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Rhonda Schaller is the assistant vice president for resilience, wellness, and well-being at New York's Pratt Institute, and she's spent the past nine years leading meditation and mindfulness workshops for the school's faculty and more than 2,000 others.
Now she's created a new program called the Mindfulness Collaboratory that's designed "to bring artists, educators, consultants, writers, arts council leaders, designers, and nonprofit administrators, and hailing from disparate parts of the world, from Australia and Ireland to Peru and Las Vegas, to share their thoughts on how they can be creative leaders while uplifting self-care and community," the school says in a press release.
Schaller says she was curious about the role of contemplative practices in leadership when she started the workshops at Pratt in 2012.
"We're curious about the role of contemplative practices mindfulness in leadership," she says.
"Our goal is to bring artists, and cultural leaders, together with shared purpose, bringing these practices into creative communities."
Participants in the two-year program include artists, educators, consultants, writers, arts council leaders, designers, and nonprofit administrators.
"I am so grateful for the Collaboratory, a model the world needs to hear more about and be inspired to support artists with,"
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