Use this event registration system to register for upcoming conferences, classes, workshops, seminars, and other training activities sponsored by various departments and offices at UNC-Chapel Hill.
To begin your online registration, simply browse the event listings, select the event you wish to attend and complete the online registration form. Your registration will be confirmed by email.
To Inquire about becomming an Admin of your own events, contact Lori Saddler at lsaddler@unc.edu
Writing as Meditation: Cultivating Awareness, Inner Calm, and Renewal
Location
Virtual
Sponsor
UNC Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Date/Time
05/14/2026
- 06/04/2026
9:30 AM
- 11:30 AM
Event Price
Cutoff Date
05/14/2026
Must register before this date
For more information, contact the event administrator:
Paula Huffman
paulah@email.unc.edu
Event Presenters
Name
Title
Jen Johnson
Jen Johnson,is a mindfulness teacher, psychotherapist, writer, and photographer whose work explores the intersection of mindfulness, creativity, and nature connection. She teaches mindfulness, writing as meditation, mindful photography, and nature meditation as practices for cultivating inner strength and renewal and learning to hold life’s challenges in one hand and the world’s immense beauty in the other. Jen has taught mindfulness meditation since 1985. She completed Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction teacher training at the Center for Mindfulness, UMass Medical Center in 2010. Her writing has been published in book chapters, a poetry anthology, literary journals, and health, wellness, and creativity publications, and her photographs have been exhibited internationally. Jen is the author of Everyday Mindful Substack that explores creating inner refuge through mindfulness, creativity, and nature connection.
Writing as Meditation: Cultivating Awareness, Inner Calm, and Renewal 4-week online workshop Led by Jen Johnson MS, MFA, LPC, LCMHC, E-RYT
Writing as Meditation is a restorative practice for self-discovery and renewal. The workshop offers an introduction to reflective writing as a mindfulness practice that encourages awareness, inner calm, and resilience. Through mindfulness practices and guided writing prompts, participants are encouraged to slow down, listen inwardly, and reconnect with a sense of presence and vitality.
This is not a writing craft workshop, rather one that emphasizes awareness and curiosity, inviting writing as a tool for self-discovery, emotional clarity, and renewed engagement with life through present moment experience. No prior writing or mindfulness experience is required—only a willingness to pause and attend to the present moment.
Dates: Thursdays, May 14 – June 4, 2026 Time: 9:30-11am EST Cost: General Public $225 UNC Affiliate currently employed by the University of Hospital System $200 Currently enrolled Undergraduate and Graduate Students $175
