Monday Keynote:
Enhancing Personal Wellbeing
This session will highlight the six dimensions of the University of Minnesota’s Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing Well Being Model developed by Bakken Center founder and director, Mary Jo Kreitzer, PhD, RN, FAAN, and its application in fostering resilience in individuals. It will also include examples of wellbeing practices and tools for supporting resilience and wellbeing, and an opportunity to practice mindfulness, which is an evidence-based wellbeing practice.
     
 

Mariann Johnson is a wellbeing and mindfulness instructor for the University of Minnesota’s Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing. She has studied and practiced mindfulness meditation for over 25 years and is a certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction instructor through Brown University’s Mindfulness Center. Before dedicating her professional life to teaching mindfulness, Mariann served as an organization development consultant and mediator, working with leaders of Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and nonprofit organizations. Her writings on mindful leadership have appeared in the Huffington Post and Mindful Magazine.