The Mindful Campus Program aims to co-design and implement mindfulness- and compassion-based programming to support undergraduate student wellness at CU Boulder. To increase the impact and relevance of these practices to students, we employed participatory research methods to forge collaborations among diverse experts. Together we collaboratively designed scalable, sustainable mindfulness- and compassion-based resources driven by the best available scientific evidence, contemplative practice wisdom, and the practical needs of our campus community during these challenging times. Our work paves the way for sustained wellness on our CU Boulder campus and highlights the power and promise of Youth Participatory Action Research and co-design methods to expand the relevance and scale of contemplative practices such as mindfulness and compassion for individual and collective impact.
The Renée Crown Wellness Insititute of CU Boulder invites CU Boulder Community to participate in the Mindful Campus Program, an 8-week series designed by CU Undergraduate students. All are welcome, including students, staff, and faculty. Being part of the 8-week series will give you a micro credential from CU on mindfulness-based education and engagement as well.
Join us in mindful community as we reset, care for our minds and bodies, learn accessible techniques to promote wellness, and just be.
Registration for this semester is closed.
Please check back soon for information on the next series!
The Mindful Campus Program would like to introduce the Mindfulness and Compassion Micro-Credential from CU Boulder. If you participate in our 8-week series consistently (5 or more sessions), you will be eligible for the Mindfulness and Compassion Micro-Credential. You will be required to attend a few additional programming from the Mindful Campus Program along with the 8-week series to fully meet the requirements of the micro-credential.
The micro-credential will complement your work with the 8-week series to integrate mindfulness into various aspects of your work and personal life. It will develop critical self-awareness around positionality and power in instructional spaces as well. If you have any questions regarding the micro-credential, please contact Shubham Sapkota at shubham.sapkota@colorado.edu.
The Renée Crown Wellness Institute’s Mindful Campus Program is excited and honored to announce the offering of a Speaker Series for the 2023-2024 Academic Year. We are looking forward to inviting both local and national mindfulness leaders to engage with our communities.
Reggie Hubbard
Good Grief - A Sangha for Healing and Transformation
September 20, 2023
4:00 – 6:00 PM MDT
Reggie is the founder/chief serving officer of Active Peace Yoga. His yoga and meditation practice have served as a sanctuary of peace and perspective while navigating the stresses of being a black man in the world, serving in pressure filled jobs at the height of politics and have helped him navigate complicated emotions (anger, grief, disappointment) to find and nurture peace of mind and ease of spirit.
Reggie nourished his early yoga practice in the rich yoga culture of Denver and Boulder, Colorado. As a teacher, he shares his practice in service to helping people from all walks of life navigate this thing called life with more creativity, authenticity, peace and ease. He has extensively studied with leading teachers in yogic, meditative and dharmic disciplines while also remembering that the best teacher is an eternal student. He is a graduate of the 2023 MMTCP (Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program) cohort.
Through Active Peace Yoga, he offers asana and meditation classes to help others nurture peace of mind, creativity, equanimity in spirit and physical health - helping people nurture well-being as foundational, rather than an afterthought. Reggie has taught Members of Congress, Congressional Staff, major labor unions, leading progressive organizations and individuals from all walks of life - simple tools for managing stress and bringing peace to mind, body and spirit. Active Peace also offers strategic guidance on creating healthier cultures and organizational norms rooted in wellbeing, compassion and results.
In addition to his yoga teaching practice, Reggie has held many senior strategic and logistical roles across a variety of fields, ranging from global marketing, digital and community organizing, government relations, international education to Presidential campaigning. He is a featured speaker on political strategy, new consciousness, wellbeing and social justice, and civic engagement for leading publications, podcasts and platforms including: Be Here Now Network, The Hill, Mind and Life Institute, SoundsTrue Foundation, Upaya Zen Center, Wanderlust, the Wellbeing Project, Yoga Alliance, and Yoga Journal.
Reggie's life work sits at the intersection of bringing more peace and balance to activists; guiding the wellness community toward being more engaged, concerned citizens; and, enhancing the well-being of all walks of life. Achieving this balance is how we catalyze transformative change in our society, which we are desperately in need of at this moment.
He received a B.A. in philosophy from Yale University and an MBA in international strategy from the Vlerick Business School in Belgium.
You can find out more at www.activepeaceyoga.com.
Solwazi Johnson
Ancient and Contemporary Healing Modalities
November 15, 2023
4:00 – 6:00 PM MDT
Solwazi teaches mindfulness meditation classes and leads meditation retreats and workshops throughout the U.S. and worldwide. He has practiced mindfulness meditation for over 25 years, focusing on Vipassana since 2003. He graduated from Spirit Rock's Community Dharma Leadership Training and Spirit Rock's four-year Retreat Teacher Training. He is a mentor with the Sounds True Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program. He is also an ICF-certified professional coach and a graduate of the Rolf Institute of Structural Integration and the Thai School of Complementary Health in Chaing Mai, Thailand. Lastly, Solwazi was the guiding teacher for the Prison Buddhist Ministry Program in a Federal Prison in Englewood, Colorado, for over five years.
Dr. Michael Yellow Bird
The Power of Ceremony: Indigenous Contemplative Practices, Neurodecolonization, and Indigenous Mindfulness
February 21, 2024
4:00 – 6:00 PM MDT
He has held faculty appointments at the University of British Columbia, Kansas, Arizona State, Cal Poly Humboldt, and North Dakota State University. His research focuses on colonization, decolonization, healthy Indigenous aging, mindfulness, contemplative practices, compassion, Arikara ethnobotany and traditional agriculture, and the cultural significance of Rez dogs.
He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and the co-editor of four books: For Indigenous Eyes Only: The Decolonization Handbook; For Indigenous Minds Only: A Decolonization Handbook; Indigenous Social Work around the World: Towards Culturally Relevant Education and Practice; and Decolonizing Social Work. He is the co-author of two books: A Sahnish (Arikara) Ethnobotany (2020) and Decolonizing Holistic Pathways Towards Integrative Healing in Social Work (2021). He is currently co-authoring two books, Arikara Traditional Agriculture and Decolonizing the Social Work Curriculum, and is working on three books, The Memoirs of a Mindful Rez Kid, Rez Dog Meditations: Contemplative Practices for Healing People and the Lands, and A Rez Dog Manifesto: Rediscovering the Sacred Connections in the Time of Climate Change.
Rev. Nontombi Naomi Tutu
Building Compassion and Joy From the Inside Out
April 12, 2024
12:00 – 1:30 PM MDT
Growing up the “daughter of Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu” has offered Naomi many opportunities and challenges in her life. Perhaps one of the greatest struggles was the call to ministry. She knew early in life that the one thing she would never be was a priest. She always said, “I have my father’s nose, I do not want his job.” It refused to be silenced, even as she carried her passion for justice into other fields. The call to preach and serve as an ordained clergyperson continued to tug at her. Finally, in her 50s, she responded and went to seminary. She is an Episcopal priest who most recently served as Associate Rector at All Saints, Beverly Hills.She started her public speaking as a college student at Berea College in Kentucky in the 1970s when she was invited to speak at churches, community groups and colleges and universities about her experiences growing up in apartheid South Africa. Since that time, she has become a much sought-after speaker to groups as varied as business associations, professional conferences, elected officials and church and civic organizations.
Rev. Tutu has established Nozizwe Consulting. Its mission is to bring different groups together to learn from and celebrate their differences and acknowledge their shared humanity. As part of this work, she has led Truth and Reconciliation Workshops for groups dealing with different types of conflict. She is the recipient of four honorary doctorates from universities and colleges in the U.S. and Nigeria. She has served as a curate at Christ Church Cathedral as a Canon Missioner for Racial and Economic Equity, and as a Canon Missioner for Kairos West Community Center for the Cathedral of All Souls in Asheville, N.C.
Visit our Wellness Practices playlist on YouTube.
Self-compassion practice with Millie Wright:
https://www.colorado.edu/crowninstitute/sites/default/files/attached-files/5-mwright-edit.mp3
Mindfulness Practice with Millie Wright:
https://www.colorado.edu/crowninstitute/sites/default/files/attached-files/6-mwright.mp3
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