GROUNDED GARDENING Connecting with nature provides many positive benefits to mental health including: decreasing stress, improving focus, and practicing self-care. Join the Student Counseling Center clinical staff in the campus garden to learn how to practice mindfulness while gardening. Included in this 3-week workshop, you’ll learn basic skills of mindfulness – focusing on the “here-and-now” breath-by-breath as you garden and allow yourself to be fully immersed in nature. Gardening activities will include focusing on pruning and beautifying the UIndy native plants garden. Gloves and all equipment will be provided. Dates: October 10, 17 & 24 Day & Time: Fridays, 10 – 11 a.m.
Registration: This is a unique partnership with UIndy’s Service-Learning Program and our Student Counseling Center. Download the Hounds Connect app, and sign-up for any of the weeks you want to during the 3-week workshop dates listed above. Attendance is limited to 12 people for each week. Registrants must sign up again for each week they want to attend as it will be capped, and on a first-come, first-serve basis. This workshop will fill up quickly, so sign-up early if you want to be included. Those who attend and have signed up through Hounds Connect will receive credit for service learning on their transcripts.
