Center for Healthy Minds

'What’s the Big Idea?' Richard Davidson Speaks at Investiture Ceremony

Center for Healthy Minds Founder and Director Richard Davidson Speaks at UW–Madison Chancellor's Investiture in April 2023.

For Stressed-out Grad Students, Mindfulness Makes Big Difference

While recent studies and polls indicate the nation is in the midst of a mental health crisis, the situation in academia is even more grim: Within the high-stress, high-pressure, often socially isolated world of advanced education, graduate students experience depression and anxiety at six times the rate of the general population.

Following pandemic, educators are not all right but meditation could ease burden

A newly published CHM study is among the first to collect empirical data on school employees’ mental health early in the pandemic

The Utility of White-Hot Rage

5 Things That Can Alleviate Your Eco-Anxiety by Dekila Chungyalpa

If Faith Moves Mountains, Can It Also Move Climate Action?