Brooklyn Zen Center | A New York City Soto Zen Buddhist Temple
Awake Youth in Brooklyn Colleges

Mindfulness of Stress Training Program in Brooklyn Colleges
 
The Mindfulness of Stress training program is in collaboration with New York University Polytechnic Institute’s Trio Program. TRIO is a federally-funded program designed to create educational opportunity for disadvantaged students who are either low-income, first generation college, or have a documented disability, so that they can complete their post secondary education. The Mindfulness of Stress training addresses the next stage of education, supporting students in identifying the early conditions of stress and effectively transforming them.
 
BZC staff leads meditation and mindfulness trainings with students at least once per semester at NYU-Poly’s Brooklyn campus. With a focus on peer-to-peer education, students from these trainings who are interested in further developing these practices will work with BZC staff at the Center. These students are then responsible for coordinating regular meetings of a mindfulness and meditation group on campus. With BZC support, TRIO students organized “October Meditation Month” in 2010, during which there were trainings and discussions designed to turn student attention toward practices that cultivate a culture of mindfulness.
 
Enthusiasm around the meditation month resulted in students requesting a regular meditation meeting for undergraduate college students, which continues on Friday evenings from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm. All undergraduate college students from any school are welcome to join. 
 
About our education partner, NYU–Polytechnic Institute's TRIO Program
 
TRIO is a series of federal programs designed to create educational opportunity for disadvantaged students. TRIO’s programs motivate and support qualified students who are either low-income, first generation college, or have a documented disability so that they can succeed in the completion of their post secondary education. To learn more about TRIO, click here.