Holistic Wellness and Self-Care

Course Description

This seminar provides first-year students an opportunity to explore and establish wellness and self-care practices.  We learn about what it means to be engaged in one’s present moment experience through the practice of mindfulness meditation, which is practiced throughout the duration of the course.  A model of wellness is examined as students explore wellness from personal and interpersonal perspectives.  Readings focus on the psychological foundations and clinical applications of mindfulness and wellness practices.  We also examine illness and wellness in our own culture as compared to other cultures.  Students research and present a wellness topic.  The semester concludes with a silent meditation “mini-retreat.”