{"id":21307,"date":"2025-03-28T15:10:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T20:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=21307"},"modified":"2025-03-28T15:13:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T20:13:33","slug":"this-april-take-the-take-5-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/this-april-take-the-take-5-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"This April: Take the Take 5 Challenge!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CAT+FD would like to invite the Xavier community to participate in the \"Take 5 Challenge\" this April. The idea is just to take five minutes each workday for a simple mindful breathing exercise. It's only for one month and you get the weekends off! Details below;\u00a0<em>please <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/about\/staff\/bart\">shoot an email to <em>Bart Everson<\/em><\/a><\/em> <em>if you want to participate<\/em>. No pressure, no obligation, but we will make an email thread to include all participants so we can feel a sense of group commitment. We'll probably schedule a check-in for the end of April or beginning of May, but attendance is optional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Take 5: Mindful Breathing (For Higher Ed)&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prep<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Take&nbsp;five minutes to sit still, by yourself, in a quiet, comfortable, and private place.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Turn off phone, TV, radio. Put aside your to-do list.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Set a timer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Observe good posture.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mornings are recommended. What's the best time for you?&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Practice<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Breathe normally, paying attention to the feeling of the breath.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Notice when you lose awareness of the breath and start thinking about something else.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Return your attention to the breath.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>One Month Experiment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Take 5 every morning when classes are in session for the month of April.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>That's just twenty-five minutes a week with weekends off.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Try to extend your heightened awareness of mindfulness into your professional activities.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>At month's end, assess the preliminary results of your experiment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Note: This is lightly adapted from&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisdompubs.org\/book\/mindful-teaching-and-teaching-mindfulness\">Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;by Deborah Schoeberlein. Billed as a \"guide for anyone who teaches anything,\" it's a wonderful book and highly recommended.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAT+FD would like to invite the Xavier community to participate in the \"Take 5 Challenge\" this April. The idea is just to take five minutes each workday for a simple mindful breathing exercise. It's only for one month and you get the weekends off! Details below;\u00a0please shoot an email to Bart Everson if you want <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/this-april-take-the-take-5-challenge\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"This April: Take the Take 5 Challenge!\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[75,204,211],"class_list":{"0":"post-21307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-integrative","8":"tag-contemplation","9":"tag-meditation","10":"tag-mindfulness","11":"h-entry","12":"hentry","13":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Contemplation-Green.jpg?fit=1888%2C1888&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-5xF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21266,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/march-opportunities-at-catfd\/","url_meta":{"origin":21307,"position":0},"title":"March Opportunities at CAT+FD","author":"Jason S. 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