Curricular Collaboration: Creative-Contemplative Lab for student and faculty wellbeing
Channel: Karolyn Kinane
Date: 21/05/2022

Created for the November 2021 ACMHE conference “Resourcing, Reconnection, and Reemergence,” this recording introduces a 1 cr. Contemplative Lab collaboratively designed and taught at UVA Spring ‘21 by faculty in Writing, Music and Dance. The Lab’s goals were to help students 1) create a community to support their wellbeing in a time of global crisis 2) establish a routine of wellbeing, self care, inquiry and connection during this time of distance/digital environment 3) engage in contemplative practice, discussion, writing, listening, movement to deepen their creative processes 4) build capacities for presence, awareness, connection & reflection. Karolyn Kinane, Kim Brooks Mata, Devin Donovan, and Noel Lobley share some of the surprising ways this curricular intervention combated the isolation of the pandemic and transformed students’ and faculties’ experiences of our their university contexts.
https://contemplativelabcurriculum.wordpress.com/