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Person holding herbs in their hand while preparing a pan of roasted vegetables

The Bakken Center’s new Nourishment in Every Season workshop provides skills, strategies, and inspiration to prepare delicious, healthy food.

Landscape of waterways

There are many things in life we don’t notice or fully appreciate simply because we are too close to view them within a greater context of space and time.

Patient and practitioner talking

With a newly-awarded prestigious grant from the Weil Foundation, the Bakken Center and UMN Psychiatry Department are collaborating to pioneer a new training program that integrates health coaching into the care of adults with ADHD.

Dead gull in water on Slipper Island, Ontario, Lake Superior

There’s humility in this, and beauty. The moths on the water. The deer nourishing both forest and family. Death, endlessly recycled into life.

Abstract painting of freeflowing greens and blues with accents of orange and red

Craig Blacklock’s new work including the Encroachment series, will be on display at the Joseph Nease Fine Art Gallery in Duluth, Minnesota from August 9th through September 27th.

orchestra stage

Science supports it: Collective art can heal. Here’s one way in which the Minnesota Orchestra and the Bakken Center are bringing it to the Twin Cities.

waterfall photo by craig blacklock

I know of no better way to teach mindfulness than to give a person a camera and take them into the natural world; whether they use a cell phone or a top-of-the-line professional camera makes little difference because the results will be just as impressive.

Jenzi Silverman

Jenzi Silverman, MA, PhD, Teaches How Music Heals.

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Mindfulness programming is one of the fastest-growing areas of the Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing, notably since the COVID-19 pandemic brought Mindful Mondays to people across Minnesota and around the world. 

river flowing over rocks

A frequent criticism of western medical and wellness approaches is that they suffer from a historic separation of the mind and the body.