david forbes Brooklyn College CUNY
David Forbes has taught School Counseling in the School of Education at Brooklyn College/CUNY and is an emeritus associate professor in the Urban Education Doctoral Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. He studied psychology and counseling at Chicago, the New School, and Berkeley. He teaches and writes on critical and integral approaches to mindfulness within neoliberal society and education and consults with New York City schools on developing social mindfulness programs. He wrote Boyz 2 Buddhas: Counseling Urban High School Male Athletes in the Zone and other works such as “Occupy Mindfulness” and the chapter, “Mindfulness and Neoliberal Education: Accommodation or Transformation?” He and Ron Purser co-edited the Handbook of Mindfulness: Culture, Context, and Social Engagement, and with whom he co-produces the podcast, The Mindful Cranks. He was “Member of the Month” (March 2017) on the Mindfulness and Contemplative Education network website. http://www.contemplativeeducation.ca/david-forbes-march-2017/ His current book is Mindfulness and its Discontents: Education, Self, and Social Transformation.
Publications
Forbes, D. (2019). Mindfulness and its Discontents: Education, Self, and Social Transformation. Halifax and Winnipeg Canada: Fernwood Press.
Forbes, D. (2017). “Critical integral education: School counseling.” In O. Gunnlaugson, C. Scott, H. Bai, &
E.W. Sarath (Eds.). The intersubjective turn in contemplative education: Theoretical approaches to
contemplative learning and inquiry across disciplines. Albany: SUNY Press. 37-58.
Forbes, D. (2017). “Mindfulness and neoliberal education: Accommodation or
transformation?” In Mindfulness and Educating Citizens for Everyday Life, Volume 2. M.
Powietrzynska & K. Tobin (Eds). Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers. 145-158.
Link
Purser, R.E. & Forbes, D. (2017, May 30). “How to be mindful of McMindfulness.”
Alternet. Link
Purser, R.E., Forbes, D. & A. Burke (eds.). (2016). Handbook of Mindfulness:
Culture, Context, and Social Engagement. New York: Springer.
Forbes, D. (2016). “Critical Integral Contemplative Education.” In R.E. Purser, D.
Forbes, & A. Burke (eds). Handbook of Mindfulness: Culture, Context, and
Social Engagement. New York: Springer (pp. 355-367). Link
Forbes, D. (2016, June 29). “Modes of Mindfulness: Prophetic Critique and Integral
Emergence.” Springer First Online: Mindfulness 7: 1256. doi:10.1007/s12671-016-0552-6. Link
Forbes, D. (2015, November 8). “They want Kids to be Robots: Meet the New Education Craze Designed to Distract You from Overtesting.” Salon. Link
Mastropieri, B., Schussel, L., Forbes, D., & Miller, L. (2015, June). “Inner Resources for
Survival: Integrating Interpersonal Psychotherapy with Spiritual Visualization with
Homeless Youth.” Journal of Religion and Health, 54 (3), 903-921.
Forbes, David & Ron Purser, “Search Outside Yourself: Google Misses a Lesson in
Wisdom 101” (2014, March 5), Huffington Post, Link
Forbes, David (2012, June 30), “Occupy Mindfulness.” Link
Forbes, David (2007, Autumn). “Contemplative Urban Education,” Encounter:
Education for Meaning and Social Justice, 20(3), 38-45. Reprint.
Forbes, David (2006, Spring), “Finding the Zone: Beyond the Social Construction of
Masculine Gender Identity,” Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice,
19(1), 16-24.
Forbes, David, (2006). “Contemplative Urban Education,” in P.
Anderson, K. Hayes, D. Griffith, J. Kincheloe, & K. Rose (Eds.). Urban
Education: An Encyclopedia (pp. 161-170). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
Forbes, David (2005). “In Da Zone: Meditation, Masculinity, and a Meaningful Life,”
in J.P. Miller, S. Karsten, D. Denton, D. Orr, and I.C. Kates (Eds.). Holistic Learning
and Spirituality in Education: Breaking New Ground (pp. 154-160). Albany: SUNY
Press.
Forbes, David (2004a). Boyz 2 Buddhas: Counseling Urban High School
Male Athletes in the Zone. New York: Peter Lang.
Forbes, David (2004b). “What is the Role of Counseling in Urban Schools?” in 19 Urban
Questions: Teaching in the City (pp. 69-83), S. R. Steinberg & J.L.
Kincheloe (Eds.), New York: Peter Lang.
Forbes, David (2003). “Turn the Wheel: Integral School Counseling for
Male Adolescents,” Journal of Counseling and Development, 81, 142-49.
Forbes, David (2002, April). “My Life as a Mind: A Late Sixties Memoir,” University of
Chicago Magazine, 26-30. Available at:
http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0204/features/life.html
Forbes, David (1994). False Fixes: The Cultural Politics of Drugs,
Alcohol, and Addictive Relations. Albany, New York: SUNY Press.
Forbes, David (1986, spring). Clinical Notes on the Case of the Little
Prince. Journal of Polymorphous Perversity, 10.
Reprinted in Glenn C. Ellenbogen (Ed.) 1986. Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality. New
York: Brunner/Mazel. 78-79.
Forbes, D. (2017). “Critical integral education: School counseling.” In O. Gunnlaugson, C. Scott, H. Bai, &
E.W. Sarath (Eds.). The intersubjective turn in contemplative education: Theoretical approaches to
contemplative learning and inquiry across disciplines. Albany: SUNY Press. 37-58.
Forbes, D. (2017). “Mindfulness and neoliberal education: Accommodation or
transformation?” In Mindfulness and Educating Citizens for Everyday Life, Volume 2. M.
Powietrzynska & K. Tobin (Eds). Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers. 145-158.
Link
Purser, R.E. & Forbes, D. (2017, May 30). “How to be mindful of McMindfulness.”
Alternet. Link
Purser, R.E., Forbes, D. & A. Burke (eds.). (2016). Handbook of Mindfulness:
Culture, Context, and Social Engagement. New York: Springer.
Forbes, D. (2016). “Critical Integral Contemplative Education.” In R.E. Purser, D.
Forbes, & A. Burke (eds). Handbook of Mindfulness: Culture, Context, and
Social Engagement. New York: Springer (pp. 355-367). Link
Forbes, D. (2016, June 29). “Modes of Mindfulness: Prophetic Critique and Integral
Emergence.” Springer First Online: Mindfulness 7: 1256. doi:10.1007/s12671-016-0552-6. Link
Forbes, D. (2015, November 8). “They want Kids to be Robots: Meet the New Education Craze Designed to Distract You from Overtesting.” Salon. Link
Mastropieri, B., Schussel, L., Forbes, D., & Miller, L. (2015, June). “Inner Resources for
Survival: Integrating Interpersonal Psychotherapy with Spiritual Visualization with
Homeless Youth.” Journal of Religion and Health, 54 (3), 903-921.
Forbes, David & Ron Purser, “Search Outside Yourself: Google Misses a Lesson in
Wisdom 101” (2014, March 5), Huffington Post, Link
Forbes, David (2012, June 30), “Occupy Mindfulness.” Link
Forbes, David (2007, Autumn). “Contemplative Urban Education,” Encounter:
Education for Meaning and Social Justice, 20(3), 38-45. Reprint.
Forbes, David (2006, Spring), “Finding the Zone: Beyond the Social Construction of
Masculine Gender Identity,” Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice,
19(1), 16-24.
Forbes, David, (2006). “Contemplative Urban Education,” in P.
Anderson, K. Hayes, D. Griffith, J. Kincheloe, & K. Rose (Eds.). Urban
Education: An Encyclopedia (pp. 161-170). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
Forbes, David (2005). “In Da Zone: Meditation, Masculinity, and a Meaningful Life,”
in J.P. Miller, S. Karsten, D. Denton, D. Orr, and I.C. Kates (Eds.). Holistic Learning
and Spirituality in Education: Breaking New Ground (pp. 154-160). Albany: SUNY
Press.
Forbes, David (2004a). Boyz 2 Buddhas: Counseling Urban High School
Male Athletes in the Zone. New York: Peter Lang.
Forbes, David (2004b). “What is the Role of Counseling in Urban Schools?” in 19 Urban
Questions: Teaching in the City (pp. 69-83), S. R. Steinberg & J.L.
Kincheloe (Eds.), New York: Peter Lang.
Forbes, David (2003). “Turn the Wheel: Integral School Counseling for
Male Adolescents,” Journal of Counseling and Development, 81, 142-49.
Forbes, David (2002, April). “My Life as a Mind: A Late Sixties Memoir,” University of
Chicago Magazine, 26-30. Available at:
http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0204/features/life.html
Forbes, David (1994). False Fixes: The Cultural Politics of Drugs,
Alcohol, and Addictive Relations. Albany, New York: SUNY Press.
Forbes, David (1986, spring). Clinical Notes on the Case of the Little
Prince. Journal of Polymorphous Perversity, 10.
Reprinted in Glenn C. Ellenbogen (Ed.) 1986. Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality. New
York: Brunner/Mazel. 78-79.