Eighteenth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum

Abstract

More than ever we are faced with the need to create containers of belonging to support our university community and next generation of health and wellness providers. Transitioning University students coming into our institutions are currently dealing with the global grief of polycrises happening in our world. Can equitable mindfulness and prosociality (i.e., giving back to community) be a way to engage students in communal support and wellbeing? Piloted with positive feedback at UW Madison in the Center for Healthy Minds, faculty, staff and students will receive evidence-based mindfulness and prosocial action practices and other non-formal ways of infusing mindfulness and prosociality into curriculum during workshop. This workshop utilizes foundations of the Equitable Mindfulness framework to focus on combating negative student wellbeing (i.e., loneliness and anxiety) and during their transition years. Importantly, this session will be guided with an Ex(SEL) lens - examining solidarity, equity, and liberation in our lives and the lives of our community.