk for another day. I did the ones that I did look at do seem to cover all pretty much everything that I talk about today and much more. So we won't be touching so much on the reasons why this is happening, though this is clearly, you know, showing our society's interest in both popular and scholarly perspectives. What I do want you to consider as I'm talking today is this. What is the potential given all of its interest? How can it be used? How can it be abused, squandered or nourished? The subject of mindfulness is gigantic and complex. And I really did try to narrow my topic. But I do recognize that I am fitting in a lot today probably more than I should have for one session. It's just really interesting. So we'll be looking at how mindfulness appears in our society in the United States, where a capitalist society and we have the history of valuing the strong individual who against all odds works really hard and succeeds in making a lot of money. But mindfulness comes from the eastern spiritual tradition and it's part of the Buddha's practice or part of the Buddha's teachings to end suffering in ourselves and the world we exist within. When brought to a country that is highly suspicious of religion, specifically non-Christian religion, and values the individual over the larger community, how does something like mindfulness change? How does a culture that commodifies everything treat a philosophy that was meant to be offered to all people who expressed interest in it regardless of their ability to pay? Is it still mindfulness? And what is mindfulness anyway? So I am not a cataloger, but for those of you who are interested in cataloging, you may want to consider these three current LC subject headings for mindfulness and think about where you might classify the information I'm sharing with you. Maybe it's time for a new subject heading, and if so, what would that be? Okay, so we will start in 2007 at a tech company called Google. An engineer named Ched Meng Tan came up with an idea. And I'm going to let Meng describe for you what his idea was. This is a video from 2012, and for some reason, sometimes when I press play, it doesn't start to play correctly, the link points around, so I may need to... Like, my name... Yep, here we go. ...is the question of why did I do this? How did Search Inside Yourself begin? Embarrassingly enough, it began with world peace. Search Inside Yourself started because I wanted to create the conditions of world peace in my lifetime. And the way it started was we have this thing called 20% time project. For those of you watching on TV, engineers, at least in my days, when I was a young man, we could spend 20% of our time working on whatever project we wanted. And I figured, since I can do whatever I wanted, I might have solved the toughest problem I know, which is world peace. I mean, mining asteroids, anybody can do that. World peace, that is tough. So I started thinking to myself, the first question asked, what are the necessary and sufficient conditions for world peace? I figured something out. I figured that there are two conditions which are necessary, each one insufficient, but combined may be sufficient. The first is the end of global poverty. The second is inner peace, inner happiness, and compassion on a global scale. And combined, I think they are necessary and sufficient. And then I figured, since Gates and the rich guys are working on the first one, the second one, nobody's working on it, I'll work on it. How do I do that? And then after a few months, I figured it out. I figured out that the way to create inner peace, inner happiness, and compassion worldwide is to align it with the success of individuals and businesses. If you can create those qualities in ways that help people succeed at work, that help business bottom line, it's going to spread. If it's just about goodness, it's kind of nice, go hug a tree. But if it's this thing, this thing, it will help you get your next three promotions and you will earn the company a lot of money. Oh, by the way, you will create world peace. Okay, so where do I sign up? So the idea, there's a word for it. I'm blanking out right now, upaya, skewful means, which means that to do something good, do what align with the people's self-interest in the way that the goodness is a necessary and unavoidable side effect. So help people succeed in a way where world peace is the unavoidable side effect. That's what I'm trying to do. Good, how do I do that? And then a couple of months of thinking, I figured it out. I figured out the way to do that is to create a curriculum for emotional intelligence for adults. And that was how SIOI started. That was the story. So SIOI, Search Inside Yourself, started or began with the story of one funny little engineer at his pursuit for world peace. And I hope that this story will have a funny and happy ending. Okay, so I'll pause there. This is actually the ending part of a one hour long video. And it's actually quite enjoyable and informative. Michelle's just put the link in the chat if in case you had some issues watching it or you want to watch it again later. So Meng is a really charming guy. And he uses analogies like horseback riding and lifting weights to describe mindfulness. And Meng believes that mindfulness takes only 100 minutes of practice to have an effect and is trainable to a meaningful degree in seven weeks. Now the institute that he created to teach this, help employees get promoted while also creating world peace is called Search Inside Yourself. And it has now become its own entity separate from Google. And its mission statement is we help people develop the leadership and emotional intelligence skills needed to intensify focus, manage stress, harness creativity, and improve resilience. And this is what corporate mindfulness is about, managing stress, improving worker productivity, and learning how to recover quickly from any number of workplace related issues. How do they piece this? You go to their website, you'll see that the oh here we go, that they offer trainings for organizations and for individuals. And let's just start by taking a look at an individual training. Right away we can see that they're offered all over the world. I'm going to choose one in the U.S., so we'll take Chicago. And you'll see it is a two-day course, nine to five. Join the emerging movement of companies integrating evidence-based mindfulness in their workplaces, emotional intelligence, neuroscience, and mindfulness. And so it's a two-day program followed by a four-week online journey. So it's a little less than the seven weeks that he was saying is, you know, what is needed for training to a meaningful degree. But I'm sure you'll learn the basics in this. This coaching education credits is actually new since I added this to my presentation because it's very interesting because it will relate to what I'm going to be talking about in just a little bit too. And here are your facilitators, these very friendly-looking people. And here we go. Okay, so one ticket is $1,250 and plus a $45.69 fee. I don't know about you, but that seems really expensive to me. I can't or, you know, I guess no, no, I don't know if I would spend that much on a two-day training. But, you know, they did say that they offered organizational training, so maybe having them come talk to the organization would be better. Now, they don't actually list their corporate prices on the main website, but I did find these figures on another page. And I just want to say, I wish I made $30,000 for two days of work. So two-day program $30,000, a one-day program, $20,000, a half-day program, $10,000, and if you want a keynote, anywhere up to $7,500. So thinking about this a little bit, I wonder, well, how would someone like me, for example, go about becoming an SIY trainer? Keep your training. Okay, so we're looking for candidates with established sales and marketing skills and or an existing network of clients to whom SIY can be offered. By the way, this emphasis on the text is there, screenshot from their website. So once certified, the institution offers some support for business development. However, the expectation is that teachers would build their own business and client base. But to be a mindfulness teacher through SIY, I basically need to be a good salesperson. That's probably not me, but we're investigating now. So let's just keep continuing. Okay, so the cost of the teacher training is going to be $9,800. And if you jump to the end of this, it says it does not include the cost of attending a today program. So I will have to pony up that $1,250 anyway. It's just clearly an investment. I guess if you're thinking about it, from the lines of I'll make $30,000 per training, maybe it's something worth it. But then there is this 25% licensing fee that's taken from my proceeds. And also, it turns out that teachers need to sign a non-compete agreement as well. So any existing companies that work with SIY or any other SIY trainers are off limits. That's why I would need to bring my own client base. Okay, so some people might do well in this model and many will not. How much money does SIY make anyway? For those of you who are interested in a career in research, please make note of this. Financial information for non-profits can be found through IRS Form 990. It won't have the most recent figures, but these can often be estimated. SIY is a registered non-profit. In 2015, it's asset a little under half a million dollars. And you can see that it grew quite a bit over the next two years. If we calculate the year on year growth rate, and there are online calculators that do this for you now, so you don't need to do fractions on paper, we find an absolutely astounding growth rate of 41.5% and 46.5%. Wow. So taking this a little further just to show you, if you were doing this for your, you know, for your work, you can estimate 2018 and 2019 assets just using a figure within this range. So I use 40% to 50% growth to come up with 2019 numbers of 1.9 to 2.2 million. Now these are not giant numbers from a business perspective. It's really about that growth, the over 40% annual growth and starting from, you know, less than half a million dollars four years ago. And if you were in business, these would be extremely attractive figures to anyone looking to start a business. Oh, maybe it should be a mindfulness-based business. Maybe I can grow 40% every year. So SIY, a project originally created to help Google employees obtain promotions with the side effect of world peace, has another side effect becoming a profitable business model. Meng said it himself, it's not about kindness, otherwise go hug a tree, this is business. So remember this slide, it's quite a bit more conservative than that 40% growth, but still significant. To give you some comparison, the organic food market industry grew by about 6%, advertising by 9.6%, and the entire education sector by 7.9%. So it's not Buddha statues, coloring books and meditation cushions that are raking in the big books here. It's business models like this one. Now I'm personally not going to pay 10 grand for an SIY certification and then pay them 25% of my earnings. We live in a world of options. And in this case, there are 103 million of them, which is the number of my results when I Googled mindfulness training. So I picked a site from its ad, of course, and here's what I got. Okay, and I have no idea if this program is good, if it bad, mediocre, amazing, it was really chosen pretty much at random. But let's think about how we evaluate websites. What would this course need in order for us to consider it to be credible and having authority? I'll just lie down a little bit. Okay, great. Certificate, yes. We definitely want some sort of proof that we have completed this training. Some great information about what we're getting, a review, the curriculum looks quite intense. There are 30 sessions. Okay, here's our instructor and a hawk, accreditation and certification. This is probably a good idea to have a certificate vetted and validated by somebody. Certificate again, just in case you missed it. Okay, here's our creditor and $540. Now maybe just because we were comparing it to SIY, but this looks much more reasonable to me. Let's scroll back a little bit to that accreditation information because we are librarians and we're going to follow this trail. So international mindfulness and meditation alliance, IMA. Let's type in IMA. I've been here before, so it's already on my history. Okay, so here's some information about IMA. It's telling you why it was set up and here's the advisory board. So we've got this guy, a corporate trainer and nature connection guide. We've got a life coach, CEO of HeartLife Academy, change coach, facilitator, speaker, mental health advocate and an author. Okay, so here's the advisory board and you know this is super quick and dirty evaluation. I'm just going to click on accredited schools now and the first thing I see is HeartLife Coaching and I do remember that that was the name of one of the advisory board members programs. A couple more in Australia. She's in Australia for children. The next one is the Nature Mindfulness, also a program by one of the advisory board members and then you'll see and then the one that we had looked at. So you know really I guess you'd have to ask what does it take to start an accrediting body in this business of mindfulness and very little apparently. A willingness, a website really is the wild west right now but what we see is that the business of mindfulness not only includes large and small companies that provide corporate mindfulness training, it also includes the education process to become the trainer, certified online courses, the institutions that accredited them, membership fees, accreditation fees, certification fees, all another side of the business and once you have your certification you can start your own business or join a company that hires heart certified teachers like The Den in Los Angeles. The Den has a glossy website and brochures and offers a variety of mindfulness services. So we'll see here classes, workshops, private meditations, private healings, corporate kid retreats, online podcast and their model is that of the yoga studio with drop-in courses. So here's today's schedule. Mindfulness at 10, and a bunch of other things as well. So on their corporate brochure I mentioned that their teachers meet the highest standard for training and education. What does that mean? And does it mean anything given what we've just seen? Oops we're going back again. Continue on. Okay and so for businesses that want to take a different approach perhaps more cost-effective approach there are software platforms like this one which is called eMindful and this shows in the data and the numbers that businesses understand why mindfulness is something that companies should embrace. And for the budget minded organization there is the do-it-yourself kit. Everything you need to teach a one-day workshop for improving mindfulness including the instructor guide and the training manuals. Okay so how did we get here? That was a very quick look at the business of mindfulness, the burgeoning industry of mindfulness as it appears in the U.S. from a root in Buddhist philosophy and teachings. So our next section now is a very brief and very incomplete history of mindfulness in the United States. This is easily another hour-long talk in itself. So I've determined three distinct types of mindfulness, Buddhist, MBSR and MBCT which I'll get to in a bit and of course the New Corporate Mindfulness that we just learned a little bit about. In the Buddhist tradition and this is this itself is very misleading because there are many Buddhist traditions on lineages. It may help to think about the variety of Christian denominations and then you start to get the picture. In the U.S. Buddhist tradition one of the most recognizable figures in the West is Thich Nhat Hanh. He's a Vietnamese monk and the founder of the Plum Village tradition which I've read as the largest Buddhist organization in the West. He came to the United States in the mid 1960s as academic faculty at Princeton and then Columbia and he is a well-known author. He's published over a hundred books and these books are generally very easy to read in short chapters and paragraphs and he's credited with making mindfulness really accessible to the average Westerner by not focusing on Buddhist texts but speaking of the practice of being mindful of taking it off the meditation cushion with you mindful eating, walking, talking, even mindful fighting. Some call him the father of mindfulness. He's also a peace activist and poet. He was exiled from Vietnam for four years because of his anti-war activities and Martin Luther King Jr. nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967. Esen Goenka was a wealthy Burmese businessman from the country we now know as Myanmar. He started meditating because of facilitating headaches and it completely changed his life. He brought vipassana meditation, a style of sitting meditation that centers around mindfulness of breath and of body to India in the 1970s and he started his first U.S. center in 1982. There are now hundreds of his centers and locations in the world. 20 of them are in the U.S. and three of them are in California and what's really interesting about Goenka's model is that he's, he's, they've always been offered completely free of charge and keeping with the Buddha's intent that his teachings be offered to all those interested regardless of their ability to pay. So if you've heard of meditation boot camps it probably refers to a Goenka center. These are very traditional retreats. There's chanting in Pali, the original language of the Buddha and they're intended to teach the experience of mindfulness through 10 days of silent sitting meditation. Now because he spoke English Goenka attracted a number of western students including Ramdas, Baba Ramdas, Daniel Goldman, the guy credited with emotional intelligence and Sharon Salzburg. Sharon Salzburg along with Jack Cornfield and Joseph Goldstein established the Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts in 1975 based on Vipassana teachings and a few years later Jack Cornfield established Insight Meditation West which is now called Spirit Rock in the Bay Area. These centers are the best known secular Buddhist meditation centers in the U.S. and they offer retreats that can be quite expensive costing several thousands of dollars. The words Vipassana and Insight Meditation are now used interchangeably though I'm going to say that Insight embraces the idea of secular Buddhism while Goenka refers to his style of Vipassana as non-sectarian and I had to look up the differences in those words so I'll share them with you. Secular means not religious and non-sectarian means not related to a specific religious group so yes religiously sort of but even if you're Christian, Jewish, or Muslim you can still practice Vipassana without being Buddhist. So in addition to embracing a secular view of Buddhism the history and culture of Insight meditation has been predominantly white, liberal, college-educated and middle and upper middle class. Recently there has been significant movement to diversify with scholarships offered to people of color and now retreats specifically for people of color you know but it is maybe a little ironic that Western Buddhist meditation in the U.S. has been historically white and wealthy and is now trying to include people of color. Mindfulness became a part of the U.S. scientific community through the work of John Cabot-Zinn. He studied with Tsigma Khan and the Insight Meditation Society and he found the teaching to be very valuable but he was concerned about the religious side of it so as a scientist he knew his intended scientific audience wouldn't accept a foreign and religious practice as the basis of medical treatment so he completely removed Buddhist elements and took only the small section that included mindfulness. The result of this was an eight-week clinical program for pain management called mindfulness-based stress reduction, MBSR. So you can say you know Cabot-Zinn really understood his intended user group and how to gain traction and success within that community and he designed something specifically for them. MBSR has been the foundation for mindfulness in the neuroscience, psychology and counseling communities with offshoots such as mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, MBCD, and mindful self-compassion and these are considered well-established and respected program for mental health care. There have been many scientific studies now that prove using tools like fMRIs how meditation affects our brains. The benefits have been validated through scientific study when we saw that a little bit earlier with that you know amazing chart. So John Cabot-Zinn by the way he is the son-in-law of Howard-Zinn I found that really interesting and I thought you might too. He's been called the founder of modern mindfulness. He legitimized the practice of mindfulness through the scientific medical community which allowed our western secular society to embrace an eastern spiritual practice without the eastern spiritual practice. So here's a depiction of the Eightfold Noble Path the path that the Buddha outlined we must follow in our daily lives to end suffering within ourselves to develop a heart of generosity of compassion towards others and to eventually at some point in our multiple lives achieve enlightenment. So you'll see that right mindfulness is just one spoke of the eight spoke wheel and the word right in front of mindfulness refers to a set of moral and ethical guidelines like don't lie don't steal don't kill similar to the Ten Commandments in Christianity. Now in addition to the Eightfold Noble a full noble path there are four foundations of mindfulness in Theravada Buddha's teaching I'm not going to get into that today but also mindfulness is the first of the seven factors of awakening. So you see here that right mindfulness goes together with investigation energy and joy some of these lead to each other in fact like mindfulness leads to investigation leads to energy leads to joy some of them arise concurrently so tranquility concentration which is really clear awareness and equanimity which is defined as mental calmness composure and evenness of temper especially in a difficult situation. Now this mental calmness and composure is how today's mindfulness is marketed to you and me right don't stress be calm be mindful and yet here we see it's just one thing and that calmness is actually considered something else in here so you can ask what is mindfulness without the rest of the spectrum and how are we supposed to get to enmity if we only have one. So Kabat then took mindfulness without the right from this larger structure and he created MBSR and an entire system of thinking about mindfulness which has become the widely accepted and understood definition of mindfulness in the West and speaking of definitions part of the challenge of understanding mindfulness are the variety of definition for it. So let's compare one of Thich Nhat Hanh's descriptions with John Kabat-Zinn. But Thich Nhat Hanh says mindfulness is the continuous practice of deeply touching every moment of daily life. To be mindful is to be truly present with your body and your mind to bring harmony to your intentions and actions and to be in harmony with those around you. Kabat-Zinn says mindfulness is the awareness that emerges through paying attention on purpose in the present moment and non-judgmentally to the unfolding of experience moment by moment. So the first definition includes something outside of yourself the harmony of intention and action to yourself as well as those around you and mindfulness is described as a continuous practice. Second definition defines mindfulness as something that is within oneself and awareness that emerges and it's of the present moment and if you'll recall that Mank Tan company is called search inside yourself. So this second definition is what is often used to describe mindfulness in the United States. For a country that thinks in terms of the individual and the self mindfulness then becomes something centered and existing within the individual. Also note that mindfulness itself is an English word it's a translation of a poly word Sakti which is very loosely defined as remembrance on the awareness and in the Buddhist context something that is developed through certain actions such as meditation. And meditation a word that's often paired with mindfulness is not necessarily mindfulness there are forms of meditation that are not related to mindfulness and while mindfulness in the Buddhist tradition is a form of meditation in the United States it's not necessarily considered meditation but concentration and focus. So here's where I say will the real mindfulness please stand up because this is a central part of the confusion surrounding the term and what it means. Etymologist please you know chime in here if you translate an idea with an English word does that English translation become its own thing separate from the original and historical root. And you know too what I'm sharing with you today is a very cerebral look into the meaning of mindfulness. I want to emphasize that the Buddhist understanding of mindfulness is not through our conceptual thinking brains which we're using now but through our experiential bodies. So for example you can read as many books about learning how to play the piano as you want but you'll gain a much better understanding of how to play the piano by actually sitting down at one and playing it and practicing it repeatedly over years. The one practices mindfulness through a certain way of paying attention to what is happening within and around you. Let's return briefly to MBSR it has its own certification and training process and school and accreditors and historical precursor to corporate mindfulness. Of course MBSR practitioners fall within a spectrum some study MBSR and then continue to explore and practice mindfulness within their lives and explore further. And then of course you know there are those who will get the certificate so that they can do their job and offer a certain kind of mental health care to their clients. I think it's probably an oversimplification to blame or credit depending on how you see it cabots in with corporate mindfulness. We live in a society based on free market enterprise that esteems science and that thinks in terms of the individual instead of the community and you know maybe that also has something to do with our social elements that we suffer from stress depression and anxiety. This Boston Consulting Group article describes mindfulness as a centuries old idea reinvented to address the challenges of our digital age. Mindfulness is perfectly suited to counterbalance the digital age challenges of information overload and constant distraction. And here are a couple more examples of the need for and the benefit for mindfulness. On the left a section from the Den's corporate brochure. Today's employees are over-scheduled, burnt out and report feeling little bandwidth for innovation and big picture thinking. Effective teamwork is about more than finishing a task list. Employees need clear focus, flexibility and purpose in the face of pain. On the right we have an example of how corporate mindfulness makes etna employees more productive saving the company $3,000 per employee per year. Okay so now we come to the backlash the criticism. Oh man that was that was my reveal okay pretty didn't see that. So the term mic mindfulness was coined in 2011 by a psychotherapist named Dr. Miles Neal who practices Tibetan Buddhism. The name refers to the surface level treatment of mindfulness in our culture not just corporate culture but also in the MBSR counseling world. So he according according to Dr. Neal so he has similar concerns about the way we understand and embrace yoga and he calls it frozen yoga. So both of these practices provide immediate nutrition but no long-term sustenance end quote. And by this he means a spiritual sustenance one that will truly tame you open you and connect you. And I find this yoga example especially compelling because yoga as we know it is more established in our society so let's take a look at this for a minute. I'm going to assume that many of you have attended a yoga class at some point in your life or you know people who go to yoga regularly but do do you know that the yoga poses the asanas are only one part of a larger spiritual tradition. We're taught the poses for flexibility strength and de-stressing and we're largely unaware that there is anything else to it. So as we're talking about mindfulness today compare this with your experience with yoga. People love yoga it makes you feel good and people also love mindfulness. Does it matter? Does it matter that there is more? And does it matter that that is not commonly understood or practiced by many yoga teachers themselves? So when you say namaste at the end of class you know what it means. I see it in a lot of memes social media memes usually followed by a swear word and you know it's usually used or sometimes used sarcastically and is a way to make fun of yogis. And it means the divine in me recognizes and acknowledges the divine in you.  Something to think about. So Ron Percer is the guy who made the term mic mindfulness famous or infamous. He's a professor of management at the Francisco State University also a Buddhist in the Korean tradition and he's written academic as well as popular articles on the subject and a book that is called mic mindfulness how mindfulness became the new capitalist spirituality. His question of purpose here is not about individual stress reducing benefits but inquiry into social structures and the way that Percer explains it our personal stress has societal causes and without addressing this mindfulness is nothing more than basic concentration training full of self discipline disguised as self-help instead of setting practitioners free as it is meant to do in its original form to be free of suffering is the very goal of Buddha's teachings it helps them adjust to the very conditions that cost their problems. So for instance social problems such as inequality racism poverty addiction they become viewed as individual issues and work stressors like working long hours or working multiple jobs job insecurity and the threat of constant layoffs and subsequently losing your health insurance a bad boss lack of autonomy all of these become an individual's responsibility to manage after all if the fmri shows that stress physically appears and disappears in a person's brain then it's something that the person created right and can therefore control this kind of thinking about mindfulness according to Percer keeps you focused on yourself and how to improve yourself and everyone else's problems are their responsibility to manage and you never need to examine the social and structural causes of your suffering this mindfulness tells you that you can fix yourself you just have to find the right podcast the right app the right workshop and keep shopping if one of those doesn't work for you and if nothing works for you then that's your failure that's not that of an unbust system so Percer is just one man he happens to write a lot and he also writes very well his articles are really interesting but i did find in my research that he is either the author or the co-author of all the articles that i found online that address this type of criticism for mindfulness and that define it as a product of capitalist neoliberal greed and as you can imagine practitioners of mbsr object to this lump of themselves into his characterization in this mindful response the authors explain that no contemporary mindfulness is a marriage between secular buddha contemporary buddhism and science not capitalism but they do in this response they do recognize there is a brand of mindfulness light that shows up in corporate trainings and they distance themselves from saying that this is not what is taught in mbsr and mbct now mindfulness is a way to observe and identify your emotions and how they appear and disappear in your body and teaches you to not self identify with the emotional reaction a lot of people most of us i would say have never learned to do this or we've never been encouraged to do this so a corporate mindfulness workshop might be the only exposure that someone has to the idea that to this idea and that it's also okay and even may be good to take some time to just sit and pause for a minute tick not haunt as someone who believes that real change can happen in businesses that practice mindfulness this belief is called the trojan horse theory in academic work and it's you know referring to sneaking in that disguised weapon that will bring down the fortress so meng tan also believes in this side effect of world peace while searching inside yourself you will open to compassion for the suffering of others in a way they're just you know bringing mindfulness into the the existing structure capitalist structure of society so while there has been no evidence of this level of institutional change today um this would definitely be something that takes time right and it would probably be part of something larger like more mindful consumers demanding that the companies or for be more socially responsible and also a shift in corporate culture which is often generational that wants physical and mental wellness to be a part of employee care living in a free world means that we have plenty of choices for how to become familiar with mindfulness multiple day sitting retreats are not for everyone and even if you wanted to go it might not be possible to find what kind of time an app might be ideal for you right now a book might be good for your friend a drop in class might work best for your co-worker and yes some of these options may provide a more limited view of mindfulness but whatever works best for you might change you might make you make you happier and you know that's a good thing what we want to avoid is the mental exhaustion on rebellion that arises from having it marketed to us everywhere so i think this is what makes us start dismissing it has us treating it like namaste you know with sarcasm with vision with rolled eyes we don't control how and how often this is advertised to us but we can learn to be mindful in our response to it and to understand that it's not mindfulness that it's annoying it's the way it's being shoved in our faces marketed whitewashed and used to make us feel bad about ourselves and in fact i think welcoming my mindfulness as a practice into your life will actually help you not buy or buy into anything that is marketed to intended to make you feel bad about yourself maybe it'll be even maybe it could be the downfall of consumer culture we can only hope right um so i meditate i go to retreats and i think my mindfulness is great it's changed my life i used to be the kind of person not too long ago actually who absolutely hated the word gratitude and saying things like best kind or breathe out love so if you're a skeptic i definitely get you um i reveled in my bad attitude and in my emotional pain because i defined myself by that and now i can say i am a very grateful and happy person and by happy i don't mean you know la la la everything is awesome uh it's more a peace of mind and a sense of my place in the larger world and it really is because of mindfulness which led me to dive a little deeper into that whole eightfold noble path to self-compassion passion others and a heart that wants to share to be open and breathe out love buddhas are very familiar with this sensation and they refer to it as cultivating a heart or generosity and this appears in many ways so you for instance you're being offered an example of it in the mini conference that's starting right after this webinar about wholehearted librarianship this is very closely related to mindfulness loving kindness compassion and how to bring this into your work it's breathing out love right and remember how i mentioned that buddhism in the u.s has been historically white and wealthy well time changes hearts open and people really begin to truly examine themselves and their institutions closely and take concrete purposeful steps to change the status quo and now there are quite a few teachers who are people of color not trainers but teachers in the buddhist armor the buddhist path and what happens when you have people of color especially with those who have a background in nbsr or social work community work counseling education and to have years of experience studying and practicing mindfulness meditation when people like this begin teaching the dharma the path this is where it gets really radical and this is where we witness the dream of a collective transformation of suffering into freedom mindfulness is neuro decolonization according to social worker michael yellowbird a dean and professor at the university of menetoba you take that science-based concept of neuroplasticity and rewrite how you view yourself in the world and how you react to it it's about self-empowerment through overcoming histories of trauma and using that empowerment to teach others to heal the east bay meditation center in oakland california is composed of about 40 to 50 percent people of color and equal numbers who identify as part of the lgbtqi community the meditation coalition in los angeles holds talks on subjects like undoing patriarchy and prison reform and liberate is a free app that offers recordings by teachers of color to the black identified community on subjects like handling microaggressions racism ancestors self-worth love and compassion these are examples of a growing movement of creating aware and engaged spiritual based communities within our increasingly fractured society and i'm not particularly surprised that this is being led by people who have historically found themselves written out of history and who have generations of collective pain and trauma to address and who choose as their heart-based work to heal their communities we live in a country that gives us options you get to choose how we see mindfulness whether it's as a commodity a tool for capitalists a religious thing a way to better understand yourself or even as a movement to bring about great social change so what appeals most to you about all of this you get to choose but uh you know what would it be like to break together rather than to break apart uh finally i'll close with a meta prayer a loving kindness blessing may you be peaceful may you be happy may you be safe and healthy and may you grow through wisdom and love every day and intention thank you there's a little resources link at the end here it's not really complete but for those of you who want to learn a little bit more you can visit the slides later thank you so much jamie there are some questions that came in so i do want to make sure we have 11 minutes so you do have time for questions uh anybody can place questions in the chat um yes thanks michelle i also want to say if your question is more of a personal nature i'm not a mindfulness trainer or teacher but i'm happy to i'm going to share my personal email in the chat and if you want to email me i'm happy to you know answer you one on one and while you're doing that jamie i'm going to scroll up because we had a question that came up around 11 24 from norton and i can read it to if you'd like yes please okay the question was are you aware of any studies research that explore how mindfulness is operating in libraries for librarians uh like not just try it articles but good hard looks um the only one that i saw was um not quite because i did look i did do a search for mindfulness in libraries and it was um see now i can't even remember because it wasn't actually relevant to what i was researching um i think that that is actually a fantastic research opportunity right there um and especially because you know my libraries and especially public libraries are communities that um that would be practicing this or welcoming it into their community spaces um yeah i think there's an excellent research opportunity there but but no i'm not aware of um that particular aspect but i also am not aware of the huge amount of academic articles that have been published recently on this topic and i did a quick search just in google scholar and it looks like there has been uh some literature written and there are several books one i see amanda just typed in uh it's a more recent one recipes for mindfulness in your library um and then there's one called the mindful librarian connecting the practice of mindfulness to librarianship and a whole host of um articles it looks like a lot of them are come from the academic sector but um maybe when i check into that um let me see i'm going to scroll and see if draia douglas did share a great npr article uh how namaste flew away from us so uh just want to let you know about that yes thank you that one that one always makes my heart hurt a little bit every time i see it used really sarcastically um here's another question um it looks like a Jill just taco i hope i said it correctly um we'll like to learn how we can continue the conversation after this webinar and um Jill has provided some background um as to sounds like her experience and working in colorado and would like to learn how others are using mindfulness in the library setting and collaborate with others to find ways to bring meaningful programs to staff and patrons and so she says thank you um for starting the conversation if there's any other questions go ahead and place them in the chat uh it looks like there's a lot of wonderful thank you oh here's a question um it's from i'm not sure who it's from a number but it the question is what was it that changed you from a bit of a skeptic to someone who believes in mindfulness um great question and it was the practice of it it was actually taking the time to sit down and try it and um i started with just reading some of tichnot han's smaller books um and then trying to explore you know how i would or finding those so helpful for me and then jumped right into a 10 day silent going to a retreat um which i really enjoyed well enjoyed is not the quite word the quite the correct word it's not for everyone for sure but um just being able to sit for 10 days with myself and actually experience what was happening was life changing great um i will have to do that more often even even there are many options there are two-day retreats there are four-day retreats um you know 10 days i is good because you can't leave i'm you know they kind of lock you in because it is you know your mind is kind of wild crazy place and after a couple days you're like okay i got to get out of here um so the 10 day really does make you say no you have this there's no option you have to sit um but there are definitely some some easier um more gentle options to defeat this and are there any other questions you can play some of the chat and while we're waiting for questions to come in i do want to remind everyone of uh i already posted it in the chat but right after this is the wholehearted library soft skills for 21st century information professionals it is from noon to 3 p.m pacific it's a free online will be recorded a mini conference um really adding on even to this topic so you can go to the link and register and then secondly i will mention our upcoming webinar so on our website and here's the link for this are the upcoming webcasts on a variety of topics and we have a host of uh diversity series coming up different topics um the next one in april will be around uh the topic of library services to immigrants a discussion on the role of information and migration so we welcome you to attend those as well uh the recording there is a question what will happen is the recording and the presentation will be posted on our website generally within one to two weeks of the actual presentation so look for it on our website on the on-demand webcast page within two weeks of this presentation and here's that link if you would like to have it so it'll be recorded posted there with these slides and then i see josh had a comment thank you great presentation i love the criticism of capitalism and mindfulness this piece is usually missing but is essential and then some more thank yous well thank you all for attending for taking the time out of your busy day um and yeah i do hope that you have the time to see what the um wholehearted librarianship mini-conferences about that that sounds really interesting thank you again jamie we really appreciate it and thank you to beth and debbie for your support today and for all of you for attending and we look forward to seeing you at a future session thank you again jamie thanks bye everyone


This is stock number 20 J123. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used Jeep headquarters today. We are checking out this super clean or brand new 2020 Jeep Wrangler unlimited Rubicon in Black clear coat this vehicle has the 3.6 liter v6 pentastar motor and it has the 8-speed automatic Transmission we're going to do a walk around here, and then we're going to get up close and personal with this vehicle and Get all the exact options on it But we like doing the walk around so you can get a good idea of the overall looks of the actual vehicle and actual daylight If you'd like to check out all the photos on this Jeep in the upper right hand part of screen is a link right to our Website click that and check us out there comes with the Falcon wild peak tires. These are LT 285 70 r 17s It comes with the painted and polished aluminum Alloy rims get the little red Jeep on there has an aggressive tread pattern on there You get the Rubicon lettering on the hood the red tow hooks You get the granite crystal Inserts on the grill there get the little Jeep logo on the headlights, and it does have the lights in the fenders factory fog lights Get the sport hood on here Also has the little Sandals on the plastic there, and you get the little Jeep driving up the side of your windshield Get that grayed out Wrangler unlimited Sticker on there comes with the rock rails part of the Rubicon package has the enter-and-go system if it's got that little button on There you know it's got the enter-and-go And we're going to take a look at the original window sticker here feel free to pause this at any time I'm going to go through it kind of quick But to see all the standard features take a look on your left and then all the optional equipment is right there It has a cold weather group the 8.4 radio and premium audio group, which gives you the navigation and all the serious XM stuff that comes with that. You also get the Cargo tub liner by Mopar the plastic door sill guards all weather floor mats 8-speed automatic transmission the remote proximity keyless entry That's the enter-and-go system and the black hardtop is a $1,295 option for a total of 51 395 Your highway MPGs are going to be 20 to 18 city and 20 average And there your safety ratings most of it's not ready because it is Technically a convertible But feel free to pause that at any time you can see it as the all-weather floor mats those plastic door sills You get the Torx 50 indication on the door sills there are on the door hinges to take those off which Torx wrench to use Four-wheel disc brakes on the Wranglers You get the red-toe hook back here Does come with the backup camera, which once we get inside. I'll show you that. It's a pretty neat because it is HD so Guessing this is the rubber tub Floor liner. Oh, that's what they were talking about has the actual insert so you can remove that if you wanted This goes in there as well There's the Alpine premium sound system This is your case for the front two hardtop pieces you get two holders right here for Windshield washer fluid and the electrical the hardtop is kind of that crushed eggshell finish The bars are painted on here They made the tailgate a lot lighter closes a lot easier and then you get that JL badge on the back here Which tells you wheel base overall length and water 40 and all that good stuff there These tops closed just like they always did on the JKs The only difference is those doors swing a lot more smoothly now Because they're lighter Does have the heated power mirrors Inside this particular Rubicon package gives you the black cloth interior with the cold weather group you get the heated seats You get the Rubicon stitched backrest Does have the side current airbags standard now and the all-weather floor mats come with this one as well Auto headlamps tilt and telescopic steering wheel and as we hop inside the vehicle here You can see it does have the seven inch LCD display digital speedometer outside temp compass display as well You get the heated Leather wrap steering wheel with the red stitching cruise controls on the right Bluetooth and information center controls on the left and it does have audio controls on the back of the steering wheel You can see this one comes with the nice matte red finished dash and The 8.4 4c radio with the factory navigation now because it has navigation You also get the five-year serious XM traffic and travel link And you also get one year of serious XM guardian with this vehicle Has AM FM and serious XM radio capabilities You also have your climate controls here You can do your heated seats and heated steering wheel buttons here as well You can also do Android auto and Apple CarPlay on this radio so you can project your cell phone to the screen and if you have ways or Google Maps or whatever map program you use on your phone You can project it right to the screen Control it through the screen and it's like you have navigation right on your screen if you don't like using the factory navigation Now this one also has the backup camera Which I was telling you about and the reason I always brag about this backup camera is because it is an HD It is super crisp super clear has the dynamic grid lines and You know the Everybody always used to complain that Wranglers in a backup camera as well now they do and they have probably the best one on the Market so Very cool stuff there. If you don't like doing your climate and heated seat buttons on the screen there You can do them right here as well. You have your start stop Stability control downhill sys control. You do have your power window buttons right there Your media center to or has a USB C a USB and an aux jack front and rear locking Diffs and sway bar disconnect right there. This is really what makes the Rubicon a Rubicon is is that those little buttons there? Capability the four but four-wheel drive shifter on the floor. This says the eight-speed automatic transmission. This one also has The keyless enter and go system the remote start the big buttons That's a real big bulky key. So you know which key you're grabbing if it's in your pocket Has the flip open key to get in the doors in case your batteries dead Really a nice bulky key has the top of graphic Formats, so if you're a geography minor like me you get into that a little bit Sners seat you get that same eggshell finish on the ceiling there these front hardtop pieces come off Very similar to the JKs. The only difference is you don't get those two screw pieces that would go in right there and right there I think they remove those because they found a lot of people were just putting them in their center console and never putting Them in so they don't have those anymore and you also have your two Quick disconnects right there the two latches there You do get assist in the SOS because you have that 8.4 with the nav has the home link buttons for your garage door Security systems and lightings and the auto dimming mirror. We'll take a quick look at the back seats I had definitely want to show you the back seats because they They put a lot more room back here Then they had before Comes with the latch child safety system Get the red stitching throughout Get that top of graphic style floor map back here as well Back here you get two more usb's two more usb C's in a hundred fifteen volt hundred fifty watt plug-in Comes with the latch child safety system these seats do fold down almost completely flat Which is really nice if you got a haul a bunch of extra stuff and The other thing I like is that these headrests can go down now Even when the seats in the upright position that never really was a case and you can move just that headrest down There's actually two latches right there anyways Child safety locks on the back doors. You can take the doors off one of the most versatile vehicles on the planet and I personally would like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully You've been able to get a really good idea of the overall styling and looks and options on this particular Jeep Learn a little bit about the Rubicon package the 8.4 kind of an overall Introduction to the Wrangler I guess you could say and to see more pictures of this Wrangler one of our other 450 new and used cars trucks SUVs minivans Wranglers. You name it. We got it go to our website www.SummitAuto.com full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle if you want to check out our YouTube channel YouTube comm slash summit out remember to like subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there. Thanks again


Hey martial arts and fitness fans this is Wing Chun Kid here today I'm going to show you five of the advanced Wing Chun exercises that work out that I do here check it out it's a combination of yoga and martial arts training are you ready here we go here's the single leg squat it's a useful exercise to get really strong legs here's how you do it first of all let's do a regular squat just going down and up just going down put your hands out like this straight and come up then come back so from the side just like this and like this so that's a regular squat with both legs now all you need to do is do it one day so what you do is just lift up one day and slowly go down as far as you can without having this foot touch the ground and come back up like that okay and do that again breathe out breathe in make sure you combine your breathing with your movements from the side and do it like this another point is to keep your toes pointing straight not outwards and not inwards okay so what I'm doing the squat my foot is my toes pointing straight so this way make up hands out now slowly all the way you can stick this one leg out point your toes like that and come up slowly like this so that's the single leg squat here's a couple variations you can do for the leg single leg squat you can start adding some weights to your hand a good one to start with is just a regular pole or a wooden bow staff like this one so we're gonna do the same thing because now we're gonna hold up the staff like this and do the squat wiggle your toes back and forth turn it around keep this nice and straight and come back up with the weight as you get stronger you can add weight onto this here's an advanced version of the single leg squat we're going to combine the bow staff and also a couple more movements of the leg so do your squats regularly and when you get the lowest position move out your left leg or your outside leg to the side and rotate it to the back and to the side and back in the front and then get back up slowly like that do that five to ten times and you'll feel the burn the reason we do this is now you strengthen your entire hip muscles in your leg and in your core so train hard have fun hey thanks for watching my martial arts training and workout fitness videos i hope you enjoyed them and used them to get stronger if you like this video make sure you check out my other videos that i have on my channel and make sure you click the subscribe button right here to get the latest and best training and workout and self defense training lesson videos that i have so i'll see you soon in the next video


Health promotions took their knowledge to the classroom to talk to kids of all ages about the importance of a healthy diet. Registered dietitian Lieutenant Melissa Amesqua believes in teaching kids how to make better decisions about what they put in their bodies. We want to make sure that they're working with their parents to actually make a healthy lunch, eating their whole grains and fruits and vegetables and lean proteins. We had the plates with the kids where they were able to like put in their fruits and their vegetables and talk about things that they actually like or don't like. Trying to do a little bit of everything. Moderation, balance, variety. The team chose March to talk to the kids because it's National Nutrition Month. But Amesqua says she will continue this training at Sigonella Schools to keep kids on track. They know a lot of times, but they're not always going to do it. And so I think with more education, talking to them more of why we're doing it, preventing disease and also so that they can live a healthy lifestyle in general, it's just something that we're going to continue to do. Reporting from Naval Air Station, Sigonella, I'm Petty Officer Rebecca Sunderland.


This is JSATV, the newsroom for tech and telecom professionals. I'm Dean Perine and welcome to JSATV. We are coming at you live from the show floor at HostingCon 2016 in the big easy of New Orleans, Louisiana. And I'm here with Mr. Blake Darche, I got that right. With Blake Darche, he's the Chief Security Officer for Area One. Blake, welcome to JSATV. Thank you. And so how's the show going for you? Good, we've been talking to a lot of providers about different security threats. And networking, good booth traffic, all that good stuff? Yeah, good booth traffic, yep. Outstanding, outstanding. So speaking of booth traffic, now I stopped at your booth because I saw Area One and naturally thought Area 51 and instantly was intrigued. So why don't you tell our viewers a little bit about Area One? Sure, so Area One security, we're a cybersecurity company based out of the San Francisco Bay Area and we're trying to help providers, hosting providers and large network providers be able to isolate security threats that are emanating from their network or attacking their network and also try to help them make the internet safer for the average user. Very good, so how's that done? How do you make the internet safer for the average user? So we do that a number of ways. We work with providers to try to isolate attacks, prevent attacks from occurring against their users and use that information to help other users protect themselves against attacks. Very good, and so what is the latest and greatest coming out of Area One? The latest and greatest. New news, any new customers to speak of? Anything you can talk to me about? I think there's a lot of focus in the hosting industry today on DDoS attacks. And so we're trying to differentiate ourselves from that, we don't really do much in the DDoS area per se, we're a little bit more in the prevention space, trying to prevent attacks from targeting users and customers of a hosting provider. Very good. It's a little different market. Outstanding, Blake, thank you for joining us on JSA TV. Thank you very much. You got it. And thank you viewers for watching JSA TV, we'll see you soon.