Columbia Law School offers live-stream mindfulness session for beginners
Columbia Law School streamed a 45-minute beginner meditation at midday for faculty, staff and students, folding mindfulness into a law-school lunch break.
Columbia Law School’s Mindfulness Program streamed a beginner-oriented meditation session for faculty, staff and students on Thursday, July 15, from 12:15 to 1:00 p.m. The 45-minute program was open to the broader Columbia community, turning a standard lunch break into a low-barrier entry point for anyone curious about mindfulness but unsure where to start.
The format matched the program’s weekly rhythm. Columbia Law School says those sessions include a period of guided meditation followed by discussion of mindfulness meditation, and that they are aimed at beginners as well as people “beginning again.” The program’s homepage invites Columbia Law School faculty, staff and students to join those weekly mindfulness meditation sessions, while the school’s Well-Being and Support page says Columbia provides a host of resources and supportive services. In practice, that makes the livestream less like a one-off wellness event and more like a standing campus habit: short, repeatable, and easy to fit into a workday that may already be packed with reading, meetings and deadlines.
That institutional framing has been part of Columbia Law School for years. In 2016, the school published “How Mindfulness Enhances a Legal Career,” and in 2022 professor Elizabeth F. Emens wrote “Law’s Contributions to the Mindfulness Revolution,” noting that law firms, law schools and courthouses offer mindfulness meditation training. Columbia’s Mindfulness Program has also hosted an annual weekend retreat at the Garrison Institute in Garrison, New York, with one listing running from the evening of Friday, November 17 through midday Sunday, November 19, and another from the evening of Friday, November 15 through midday Sunday, November 17. The program also includes a CLS Mindfulness and Racial/Social Justice Award.
For a time-crunched beginner, the July 15 livestream offered the simplest possible invitation: show up for 45 minutes, follow a guided sit, and stay for discussion if the mind wandered. The midday slot and live-stream format made the practice feel less like a separate project and more like something a law school can build into the middle of the day.
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