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Mindfulness for Academic Success (Graduate Students)

Jan 23, 2025 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
UCC 38B

Registration Deadline: Jan 21, 2025 05:00 PM

The Mindfulness for Academic Success (MAS) program is a 6-week, experiential program designed as an introduction to mindfulness and meditation practices. In this program, participants will learn various exercises to cultivate a more mindful presence in their day-to-day life and will have the opportunity to reflect on how being more mindful can help them succeed as graduate students.

Mindfulness has been described as paying attention, intentionally, to your moment-to-moment experience, non-judgmentally. By being more mindful in our daily life we can reduce worry and stress, be more content and compassionate (to ourselves and others), increase our ability to focus and pay attention, and learn to respond, rather than react, to challenging situations.

By participating in the MAS program, students will have the opportunity to:

  • Understand the difference between attention, awareness, and mindfulness
  • Practice various types of meditations to help cultivate attention and mindfulness
  • Mindfully reflect on challenges faced by graduate students, such as experiencing imposter syndrome and anxiety
  • Connect with and create a community with fellow graduate students
The 6-week, in-person program will run on Thursdays on the following dates and times in the Winter 2025 semester:
  • January 23rd, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
  • January 30th, 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
  • February 6th, 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
  • February 27th, 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
  • March 6th, 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
  • March 13th, 10;30 AM - 11:30 AM
Note: The first session in the program will run for an hour and a half and there is a 2 week break on the weeks of February 10th and February 17th.

Graduate students interested in participating in the MAS Program must read and sign the following "Agreement of Participation" form along with registering for this event:
Agreement of Participation