About Continuum:

Advocacy &
Educational Fieldwork

Continuum is a social justice

and educational consulting
business that facilitates
workshops & seminars,
creates educational
materials, and offers writing
services.

Mindful, Communicative
Kindness

The Kindness
Connection:

Mindful, communicative kindness is

when both speaker and listener work
together in mutual awareness to
deliberately share meaning with one
another in ways which support truth
and wisdom, unclouded by ignorance,
in order to reduce suffering, for
speaker, listener, and others, from a
perspective of profound respect for,
and a sense of communion with, one
another and all phenomena.

Creating Care,
Compassion, and
Community through
Mindful
Communication

Mindful, communicative kindness

incorporates an understanding of the
profound interdependence of
phenomena, and it derives from a
wholehearted aspiration to connect with
others and cultivate wholesome mind
and heart states in oneself and others,
as well as beneficial circumstances in
the world.
For more information about mindful,
communicative kindness, see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1iH
41U7cZc &
http://prezi.com/k_so0s4pakqn/mindfulcommunicative-kindness-for-school/

Presented by
Clay McLeod
of
Continuum: Advocacy &
Educational Fieldwork

Mindfulness

Neuroplasticity
Neural networks and patterns in the
brain are flexible and can be changed
over time. By practicing mindfulness
and other related practices, one
changes the patterns of neural
connections in the brain and the nature
of thinking and feeling patterns in the
mind and heart. Practicing mindfulness
allows you to train your brain
purposefully.

Mindfulness is the moment-tomoment non-judgmental scrutiny of

present physical and mental
experience, including intentions,
perceptions, sensations, emotions,
feelings, and thoughts, through calm
and focused awareness.
Mindfulness training often starts with
being mindful of breathing.

The Garden of the

Mind
Different mind and heart states,
ranging from hatred, greed, and
ignorance to kindness, openness,
generosity, and wisdom, can be
abandoned or cultivated.

Cultivate Skillful
Mind & Heart States
To be effective in changing your life
and the world in positive ways,
mindfulness should be paired with the
purposeful generation and cultivation
of skillful mind and heart states like
kindness, gratitude, and realistic
optimism.
We are all profoundly interconnected
with one another and our
environments. This means that the
development of skillful mind and heart
states on the individual level has an
impact not only on ones self but also
on others. Mindfulness enhances this
impact of skillful mind and heart
states. Those states, in turn, enhance
mindfulness, giving it a
transformational aspect.