Opportunities for Personal Growth and Community Engagement
CALM mindfulness for a flourishing TCU community.
Mindful Mini Retreats
CALM Mindfulness Mini-Retreats offer students, faculty, and staff a two-hour pause from the demands of academic and professional life. Held several times each semester, these fun gatherings provide a supportive space for participants to unplug, reflect, and reconnect with themselves, each other, and the values that bring deeper meaning to their work and learning.
Grounded in research-informed mindfulness practices and open to all experience levels, the retreats typically include guided meditation, gentle movement, nature-based reflection, and shared silence.
Participants are invited to explore core themes of awareness, belonging, and compassion through direct experience, fostering practices that support personal resilience and interpersonal connection.
Touch Grass
Touch Grass is a student-led, nature-based meditation initiative offered through the CALM Studies program at Texas Christian University. Each week, students gather outdoors on the open green space in front of Van Cliburn Concert Hall to pause, breathe, and reconnect—with themselves, with one another, and with the natural environment that sustains them. Rooted in simple contemplative practices, the program fosters presence, well-being, and community through guided meditation, mindful walking, and shared reflection in nature.
Open to students of all backgrounds and experience levels, Touch Grass offers a space for grounding in the midst of academic demands and digital distraction. More than a wellness practice, the program encourages participants to deepen their sense of place and belonging—on campus and in the wider world. By touching grass together, students reclaim a rhythm of connection and care, cultivating habits of attention that nourish both inner and communal flourishing.