Session Description
This session will focus on gentle mindful movements, intended to help release stress and invite ease in the body, mind and heart. Movements will include standing stretching postures and qigong.

Presenter: Mariann Johnson
Instructor Mariann Johnson is a wellbeing and mindfulness instructor for the University of Minnesota Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing. Before dedicating her professional life to teaching mindfulness, Mariann Johnson was an accomplished organization development consultant and mediator, having worked extensively with national leaders of Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and nonprofit organizations. Since 2010, she has designed and taught mindfulness programs throughout the United States and consulted on the design of Mindful Leadership and mindfulness at work programs in corporate, professional and academic settings. Mariann has practiced mindfulness meditation for over 25 years and studied with national and international leaders in the field. She completed extensive Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teacher training through the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts, founded by Jon Kabat-Zinn, and received her MBSR teacher certification from the Mindfulness Center at Brown University. Her writings on mindful leadership have appeared in the Huffington Post and Mindful Magazine.

Session Description
Whether you already have a mindfulness practice or want to try it out for the first time, this session will benefit those looking for a few moments of release in your busy day and during these uncertain times. We will begin with a very brief introduction to what we mean by “mindfulness,” then experience a guided meditation.

Presenter: Louise Delagaran
Louise Delagran, MA, MEd, teaches the Introduction to Mindfulness 4-week in-person class, as well as the Mindfulness at Work online course.

Louise is a member of the International Mindfulness Teachers Association and received her training in mindfulness facilitation from the Mindful Awareness Research Center at the UCLA’s Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. In addition to teaching mindfulness, Louise is a writer, researcher, and the editor of the Center’s consumer website, Taking Charge of Your Health & Wellbeing.

Session Description: 
Music has amazing potential to affect our wellbeing! This session will include a quick introduction to how music affects the brain, and then an exploration of what music is best to help us chill out, focus, be happier, process negative feelings, and improve our wellbeing all around.

Presenter: Jenzi Silverman
Jenzi Silverman, PhD, believes passionately in the power of music to heal. She has taught courses on music and wellbeing for the Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality and Healing since January 2020. She has been a musician since the age of 9, and since 2005 Jenzi has played recorder and ukulele in healthcare settings and senior living communities. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Medical Musician Initiative, which prepares musicians for playing in critical care and related hospital settings, and is the first recorderist and ukulele player in the world to train for medical musicianship.

Session Description
Connect with the school’s Mental Health Advocates who are trained to provide student mental health and campus referral resources and information to students, staff, and faculty as well as promote wellbeing within the School of Public Health community. Come learn about the Mental Health Advocate program and what it can do for you.

Presenter: Vic Massaglia, Director, SPH Career & Professional Development Center