Leigh Burrows is Senior Lecturer at the College of Education, Psychology and Social Work, Flinders University. She has been teaching, researching and publishing on mindfulness for over a decade, but believes she was practising mindfulness from a young age without realising it. She has a particular interest in assisting women and men to access the empowering potential of a 'full spectrum' of mindfulness possibilities rather than being locked into limiting binaries of 'masculine-feminine', 'east-west', 'spirit-nature', mind-body and 'active-passive'.
Empowering Mindfulness for Women is centred around a a 5-day intensive mindfulness course attended by eight women from different backgrounds. The reader is invited to imagine they are actively... (more)