About The Annandale Center for Contemplative Practice (ACCP)
What would our campus and community look like if it were driven by contemplative practice? At the ACCP, we aim to foster a community of individuals who not only thrive in the classroom and within their work units but also who engage in the personal work of identifying their own conscious and unconscious needs, identifying strategies for meeting those needs and fully embrace their complete humanity, recognizing the presence of needs as they exist in others, and, ultimately, challenging the prevailing depersonalizing culture that can exist in institutional spaces.
Drs. Cheri Lemieux Spiegel (Professor of English) and Paul Fitzgerald (Professor of Biology) are the primary contact people for this initiative and shared space.
The Annandale Center for Contemplative Practice assists faculty, staff, and students in bringing a mindful, non-violent perspective to their personal and professional experiences. We engage in this work via the offering of workshops, facilitated small group discussions, and other opportunities to gather, both in-person and online, with the express interest in engaging in activities that make active, intentional progress toward building a mindful, inclusive community culture.
Mission
The Annandale Center for Contemplative Practice assists faculty, staff, and students in bringing a mindful, non-violent perspective to their personal and professional experiences. We engage in this work via the offering of workshops, facilitated small group discussions, and other opportunities to gather, both in-person and online, with the express interest in engaging in activities that make active, intentional progress toward building a mindful, inclusive community culture.
Vision
At the Annandale Center for Contemplative Practice, we envision our workplace as one where all members of our community – staff, faculty, administrators, and students - are fully empowered and equipped with tools to identify and recognize their needs as they arise, envision possible strategies to meet their needs and communicate those needs and strategies to others in a non-violent, supportive way.