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Dane, one of four faculty leaders of the cluster, teaches about mindfulness in the workplace to Olin MBA and undergraduate students. Dane &＃8220;I have a longstanding interest, certainly on the academic side and increasingly an interest in the practice,&＃8221; he said. &＃8220;In a work world besieged by tension, anxiety and conflict, timeless practices associated with mindfulness are perhaps more timely than ever.&＃8221; &＃8220;Mindfulness&＃8221; refers to a set of mental training practices and skills that can improve health, wellness and psychological functioning in a low-cost, non-pharmacological way.&＃160; &＃8220;The practice of mindfulness can fundamentally change how we experience life,&＃8221; Gomes said. Gomes His interest in mindfulness started with personal practice. Now he&＃8217;s attempting to weave that into his academic and research work. &＃8220;In an economy increasingly competing for our attention, which is a scarce resource we all have, the importance of mindfulness practice is bound to grow as a way to create more balance in our lives.&＃8221; For more than 2,500 years, mindfulness practices have formed a central component of Hindu and Buddhist traditions. Mindfulness practices have gained widespread adoption in Western culture, as well, and are becoming a focus of intense transdisciplinary research interest. &＃8220;Over the past two decades, research on mindfulness has seen remarkable growth across the psychological and health sciences,&＃8221; Dane said. Numerous articles have been published in leading journals, including&＃160;Nature Reviews Neuroscience,&＃160;Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences&＃160;and&＃160;The Journal of the American Medical Association. Multiyear collaborations The&＃160;Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures&＃160;is an Arts & Sciences Signature Initiative at WashU that&＃8217;s funding several clusters on campus. The clusters are multiyear thematic research and learning collaborations. The mindfulness cluster started a couple of years ago as an informal working group designed to transform the science of mindfulness through collaborative research. The cluster brings together researchers, scholars and mindfulness practitioners from a range of Arts & Sciences departments and other units, including Olin, the Brown School and the School of Medicine. The mindfulness cluster will advance Arts & Sciences and university-wide strategic initiatives through activities including: developing a new interdisciplinary undergraduate minor; expanding mindfulness programming to support campus and community needs; hosting public-facing events, including interdisciplinary seminars, lecture series, scientific conferences; and launching the first-of-its-kind mindfulness instructor certification program to fully incorporate DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) perspectives. Said Dane, &＃8220;I&＃8217;m delighted and honored to be working with scholars and practitioners throughout the WashU community on this important initiative.&＃8221; About the Author Jill Young Miller As research translator for WashU Olin Business School, my job is to highlight professors’ research by “translating” their work into stories. Before coming to Olin, I was a communications specialist at WashU’s Brown School. 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