Welcome to Mindful Pratt!
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 Wellbeing Calendar.
Weekly Drop-In Practices
We are happy to be offering regular drop-in practices to our community throughout the week! Fill out this form to get weekly emails with the schedule for the week.
Check out or Schedule with Zoom Links (Button)
Our schedule is constantly changing, so the button above is the best place to look for the most up-to-date information. For the zoom links, additional practices, or cancellations please check out the schedule linked in the button above.
Pratt Athletics and Recreation
Know the latest on facility availability, and program offerings by downloading the Pratt Recreation app on The App Store and Google Play. Includes information on wellness, fitness, intramural sports, club sports, varsity sport schedules, and more. Be in the know for events and programs offered through Pratt Recreation!
Courses
The Meditation Incubator
A 10-week co-curricular course run through the Center for Career & Professional Development open to students, alumnx, faculty, and staff. The course is offered either live with a weekly set time to meet and practice or online and self-directed. The live course generally begins the 2nd or 3rd week of the semester, the self-directed has rolling sign-ups. Find out more.
Integrative Mind & Body Program
Pratt SCPS’s Integrative Mind & Body (IMB) Program is comprised of All-Institute, 1-credit elective courses in mindfulness-based practices such as Yoga, Meditation, Contemplation, and Pilates. The offerings are designed to educate the whole person and to foster self-awareness, wellbeing, concentration, resilience and creativity.
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.
To register:
Undergraduate students: please contact your academic advisor.
Graduate students: please contact jdanant@pratt.edu.
For more information:
Please contact: Joelle Danant, SCPS Program Director, at jdanant@pratt.edu.
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 Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education (ACHME)
- 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