Monthly meeting

Join us March 17th from 3-5pm for student presentations and discussion panel! Open to all students, faculty, and staff. Food and refreshments will be provided.

Join us in person at New College, Wilson Hall, Room 2007D – 40 Wilcocks Street

Or on Zoom, https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/86718836726 (Meeting ID: 867 1883 6726, Passcode: 827181)

This month we look forward to the following presentations:

“Supporting Our Students’ Mental Health”

Dr. Lauren Brown

Vic One Faculty & Health Promotion Liaison

Dr. Lauren Brown is a scholar-practitioner working in the field of post-secondary student mental health with an emphasis on mental health literacy and education. She has been recognized by the University of Toronto for her excellence in research through the Inlight Student Mental Health Research Fellowship and her contribution to the institution through the Exemplary University of Toronto Ambassador Award. She is a Faculty member at Victoria College and a Health Promotion Liaison at Health & Wellness at the University of Toronto.

“Look Again: A Meditative Museum Experience”

Mridula Sathyanarayanan

UofT Undergraduate & Founder of Look Again ROM

Mridula is the creator behind Look Again. The collaboration with ROM only happened because someone from the museum attended her talk at the very first EASE lab presentation! After pitching the idea of meditative museum experience, she spent a year researching and developing the experience through an independent study at New College — development of the Look Again program and the independent study was Supervised by Elli Weisbaum, Asst. Professor Buddhism, Psychology & Mental Health Program.

Mridula is in her fourth year at the University of Toronto, studying neuroscience, philosophy, and Buddhist psychology, an interdisciplinary combination that reflects her core interest in how meditation practices support individual and collective wellbeing. She has led a funded qualitative study with longtime Buddhist meditators in Toronto, contributed to a mixed-methods project in Plum Village, France, and is collaborating with graduate students to edit an upcoming anthology of student-written mindfulness poems.