RISE: Discover Calm, Clarity and Connection
A six-week program facilitated by UMass SPHHS alumna Ilana Beigel.
Content
RISE®: The Kripalu Approach to Resilience
About
Preview Session + 6-Week Program that offers a powerful opportunity for UMass Nursing students, faculty, and staff to gain practical, research-based tools to reduce stress. Facilitated by Ilana Beigel, certified Kripalu RISE facilitator, yoga teacher, and UMass SPHHS alum.
Dates and Times
The sessions will meet 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on the following Tuesdays in Skinner Hall (room TBD):
- Sept. 16 (preview session), 23, 30
- Oct. 7, 21, 28
- Nov. 18
It’s okay if you need to miss a session; each class offers stand-alone practices you can apply immediately!
Reduce your stress
In troubled healthcare and academic settings, nurses are often the ones caring for others—students, patients, colleagues—while navigating high levels of stress, responsibility, and emotional labor. But just like the guidance on airplanes, nurses must “put on their own oxygen mask first” to sustain their ability to make changes in systems and to support others.
The RISE® program offers a powerful opportunity for nursing students, faculty, and staff to:
- Reconnect with their purpose and values.
- Build emotional resilience and prevent burnout.
- Strengthen interpersonal connection and community belonging.
- By integrating mindfulness, movement, and positive psychology, RISE® helps cultivate clarity, compassion, and balance—essential qualities for thriving in both clinical and academic environments. This program supports a culture of wellbeing where care begins with the caregiver.
- Enhance clarity, decision-making, and work/life balance.
Why attend?
Participants of RISE® report up to a 32 percent reduction in perceived stress, plus boosts in mindfulness, empowerment, and resilience. You'll finish the program improving how you:
- Build sustainable resilience in high-stress environments.
- Draw on practical, research-based tools for personal and professional well-being.
- Experience transformation at multiple levels - personally, professionally, and within your environment.
Register today
Join us on this journey toward more mindful, balanced living. Let RISE® support your path to greater well-being. Limited spots are available, so register now!
This program is supported by a grant from the UMass Office of Equity and Inclusion and by Dr. Ann Becker. We are a Okanagan/Health Promoting University.