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Center for Healthy Minds Shares Crucial Findings of No Symptom Worsening Following Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy 

August 20, 2026

Researchers have released findings of no evidence that mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) increased a risk of symptom worsening, in a... Learn More >

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Latest CHM Study Aims to End the Trial and Error of Mental Health Care

August 19, 2026

What if there were a more timely, nimble and accurate way to measure people’s mental wellbeing to understand when treatment starts working and for... Learn More >

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Community Wisdom is Transforming Wellbeing Initiatives and Research

June 24, 2026

Collaborations between Wisconsin community members and Center for Healthy Minds highlight the power of initiatives and research grounded in trust,... Learn More >

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'What’s the Big Idea?' Richard Davidson Speaks at Investiture Ceremony

April 3, 2023

Center for Healthy Minds Founder and Director Richard Davidson Speaks at UW–Madison Chancellor's Investiture in April 2023. Learn More >

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Fox Valley's young children are learning mindfulness through the Kindness Curriculum. But what is it?

April 3, 2023

Center for Healthy Minds's Kindness Curriculum is a science-based series of lessons and activities for young children that seeks to build skills... Learn More

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For Stressed-out Grad Students, Mindfulness Makes Big Difference

March 22, 2023

While recent studies and polls indicate the nation is in the midst of a mental health crisis, the situation in academia is even more grim: Within... Learn More >

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Popular Student Flourishing Teaching Workshop Returns This Summer

March 21, 2023

Faculty and instructional staff from UW–Madison, UW System and other universities can now register for the second annual in-person Student... Learn More >

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Activities to Help Fight Depression and Improve Your Mood

March 17, 2023

Feeling down? Take control of your mental health with these active ways to fight depression. Learn More

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How to Have It All

March 2, 2023

The pursuit of happiness can feel like a fruitless endeavor. UW experts, including Honorary Fellow at Center for Healthy Minds Pelin Kesebir, say... Learn More

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Podcast: CHM Director of Equity, Inclusion and Innovation Speaks on 'Cultivating Valuable Student Connections'

March 2, 2023

Dr. Tony Chambers, Director of Equity, Inclusion and Innovation, speaks on his career journey in higher education, and how to create a campus... Learn More

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Transforming Empathy Into Compassion: Why It Matters

March 1, 2023

Why some kinds of empathy are better for you than others. Learn More

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Following pandemic, educators are not all right but meditation could ease burden

January 20, 2023

A newly published CHM study is among the first to collect empirical data on school employees’ mental health early in the pandemic Learn More >

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'Tukdam: Between Worlds' Film Review

January 13, 2023

A new film investigates tukdam, the Tibetan Buddhist phenomenon of postmortem meditation, and the subtle space between life and death. Learn More

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Caretakers of Wonder

January 6, 2023

Our friends at Madison Children's Museum are leading the way on Caretakers of Wonder, a two-year national grant supporting museums to address... Learn More

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1-week group treatment program brings significant mental health benefits associated with epigenetic changes in teens with history of trauma

October 20, 2022

Globally in the past year, as many as 1 billion children experienced violence or neglect. A new collaborative study involving scientists at the... Learn More >