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Begin to gently integrate the learnings from this day important to our campus community, and our times more broadly, by participating in a community nap with other motivated but weary folks interested in personal growth for social transformation. Nurture leadership development in a perhaps most unexpected way with this 1-hour introduction to Daring to Rest - a profoundly healing practice that involves being guided to rest and reset one's nervous system, refreshing and plugging back into personal power to fuel collective healing. Yes - this will be a meeting where your eyes are closed for as much of it as you like! :)

This introductory session is led by Dr. Benita Jackson, a professor of psychology at Smith College. Her scholarship, teaching, and community work are about how society gets under the skin, and how to promote personal and community health as keys to social change. She directs the Society, Psychology, and Health Laboratory on campus. In addition to her academic background, she is trained in a range of experiential modalities that promote women's holistic leadership development to help reset the individual and collective nervous system.

In this workshop, we explore the idea and practice of "resting to rise." We all hear about the importance of self-care and, in particular, sleep. But many of us continue struggling to find our internal place of deep rest and renewal. This place is not only where our nervous system resets, but also where our creativity, zest, truest voice, and zone of genius dwell - boons to any learner and change-maker. It's also from this place that clarity of purpose for our particular role in social transformation arises.

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