“…The increasing trendiness of contemplation in the field of education has not only been motivated by efforts toward a more socially just and caring society, it is also driven by research that suggests benefits for university teaching, learning, and scholarship (Barbezat & Bush, 2014). For example, evidence suggests that contemplative approaches have positive effects on students' metacognitive development, effective communication, deep learning and critical reflection of the subject studied, and inner growth (Borker, 2013;Morgan, 2012;Nuangchalerm & Prachagool, 2010 There has been growing interest in applying contemplative principles to the teaching and learning of student writing, as evidenced by recent calls for papers in scholarly journals (Miller & Bhattacharya, 2017), the formation of special interest groups (NCTE, 2017), and the growing number of published books, blog posts, and articles (Barbezat & Bush, 2014;Burton, 2016;Davis, 2004;Jones, 2016;Simmer-Brown, 2016;Wenger, 2015). This interest had been taken up in popular books on writing such as Anne Lamott's (1995) Bird by Bird and Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones which both engage its spiritual dimensions.…”