All Articles: Mind-Body

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.

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.

Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, there have been few opportunities for mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) facilitators to gather in person to share, learn, and connect. The Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality and Healing changed that in April with a workshop to convene MBSR trainers in a spirit of renewal.

Hundreds of people across Minnesota and around the world tune into the Bakken Center’s free Mindful Mondays sessions each week. 

Writer, researcher, speaker. Professor, mentor, and “social worker to the core”: Mark Umbreit embodies all these roles and more. He does it with a warm, low-key demeanor that belies his international influence in the field he helped nurture.