Event Calendar

Offering a contemplative practice for well-being and self-reflection, Sequoya will center Black sci-fi author Octavia Butler and the 12 lessons mentioned throughout the Parable of the Sower. Sequoya will facilitate an interactive session, integrating contemplative practices and creativity, such as guided visualization with oracle card images, intentions, and guided journaling.

Using personal story, the speakers will discuss their respective journeys navigating South Asian identity development, the influence of colonialism on this process, and how they have navigated contemplative pedagogy work within a broader context of cultural appropriation, racism, and islamophobia. The session will begin with a brief contemplative practice.

Judy Spark leads a webinar exploring how the activity of drawing can help us consider self-care and compassion.

Join Dr. Leonard Cruz to creatively explore environments that can be found throughout campuses to support your contemplative pedagogy and students' well-being.

Free for ACMHE members: Dr. Yuria Celidwen invites us to come together into a shared experiential practice of empowerment for individuals, relationships, communities, and the planet by cultivating a sense of responsibility, adaptability, balance, purpose, and belonging.

Free for ACMHE members: Jillian Lain will discuss the philosophy and practice of yoga in the context of environmental activism, equitable access to nature, and the decolonization of yoga.

Nov. 17th, 7pm ET: a chance to meet Dr. David Robinson-Morris, share your voice, and learn about the vision for CMind.

Join Dr. Joy Blanchard, Associate Professor of Higher Education at Louisiana State University, Dr. Hollie Chessman, Director of Research at the American Council on Education, and CMind  Executive Director Dr. David Robinson-Morris in a data-driven conversation where the issues are identified, named, and confronted as a beginning of the healing process.

Join Dr. Maria Hamilton Abegunde and Dr. Ricardo Montelongo as they discuss the role of faculty in healing and embodying the institution. What might healing might look, feel, and be like on campuses across the country?

The presenters will share their experiences and discuss research, looking at themes of access, language and community. We'll also discuss practical ways contemplative practices can be used in the community college classroom and beyond.

Join the AAC&U’s Dr. Tia Brown McNair and Professor Rhonda Magee, JD in a webinar exploring how colleges and universities might begin the institutional work of racial justice, truth-telling, reconciliation, and healing while simultaneously understanding the inner work of racial justice and healing.

In dialogue, Drs. Imad and Nielsen will center pedagogies of healing and practices of reimagining that any member of the college and university community can employ to heal themselves, their respective institutions, and their corners of the world.