Event Calendar
Arts Workshop with Dr. Doreen Maller
Zoom your computerThrough guided visualization, art practice, mindful sharing, and listening, we will be able to turn within to each other to restore the beauty of life that can be found through interconnection.
Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness Workshop
Zoom your computerDr. David Treleaven will lead an online workshop to help you learn how trauma can manifest in meditation practice and understand practical modifications to help traumatized people safely access meditation.
Technology: A Relational Tool for Changing Times
Zoom your computerIn this workshop the team of Doreen and Steve Maller will create space for reflection on a year of changes and share some tips to improve your ability to connect with others using technology tools and tweaks.
The Healing Wisdom of the African Diaspora: Strategies for Contemplative Practice
Zoom your computerThis workshop will describe the use of cultural, ancestral, and collective wisdom in contemplative practices with a particular focus on the wisdom of the African diaspora.
Who Taught You to Be White? Retelling Our Nation’s History In the Classroom
Zoom your computerThis workshop invites participants to reclaim their ancestor's stories and repair generational trauma. We will be following the stories and values passed down from generation to generation, acknowledging the power structures we uphold as educators and leaders, and co-creating ways to disrupt the belief that the colonizer's retelling of our history is the only valid one.
Lifelines: Self-Discovery and Empowerment through Writing
Zoom your computerThis writing workshop, presented by three creativity-affirming scholars from the South Pacific, will take participants through a series of engaging, empowering exercises that may be adapted to help learners of any age restore their self-confidence and re-story their lives.
Summer Session 2021: Contemplative Practices for Collective Healing and Liberation
Zoom your computerA chance to engage deeply with contemplative pedagogy, reconnect with friends, and forge new connections with colleagues from across many disciplines.
Bringing Contemplative Pedagogy to Campus through the Faculty Learning Community
Zoom your computerIn this workshop, participants will learn about the effectiveness of Faculty Learning Communities in bringing contemplative practices to the university classroom. We will discuss the value of implementing contemplative pedagogy into higher ed curriculum and introduce participants to practices that can be used in classrooms of all types.
Understanding Non-Binary Gender Through Mindfulness and Expressive Arts
Zoom your computerEl Chenier will guide us through Through loving kindness and expressive arts practices to “come home” to our own bodies and examine their own gender identities. In so doing, we will develop a deeper capacity to connect with non-binary folx, and with ourselves.
Re-Emergence of Racial Healing through the Re-Connection of Mindful Allyship
Zoom your computerA contemplative workshop to help you deepen your personal practice for racial equity, connect with a community of practitioners, and commit to transformative actions within your institution.
Bodies on the Line: Contemplative Practice and Gender Diversity
Zoom your computerJoin Dr. Kerr Mesner to explore how contemplative practices can strengthen and sustain our work in fighting transphobia in our educational institutions, governments, healthcare systems, and communities.
2022 Summer Session: Introducing Earth-Care Practices in Education
Zoom your computerThe annual Summer Session offers a unique combination of experiential learning, community building, and time for practice. This year, we explore the theme of Introducing Earth-Care Practices in Education.