Event Calendar
Connecting Outer and Inner Worlds in the Classroom through Indigenous Ceremony
ZoomIn 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.
The Healing Wisdom of the African Diaspora: Strategies for Contemplative Practice
ZoomThis 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.
Body-Based Therapeutic Guided Practices
ZoomJoin Tai Chou-Kudu in this guided body-based therapeutic practice. 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.
Balancing Hope and Fear: Resourcing Concerned Citizens for Sustainable Environmental Justice Work
ZoomWhat if our efforts to create a more just and caring world weren’t separated from our efforts to adapt to near-term social and environmental collapse? Learn about the development of a contemplative-based, anti-oppressive, and healing-centered course for climate activists and concerned citizens.
Technology: A Relational Tool for Changing Times
ZoomIn 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.
Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness Workshop
ZoomJoin Dr. David Treleaven for a hands-on workshop where you’ll learn the risks and rewards trauma survivors can experience in mindfulness practice, and be prepared to identify trauma and respond skillfully.
The Joy of Seeing; Sketching and Drawing as Mindfulness
ZoomHow can we use sketching and drawing to see ourselves and the world more clearly? Join Bradford Grant in an exploration of drawing as a route to mindfulness and reflection.
Satisfaction as Activism
ZoomIn this experiential rest-shop, we will explore satisfaction as a source of power and resistance through meditation, visualization, gentle movement, poetry, music and more.
Learning with the Labyrinth
ZoomIn this ACMHE webinar, we will explore the interdisciplinary role of labyrinths on college campuses and discuss the permanent labyrinth installation in the works at UMass Amherst.
To Breathe is to Live – To Breathe is to Resist: A Call To Action for Reimagining Breathing as an Act of Resistance
ZoomThis workshop is calling for a reimagining of the contemplative practice of breathing in our lives. It recognizes that the ability to breathe is deeply situated and political because not everyone has access to the right to breathe, as others with more power than you can determine if you will breathe or not.