Center for Healthy Minds | 625 W. Washington Ave., Madison, WI 53703-2637
September 26, 2024
Celebrate 15 years of the Center for Healthy Minds
When & Where
In-Person: September 26, 2024 | 5-9 PM (CST) at Wisconsin Masonic Center in Madison, WI
Livestream: September 26, 2024 | 7-8 PM (CST) via virtual livestream event
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Free registration is required to secure a spot to join us in celebrating 15 years of the Center for Healthy Minds – in-person or by livestream. This year for in-person guests, we’re breaking the boundaries of the traditional lecture style presentation, and offering a very special interactive journey through the programs and people of the Healthy Minds community!
Program Schedule
You are invited to take part in the activities that fit your schedule!
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 through the building, engage with our friendly Center for Healthy Minds scholars to learn more about them and their work. After you’ve interacted with all the scholars, stop by the main lobby to be entered to win a CHM swag bag!
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 belief that inner, community and planetary wellbeing are interdependent and cannot be achieved without each other. Through Exploring Deep Resilience, Loka director Dekila Chungyalpa and colleagues will lead you through 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 Kraemer (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): Join grant recipient Christine Holm to learn more about her Arts for Healthy Minds research project, and to 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 create 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!
Featured activity | 5-5:45 PM Rhythms in Community Movement Workshop (limited capacity- please register in advance in the “Special Add-On” section of registration): Join us for an interactive workshop led by Arts for Healthy Minds grant recipients Katherine Kraemer 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.
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 PM - FEATURED EVENT
In-person and livestream
The World We Make 2024 featured event will include a compelling discussion between Dr. Richard J. Davidson and Dr. Yuria Celidwen, senior fellow at the Othering and Belonging Institute at UC-Berkeley, moderated by Steve Paulson of Wisconsin Public Radio's To The Best of Our Knowledge.
8-9 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.
Sponsors
Thank you to our generous sponsors whose contributions make this event possible:
Jim and Judy Hirsch
Marcy Heim
Healthy Minds Innovations
WCCN
A variety of event sponsorship levels are available for The World We Make 2024. If you are interested in sponsoring, please contact CHM Development and Communications Specialist Taeli Turner at 608-263-3672.
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.