New CHM study seeks to understand impacts of ‘Psychology of Deep Resilience’

What if a mindfulness-based, trauma-sensitive curriculum for formerly incarcerated people could improve mental health and wellbeing, and support their transition from prison back into the community? A new study at CHM will investigate.

On a day when thousands here in Madison and across the country are standing up for science, we assure our supporters and the public that the Center for Healthy Minds will continue to conduct research and implement programs that reflect our vision of a kinder, wiser, and more compassionate nation and world.

In it's first year, the Arts for Healthy Minds grant helped one recipient create meaningful workshops to forward creative arts research that explores belonging, wellbeing and flourishing on campus.

A pioneering study into what occurs to the body after death is quietly unfolding in Tibetan monastic communities in India. A group of monastics, scientists, medical professionals and forensic experts are working together to explore a rare postmortem meditative state known as tukdam in these communities.