Mindful U at Naropa University
Thoughts and Instruction on Mindfulness in Higher Education
We found 2 episodes of Mindful U at Naropa University with the tag “poet”.
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109. The Journey of a Poet
May 22nd, 2025 | 56 mins 51 secs
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Born in California on Walt Whitman’s birthday, Eleni Sikelianos is a poet, writer, and "a master of mixing genres." She grew up in earshot of the ocean, in small coastal towns near Santa Barbara, and has since lived in San Francisco, New York, Paris, Athens (Greece), Boulder (Colorado), and Providence. Deeply engaged with ecopoetics, her work takes up urgent concerns of environmental precarity and ancestral lineages.
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88. Dr. Nicholas Powers: A Future On Psychedelics
August 15th, 2022 | 55 mins 42 secs
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This is a bold, no-holding-back conversation on the future of psychedelics in therapy and beyond. "Last time I sang the national anthem, I was on ecstasy." (Powers, 2018) Nicholas Powers, PhD, is a writer. His no-BS approach to humanitarian literature has caught the eyes of Wall Street Journal, Truth Out, and The Independent. Tune in for a bold conversation on how a future on psychedelics might look.