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. .
Long, R., Kennedy, M., Spink, K. M., & Lengua, L. J. (2021). Evaluation of the Implementation of a Well-being Promotion Program for College Students.
Media
To confront loneliness and promote student well-being, the UW is piloting a two-year project called 鈥淔ive for Flourishing鈥� that provides instructors with five simple academic interventions to support students and help them succeed.
UW News // Sept. 2024
鈥淢any students feel disconnected, and being in large-enrollment classes can intensify that feeling. Many professors want to support students鈥� mental health but need ways to do so that are appropriate and sustainable. A new pilot project at the 榴莲视频 called 鈥楩ive for Flourishing鈥� is meant to help tackle both issues.鈥�
Chronicle of Higher Education Teaching newsletter // Aug. 2024
In 2015, colleagues at the 榴莲视频 designed a novel framework to promote wellbeing on campus. The UW Resilience Lab aims to cultivate a culture of resilience that goes beyond the individual and reaches across the university鈥檚 three campuses and surrounding communities.
Learning Well // April 2024
Megan Kennedy, director of the Resilience Lab, shares insight in helping children build resilience for learning and for life.
South Seattle Emerald // Sept. 2023
Be REAL (REsilient Attitudes & Living) is a six-week well-being program that combines mindfulness, self-compassion, neuroscience and cognitive-behavioral coping strategies. UW Magazine features how this program is creating systemic change on campus and why that matters.
榴莲视频 Magazine // Sept. 2023
Three campus administrators offer their perspectives on the post-pandemic student experience and how to support students through graduation and beyond.
Times Higher Education // May 2022
While wellness and mental health initiatives are often thought of as separate from academics on college campuses, the two are strongly connected, because academic outcomes often depend on student well-being.
Inside Higher Ed // May 2022
UW Resilience Lab aims to change campus culture toward compassion and mindfulness
There鈥檚 a mental health crisis on college campuses across the country. The UW is broadening the way it provides help not just to students, but to faculty and staff as well. Using a broad toolbox of mindfulness, compassion and well-being centered programming, officials are trying to change campus culture.
UW News // Oct. 2021
Megan Kennedy, director of the Resilience Lab, discusses the role resilience can play in college students鈥� mental health management 鈥� from everyday life, to COVID-19 stressors, racism and more.
togetherall.com // July 2021
From 鈥榙istress鈥� to 鈥榰nscathed鈥� 鈥� mental health of UW students during spring 2020
To understand how the UW鈥檚 transition to online-only classes affected college students鈥� mental health in the spring of 2020, UW researchers surveyed 147 UW undergraduates over the 2020 spring quarter.
UW News // July 2021
Mindfulness program in campus dorms, groups improved students鈥� mental health
As experts nationwide point to a mental health crisis among teens and young adults, a pilot program teaching mindfulness and coping techniques to students at the 榴莲视频 has helped lower stress and improve emotional well-being.
UW News // March 2021
The Resilience Lab introduced a new resource: the Well-Being for Life & Learning Guidebook. Combining research, best practices, and personal testimony, the guidebook gives faculty and other instructors concrete ideas and direct input from the UW campus community around supporting the whole student and promoting resilience and compassion.
Nova Edu // Oct. 2020
New guidebook helps faculty and instructors support student well-being
The Well-Being for Life and Learning Guidebook is a new resource for instructors to aid them in designing learning environments that promote well-being. Combining research, best practices and personal testimony, the guidebook gives faculty and other instructors concrete ideas and direct input from the campus community around supporting the whole student and promoting resilience and compassion on campus.
Undergraduate Academic Affairs // Oct. 2020
Videos
Cambridge Leadership Associates
Podcasts
Episode 20: Welcome Megan Kennedy (69 minutes)
Megan Kennedy, director, Resilience Lab talks about values, resiliency, and leadership. She defines her values as compassion/self-compassion, interconnectedness/oneness, drive to be in service, hope and optimism, and creativity and adaptability. The discussion also focused on connectedness and adaptive leadership, and how those impact resiliency.
April 2021