We are a collective group made up of faculty, staff, students, and alumni from across the institute, our goal is to build greater awareness of Mindfulness initiatives around the Pratt Campus. We are happy to partner with offices, organizations, and groups across campus to offer mindfulness and resilience training, positive education and mindfulness sessions, deep listening, and mindful leadership workshops.
If you have a project, resource, or idea to share with us please reach out to rww@pratt.edu
Engaging with Mindfulness at Pratt
Pratt offers numerous opportunities to engage with mindfulness throughout the year. Pick and choose what works best for you. Stay up to date on new events hosted by Pratt as well as outside organizations through the well-being calendar.
Weekly Drop-In Practices
Mindful Pratt hosts community drop-in practices throughout the week! Fill out this form to get weekly emails with the schedule for the week.
Pratt Athletics and Recreation
Engage in yoga, pilates, and other movement-based practices to connect to your body through Pratt Athletics and Recreation. Download the Pratt Recreation app on The App Store and Google Play for class schedules and more.
Courses
The Meditation Incubator
Learn to meditate and use visualization to deepen presence in creativity, enhance emotional intelligence, and articulate a success action plan defined by you through this 10-week co-curricular course. The course is offered either live with a weekly set time to meet and practice or online and self-directed to students, alumnx, faculty, and staff. The live course generally begins the 2nd or 3rd week of the semester, the self-directed course has rolling sign-ups.
COMPOSE
COMPOSE is a series of personal and professional development workshops open to faculty, staff, students, and alumnx with a goal of establishing a personal practice framed around the concepts of learned optimism, resilience and meaning-making. COMPOSE’s ultimate goal is generating well-being pedagogies for across the institute and contributing to a radical improvement of student flourishing across the Pratt campus.
Integrative Mind & Body Program
Enhance your well-being and unlock your full potential with Pratt SCPS’s Integrative Mind & Body (IMB) Program. This unique program offers 1-credit elective courses designed to cultivate self-awareness, resilience, and creativity through mindfulness-based practices. With IMB courses, you’ll explore essential principles and practices to develop a well-being mindset, build a supportive community, and discover greater meaning and engagement in your studies and life.
Enroll in up to three 1-credit elective courses per semester and learn from certified instructors with years of experience in mind-body practices.
Undergraduate and graduate students: Contact your academic advisor to register.
Questions about IMB? Contact scps-credit@pratt.edu
Art of Well-being Course
RWW staff teach the Art of Well-being course made by students for students. Students will cultivate a well-being mindset and behavior by exploring the essential related principles, factors, and practices. Encouraging a sense of supportive community of well-being practitioners and leaders, students will learn to guide each other toward meaning and engagement in their studies and lives, while developing effective life skills.
Students may enroll in up to three, All-Institute, 1-credit elective credit courses from this program.
All IMB instructors are certified in their specialized practice with years of experience in body, mind, and spirit practices.
Meditation and Mindfulness Resources
Intro to Mindfulness
Check out our series on Youtube about getting started with Mindfulness.
Guides
- How to Maintain Digital Well-being Guide
- Faculty Guidebook: Understanding Mindfulness and Contemplative Practices for Well-being
Meditation Apps
Organizations
- Center for Mindfulness
- Paulouse Mindfulness
- The Downtown Meditation Center
- Center for Courage and Renewal
- Find other mindfulness Centers and sitting groups
- For the West Coast: Spiritrock.org
- For the East Coast: dharma.org