Dynamic Mindfulness & Contemplative Pedagogy Initiative

Professor Nat Turner, Language, Literacy, and Culture, is the College of Education's Leadership Fellow for academic year 2022-23. In this role, he leads the Dynamic Mindfulness and Contemplative Pedagogy Initiative, which, among other goals, aims to train students, faculty, and staff in DMind best practices. DMind is a "moving meditation" that works against hegemonic systems of oppression and intergenerational trauma.

Watch the short video below to learn more.

"Dynamic mindfulness is a humanizing pedagogy...the trauma is actually stored in our body. So, if we want to do intergenerational healing, this is a tool that helps bring things up, but also metabolize them in our bodies so that we don't blow trauma through other people and just continue that endless cycle of sort of violence." —Professor Nat Turner