Thank you to all who attended the Center for Healthy Minds’ free, public annual event The World We Make 2024, on September 26. We were honored that you joined us in celebrating 15 years of the Center for Healthy Minds – in-person or by livestream. This year for in-person guests, we broke the boundaries of the traditional lecture style presentation, and offered a very special interactive journey through the programs and people of the Healthy Minds community!

When & Where

In-Person: September 26, 2024 | 5-9:30 PM (CST) at Wisconsin Masonic Center in Madison, WI (Registration closed.)

Livestream: September 26, 2024 | 7-8:30 PM (CST) via YouTube

Sponsors

If you are interested in sponsorship for upcoming CHM events, please contact CHM Development and Communications Specialist Taeli Turner at 608-263-3672.

Program Schedule

☑️ Event Schedule PDF | ☑️ Event Map PDF

5-6:30 PM - EXPLORATION

Journey through the building for hands-on, immersive experiences centered around the programs and science of the Healthy Minds community.

Meet the Scholars Scavenger Hunt

As you journey throughout the event, engage with Center for Healthy Minds scholars to learn more about them and their work. Scholars include:

• Simon Goldberg
• Robin Goldman
• Dan Grupe
• Matt Hirshberg
• Melissa Rosenkranz

The Learning Lab, hosted by Healthy Minds Innovations

In The Learning Lab, you’ll discover how to apply the four pillars of the Healthy Minds Innovations Framework: Awareness, Connection, Insight, and Purpose to learn and enhance your wellbeing skills. Meet HMI director of learning and development Stephanie Wagner, together with HMI scientists and experts, as they demonstrate how to optimize your wellbeing with tools from the science lab and answer your questions.

Exploring Deep Resilience, hosted by the Loka Initiative

The Loka Initiative at CHM is a capacity-building and outreach platform for faith leaders and culture keepers of Indigenous traditions, centered on the vision that inner, community and planetary wellbeing are interdependent and cannot be achieved separately. Through Exploring Deep Resilience, Loka director Dekila Chungyalpa and the Loka team will lead you through a contemplative practice to address joy-centered ecological resilience and the importance of community in the midst of the deep uncertainty our world faces.

Arts for Healthy Minds

Last winter, CHM partnered with UW-Madison Division of the Arts on a new grant opportunity for faculty, staff and grad students called “Arts for Healthy Minds: Centering Interdisciplinary and Inclusive Arts Practices in Advancing Human Flourishing, Belonging, and Wellbeing in Higher Education.” As a result, $35,000 was awarded to five recipients to embark on creative arts research activities that embody these insights. Visit the Arts for Healthy Minds room to meet grant recipients Erin Celello (Odyssey Beyond Wars), Christine Holm (Imperative Stitches: Quilting to Mark Passages), Lily Smith and Katherine Kramer (Rhythms in Community), as well as campus and community arts partners, and learn more about the integral nature of arts and science.

Featured activity | Imperative Stitches: Quilting to Mark Passages (ongoing and open to all): Explore Arts for Healthy Minds grant recipient Christine Holm’s research project and take part in a hands-on activity inspired by one aspect of “the world we’ve made” - landfills, trash and refuse. What if the change we consider today is consuming less? Reusing and repurposing more? Together, we will use discarded fabrics to assemble a community quilt and reimagine the “world we want to make.

Wellbeing in Practice

The Wellbeing in Practice room will be dedicated to limited capacity group contemplative practice sessions. See current opportunities below and stay tuned for more!

6 PM & 6:15 PM | Drop-in Meditation Sessions

Join Center for Healthy Minds guides Matt Hirshberg and Matthew Kaharudin for brief guided meditation sessions. No experience necessary.

5-5:45 PM Rhythms in Community Movement Workshop

(Registration currently full): An interactive workshop led by Arts for Healthy Minds grant recipients Katherine Kramer and Lily Smith. Katherine is an award-winning dancer and choreographer; Lily is a graduate student at Center for Healthy Minds. Together we’ll explore the idea of rhythm through community connection, mindfulness and movement.

Celebrating 15 Years: Key Moments in the History of the Center for Healthy Minds

Visit the main lobby hallway to see objects and photos that highlight exciting moments in CHM history.

Snack Station

Visit the lower level Ballroom to refuel with snacks and water provided by Kavanaugh’s supper club.

Healthy Minds on Campus

Visit student representatives from Healthy Minds on Campus, Center for Healthy Minds’ affiliated student organization, whose mission is “creating a culture of well-being for all students on campus.”

6:30-7 PM - BREAK

Activities throughout the building that are described above will come to a close as we move into the Large Auditorium for the featured event, which is also available by livestream.

7-8:30 PM - FEATURED EVENT

In-person and livestream

Collective Flourishing: A Discussion with Dr. Richard J. Davidson and Dr. Yuria Celidwen, moderated by Steve Paulson, with a special performance by Dr. Dalal Abu Amneh

The Western mindfulness movement is largely focused on individual self-improvement. But our world is facing crises that require a focus on community and planetary wellbeing. This focus is already deeply rooted in Indigenous traditions. What has brought us to this moment and how can Western and Indigenous sciences work together to recalibrate current practices in service of global wellbeing?

Join us for an inspiring discussion with Dr. Richard J. Davidson, founder and director of the Center for Healthy Minds and Dr. Yuria Celidwen, senior fellow at the Othering and Belonging Institute at UC-Berkeley and author of the upcoming book Flourishing Kin: Indigenous Foundations for Collective Well-Being, with moderator Steve Paulson of Wisconsin Public Radio's To The Best of Our Knowledge, to explore this and more.

Then, join us for an inspiring and transformative musical experience with Dr. Dalal Abu Amneh, a resident scholar at the Center for Healthy Minds, neuroscientist, and renowned Palestinian singer. Dalal will present captivating selections from the rich tradition of Arabic music, guiding the audience through an engaging call-and-response performance. Through this interactive experience, she will demonstrate how music, even when unfamiliar, has the profound ability to uplift and expand our collective consciousness.

The featured event is available via livestream.

Join the livestream here!

8:30-9:30 PM - CONNECT & CELEBRATE

Connect with others about your experiences at The World We Make 2024, and enjoy delicious vegetarian and vegan catering by Kavanaugh’s supper club in the lower level Ballroom.

Venue

The Wisconsin Masonic Center is located in beautiful downtown Madison, just blocks away from the state capitol at 301 Wisconsin Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53703. ☑️ Event Map PDF