Opening Minds and Hearts in the Midwest
Cultivating Cultural and Intellectual Humility Through Contemplative Practices
Claire Weiner, LMSW, RYT-200
Claire is a mindfulness teacher with the Ann Arbor Center for Mindfulness, a published poet and author, and a licensed clinical social worker. She has advanced training in Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy and taught the very first MBCT groups at UM Department of Psychiatry. She was a founding member of the PsychOncology Clinic at the Rogel Cancer Center where she provided mindfulness-based intervention to patients with cancer diagnoses. She volunteers at the Cancer Support Community in Ann Arbor, where she regularly teaches meditation and occasionally yoga. Email Claire
Michigan’s name derives from a variant of the original Ojibwe word ᒥᓯᑲᒥ (mishigami) meaning large water, being home to the Algonquian peoples, including the Anishinaabe groups of Ojibwe, Odaawaa/Odawa (Ottawa), and the Boodewaadamii/Bodéwadmi (Potawatomi). In the early 20th century it became widely known as the center of the U.S. automotive industry and tourism is very popular in the upper peninsula. The Wolverine state is home to about 10 million people.
