General Schedule*

* Registered participants will receive finalized program details

Monday, June 24, 2024

12:30-4:00 p.m. Optional meditation workshop

4:15 - 5:00 p.m. Registration

5:00 p.m. Welcome Reception and Dinner

Location: Center for Healthy Minds, Madison WI

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Content sessions, including group lunch

Location: Pyle Center, UW-Madison Campus

Wednesday, June 26, 2024

9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Content sessions, lunch on your own (lots of good options!)

Location: Pyle Center, UW-Madison Campus

Thursday, June 27, 2024

9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Content sessions, including an in-person talk with Dr. Richie Davidson, lunch on your own, and wrap up

Location: Pyle Center, UW-Madison Campus

The Monday afternoon meditation workshop will provide an opportunity to practice with other participants, offer examples of practices addressing diverse learners, explore the elements of guiding group practices, and demonstrate how mindfulness (focused awareness) and attention training provide an important foundation for the ASHF course.

Like the ASHF course itself, our overall approach to focused awareness involves a synthesis of declarative and procedural knowledge. Our intellectual understanding of how mindfulness, for example, can support flourishing can be deepened by actually engaging in contemplative practices. The meditation workshop will provide examples of practices from a variety of different cultural and disciplinary perspectives.