PAST EVENTS

Mindfulness Month, October 2025

In collaboration with Connection Points from the Kathryn M. Buder Center for the American Indian, we’ll be holding noontime events on most weekdays in October on the Danforth Campus. In collaboration with IDEAS at DOM, we're also hosting events on the Medical Campus. Find out more on our Mindfulness Month page.

Mindfulness & Anti-Racism Speaker Series

WashU is on the leading edge of combining mindfulness and anti-racism. Our Mindfulness & Anti-Racism speaker series helps reduce bias and expand access by elevating diverse experts in mindfulness. Learn more about our speakers here. Get a preview of our next event with Oren Jay Sofer on October 31.

Mindfulness Week 2024

In 2024, we expanded to several days of activities and more campus partners with yoga on campus, mindful art viewing at the Kemper, more esteemed speakers and a research panel of projects we funded. See the full lineup on our event page. We also created a page of highlights.

Mindfulness Day 2023

A first for WashU, Mindfulness Day included two esteemed speakers, a research panel, a sound bath and other mindfulness activities as well as a community partners resource fair. You can find out more on our event page.

2023 Mindfulness Mechanisms and Methods Meeting (M4)

M4 was an international scientific conference that brought together an interdisciplinary group of individuals to inspire mindfulness research using advanced cognitive neuroscience tools and technology.

This conference resulted in two special-edition scientific journals:

Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science Special Issue on Mindfulness: Measurement, Methods, Mechanisms, and Mental Health
and 
Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging