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Spring 2024

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STAFF MINDFULNESS WORKSHOP SERIES

(JOINT OFFERING FROM CCP AND STAFF CENTER)

Using Contemplative Practices To Improve Staff Wellbeing, Engagement and Sense Of Belonging.

This workshop series offered in partnership with the Staff Center will focus on practices that will reduce stress and anxiety and improve overall wellbeing of our staff. The series will be offered as a set of six one-hour weekly sessions. The goal of this series is to offer mindfulness tools that can help: (i) Quiet the habitual chatter of the mind; (ii) Cultivate a capacity for deep awareness; (iii) Reduce emotional reactivity; (iv) Increase feelings of connectedness, compassion and belonging; (v) Help staff thrive and develop resilience in an uncertain and rapidly changing world.

WHEN

Participants will be expected to attend all six sessions offered on the following Tuesdays from 10am to 11am:

March 26th, April 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th

LOCATION: SBSB 3219

WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE

We invite non-MPP staff from across the campus to participate in this workshop series. This workshop series has been approved as a professional development opportunitiy for staff. 

This series has been specially designed for staff. In 2022, the Chronicle of Higher Education announced that there is a staff crisis in higher education leading to increased levels of anxiety, disengagement, burnout and isolation. Research has shown that contemplative practices can reduce stress, anxiety, and emotional reactivity, while improving overall wellbeing. Mindfulness practices increase our ability to act with awareness, with nonjudgment and with nonreactivity which can have a significant impact on stress and anxiety. Studies have also found that mindfulness practices can reduce loneliness and increase sense of community and belonging. Mindfulness practices increase our capacity to be more open and receptive to each other and make us more aware of our common humanity while at the same time honoring our differences 

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF WORKSHOP ACTIVITIES

In these sessions we will provide an introduction to mindfulness and how participants can make mindfulness part of their everyday lives. These practices are intended to increase capacity for pausing, reflecting, and then responding from a place of wisdom and compassion. It will introduce participants to mindfulness practices such as mindfulness of breath, mindfulness of body, mindfulness of thought, mindful movement, mindfulness of emotions, joy, and compassion practices. We will offer practices that help participants deal with everyday challenges with equanimity. We will help participants develop capacity for dealing with difficult emotions with kindness. We will also discuss how and why mindfulness practices are relevant to our everyday lives and can help us heal from the trauma of othering and isolation.

We will include specific evidence-based practices to reduce procrastination (Sirois, 2022). According to psychologists, we procrastinate to avoid the negative emotions associated with doing the task. When we procrastinate, we prioritize short term mood repair over long term pursuit of intended goals. In that sense, procrastination is not a time management issue but rather an emotion management one. Procrastination is also about making a temporal trade-off. When we procrastinate, we sacrifice the future for the present for the sake of mood repair. Some of the strategies that we will offer participants include self-compassion, mindfulness of emotions, connecting with our deepest intentions and connecting with our future selves.

HOW TO REGISTER

Please register here by March 14th, 2024. This opportunity is limited to 20 participants. Please register early to ensure a seat. 

To learn more about this workshop series please contact Ranjeeta Basu at rbasu@csusm.edu

 

Mindfulness Practice and Holistic Wellbeing Workshop For Faculty (By Application Only!)

Offered in Partnership with Faculty Center

Facilitators: Dr. Ranjeeta Basu, CHABBS Professor and Center for Contemplative Practice

Sarah Jayyousi, Director Crisis Response Team, and Faculty Care Facilitator

Overview   

  1. Training workshop in-person at CSUSM Faculty Center (KEL 2413) on Wednesday, April 19 from 9:00-1:00 pm (lunch provided)  
  2. $200 training stipend (salary) for eligible faculty  
  3. Open to faculty of all ranks and colleges with faculty appointments in Spring 2024  
  4. Deadline to apply: April 5, 2024

 

WORKSHOPS ON REQUEST

We also offer a variety of customized workshops, courses, retreats on a range of topics which include:

  • Introduction to Mindfulness
  • Contemplative pedagogy for faculty
  • Mindfulness and Inclusive excellence
  • Mindful Communication
  • Mindfulness for finding Joy
  • Mindfulness for Resilience and Uncertainty
  • Mindfulness for Morale Building
  • Mindfulness for Stress Reduction
  • Mindful Leadership
  • Mindful compassion for caregivers and social workers
  • Mindfulness for Community Healing
  • Mindfulness for Diversity and Inclusion
  • Mindfulness for Teachers
  • Mindfulness for Health related fields
  • Mindfulness for Business

These workshops and courses range from semester long courses to 4 to 6 week offerings to half day sessions to 2 hour sessions. If you don't see one offered that you would like to see us offer please reach out to us and we will be happy to design one for you or for your unit or organization. To explore further please contact Ranjeeta Basu at rbasu@csusm.edu

Registration

If you would like to register with us or have inquiries, use the form below.

CCP Interest Form