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Meet a Few of the Bakken Center's New Health Coaching Students

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Science supports it: Collective art can heal. Here’s one way in which the Minnesota Orchestra and the Bakken Center are bringing it to the Twin Cities.

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I know of no better way to teach mindfulness than to give a person a camera and take them into the natural world; whether they use a cell phone or a top-of-the-line professional camera makes little difference because the results will be just as impressive.

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Jenzi Silverman, MA, PhD, Teaches How Music Heals.

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Mindfulness programming is one of the fastest-growing areas of the Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing, notably since the COVID-19 pandemic brought Mindful Mondays to people across Minnesota and around the world. 

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Thanks to more than a decade of mindfulness-based stress reduction programs (MBSR), thousands of people use its techniques to manage stress and improve wellbeing.