Mindful Nature: A Summer Mindfulness Experience for Adolescents (11-14 years old)
Hosted by the Program on Integrative Medicine
Everyday Mindfulness Matters!
In mindful nature, students are given the opportunity to explore their own inner landscape filtered by a lens of connectivity with the natural world around them. By opening their hearts with self-compassion and nonjudgment, students discover a way of being more in tune with their personal sense of authenticity and inner peace. By slowing down with mindful awareness, students will explore their natural environment with a heightened sense of awe, wonder, and appreciation.
During the retreat, your teen will experience
Ice breakers and social connection and sharing
Mindfulness of breathing
Beading to create a mindful bracelet
Sense and savor walks
Exploration of one square foot
Finding objects from nature
Looking at the space between
Breathing in tune with a plant or tree
Heightened sensory awareness
Haiku and journaling
Gratitude Practice
Based on Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and tailored to adolescents, the empirically-based curriculum for this course, entitled Learning to BREATHE, was developed by mindfulness expert/clinical psychologist Dr. Patricia Broderick and has been endorsed by Jon Kabat-Zinn.
Saturday, July 23, 2022, from 11-3 PM EST
Please have your teen bring a brown bag lunch, snacks, and drinks!
Restrooms and a fridge are available.
New Hope Camp and Conference Center, Dogwood Lodge
4805 NC-86, Chapel Hill, NC, 27516
Mindfulness Instructors: Kate Murphy, MA, NBCT & Aviva Scully, MSW, LCSW, MSPH
Fee: $125 | $200 Siblings discount | UNC Payroll Deduction
Refund policy
Before the start of class, full refund minus $15.00 handling fee
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For more information, email mindfulness@med.unc.edu
If you have any of the following issues listed below that would present additional challenges in taking the class, please call 919-966-8586 to speak with an instructor prior to registering for the course.
Hospitalization within the last 6 months for any psychiatric reasons
Medically unstable situation
Problem with alcohol or drug abuse
Anger management issues that could potentially be disruptive to the group
Suicidal fantasies