Save the Date for 2025
Mindfulness Community
Collaboration Camp
July 14-18, 2025 @
Carol Joy Holling Swanson Retreat Center
YOUTH MINDFULNESS CAMP
July 29-30, 2025
@ Carol Joy Holling Swanson Retreat Center
Registration Coming in 2025
Testimonials from 2024
"The 2 day (Search Inside Yourself) workshop was a great way to set some foundations for mindfulness in your day to day life. It was a great re-set for those of us that have a tendency to put breathing and micro-practices on the back burner due to chaotic lives. Simple yet impactful exercises were explained and practiced. I learned a lot and hope to be back next year for the week long event."
Hina Agarwal, Director of Experience, Kiewit Luminarium
"The Mindfulness Camp Retreat was absolutely exceptional. Each presentation was powerful and opened my eyes to new ways of teaching mindfulness to my students. Likewise, every practice helped restore and heal me, just what I needed before heading back to school!"
Colleen Aagesen, Monroe Middle School Educator
"It was a wonderful experience and a nice retreat/reset before the school year starts. I learned some really great tools for myself but also to teach to my students. I look forward to attending next year."
Kylee Roebuck, Urban League Youth Attendance Navigator, McMillan Middle School
Past Mindfulness Camp offerings have included:
A chance for our mindfulness community to come together for shared
learning and practice. Camp offerings include Youth Engagement, Mindfulness & Emotion Science, Structure & Cooperation in the Classroom, Internal Family Systems, Wellness & Burnout, Nature Healing, Breathwork, Trauma & Relaxation, Self Compassion, Loving Kindness Practice, First Aid Certification and a daylong continuous mindfulness retreat "Practicing Silence in Support of Non-violence." There will also be sound baths, mindful movement practices, Mahoney Tower sit, community planning, campfires and book sharing (bring books and/or take books.)
Download our Camp Activity Offerings Calendar from 2024
Download the Camp Invitation from 2024
Youth Engagement, Emotion Science
& Mindfulness academy
We are launching a career track training and support academy. Student interns and residents will participate in live academy class, remote Mindful Schools classes, on the job training in our school programs and will help organize and lead our summer camp.
Sponsor our students
Our interns at Benson and our students at Monroe have designed "Uncage Your Heart and Mind" T-shirts and would love to also have curriculum books. Your gift of $35 would make that possible.
Mindfulness Book Sharing!
Take a book, bring a book, either or both
These mindfulness books will be shelved for sharing at
Astute Coffee Omaha’s Social Enterprise Coffeehouse
Astute Coffee is dedicated to providing workforce and personal development to youth aging out of foster care and to strengthening our community as a whole. Let’s achieve positive social change together, one coffee cup at a time.
1818 Dodge Street
Omaha, NE 68102
Introduction to Mindfulness
Mindfulness Community Collaboration Camp
June 26-29, 2023 @ Carol Joy Holling Swanson Retreat Center
Photos from our camp last June 2022
Year Long Mindful Schools Participants from left to right:
Melody Mehser, Katarina Gleisberg, David Ahlquist, Katie Hupp, Katie Tessin, Susie Hiley, Josie McDonnell
"If you want to understand your mind, sit down and observe it.”
Cultivating concentration, kindness and insight can lead to profound inner healing, transformation and growth.
Mediation & Mindfulness
A Mindful
Community
“The awareness that emerges through paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally to the unfolding of experience moment by moment.” - Jon Kabat Zinn
Mindful schooLs Update
Support Educators and Students Here
© Copyright
This 10 minute introductory video is provided by the University of Massachusetts Center For Mindfulness, the founding institution for Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction.
Aaron Weiner presented at the Nebraska Mediation Association's Annual Meeting on April 12. Wisdom House will make available copies of the book, "Managing Conflict Mindfully" at our camp. The book incorporates Mindfulness and Internal Family Systems with traditional mediation techniques. Continuing Legal Education Credits are expected.
Cultivating well being through a more mindful community
Bad News & Good News
We received the sad news that Mindful Schools has gone out of business and gave its course certificate holders until June 1 to download content. The good news is that we have downloaded the content, including videos, of five of the courses. We are very proud that we helped more than 100 educators, including 10 "Year Long" leaders, be licensed to teach Mindful Schools curriculum. We are compiling the course materials to make them available to Mindful Schools licensed educators and to provide our own classes in the future. Stay tuned!
The Wisdom House is a nonprofit dedicated to supporting and growing the mindfulness community. People of all ages and from all walks of life find clarity, wisdom and contentment from the practices of mindfulness. Today we know more than ever about the science behind these practices and their positive effect on emotional well-being, health, relationships, and life choices. With confidence that mindfulness can serve our community in uniquely profound ways, Wisdom House supports and funds mindfulness programs and teachers to cultivate a thriving and expanding mindfulness community.