Social Events, Mindfulness Science & Practice

WashU Mindfulness Week: Day 4

Join the Mindfulness Science and Practice group at WashU for four days of music, art, movement, silence, and stillness. We will experience community and conversation, insight, rest, and reflection.

View the full Mindfulness Week schedule, including speaker bios, here.

Mindfulness Science and Practice is a multiyear cluster of the Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures.

Friday, September 27:

Sound Meditation
Kuehner Court, Weil Hall, 10 - 11 a.m. (Map)

Come bathe yourself in the healing power of sound as WashU faculty collaborate on the creation of a sound meditation: Diana Parra Perez on singing bowls, Lisa Gilbert on harp, and Jordan Geiger on organ.

Mindfulness Through Drawing (no experience necessary)
Kuehner Court, Weil Hall, 11 a.m. - Noon (Map)
Facilitator: Jordan Geiger
REGISTRATION CLOSED​​​​​​​

Cultivate creative awareness and explore concepts of mindfulness with exercises originating in insight meditation and art therapy. Guided by WashU MFA alum Jordan Geiger, an artist, musician, thinker and dedicated meditator in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.

Mindfulness and Anti-Racism Lecture Series 8th Speaker
Dr. Larry Ward, live from Asheville, North Carolina
"Hear the Rolling Thunder of Race"
Watch Party in Brown Lounge, Brown Hall, 2-3 p.m. (Map)

In this talk, based on Dr. Ward's book America's Racial Karma: An Invitation to Heal, we will explore the origins of race as a social psychology, our consciousness of shared trauma, the iceberg and duality of race conditioning, and the antidotes of spiritual and social repair.

We will raffle 10 autographed copies of Dr. Ward’s book at the watch party.

If you are unable to attend in person, you can register for our webinar to experience this talk remotely.

This event was supported in part by the Washington University in St. Louis Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity.

Reflection Reception
Caleres Lounge, Hillman Hall, 3:30 - 5 p.m. (Map)
Refreshments will be served

Continue the conversation started by our Mindfulness & Anti-Racism speaker Dr. Larry Ward. Atia Thurman, a Brown School alum (MSW ’02), lecturer at the Brown School, and member of the Mindfulness Science and Practice group, will hold space for mindful reflection on how we can experience safety together to live out the three pillars of The Lotus Institute, which Dr. Ward co-founded:

  • Healing stored trauma 
  • Building beloved community 
  • Transforming the narrative of superiority
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