Meeting This Moment Together: Bringing Mind-Body Skills to Community-Engaged Practice (CEP)

April 11, 2025 @ 9:00AM — 3:00PM Eastern Time (US & Canada) Add to Calendar

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Join us for a day of immersive learning with The Center for Mind-Body Medicine and explore ways of bringing CMBM skills to your CE programming

TMA is excited to announce that the 2025 TMA Spring Community-Engaged Practitioners (CEP) Retreat will be led by James S. Gordon. M.D., founder and CEO of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine, along with Randi Mitvev (CMBM COO), other CMBM Faculty, and leaders from The Community Resilience Network, a project of TMA member-institution
Allegany College of Maryland.

At this challenging moment in our communities and across the globe, the need for transformative community engagement (CE) programs is greater than ever, as the very values that underpin the transformation we seek -- justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion -- are under attack. As CE practitioners, we are called upon to meet this greater challenge in co-creating just, equitable, healthy, sustainable communities while also finding ways to continually restore the strength, clarity, and resilience within ourselves that doing this work will require.

The TMA 2025 Spring Community-Engaged Practitioners (CEP) Retreat is designed with this moment in mind -- bringing you proven, practical resources for fostering both personal and community resilience.

The CMBM has conducted trainings in Mind-Body techniques all over the world, from Gaza to Israel to Ukraine and Kosovo, from Broward County Public Schools to Pine Ridge South Dakota to New Orleans, with active duty U.S. military and veterans and their families, and in our very own Cumberland, MD community through an innovative and far-reaching partnership between the CMBM and TMA member-campus Allegany College of Maryland. The afternoon session at the 2025 TMA Spring CEP Retreat will include an inspiring, in-depth presentation by colleagues at ACM on the history, current work, and future vision of their far-reaching campus-community collaboration with the CMBM.

This CEP Retreat will be the launch of a partnership envisioned among TMA, the CMBM, and ACM to provide a range of programming resources to the TMA CEP network. Possibilities for future offerings through this partnership include:

- Incorporating mind-body skills into student wellness, advising, and onboarding programs
- Incorporating mind-body skills into community engagement programming
- Embedding the CMBM model into existing curricula as a core learning outcome
- Embedding mind-body science and skills into developmental classes for underprepared students
- Infusing mind-body science and skills into a wide range of classes
- Developing and teaching credit courses based on the CMBM model
- Incorporating mind-body science and techniques into employee wellness
- Building an institution-wide "culture of care"
- Building connections to the community using the CMBM model that support health and healing and inspire what Kurt Hoffman calls "the upward spiral of hope"


Breakfast and Lunch will be provided.

Parking at Notre Dame of Maryland University is ample and free-of-charge.


ABOUT THE LEAD SPEAKER

A peace-maker and consensus-builder known for cross-cultural relationship building, Jim Gordon is currently a Clinical Professor at Georgetown Medical School, and was Chairman (under Presidents Clinton and G.W. Bush) of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy. He is a noted author and essayist, and has authored books and book chapters, as well as over 140 articles in professional journals and the popular press, including The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Guardian. He has also been featured on news and television programs such as CBS 60 Minutes, Good Morning America, The Today Show, CBS Sunday Morning, and channels such as CNN and FOX News. Dr. Gordon also makes frequent radio appearances on programs such as NPR’s Fresh Air, Talk of the Nation, Science Friday, and All Things Considered; and his work has been featured on the pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, and People magazine.