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Mindful Moments

Standalone Workshops

Each of the one-time workshops offers multiple timeslots to accommodate different schedules.  Choose one or more of these educational workshops to build your mindfulness skills.   

  • Brief Practices in Mindfulness (90 min): The goal of this workshop is to give participants a workshop with a variety of mindfulness practices to use every day. To establish an understanding of mindfulness. Experience several mindful practices – including: mindful breathing, grounding, ways to quiet your mind, body scan, mindful movement, guided meditation, and seated meditation.  In the last section of the workshop, we will develop a plan for your own personal practice.  

    • Monday, Nov. 10, 2025, 12–1:30 p.m. ET

    • Monday, Dec. 1, 2025, 7–8:30 p.m. ET

    • Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025, 10–11:30 a.m. ET

    Changing Negative Self-Talk (60 min): We all have automatic thoughts, both positive and negative. Having more positive thoughts can influence how you manage stress. During this workshop participants will learn about the brain’s negativity bias and how it affects our response to stress. In addition, we will talk about the benefits of positive self-talk and explore other tools for dealing with negative self-talk. 

    • Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025, 12–1 p.m. ET

    • Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025, 12–1 p.m. ET

    • Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025, 7–8 p.m. ET

    Building Resilience to Avoid Burnout (60 min): Build your resiliency to avoid burnout by boosting your protective factors such as having caring and supportive people in your life. The goal of this workshop is to learn to recognize the symptoms of burnout. To discuss occupational burnout. Learn ways to build resilience to avoid burnout. Participate in activities to practice skills to deal with burnout.

    • Monday, Dec. 1, 2025, 12–1 p.m. ET

    • Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025, 7–8 p.m. ET

    Be Kind to Your Mind (60 min):  Be Kind to Your Mind explores techniques to learn to be a detached observer of your thoughts using the power of acceptance and gratitude. It is part of the Stress Less with Mindfulness series authored by West Virginia Extension.

    • Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025, 12–1 p.m. ET

    • Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, 7–8 p.m. ET

Cost: Free

Format: Zoom Webinar

Please note that webinars are live and will not be available for later viewing.  

Presenter: Nicole Wethington, DET, ERYT, wethingn@msu.edu

Registration for Mindful Moments is open.

Registration closes at 11:59 p.m. ET on December 13, 2025.

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Accommodations

Michigan State University Extension programs, services events, and materials are open to all without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, religion, age, height, weight, disability, political beliefs, sexual orientation, marital status, family status, or veteran status. Accommodations for persons with disabilities may be requested by contacting the event contact two weeks prior to the start of the event. Requests received after this date will be honored whenever possible.  

Contact Information

For information, please contact Nicole Wethington at wethingn@msu.edu.