What’s Happening?

With social and environmental awareness at the core of our mission at the Joseph Beuys Sculpture Park, we find it critical to acknowledge the ancestral lands of the Piscataway Conoy and Susquehannock peoples that lived and continue to reside on the land that is now UMBC. Over the past 500 years, violence, displacement, and settlement has sought to erase and oppress Indigenous Peoples, their cultures, and their histories. We offer our respect to all past, present and future Indigenous people connected to this land and we strive to cultivate a space at the Joseph Beuys Sculpture Park that prioritizes community, dignity, mindfulness and personal wellness.   

• Attached Image for Land Acknowledgement

Check out this article from Nature Sacred that shares research from the National Nature Sacred Awards program about nature’s impact on health workers who are coping with stress and burnout. This study, which was recently covered by BBC World News, investigates the role of hospital gardens and their positive effects on nurses’ emotional exhaustion.

Article Link: https://naturesacred.org/new-study-out-reduced-symptoms-of-burnout-noted-in-nurses-who-spent-one-break-a-day-in-a-hospital-garden/

Today, we’re closing our audio meditation series, “Nature as Teacher,” with our third meditation, “Cultivating Peace in Uncertain Times.” This meditation focuses on grounding ourselves with gratitude and setting practical goals in order to calm any anxieties or worries that arise amidst these uncertain times. 

Thank you so much for joining us for the past three weeks for this “Nature as Teacher” mindfulness practice. We invite you to revisit these meditations on our website when you feel the need to recenter and refocus. 

Each meditation is kindly presented by UMBC’s Director of Workplace Learning, OD & Wellness and Founder & CEO of Wardell Development Group LLC., Jill Wardell and supported by the Joseph Beuys Tree Partnership with a generous gift from Nature Sacred (https://naturesacred.org/).

Check out the meditation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck5cYHczVk8

Website: https://cadvc.umbc.edu/nature/