David Forbes

David Forbes' novel is Broken Land Dreams. He is an Emeritus Associate Professor in the Urban Education Doctoral Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. He taught School Counseling in the School of Education at Brooklyn College/CUNY for nineteen years. He studied psychology and counseling at UChicago, the New School, and UC Berkeley. David teaches and writes on critical and integral approaches to mindfulness within neoliberal society and education and has consulted with New York City schools on developing social mindfulness programs. He wrote Mindfulness and Its Discontents: Education, Self, and Social Transformation (2019), Boyz 2 Buddhas: Counseling Urban High School Male Athletes in the Zone (2004), and False Fixes: The Cultural Politics of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Relations (1994). He and Ron Purser co-edited the Handbook of Mindfulness: Culture, Context, and Social Engagement (2016).