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This chapter shifts the discussion of ethics in applications of mindfulness to look directly at the actions of those who are learning to practice mindfulness together and describe what happens. Four decades of MBI research have focused almost exclusively on quantitative analysis of individual outcomes of participants. Such an individualistic view obscures the group as essential in the delivery of the interventions, considering its relationships and resonances that build and thicken among participants and teachers across the weeks of the course. Through narrative illustrations and descriptions drawn from neurophysiology, social psychology, and aesthetics, this chapter offers a model of the interactions and relational forces at work, suggesting that an ethical space is created through the deeply shared process of the co-creation of the teaching and learning of mindfulness. The model of the relational space is then applied to ethical questions in practice, in the group. |
