Center for Healthy Minds

In collaboration with Healthy Minds Innovations, this project strives to learn how to teach and measure well-being to scale

Exploring whether meditation training via mobile technology (e.g., smartphones) could dramatically increase access to potentially beneficial practices.

The goals of this work are to understand the impact of mindfulness training on police officer well-being and the well-being of people negatively affected by policing.

What impacts does an in-home parent-child mindfulness training program have on children and their families?

Seeking to understand whether large-scale interventions such as the Healthy Minds Program may have a protective effect against stress and mental health challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Center experts are developing assessments and tools that examine ways to cultivate well-being across a variety of people and contexts.

Researchers are broadening the methods to measure mindfulness

Center researchers and collaborators are building new approaches to understand the links between traditional contemplative perspectives and scientific theory to better study the scientific effects of meditation training on the brain, body, mind and behavior.

Center researchers are developing a program to teach scientifically-informed practices and principles that facilitate well-being.

Examining whether experience with mindfulness-based programs and training is helping people cope with daily stress and mental challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Center researchers are investigating possible ways to prevent teacher burnout in the classroom.

Determining whether there are protective effects of learning well-being skills on stress during crises.

Center for Healthy Minds researchers, along with partners at Pennsylvania State University and the University of Virginia, are creating and studying the impact of a well-being curriculum for college freshman.

Center scientists and collaborators examine the impact of well-being training.