Welcome to the Helping Professions
Living-Learning Community!

Our Mission:
The mission of the Helping Professions Living/Learning Community is to provide opportunities for those seeking degrees in Education, Nursing, Social Justice, Sociology, Criminal Justice, and related helping professional fields to develop professional visions for living well as human beings who understand the value of holistic views of body, mind, soul and spirit for sustaining ecological webs of relationships across the life span.

Our Objectives
:: to expose you to the consequences of mindsets for personality, motivation and development.

:: to expose you to adaptive and maladaptive: motivational patterns, social relationship patterns, achievement patterns, and mental health patterns.

:: to develop mindfulness practice as a habit

:: to extend current understandings of mind as both a limit and a possibility

:: to develop skills and practices that make mastery orientations to learning a habit

:: to develop a personal repertoire of techniques and strategies for personal mastery

Three-Course Cycle

Summer : Mindsets & Mindfulness
This course is the first in a three-course cycle. This course introduces the concepts of mindsets and their consequences for motivation, personality, and development. Mindfulness practice as a tool for heightened awareness and stress reduction is introduced.

Fall : The Art of Possibility & Mindfulness
This is the second course in the three-course cycle. This course reviews the consequences of mindsets and then introduces practices that hone skills for mind as a tool for possibility. Skills in mindfulness practice are further developed.

Spring : Personal Mastery & Mindfulness
This is the third course in the three-course cycle. This is the capstone course. Here the content of the previous two courses is expanded and applied with more complexity. The individual builds a personal repertoire of a wide variety of techniques and strategies for achieving personal mastery in his/her professional and personal lives. Mindfulness practice develops into a practical skill for keeping socio-emotional balance in the midst of alert awareness to the events and circumstances of the present moment across the common complexities of life as  full catastrophe living.