Community Connections
Here we have compiled a list of local to nationwide similar programs and resource hubs.
A resource hub is available at MIIS.
Local Community
Spirit in Nature
Ripton
Directions and map
http://www.spiritinnature.org/
Breadloaf Mountain Zen Community
3958 Rte. 30, Cornwall
(505) 500-7838
Daily meditation at 7 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.
Dharma Talks on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m.
https://www.breadloafmountainzen.org/
Metta Earth Institute
334 Geary Rd S, Lincoln
(802) 453-8111
https://www.mettaearth.org/
Dharma Gates/MAPLE Monastic Academy
751 Page Rd, Lowell
(734) 881-5533
Vermont Zen Center
480 Thomas Road, Shelburne
802-985-9746
www.vermontzen.org
Green Mountain Higher Education Consortium
Supporting Champlain, Middlebury, and St. Michael’s College Faculty and Staff Wellbeing
120 Graham Way, Shelburne
https://gmhec.org/gmhec-well-being-calendar/
Center For Integrative Bodywork with
Stacey and Jack Dobek CMT
5 Park Street, Suite 3B, Middlebury
802-388-0414
http://www.centerforintegrativebodywork.massagetherapy.com/home
Chessy Kelley
Local Meditation and Yoga Teacher
Leads various meditation events at the college and in classes
https://ontheroadyoga.com/
https://www.ottercreekyoga.com/
Collegiate Community Examples
Amherst College
Brown University
Contemplative Studies Initiative, Concentration, and Center
https://www.brown.edu/academics/contemplative-studies/
Cambridge Health Alliance Harvard Medical School Teaching Hospital
Center for Mindfulness and Compassion
Columbia
Connection to The Mind and Life Institute
Dartmouth
Emory University
Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion Based Ethics
https://compassion.emory.edu/
Cognitively Based Compassion Training
George Mason University
https://wellbeing.gmu.edu/about
Harvard University
Mind, Brain, Behavior Interfaculty Initiative
https://mbb.harvard.edu/
Middlesex school (HS)
Mindfulness Initiative and Model
https://www.mxschool.edu/about-mx/mindfulness/
Naropa University
Contemplative Education
Rice University
Contemplative Studies
https://reli.rice.edu/contemplative-studies
Stanford University
Stanford Medicine Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education
http://ccare.stanford.edu/
The University of Colorado
Positive Emotion & Psychopathology Lab
UC Berkeley
Greater Good Science Center
Greater Good Magazine
UC San Diego
Medical School Center for Mindfulness
https://medschool.ucsd.edu/som/fmph/research/mindfulness/pages/default.aspx
UCLA
Mindful Awareness Research Center
https://www.uclahealth.org/marc/default.cfm
University of California San Francisco
The Emotion, Health, and Psychophysiology Lab
University of Massachusetts
Medical School Stress Reduction Clinic Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society https://www.ummhealth.org/center-mindfulness#kluge
University of Virginia
Contemplative Sciences Center
https://csc.virginia.edu/
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Center for Healthy Minds
Vassar
Spiritual, Religious, and Contemplative practices center
Yale University
Center for Emotional Intelligence
For another detailed check here
National Centers
Compassion Institute
Compassionate Mind Foundation
I Be Me: Inward Bound Mindfulness Education
Insight Meditation Community of Washington
Insight Meditation Society
Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy
Institute for Mindful Leadership
International Society for Contemplative Research
Mindfulness in Education Network
Spirit Rock
The American Mindfulness Research Association
The Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education
The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society
The Frederick P. Lenz Foundation for American Buddhism
The Insight Meditation Center of Washington D.C.
For more information please contact the 2022 Mindfulness Fellow Zoya Kobets ‘24 at zkobets@middlebury.edu, or the Scott Center at scfsrl@middlebury.edu.