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Meet a Few of the Bakken Center's New Health Coaching Students

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.

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, MA, PhD, Teaches How Music Heals.

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. 

Thanks to more than a decade of mindfulness-based stress reduction programs (MBSR), thousands of people use its techniques to manage stress and improve wellbeing.

Researchers are developing a comprehensive pain management program for rural veterans, who have more severe pain than the average person but less access to care

An immersive arts experience that blends art and science to build community and explore reciprocity with the planet.

It’s an incredibly exciting time within the arts and healing movement. While many of us have intuitively known that the arts are healing and enrich our lives in countless ways, now research has validated impressive clinical outcomes.