Who we are

The ASU Center for Mindfulness, Compassion and Resilience started with an innovative vision and dream of Dr. Teri Pipe, Dean Emerita of the Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation at Arizona State University, in conjunction with a handful of people who were dedicated to changing the world through mindfulness.

As the world slowly emerges from the global pandemic, Center remains committed to serving its communities, guided by the lessons we've learned and reaffirmed in our convictions in the importance of mindfulness and compassion in healing and resilience, whether from pandemic, social unrest, or the shifting realities of workplace culture and work-life balance.

In 2022, Center looks back on its first five years...and forward to what the next five, ten, and fifteen might bring.

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Center's history

Learn how the Mindfulness center started and how it continues to grow and flourish.

Director of Nursing Research and Innovation at Mayo Clinic Arizona and an associate professor of nursing at Mayo Clinic's College of Medicine, Dr. Pipe had long understood the critical implications of mindfulness toward resilience in healthcare, education, and everyday life, beginning her own mindfulness practice during her time in the nursing profession. As a caregiver entrusted with decision-making in a high-stress, high-stakes occupation, Pipe understood the value of mindfulness in quelling inner fears and uncertainties and in creating an interior environment in which reason and response (rather than reaction) informed actions.

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Since its inception, Center has grown to reach 100,000+ people across 94 countries, providing programming, facilitating connections, and sharing resources in both in-person and virtual environments. Center offers our communities access to enhanced well-being through virtual community forums for a global audience, through community-specific, trauma-informed conversations around healing, identity and resilience, through individual, one-on-one consulting sessions, and in all manner of modalities in between. Though we work with partners and constituents both outside and within ASU, service to our student communities and to the further development of the science behind mindfulness remain integral to our charter.

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Our core focus areas

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The broad goal of the Center for Mindfulness team is to co-create and design solutions to well-being challenges for employers, employees, students and communities. In accordance with its Vision and Mission, Center has three primary focus areas:

Engage

We focus on offering an equitable, transdisciplinary approach to mindfulness in order to best honor the needs of our constituents' diverse populations. We build relationships both to champion and connect mindfulness efforts underway and to inspire and support development of future endeavors across ASU, within Phoenix, and across our community.

Teach

We provide multiple pathways to mindfulness training in order to scale and provide opportunities for ASU departments, colleges, institutes and community organizations to foster cultures of mindfulness within their own teams.

We do this through our signature workshops, community programming, custom workshops and online courses.

Connect

We serve as a convening vehicle enabling students, faculty, staff and community members to learn about mindfulness initiatives at ASU and bringing together global researchers, scholars, teachers, practitioners, learners and the community around the concepts of mindfulness, compassion and well-being.

We do this through initiatives such as our Midday Mindfulness YouTube series, through partnerships, and through innovative student collaborations.

Our core principles

Center strives not only to engage, teach and connect our communities to the principles of mindfulness, but to do so in a way that is expansive, responsive, and equitable.