Loretta Pyles, PhD, MA, is Associate Professor in the School of Social Welfare at the State University of New York at Albany. She is an engaged scholar concerned with transformative social change and holistic social work practice and pedagogy. Her scholarship has centered on the ways that individuals, organizations and communities resist and respond to poverty, violence and disasters in a policy context of neoliberal global capitalism and social welfare retrenchment. She is a certified yoga instructor and utilizes mindfulness and embodied learning in her pedagogy, both in the classroom and in the community.Gwendolyn J. Adam, PhD, MSW, LICSW, is an Associate Professor at Central Connecticut State University, School of Education and Professional Studies. With a focus on mindful and experiential leadership, accountability in practice and education, and interdisciplinary teamwork, Dr. Adam has developed training curricula, a national strategic plan, competency assessment models and community-based services. She is committed to living and being fully, imperfectly, and to promoting compassionate presence.

• Part I: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Holistic EngagementChapter 1: Educating Transformative Social Workers: The Case for Holistic PedagogiesLoretta Pyles and Gwendolyn J. AdamChapter 2: A New Model for Holistic Engagement: A Foundation for Social Work PedagogiesGwendolyn J. Adam and Loretta Pyles Part II: Dialogue, Participation and Critical PedagogyChapter 3: Learning in Community: A Transformative Healing Educational Model for Teaching Community OrganizingTerry Mizrahi, Esperanza Martell, Kate Cavanagh, and Allison WeingartenChapter 4: "By the End of The Term, You Will Have Gained Power in the Classroom and I Will Have Lost None:" The Pedagogical Value of Discomfort & Vulnerability in the Teaching of Community PracticeSteve BurghardtChapter 5: Conversation and Dialogue in Social Work EducationBy Benjamin ShepardChapter 6: A Deliberate Pedagogy: Introducing the Hidden Curriculum, Social Pedagogy and the Common ThirdMette Christiansen Part III: Theater, Arts and the Human Spirit Chapter 7: Mimesis: A Theory for Holistic EngagementPhil DybiczChapter 8: Improvisation: A Practice for PraxisUta WalterChapter 9: Teaching to the Holistic Self: A Case Study of a Critical Social Work ClassroomJuliana Svistova, Lara Bowen, and Meera Bhat Part IV: Mindfulness and Integrative Social WorkChapter 10: There Is A Path. You Are On It. It Does Lead Somewhere.David PettieChapter 11: Is Mindfulness Value Free? Tip Toeing through the Mindfield of MindfulnessRobyn Lynn, Jo Mensinga, Beth Tinning, Kelly Lundman Chapter 12: Promoting Integrative Mind-Body-Spirit Practice to Advance Holistic Social Work EducationSalome Raheim and Jack J. LuChapter 13: Pedagogy for an Integrative Practice: Experiential Unity Theory and Model Alyson QuinnChapter 14: Re-Constructing Social Work Education: The Path Forward for Holistic PedagogiesLoretta Pyles and Gwendolyn J. Adam

Loretta Pyles, PhD, MA, is Associate Professor in the School of Social Welfare at the State University of New York at Albany. She is an engaged scholar concerned with transformative social change and holistic social work practice and pedagogy. Her scholarship has centered on the ways that individuals, organizations and communities resist and respond to poverty, violence and disasters in a policy context of neoliberal global capitalism and social welfare retrenchment. She is a certified yoga instructor and utilizes mindfulness and embodied learning in her pedagogy, both in the classroom and in the community.Gwendolyn J. Adam, PhD, MSW, LICSW, is an Associate Professor at Central Connecticut State University, School of Education and Professional Studies. With a focus on mindful and experiential leadership, accountability in practice and education, and interdisciplinary teamwork, Dr. Adam has developed training curricula, a national strategic plan, competency assessment models and community-based services. She is committed to living and being fully, imperfectly, and to promoting compassionate presence.

• Part I: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Holistic EngagementChapter 1: Educating Transformative Social Workers: The Case for Holistic PedagogiesLoretta Pyles and Gwendolyn J. AdamChapter 2: A New Model for Holistic Engagement: A Foundation for Social Work PedagogiesGwendolyn J. Adam and Loretta Pyles Part II: Dialogue, Participation and Critical PedagogyChapter 3: Learning in Community: A Transformative Healing Educational Model for Teaching Community OrganizingTerry Mizrahi, Esperanza Martell, Kate Cavanagh, and Allison WeingartenChapter 4: "By the End of The Term, You Will Have Gained Power in the Classroom and I Will Have Lost None:" The Pedagogical Value of Discomfort & Vulnerability in the Teaching of Community PracticeSteve BurghardtChapter 5: Conversation and Dialogue in Social Work EducationBy Benjamin ShepardChapter 6: A Deliberate Pedagogy: Introducing the Hidden Curriculum, Social Pedagogy and the Common ThirdMette Christiansen Part III: Theater, Arts and the Human Spirit Chapter 7: Mimesis: A Theory for Holistic EngagementPhil DybiczChapter 8: Improvisation: A Practice for PraxisUta WalterChapter 9: Teaching to the Holistic Self: A Case Study of a Critical Social Work ClassroomJuliana Svistova, Lara Bowen, and Meera Bhat Part IV: Mindfulness and Integrative Social WorkChapter 10: There Is A Path. You Are On It. It Does Lead Somewhere.David PettieChapter 11: Is Mindfulness Value Free? Tip Toeing through the Mindfield of MindfulnessRobyn Lynn, Jo Mensinga, Beth Tinning, Kelly Lundman Chapter 12: Promoting Integrative Mind-Body-Spirit Practice to Advance Holistic Social Work EducationSalome Raheim and Jack J. LuChapter 13: Pedagogy for an Integrative Practice: Experiential Unity Theory and Model Alyson QuinnChapter 14: Re-Constructing Social Work Education: The Path Forward for Holistic PedagogiesLoretta Pyles and Gwendolyn J. Adam

Loretta Pyles, PhD, MA, is Associate Professor in the School of Social Welfare at the State University of New York at Albany. She is an engaged scholar concerned with transformative social change and holistic social work practice and pedagogy. Her scholarship has centered on the ways that individuals, organizations and communities resist and respond to poverty, violence and disasters in a policy context of neoliberal global capitalism and social welfare retrenchment. She is a certified yoga instructor and utilizes mindfulness and embodied learning in her pedagogy, both in the classroom and in the community.Gwendolyn J. Adam, PhD, MSW, LICSW, is an Associate Professor at Central Connecticut State University, School of Education and Professional Studies. With a focus on mindful and experiential leadership, accountability in practice and education, and interdisciplinary teamwork, Dr. Adam has developed training curricula, a national strategic plan, competency assessment models and community-based services. She is committed to living and being fully, imperfectly, and to promoting compassionate presence.

• Part I: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Holistic EngagementChapter 1: Educating Transformative Social Workers: The Case for Holistic PedagogiesLoretta Pyles and Gwendolyn J. AdamChapter 2: A New Model for Holistic Engagement: A Foundation for Social Work PedagogiesGwendolyn J. Adam and Loretta Pyles Part II: Dialogue, Participation and Critical PedagogyChapter 3: Learning in Community: A Transformative Healing Educational Model for Teaching Community OrganizingTerry Mizrahi, Esperanza Martell, Kate Cavanagh, and Allison WeingartenChapter 4: "By the End of The Term, You Will Have Gained Power in the Classroom and I Will Have Lost None:" The Pedagogical Value of Discomfort & Vulnerability in the Teaching of Community PracticeSteve BurghardtChapter 5: Conversation and Dialogue in Social Work EducationBy Benjamin ShepardChapter 6: A Deliberate Pedagogy: Introducing the Hidden Curriculum, Social Pedagogy and the Common ThirdMette Christiansen Part III: Theater, Arts and the Human Spirit Chapter 7: Mimesis: A Theory for Holistic EngagementPhil DybiczChapter 8: Improvisation: A Practice for PraxisUta WalterChapter 9: Teaching to the Holistic Self: A Case Study of a Critical Social Work ClassroomJuliana Svistova, Lara Bowen, and Meera Bhat Part IV: Mindfulness and Integrative Social WorkChapter 10: There Is A Path. You Are On It. It Does Lead Somewhere.David PettieChapter 11: Is Mindfulness Value Free? Tip Toeing through the Mindfield of MindfulnessRobyn Lynn, Jo Mensinga, Beth Tinning, Kelly Lundman Chapter 12: Promoting Integrative Mind-Body-Spirit Practice to Advance Holistic Social Work EducationSalome Raheim and Jack J. LuChapter 13: Pedagogy for an Integrative Practice: Experiential Unity Theory and Model Alyson QuinnChapter 14: Re-Constructing Social Work Education: The Path Forward for Holistic PedagogiesLoretta Pyles and Gwendolyn J. Adam