During his Bachelors and Masters studies, he had brief stints as Resident Advisor at Grinnell College and as instructor in education at the University of Missouri at Kansas City.

Miller is also a co-editor of a book series with Information Age Publishing, Current Perspectives in Holistic Education.

[6] It explained the key elements for improving the academic ability and performance of children as well as for using holistic learning to educate the whole child, highlighting concepts of balance, inclusion and connection.

He pointed out dualism as the major problem in applying contemplative studies in universities, explaining a non-dualistic framework that allows for self-integration.

He worked on introducing contemplative studies to a graduate school and described the students’ experiences with various forms of meditation.

[12] Miller authored an article about the teachers’ self-reflection of their practices in context of contemplative studies.