The Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing (CSH) is now offering digital badges and certificates for the following programs:
- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
- Self-Leadership: Strengthening Leadership Effectiveness from the Inside Out
- Wellbeing Leadership (digital badge only)
- Wellbeing & Resilience for Health Professionals
- Wellbeing & Resilience for Physicians
Digital credentials serve as verification of your accomplishment to employers and peers, and it shows that you have obtained the skills and knowledge associated with the program.
To earn a badge and certificate for a program, participants must complete the following:
- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR): participants must complete at least 6 of the 8 sessions, plus the all-day retreat, and complete the final program evaluation.
- Self-Leadership: Strengthening Leadership Effectiveness from the Inside Out: participants must attend all four workshops in the series and score an 80% or higher on the test of knowledge quiz.
- Wellbeing Leadership Series: participants need to attend all three program dates and take the evaluations.
- Wellbeing & Resilience for Health Professionals: participants need to pass all six topic quizzes.
- Wellbeing & Resilience for Physicians: participants need to pass all six topic quizzes.
The University of Minnesota has partnered with Credly to offer digital badges and certificates. Credly is a leading digital credential service provider. Digital credentials are hosted by a third party and are verified, secure, portable, and data-rich representations of demonstrated skills and earned certifications.
As a Credly Verified Issuer, CSH will publicly issue all earned badges and certificates via Credly. When you earn a badge and certificate, you will receive an email notification of your achievement. If you don’t have a Credly account, you will be prompted to create one after you accept your badge and/or certificate.