Event Calendar
Storytelling Through Creative Arts and Contemplative Pedagogies: Fostering Embodiment, Inclusion, and Empowerment
Zoom your computerDr. Leonard A. Cruz will present “Storytelling Through Creative Arts and Contemplative Pedagogies: Fostering Embodiment, Inclusion, and Empowerment” on Friday, January 8th.
Learning with the Labyrinth
Zoom your computerAfter a guided imagery meditation, we will explore the interdisciplinary role of labyrinths on college campuses and discuss the permanent labyrinth installation in the works at UMass Amherst.
The Joy of Seeing; Sketching and Drawing as Mindfulness
Zoom your computerIn this session, Bradford Grant explores drawing as a route to mindfulness and reflection. How can we use sketching and drawing to see ourselves and the world more clearly?
Balancing Hope and Fear: Resourcing Concerned Citizens for Sustainable Environmental Justice Work
Zoom your computerIn this ACMHE Webinar, learn about a contemplative-based, anti-oppressive, and healing-centered course to help climate activists and concerned citizens.
Body-Based Therapeutic Guided Practices
Zoom your computerJoin this guided body-based therapeutic practice with Tai Chou-Kudu, where we’ll do a Body Scan, Earth Body Sky practice, and Nature practice, with the intent to give our bodies space to deepen into rest.
Connecting Outer and Inner Worlds in the Classroom through Indigenous Ceremony
Zoom your computerIn this webinar, Gary Joseph will lead ceremony from the Blackfoot and northern Cree traditions. Gary Joseph and Trudy Sable will discuss community, ceremony, and the classroom, including an Indigenous ceremonial context for connecting individual narratives to natural elements and stages of our lives.
Under the Baobab Tree: Centering Heritage & Healing in Black Student Leadership Development
Zoom your computerThis ACMHE Contemplative Education webinar with Phyllis Jeffers-Coly introduces participants to a healing-centered leadership development approach for Black students that integrates both culture and contemplative practices,
Crafting Your Heart Story: Arts-Based Explorations of Contemplative Activism
Zoom your computerIn this daylong retreat with Kerr Mesner, we will combine contemplative and arts-based practices to reflect on our activist journeys.
Mindfulness in a Virtual World: Graduate Student Experiences in an Online Mindfulness Course
Zoom your computerThis webinar with Dr. Emily McRobbie explores graduate student experiences in an online course intended to introduce the role of mindfulness and contemplative pedagogy in adult learning settings.
Practicing Restorative Rest with Sound to Release Trauma
Zoom your computerThis session explores sound as a way of accessing the practice of restorative rest for those who have directly and indirectly experienced trauma. Using guided breath work and nature imagery along with the sounds of singing bowls, this session invites you to practice restorative rest.