David Sable

David Sable, M.A., combines over twenty years of management consulting with teaching and research. His clients include Prudential, Citibank, the Nova Scotia government, the Council of Nova Scotia University Presidents and most recently the Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaq, the First Nations people of Nova Scotia. For the last ten years he has also been a part-time faculty member teaching and conducting research at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax. He is currently completing an Interdisciplinary PhD program at Dalhousie University where he is studying the impacts of reflective practices on critical thinking.

David is a founding member of the Shambhala Institute, now ALIA, and worked for the first time with Art Kleiner in 2001. His twenty years of experience as a teacher and practitioner of meditation and contemplative practices in the Shambhala Buddhist community and the desire to integrate that into his professional life brought him to the original ALIA team. David served as the Director and Senior Teacher at the Shambhala Centre in Washington, D.C., the Director of the Information Technology Human Resources Council in Nova Scotia, and currently serves on the Board of the SMU Centre for Spirituality and the Workplace. He continues to conduct workshops for the business community and federal agencies.

In addition to published proceedings and articles, David’s work appeared in book form for first time in Transformative Learning and Online Education: Aesthetics, Dimensions and Concepts (IGI Global, 2010.)