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Wells  \nOakland University  \nThis conceptual paper presents a synthesis of information about the workload stress of educational administrators. Currently, there are few programs designed to assist educational leaders to deal with stress (Hawk & Martin, 2011). Stress reduction programs may include mindfulness, a widely used practice of meditation. Mindfulness is used informal medical and health care settings, and is gaining interest across disciplines of law and business (KabatZinn, 2003) and has been proven by numerous scientific studies to promote health and reduce stress (Greeson, 2009). In addition to suggesting that meditation be part of the university preparation program for administrative training, this paper presents new thinking by suggesting that the attitudinal foundation of mindfulness practice be embedded within course content for reflective, authentic, and case study assignments.  \nIntroduction  \nKabat-Zinn (2005) related a story of a group of business people who came to a workshop on mindfulness practice. As he entered the room he noticed the people doing the usual preworkshop things such as reading the Wall Street Journal, and checking their personal devices of texts, phones, etc. When he suggested that the group begin without an agenda, sitting in stillness for a while, several men and women began to weep within minutes. After several minutes, Kabat-Zinn asked if anyone would like to share what was happening with the tears, and there were almost unanimous comments where people revealed they almost never do anything without an agenda. Men and women, the executives of major corporations, in touch with the stress and burnout of their fast-paced worlds, were experiencing stillness and weeping for what they almost never experience—peace, quiet, and no agenda.  \nConsider the following description of burnout syndrome: “losing enthusiasm for work (emotional exhaustion), treating people as if they were objects (depersonalization), and having a sense that work is no longer meaningful (low personal accomplishment)”(Krasner, Epstein, Beckman, Suchman, Chapman, et al., 2009, p. 1385) . What was the occupation being referenced in this description? Physicians, were the members of the group being characterized with burnout, with the statistic that one in three was found to be experiencing burnout at any given time in their career.  \nNCPEA Education Leadership Review, Vol. 14, No. 3– October 2013 ISSN: 1532-0723 © 2013 National Council of Professors of Educational Administration  \nWhat about aspiring and practicing administrators and their stress levels? I write this paper to include a view of the world of educational leaders, the high price of stress, and the options that we have, as university professors, to provide stress reduction for them within the confines of a university preparation program for leadership. I write with equal parts of optimism and urgency, forging perhaps a new path for thinking that there is something we can do to instill hope along with skills in learning how to have a balance of mindfulness meditation for the leaders of our nation’s schools.  \nBackground  \nIt has long been recognized that principals are involved with expectations that make their jobs ones that are full of interactions that are fragmented, brief, and unrelenting (Hallinger, 1992) . Principals are under continual pressure and enormous stress as they respond to demands for quality while working with demographic changes, increased parental expectations, curricular mandates, technological advances, and instructional improvements (Browne-Ferrigno, 2003; Cooley & Shen, 2003; Griffith, 1999; Marks & Printy, 2003; Pounder & Merrill, 2001 ; Petzko, 2008) . Hawk and Martin (2011) reported high levels of stress for over 50 per cent of superintendents. Next to diminished revenues, principals reported personal stress was listed asthe highest stress factor, receiving h","cbCaiipIwlFVmwUK","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiipIwlFVmwUK","pdf",184012,"English","# Introduction\n# Background\n# Mindfulness","[{\"question\":\"Why does the paper focus on stress for educational administrators?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that administrators face persistent, fragmented demands and escalating pressures, while few programs help leaders manage stress effectively.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the paper define burnout syndrome and why is it relevant here?\",\"answer\":\"It describes burnout through emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced personal accomplishment, then connects it to occupational stress in high-burnout roles.\"},{\"question\":\"What approach does the paper recommend for university administrative preparation?\",\"answer\":\"It recommends integrating the attitudinal foundation of mindfulness into course content and using reflective, authentic, and case study assignments to support stress reduction and balance.\"}]","Mindfulness in Academia - Considerations for Administrative Preparation | PDF",1792093320,28]