Stories | Mandala

Mary Jo Kreitzer

Jul 29, 20212 min read

Adjusting Expectations

In conversations that I have been having personally and professionally, I sense a growing understanding that many of the changes we made...

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How Practicing Gratitude Can Help You Heal

Shelly Gill Murray

Jul 29, 20214 min read

How Practicing Gratitude Can Help You Heal

Swept away like breadcrumbs in the moment, I decided to gather up the bits and pieces of my life to see if the trail ended in gratitude....

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Aegor Ray

Jul 29, 20214 min read

Managing Anxiety and Difficult Emotions

In our fact-paced lives, the mind-body connection – the complex relationship between a person’s physical body and internal state – is not...

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Kevin Coss

Jul 29, 20215 min read

Seeking Out Social Connections

A powerful form of self-care can boost wellbeing and manage chronic pain Phoning a sibling, meeting a friend for dinner, doing volunteer...

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Von Voyage Center Director of Graduate Studies Dr. Susan O'Conner-Von Retires

Katie Dohman

Jul 29, 20214 min read

Von Voyage Center Director of Graduate Studies Dr. Susan O'Conner-Von Retires

Susan O'Conner-Von is many things: a PhD, an RN, a professor and, for the last seven years, the Center’s Director of Graduate Studies. By...

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Center Provides Parkinson's Disease Patients New Resources to Take Charge of Their Health& Wellbeing

Heidi Wachter

Jul 29, 20213 min read

Center Provides Parkinson's Disease Patients New Resources to Take Charge of Their Health& Wellbeing

NEARLY A MILLION PEOPLE are living with Parkinson’s disease (PD) in the United States. That’s greater than the number of people...

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How Loving Kindness Meditation Can Help Your Mind Breathe

Shelly Gill Murray

Jul 29, 20215 min read

How Loving Kindness Meditation Can Help Your Mind Breathe

Heading to my cabin in Wisconsin, I passed the Franconia Sculpture Park in an unmown hay field adjacent to County Road 8. Among its giant...

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Jacques Lerouge

Jul 29, 20214 min read

Meet Jamie Hazelton, NBC-HWC

Raised in Bemidji, Minnesota, Jamie Hazelton (she/her) is a frequent camper, a role model, a gay transgender woman, and a Health Coach....

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When Life Gives You Lemons: Bakken Center Webinars are a Bright Spot in a Dreary World

Andy Steiner

Jan 15, 20215 min read

When Life Gives You Lemons: Bakken Center Webinars are a Bright Spot in a Dreary World

Before the global pandemic forced the world into lockdown, staff at the Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing created a series...

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Center Presents Wellbeing Series for Planetary Health

Aegor Ray

Jan 15, 20215 min read

Center Presents Wellbeing Series for Planetary Health

Talking about planetary health, suggests Dr. Laalitha Surapaneni, is no longer enough. An internal medicine hospitalist at the University...

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Dianne Lev

Jan 15, 20215 min read

25 Years of the Center

In the Fall 2019 issue of Mandala, to honor the Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing’s 25th Anniversary, I thought it would...

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Jacques Lerouge

Jan 15, 20216 min read

Impacting Student Wellbeing

Bakken Center Offers Support to Students During Covid-19 Pandemic Since March 2020, students at the University of Minnesota have been...

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Removing Barriers from the Digital Classroom

Asa Olson

Jan 15, 20213 min read

Removing Barriers from the Digital Classroom

It’s more important than ever that the Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing makes its courses accessible in these unprecedented...

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Mary Jo Kreitzer

Jan 15, 20214 min read

Could Anyone Have Imagined?

Like many, I am very eager to put 2020, which was a year like no other, to rest. I am not sure that anyone could have anticipated the...

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Rachel Brougham

Jan 14, 20216 min read

Legacies of Learning and Development

Anyone at the University of Minnesota’s Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing will share that it’s hard to imagine the Center...

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Diversity in Research: Better for Communities, Better for Science

Kevin Coss

Jan 14, 20215 min read

Diversity in Research: Better for Communities, Better for Science

About three years ago, Roni Evans and her research team were in the middle of a pilot study exploring how mindfulness might encourage...

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Katie Ousley

Jan 14, 20215 min read

Finding Strength in Survivorship

At 16 years old, Jasmine Bennetsen got a life-changing diagnosis: Fanconi anemia (FA), a rare disease that prevents her cells from...

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Perspectives on Increasing Inclusion in Health Coaching

Heidi Wachter

Jan 14, 20215 min read

Perspectives on Increasing Inclusion in Health Coaching

“Good health begins at home.” That’s more than just an old adage. Throughout the past three decades, public health data has shown that...

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From Acorns to White-Tails: Finding Healing Solace in the Forest

Craig Blacklock

Jan 14, 20214 min read

From Acorns to White-Tails: Finding Healing Solace in the Forest

The mixed election results and pandemic have left me, like many others, dealing with melancholy and depression–struggling to keep disgust...

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Course Correct: New Integrative Nursing Specialization Launches on Coursera

Katie Dohman

Jan 13, 20216 min read

Course Correct: New Integrative Nursing Specialization Launches on Coursera

The Integrative Nursing specialization covers how to return nurses to their point of expertise – caring and healing.

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