We offer monthly webinars on a variety of topics designed to help you take charge of your health and wellbeing. Webinars are free but registration is required.
To make disability-related accommodations, please contact the Bakken Center's community relations office ([email protected], 612-625-8164).
Upcoming Webinars
Life-Affirming Creativity In Times Of Distress with Molly Sturges
Feb 23, 2023 • Noon - 1 p.m. Central
In the midst of ecological and cultural crisis how can connecting with your own unique creative energies provide relief, restoration, insight and inspiration? Join artist/researcher/faculty Molly Sturges in this experiential webinar where you will have time to explore a few creative healing practices to support you as well as have an opportunity to connect with others as desired in a caring, accepting and reflective space.
Inspiring, Recruiting, and Retaining the Health-Care Workforce
March 1, 2022 • 10 a.m. - Noon Central
The content of the webinar is designed for nurses. Other health professionals are welcome.
Join Creative Nursing, the Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing, and Creative Health Care Management for a discussion with thought leaders about:
- Permission to Care for Ourselves
- Integrative Nursing: A Framework for Whole-Person Mental Health Care
- Composing a Life that Works with a Life that Counts for Nurses
- and more!
Bakken Center Mindfulness Programs Information Session
March 1, 2022 • Noon - 1 p.m. Central
This webinar, led by Bakken Center Mindfulness and Wellbeing Instructor Mariann Johnson, will provide an introduction to mindfulness meditation and will be particularly relevant to those new to the practice or simply curious about the possible benefits of a mindfulness practice. Participants will have an opportunity to practice a short mindfulness meditation, to share their experiences, and to ask questions. Examples will also be provided for practicing "everyday" mindfulness, at work and at home. The webinar will conclude with an overview of the Bakken Center's mindfulness resources and programming.
Exploring the Role of Spirituality in Enhancing Resilience and Wellbeing
March 16, 2022 • Noon - 1 p.m. Central
In this webinar, spirituality will be explored from the lens of the Bakken Center’s Wellbeing Model: connecting with something larger than oneself, leading to enhanced resiliency and a deeper sense of meaning and connectedness, with oneself and the world around them.
The role of contemplative practices in accessing spirituality will be discussed, and participants will be guided through a contemplative, mindfulness exercise to inquire and reflect on their own experience and understanding of spirituality.
Wellbeing Series 2023 - The Science of Social Justice: An Interdisciplinary Approach Towards Healing Intergenerational Trauma with Dr. Sará King
Tuesday, March 28, 2023 • 12 to 1:30 p.m. Central
The Science of Social Justice is an interdisciplinary theoretical framework developed by Dr. Sará King that uses the biopsychosocial model of health as well as interpersonal neurobiology and contemplative practices to study the impact of systemic oppression on marginalized communities, as well as it proposes a framework towards healing intergenerational trauma. This talk will explore several topics including the research trajectory that informed the development of this framework; the relationship between chronic pain and chronic stress as they relate to identity and health outcomes; and the relationship between mindfulness and art as healing practices. Dr. King will propose a new way of defining social justice that is oriented around healing, as well as a new technological framework that is fundamentally grounded in an inclusive and empowering vision of individual and collective health and wellbeing. Learn more about the Wellbeing Series 2023.
Wellbeing Series 2023 - More Than a Body: Building Your Body Image Resilience with Dr. Lexie and Dr. Lindsay Kite
Tuesday, April 25, 2023 • 12 to 1:30 p.m. Central
In this visual presentation, Drs. Lexie and Lindsay Kite will walk the audience through the life-changing pathway to body image resilience, where people can learn to not only identify the objectifying ideals that surround us and the pain and shame that accompanies those ideals, but learn to use that pain as a catalyst to be more -- more than a body, more than a collection of parts to be fixed and flaunted, more of what can bring you and the world joy and purpose. Learn more about the Wellbeing Series 2023.
View Previous Webinars
Integrative Nursing
Wellbeing Series
Ethical Leadership: The Fractal for Equitable Enduring Change with Dr. Monica Sharma
Wellbeing: Expanding the Definition of Progress Featuring Dr. Alonzo L. Plough
AfroSoul: Dreams of Freedom, Racial Reconciliation, and Healing Justice
The Clinical and Public Health Importance of Social Wellbeing featuring Julianne Holt-Lunstad
Anti-Racism: Dismantling Your Practice featuring Nicole Cardoza
Other Wellbeing Topics
An Introduction to Mental Wellbeing: Lessons from The Years in Asia
Trauma and the Rule of Two: Why Trauma Symptoms Show Up When They Do
"Who Do You Want To Be When You Grow Old? The Path of Purposeful Aging" Book Club Conversation
Strategies for Supporting Physical Activity and Wellbeing Among Youth and the Young at Heart
The Relationship between Climate Change and Health and What You Can Do About it
Unlocking Your Path to Purposeful Aging with Richard Leider
A Whole Person Approach to Mental Health
Purpose in Times of Uncertainty Webinar