Mindfulness Program: Wanderings

Creatively engage your senses on a guided tour through the Danforth campus, ending in a slow-looking activity and visual journaling in the exhibition .  

Forest bathing, or nature therapy, is the practice of slowing down and connecting with the natural world through your senses. Unlike a hike or educational tour, this guided experience invites participants to take their time, notice what’s around them, and let the senses lead. In doing so, we shift out of our busy, analytical minds and into a more present, receptive state. Slowing down in nature can change how we show up in other spaces too, including how we experience and connect with art. 

Guided by Jess Thenhaus, a certified Forest and Nature Therapy Guide, the campus walk will explore the quieter green spaces of WashU’s Level 3 Arboretum campus and offer a gentle invitation to slow down, reconnect with the senses, and discover how nature can shift the way we see the world around us. Kemper Art Museum educators will then guide participants through conversation and creative engagement with artworks in the Museum that invite additional rest and rejuvenation.  

Presented in partnership with Urban Forest Therapy.

Host or Publisher Kemper Art Museum at WashU