Wise Mind Breathing (5 minutes)

This practice helps you connect with Wise Mind, where Emotional Mind and Rational Mind are held in balance, led by Diane Hetrick.

Sara McDermott

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Sara leads CCFW’s partnerships, training, research, and program development for Be REAL.   Prior to joining CCFW, Sara spent over 8  years working as an academic advisor in various settings, including supporting high school students pursuing Running Start at the community college, a cohort program that supported first and second year pre-engineering college students from

A Day of Compassion Cultivation Practice

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This workshop has been postponed. Please contact ccfwb@uw.edu for information. Join us for a 1-day workshop focused on simple yet powerful compassion practices and exercises that you can weave into your day.

Tools for Teens: Stress Management and Emotional Resilience

This course has been postponed. Please contact ccfwb@uw.edu for information. Through practices and exercises developed just for teens, students have the opportunity to learn how to navigate the emotional ups and downs of life with greater ease. This is an eight-week course.

Mindful Self-Compassion

Yaffa And Blair

This course has been impacted by COVID-19. If you are registered for this course, you have been sent an email with updated information. Please contact ccfwb@uw.edu for additional information. Mindful self-compassion is a first step in emotional healing. In this 8-week program, develop habits of being kinder to yourself and others, and of living with more ease and well-being in your daily life.

Liliana Lengua

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Liliana Lengua, Ph.D. is UW’s Maritz Family Foundation Professor of Psychology and has directed CCFW since its founding in 2011. A child clinical psychologist, she studies the effects of adversity on children and examines risk and protective factors that contribute to children’s resilience or vulnerability. Her research has focused on the contributions of children’s temperament,