Introduction: A New Hope

Abstract

In this time of great growth, opportunity, and tension in the mindfulness-based programs (MBPs), a question arises for me—and I suspect for many others. Can we, its diverse community of scholars, researchers, and teachers, apply the second-order morality that arises from our work? Can we embody the non-pathologizing, non-hierarchical, and non-instrumental dispositions that comprise friendship? I would very much like to think so. The way that the community receives critique from those who dissent within it is of great consequence. This volume, which brings powerful, valuable, and diverse new resources to the practice and poetics of the pedagogy of the MBPs, is an offering made in friendship—how it is received will tell us much. As we tend our relationships together, may we find a new hope. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)