Meditation classes, workshops and retreats to support your ongoing personal and professional development. Workshops on: mindfulness meditation, the mindful way through grief, writing as meditation, mindful photography, and other mindfulness and meditation classes and workshops.
The Mindful Way through Grief
4-week online course.
Jen Johnson is offering this course through University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill’s Program on Integrative Medicine.
The Mindful Way Through Grief is for anyone moving through loss in its many forms—personal, collective, anticipated, or unnamed. Grief is a natural response to love and change, yet it is often rushed, silenced, or carried alone.
Through mindfulness-based practices, gentle teaching, and reflective inquiry, this course invites participants to meet grief with presence and compassion. Rather than trying to fix or move beyond loss, we will practice skills for learning to stay, growing our capacity to be present with the difficult emotions, bodily sensations, and thoughts that often accompany grief in ways that ease overwhelm and foster steadiness.
Each week includes guided mindfulness practices and simple, practical tools that can be woven into daily life. No prior mindfulness experience is needed. This course is open to anyone seeking to meet grief with greater ease, kindness, and compassion.
DATES: Thursdays, April 2 – 23, 2026
TIME: 9:30 – 11:00am Eastern Time
COST:
$225 General Public
$200-UNC Affiliate employees
$175- UNC students
Writing as Meditation: Cultivating Awareness, Inner Calm, and Renewal
4-week online workshop
Jen Johnson is offering this course through University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill’s Program on Integrative Medicine.
Writing as Meditation is a restorative practice for self-discovery and renewal. The workshop offers an introduction to reflective writing as a mindfulness practice that encourages awareness, inner calm, and resilience. Through mindfulness practices and guided writing prompts, participants are encouraged to slow down, listen inwardly, and reconnect with a sense of presence and vitality.
This is not a writing craft workshop, rather one that emphasizes awareness and curiosity, inviting writing as a tool for self-discovery, emotional clarity, and renewed engagement with life through present moment experience. No prior writing or mindfulness experience is required—only a willingness to pause and attend to the present moment.
DATES: Thursdays, May 14 – June 4, 2026
TIME: 9:30 – 11:00am Eastern Time
COST:
$225 General Public
$200-UNC Affiliate employees
$175- UNC students
Ecological Grief: Creative Practice and Presence with the Living World
This one-hour gathering offers a gentle, welcoming space to tend ecological grief together. Through guided meditation, reflective writing, and ritual, we practice presence with the living world—making room for our sorrow, beauty, and reverence for the Earth.
Rather than seeking answers or solutions, we come together to listen, to honor loss and aliveness, and to remember our belonging within the living world. This is a space for honesty, care, and quiet connection—with the Earth and with one another.
NEXT SESSION: REGISTRATION INFO COMING SOON! Email Jen to be notified when registration opens.
DATE: Thursday March 5, 2026
TIME: 12:00 – 1:00pm Eastern Time
COST: $0 – $50