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CSAW Events

Feb
27
2026

🌳🪑🌲 Among The Trees: A Sit Spot Group

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston

Looking for a way to cultivate your relationship with the natural world and build connections with those who are seeking to do the same? Join a community focused on Sit Spots, a practice of committing to sitting in a specific outdoor location over time in order to build a meaningful relationship with nature and with ourselves. 

Feb
27
2026

Mindful Movement

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston

Join a student-led gentle mindful movement session each Friday. Open and accessible to all levels of experience!

Feb
27
2026

Drop-In Meditation Community

4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, Evanston

Our Drop-In Meditation Communities offer a simple way to pause, reset, and connect during the week. Open to all students and led mostly by our student mindfulness leaders, these sessions are designed to help you start or grow your meditation practice while building community and a sense of belonging on campus. Sessions take place each Wednesday from 12:15–12:45pm and each Friday from 4–5pm in Parkes 204, with an optional student-led Mindful Movement session beginning at 3:30pm on Fridays. 

Mar
4
2026

Drop-In Meditation Community

12:15 PM - 12:45 PM, Evanston

Our Drop-In Meditation Communities offer a simple way to pause, reset, and connect during the week. Open to all students and led mostly by our student mindfulness leaders, these sessions are designed to help you start or grow your meditation practice while building community and a sense of belonging on campus. Sessions take place each Wednesday from 12:15–12:45pm and each Friday from 4–5pm in Parkes 204, with an optional student-led Mindful Movement session beginning at 3:30pm on Fridays. 

Mar
4
2026

The Salon: Exploring Contemplative Practices Inside and Outside of the Classroom

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, Evanston

“Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.” —Mary Oliver This installment of The Salon will be explore poetry as a spiritual and contemplative practice.  No love of writing necessary, just an openness to reflect on the possibilities of a poem to be a mirror, a guide, a question, and a way of life. We’ll engage in an interactive practice to consider how we can all make different meanings from the experience of reading the same poem.  Poetry can be a deep well and ever changing mystery. What does that look like for you? How can you carry the practice of poetry with you as you walk through the world?  Join us in the Parkes 204 Multi-Belief space in a gathering put together by a collaborative team of students, staff, faculty. Whether you are a literary aficionado or decidedly “not a poetry person,” you are welcome to attend. We’ll gather as an intergenerational Northwestern community to we reflect on and practice finding our own sense of possibility in the language of poetry. All students, staff, and faculty are welcome.  Light refreshments will be served.  Sponsorsed by the Department of Black Studies, Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching, and Center for Student Advocacy and Wellness

Mar
6
2026

Mindful Movement

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston

Join a student-led gentle mindful movement session each Friday. Open and accessible to all levels of experience!

Mar
6
2026

Drop-In Meditation Community

4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, Evanston

Our Drop-In Meditation Communities offer a simple way to pause, reset, and connect during the week. Open to all students and led mostly by our student mindfulness leaders, these sessions are designed to help you start or grow your meditation practice while building community and a sense of belonging on campus. Sessions take place each Wednesday from 12:15–12:45pm and each Friday from 4–5pm in Parkes 204, with an optional student-led Mindful Movement session beginning at 3:30pm on Fridays. 

Mar
11
2026

Drop-In Meditation Community

12:15 PM - 12:45 PM, Evanston

Our Drop-In Meditation Communities offer a simple way to pause, reset, and connect during the week. Open to all students and led mostly by our student mindfulness leaders, these sessions are designed to help you start or grow your meditation practice while building community and a sense of belonging on campus. Sessions take place each Wednesday from 12:15–12:45pm and each Friday from 4–5pm in Parkes 204, with an optional student-led Mindful Movement session beginning at 3:30pm on Fridays. 

Mar
13
2026

Mindful Movement

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston

Join a student-led gentle mindful movement session each Friday. Open and accessible to all levels of experience!

Mar
13
2026

Drop-In Meditation Community

4:00 PM - 4:45 PM, Evanston

Our Drop-In Meditation Communities offer a simple way to pause, reset, and connect during the week. Open to all students and led mostly by our student mindfulness leaders, these sessions are designed to help you start or grow your meditation practice while building community and a sense of belonging on campus. Sessions take place each Wednesday from 12:15–12:45pm and each Friday from 4–5pm in Parkes 204, with an optional student-led Mindful Movement session beginning at 3:30pm on Fridays. 

Apr
2
2026

Clothesline Project Art Making Space

4:30 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston

Gather with CSAW to share a message of healing, resilience, and hope for survivors of interpersonal violence. T-shirts and art supplies for decoration will be provided.     The Clothesline Project is an interactive exhibit of messages of resilience, healing, and hope for individuals and communities impacted by interpersonal violence and abuse. These messages are shared on t-shirts, which visually represent the statistics of those impacted by violence.  College campuses, crisis centers, and community organizations throughout the U.S. and around the world have hosted Clothesline Project events since the 1990s to acknowledge the magnitude of the impacts of interpersonal violence.