Conference on Well Being in Higher Education to be Held on Campus

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Campus Center auditorium during previous ACMHE conference.
The ACMHE conference is an annual interdisciplinary forum for all aspects of scholarship and research on contemplative approaches in higher education.

The 11th Annual Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education (ACMHE) Conference will be held on campus from Thursday, Nov. 7 through Sunday, Nov. 10.

The ACMHE conference is an annual interdisciplinary forum for all aspects of scholarship and research on contemplative approaches in higher education. For The 2019 ACMHE conference, “Radical Well Being in Higher Education: Approaches for Renewal, Justice and Sustainability,” will share how contemplative practices, including mindfulness practices, can support and sustain learning communities that engage multiple ways of knowing and foster a more just, inclusive, sustainable and compassionate world.

The conference schedule emphasizes presentations led by scholars, researchers and practitioners across campus departments, including students and student groups. Shorter sessions (60 minutes) will offer research presentations and longer sessions (75 minutes) are available for experiential workshops, contemplative practice sessions, performances, roundtable conversations or other creative modes of sharing. These sessions are referred to as “parallel sessions,” as several are run concurrently in the schedule.