David Forbes

David Forbes teaches and writes on critical and integral approaches to mindfulness in education and consults with New York City schools on developing social mindfulness programs. In 2019 he published Mindfulness and its Discontents: Education, Self, and Social Transformation. He co-edited the Handbook of Mindfulness: Culture, Context, and Social Engagement (Springer, 2016) with Ron Purser, with whom he collaborated on the podcast, The Mindful Cranks. As a counsellor educator David taught School Counselling in the School of Education at Brooklyn College/CUNY for nineteen years. While there he wrote about his experience teaching and practicing mindfulness with a Brooklyn high school football team in his book, Boyz 2 Buddhas: Counselling Urban High School Male Athletes in the Zone (2004) and was a co-recipient of a Contemplative Program Development Fellowship from the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society. David has written and co-written articles in the series on Open Democracy.net/ Transformation: Mindfulness and Social Change. He is a member of the multidisciplinary academic network, Popular Psychology, Self-Help Culture, and the Happiness Industry.