Join fellow students for an Acoustic Jam Session on Monday, February 9, 2026 from 5:00 - 7:00 pm in the Contemplative Commons Studio 1B! Bring instruments to play or simply come to enjoy the music & community. Refreshments will be provided!
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Popular notions of mindfulness and contemplation tend strongly toward “calming.” Yet “calming” only tells half the story, which can be deeply problematic when clarity and action are desired or called for. Alternatively, “grit and grace” resonates better with the professional audiences in business and healthcare that I work with. “Grit” captures focus and determination, while “grace” captures composure and compassion. In this salon, I invite reactions to this framing and seek ideas about how to support “grit and grace” with evidence-based research and wisdom traditions.
UVA STUDENTS! Join fellow students for a productive and restorative Finals Study Break.
Connect with fellow attendees, researchers, and experts in the field of compassionate care to help plan a half-day pan-University Compassionate Care symposium. Unwind, share ideas, and build new relationships in a relaxed setting.
REGISTRATION REQUIRED.
Join fellow UVA students for this fun and informative session (with food, refreshments, and swag!), to learn some essential advice from third and fourth year students. This will be a great opportunity for upperclassmen to speak to the successes and challenges of adjusting to life in college, as well as provide opportunities for engagement between years! Come away with new tips, tricks, and connections to your older Hoos.
Join the CSC Peer Programming team and bring your artistic talents to do some custom sticker making! Draw your very own stickers to be used on water bottles, computers, and anywhere else a sticker may call home. Sticker making will take place on the 4th floor Alchemy from 2:30 - 5:00 PM on Friday, November 21st.
This event is free and open to the public. Registration required. There are two separate sections. Golden Hour is a 60-minute, immersive live music experience created by local Charlottesville musicians Suz Slezak and David Wax (of David Wax Museum) and Lauren and Daniel Goans (of Lowland Hum).
Fully Being is an awareness-based contemplative training, discussion, and practice, led by facilitators Adam Kane and James Terburg.
Fully Being is an awareness-based contemplative training, discussion, and practice, led by facilitators Adam Kane and James Terburg.
Fully Being is an awareness-based contemplative training, discussion, and practice, led by facilitators Adam Kane and James Terburg.
Fully Being is an awareness-based contemplative training, discussion, and practice, led by facilitators Adam Kane and James Terburg.
Fully Being is an awareness-based contemplative training, discussion, and practice, led by instructors Adam Kane and James Terburg. The two sessions are stand alone sessions - you can come to one or to both if you would like to go deeper into the practice.
Fully Being is an awareness-based contemplative training, discussion, and practice, led by facilitators Adam Kane and James Terburg.
Fully Being is an awareness-based contemplative training, discussion, and practice, led by facilitators Adam Kane and James Terburg.
Engage in art as a sensory experience! More often than not, we're our own harshest critics. When perfect becomes the goal, mediocre feels unacceptable—and art, instead of being freeing, can become frustrating.
But what if, just for a little while, you could silence that inner critic and simply enjoy the act of creating?
In this workshop, we’ll draw in the dark—removing the pressure of perfection and reconnecting with the pure, sensory joy of making art.
Join us on Friday, November 14 for an Ashtanga Led Primary Series class to honor the late Sharath Jois, lineage holder of Ashtanga Yoga. The class is free and open to all.
In loving memory of Sharath’s dedication to environmental conservation, participants or those who may wish to contribute in his honor are encouraged to donate to the Southern Environmental Law Center.
Spontaneous forms of thought such as mind-wandering foster creativity and exploration. But digital technologies may be crowding out spontaneity: In the past, during idle times such as waiting for a bus, our minds were more accustomed to wandering. Now we are stuck on our phones. How can we make room for spontaneity in a digital world?
Join us for an introduction to Capoeira with Mestre Onirê and Professor Saci. This event is open to the public and free to students, staff, faculty, and the Charlottesville community. Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art that blends dance, music, acrobatics, and spirituality, rooted in flow rather than fixed stances. Guilherme Lemos with the Department of African American and African Studies and UVA's Carter G. Woodson Institute have graciously invited Mestre Onirê and Professor Saci to introduce students to this historic and mystic art form that has captivated millions for centuries.
This event is co-sponsored by the Department of African American and African Studies, Carter G. Woodson Institute, and the Contemplative Sciences Center.
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As part of the Technosonics 2025 Festival, the special exhibit, "Contemplative Listening In Sonic Immersion" will be available to experience at the Contemplative Commons extended showing, starting November 10, 2025. 2:00-5:00pm.
Let the blotches of paint guide your imagination. In this session, we’ll transform spontaneous splashes into repeating patterns, discovering how rhythm and flow emerge from playful randomness.
This workshop is a focuses on repetition, inviting you to explore how mindful mark-making reduces stress, sparks creativity, and deepens focus.
Join us on Friday, November 7th to relax, experiment, and let watercolour guide the way.