Projects

Current collaborations

Be REAL

Resilience Lab + Center for Child & Family Well-Being

The Resilience Lab and the Center for Child and Family Well-Being are partnering to deliver Be REAL (REsilient Attitudes and Living) to thousands of students, staff and instructors across the institution. This six-week program equips participants with cognitive skills to manage stressful emotions and situations, mindfulness skills to strengthen self-awareness, and practices that promote compassion for themselves and others. Currently, the Resilience Lab offers groups for staff and instructors each quarter and teaches Be REAL as a course for credit in general studies. For questions, please contact: bereal@uw.edu.

Be REAL Publications

Long, R., Kennedy, M., Malloy Spink, K., Lengua, L. J. (2023). Promoting College Student and Staff Well-being Through a Mindfulness-based Coping Program. OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine; 8(3): 034.

Long, R., Halvorson, M., & Lengua, L. J. (2021). A mindfulness-based promotive coping program improves well-being in college undergraduates. Anxiety, Stress, & Coping, 1-14.

Long, R., Kennedy, M., Spink, K. M., & Lengua, L. J. (2021). Evaluation of the Implementation of a Well-being Promotion Program for College Students. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12.

Five for Flourishing

Resilience Lab + Center for Teaching & Learning + Office of the Provost

Five for Flourishing is a collaboration with the UW’s Office of the Provost and UW Center for Teaching and Learning to develop five easy-to-implement teaching practices to improve student well-being and social connection. The project builds on the UW’s decades-long efforts to foster student belonging and well-being and promote a culture of well-being across the UW in co-curricular environments. With an initial focus on large-enrollment courses, it aims to bring that work into the classroom. For questions, please contact: teaching@uw.edu

Five for Flourishing builds off Well-being for Life and Learning, a Resilience Lab project that aids instructors in designing learning environments that promote well-being. In 2019, the Well-being for Life and Learning  guidebook was distributed to all instructors, deans, chancellors and advising staff across the UW’s three campuses. The guidebook combines research, best practices and personal testimony tailored to support the whole student.

Resilience and compassion seed grants

Resilience Lab + Campus Sustainability Fund

The Resilience Lab partners with the Campus Sustainability Fund to award seed grants to support the beginning stages of projects that cultivate resilience, compassion and sustainability at the UW. To date, over $170,000 has funded projects led by students, faculty and staff across all three campuses. More information is coming soon regarding the 2025-26 seed grant cycle. For questions, please contact: csfcoord@uw.edu.

Artistic joy to collective well-being

Resilience Lab + Meany Center for the Performing Arts

The Resilience Lab is partnering with the Meany Center for the Performing Arts to explore the relationship between artistic joy and collective well-being.

Resistance through Resilience

Resilience Lab + Center for Communication, Difference, and Equity

In collaboration with the Center for Communication, Difference, and Equity, the Resistance through Resilience program was a training and speaker series that focused on the application of mindfulness and compassion-based practices to interrupt racism. Speakers came from a broad range of disciplines and backgrounds, from lawyers to social workers, to development consultants and meditation teachers. Visit our Resistance through Resilience page to watch past speakers.