Join us for the STEAM Café this month! August’s STEAM talk, “An Introduction to Meditation, Mindfulness, and Interoception”, will be presented by Dr. Jonathan Gibson, associate professor in the Department of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at South Dakota Mines.

Meditation and mindfulness are gaining interest in Western culture. The surge in popularity is fueled by growing evidence of their well-documented benefits. Dr. Jonathan Gibson, associate professor in the Department of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at South Dakota Mines, will cover some of these techniques and how to put them into practice, then focus on how meditation can increase interoception – our ability to sense internal body signals – and how this heightened awareness is essential to well-being.