All Projects

This program is using the Leading Together intervention as a model for exposing school leaders to reflective and mindful practices that may enhance teaching and learning environments.

This project is working to integrate contemplative practices, values, and ideas in University of Virginia programs that are geared to educating students in a wide range of community service and global development activities.

The Compassionate Schools Project is the most comprehensive study ever undertaken of a 21st century health and wellness curriculum in an elementary or secondary school setting. 

Can teachers benefit from a “Comprehensive Approach to Learning Mindfulness”? The “CALM Teachers” study, funded by 1440 Foundation, aims to find out.

Examining how philosophical, social, aesthetic, environmental and other contexts are centrally constitutive of the nature, dynamics, and impact of any given contemplative practice, rather than being incidental

This study examine the benefits both physically and psychologically of a contemplative intervention for people living with SLE.

Digital technology is a revolutionary force in human civilization, but one that has not been fully utilized in higher education. CSC is closing this gap by building a global university located fully on the Web where a dispersed community of teachers, students, and citizens interact and share content. The Contemplative University will offer instruction and learning tools on contemplative practices, as well as contemplatively-based approaches to education and understanding across a broad array of fields, including the humanities, health sciences, business, education, architecture, law, engineering, leadership and public policy, and more.  

Global movement of next generation leaders integrating contemplative work with social innovation to solve global challenges.

This study is testing the capacity for contemplative practices to repair and restore cognitive activity in children that has been damaged due to exposure to fast-paced and fantastical television shows.

This research team is testing whether an 8-week restorative yoga intervention can provide significant relief to patients suffering from symptoms associated with fibromyalgia, including depressed mood, sleep disruption, and chronic pain.

This is is a test of a mindfulness-based professional development program designed to improve teachers' well-being and their social-emotional competence, and thereby the quality of the classroom, student behavior and academic achievement.

This is is a test of a mindfulness-based professional development program designed to improve teachers' well-being and their social-emotional competence, and thereby the quality of the classroom, student behavior and academic achievement.

This project is examining the potential for practices of mindfulness to complement instruction and leadership of teachers and counselors working with youth in the Upward Bound program.

This project is developing a short documentary film that draws together research from settings around the world on the relationship between design schemes and lifespan longevity.

This study seeks to employ digital and mobile technologies to better understand and address the effects of stress on people living with HIV in the rural South.

This program investigates the effects and potential benefits of Reflective Exercise - a westernized form of Qi Gong meditative practice - in the heart, respiratory, and immune function of athletes

Mindfulness + Movement is a project between CSC and the Curry School of Education to provide 36 weeks of mindfulness programming to Albemarle County Public Elementary Schools.

This project examined the benefits of mindfulness-based stress reduction techniques in assisting people recovering from alcohol use disorders.

This study is testing the use and effectiveness of a mobile device application as a means for using mindfulness-based smoking cessation therapy to ease cravings and assist smokers wishing to quit.

Examining and assessing the outcomes of the Being with Dying contemplative training program for clinicians engaged in the difficult and stressful work of caring for terminally ill and dying patients.

This is a six-year follow-up assessment of an intensive three-month meditation retreat. Using phenomenological, psychological, cognitive, affective, neural, and biological measures, and innovative statistical and computational methods, this study will quantify multidimensional aspects of spiritual growth over time.

Outcomes of this study will determine if training in mindfulness during hemodialysis minimizes dangerous complications of medical treatment in high-risk patients.