Exciting news Roksana Filipowska, PhD!!! Congratulations to you and your coauthors. 👏👏👏 #artsandculture #mbsr #museum
Our publication is finally out! Being Present with Art (BPWA) is a method for integrating Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (#MBSR) meditation with #museum education tools. In our research study, we found that BPWA participants self-report lower levels of stress and higher levels of attention, as well as a greater sense of belonging. Significantly, even attending one session (versus the month-long series) resulted in self-reported lower stress and greater attention and sense of belonging. You can read the article here: https://lnkd.in/eWHS6XAR The Being Present with Art method is based on my experience of facilitating MBSR #meditation since 2014 and working in art museum education since 2008. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and teaching virtually at Yale University Art Gallery , I realized that MBSR + museum pedagogy have key similarities (both encourage the participant to slow down and focus attention) as well as important differences that, when combined, address the experience of #loneliness , which continues to affect our shared world, and fostering a sense of #belonging . Many thanks to my coauthors Hannah Weinberg-Wolf, Ph.D. and Alexa Vaghenas , and to Dr. Laurie Santos for leading as Principal Investigator! The BPWA method has been offered at Yale University to undergraduate, graduate and professional students, at the Yale School of Nursing to address burnout among #caregivers, and to the public at the Barnes Foundation . Thank you to Keen Independent Research LLC for supporting this peer-reviewed article being published open access!