The Contemplation by Design Summit is a campus-wide, multidisciplinary series of FREE events.

Enjoy the power of the pause.

Oct. 15 - 27, 2025


Please click on the session titles for the full description, which are being updated when they become available.

Below is the 2025 Summit Schedule.

Registration will open on Sept. 22 
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Free events will be offered Oct. 15 - 27, 2025, to further individual and community health and well-being, and creative excellence to serve the greater good in these unprecedented times.  Contemplation By Design is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, campus-wide program cultivating resilience, well-being, wisdom, compassion, and sustainable, ethical, purposeful service. Summit participants will have the opportunity to cultivate perspective, meaningful purpose, and contemplative practices that refresh and renew the mind-body-spirit.                   

Faculty, staff, students and the community are invited. Please register to reserve your place in the free sessions. Thank you.

Contemplation Calendar

Oct.15 - 27, 2025

All 2025 Summit sessions are FREE and on Zoom live,
except for the free in-person events which are noted by italicized text.
All session times are held in Pacific Time.

Green text indicates Guided Practices sessions or Interactive workshops.
Blue text indicates lectures, which will include Q&A and may include a guided practice.
Gray text indicates an opportunity for a self-directed contemplative practice.

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Wed. 10/15/25

12:00-1:00pm Introduction to the 2025 Summit, Tia Rich, PhD
9:00am-4:00pm In-person Opportunity to Walk the Labyrinth at Stanford’s Memorial Church. No registration necessary.
4:00-5:30pm Keynote, Karen Van Ausdal, VP of Practice, Collaboration for Academic,social and Emotional Learning (CASEL)  M.Ed, MSC in Social Policy, and Lakeisha Steele, VP of Policy CASEL

Thurs. 10/16/25

7:30-8:15am iPause Guided practice #1Contemplative Movement and Stillness for Health and Well-being for All, Tia Rich, PhD
12:00-1:15pm Mindful Moments in Schools, Holistic Life Foundation, Atman Smith
2:00-3:30pm Why Meditate?, Joseph Goldstein
4:00-5:30pm Interactive Workshop, Atman Smith

Fri. 10/17/25

7:30-8:15am iPause Guided practice #2Mindful moment, Andy Gonzalez
9:00-10:15am The Heart of Who We Are: Realizing Freedom Together, Caverly Morgan
12:10-12:55pm iPause Guided practice #3Releasing Striving in Your Practice and Your Life, Caverly Morgan
5:00-6:30pm Interactive Workshop, Moving Beyond Personal and Collective Conditioning, Caverly Morgan
7:00-8:30pm Mindful Parenting in a Changing World: Nurturing Connection, Creativity, and Independence in our Children and Ourselves, Will Kabat-Zinn and Teresa LaMendola Kabat-Zinn

Sat. 10/18/25

8:30-9:30am In-person Interactive Workshop, The Power of the Pause, Tia Rich, PhD
10:00-11:00am In-person Interactive Workshop, The Power of the Pause, Tia Rich, PhD
1:00-2:30 pm A Still Quiet Place, Amy Saltzman, MD
3:00-3:45pm iPause Guided practice #4,  What We Wished We Learned in High School: Directing the Attention and Remembering Who We Are, Janice Martellucci, Executive Director, Peace in Schools
4:00-5:30 pm Peace with Youth Starts with Us: Insights from Implementing an Inner Curriculum in High Schools, Caverly Morgan and Janice Martellucci

Sun. 10/19/25

3:00-5:00pm Interactive Workshop, Mindful Parenting Interactive Session: Loving Awareness in Action, Will Kabat-Zinn and Teresa LaMendola

Mon. 10/20/25

7:30-8:15am iPause Guided practice #5, Teacher TBD
12:00-1:15pm Ancient Wisdom for Modern Families: Flourishing in the Midst of it All, Mark Bertin, MD
4:30-5:15pm iPause Guided practice #6, Kindness and Compassion Practice, Mark Bertin, MD
7:00-8:30pm Keynote, Mark DiPerna, JD and Micah Anderson, LMFT

Tues. 10/21/25

7:30-8:15am iPause Guided practice #7, Teacher TBD
9:30-10:15am iPause Guided practice #8, Cultivating Connection, Teresa LaMendola Kabat-Zinn
12:00-1:30pm Interactive Workshop, Micah Anderson, MA, LMFT and Oscar Medina
4:00-5:15pm Compassionate Presence: Contemplative Skills to Engage a Complex World, Charlotte Rotterdam, MTS

Wed. 10/22/25

7:30-8:15am iPause Guided practice #9, A Compassion Practice:  Tonglen, Charlotte Rotterdam, MTS
9:00am-4:00pm In-person Opportunity to Walk the Labyrinth at Stanford’s Memorial Church. No registration necessary.
12:00-1:30pm Interactive Workshop, Transforming Obstacles into Wisdom: A Compassion Practice, Charlotte Rotterdam, MTS
2:00-2:45pm iPause Guided practice #10, Oscar Medina

Thurs. 10/23/25

7:30-8:15am iPause Guided practice #11, Teacher TBD
9:30-10:15am iPause Guided practice #12, Embracing Emotions, Will Kabat-Zinn
12:00-1:30pm Creating a Mindful School: A Collaboration Between Crockett Elementary School and Mindfulness First, Sunny Wight, Sean Hannifin and Cayla Cole
4:00-5:30pm Interactive Workshop The Attuned Classroom: Subtle Skills That Elevate Mindfulness Teaching, Christina Costelo
7:00-8:15pm The Path of Practice, Anushka  Fernandopulle, MBA

Fri. 10/24/25

7:30-8:15am iPause Guided practice #13, The Practice of Letting Go with Mindfulness, Logan Mitchell, CMT-P
12:00-1:15pm Mindfulness and Leadership, The Path of Practice, Anushka Fernandopulle, MBA
2:00-3:30pm The Science of Nurturing Well-Being in Children and their Caregivers, Mark Greenberg, PhD
4:15-5:00pm iPause Guided practice #14, Anushka  Fernandopulle, MBA

Sat. 10/25/25

   

Sun. 10/26/25

9:20am-1:20pm In-person in Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ‘Ootchamin ‘Ooyakma, Contemplative Hikes in Nature, Registration Required using the Contemplation by Design Eventbrite link.
Registered participants will leave campus every hour on shuttles to JRBPOO to meet a docent for each small group hike.
11:00-12:00pm In-person in Memorial Church University Public Worship (UPW), Guest Speaker
12:15-1:15pm In-person in Memorial Church iPause Guided Practice #15, UPW Guest Speaker

Mon. 10/27/25

7:30-8:15am iPause Guided practice #16, Teacher TBD
12:00-1:15pm Meeting this Moment in History, A Conversation with Caverly Morgan and Rev. Tenzen David Zimmerman

All Contemplation By Design SummitTM sessions are FREE. If you wish to make a donation, please do so here.
We look forward to being with you in the Summit sessions you attend.