8 Weekly Sessions In-Person, Tuesdays beginning May 19th, 2026, from 6:30 - 8:30 PM (with no session being held on Tuesday, July 7th), with the last session being held on Tuesday,  July 14th, 2026. *Please note, there will be an additional full-day retreat on Sunday, June 28th.*

Explore the studied practice of mindfulness with Dr. Patricia Luck (see biography below) through a course designed to cultivate greater resilience and wellbeing. Discover how meditation can help provide more balance, stability, and satisfaction in eight 2-hour weekly in-person sessions at the Center for Community Health and Prevention, 46 Prince Street Rochester NY, 14607 and a full-day retreat offsite. 

Please be sure that you can commit to these weekly classes that include meditation practice, informal teaching time, and group discussions. Attendance is crucial and will support your growing capacity for present minded awareness. To reinforce the learning of the course content we require participants to do home meditation practices daily throughout the course. Research shows that the benefits of this program are directly linked to the frequency of home practice.

Patricia Luck (she/her), MBChB, MPhil, MSc is Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Humanities & Bioethics. She directs the MS in Health Humanities & Bioethics, teaches in the Health Humanities curriculum for Undergraduate Medical Education, and is current Dean’s Teaching Fellow for her scholarship with the Photo/Tiny Story reflection tool. Patricia graduated from the University of Cape Town Medical School in 1989, completed a MPhil in Palliative Medicine and has a MSc in Medical Humanities from King’s College London, UK. She has trained healthcare professionals in a variety of Mindfulness-Based Programs for the past 20 plus years, including for the Mindful Practice in Medicine program developed here in Rochester, and is a certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction teacher.

This course is free of charge for University employees/spouses who are on the healthcare plan and for all other potential participants, we offer a self-pay option for the course.

1. Direct questions for the lifestyle management team can be sent to urwell.lifestyle@urmc.rochester.edu . 

2. If you are in need of an interpreter please contact us ASAP so we can work to schedule services.