Univ Interdepartmental Course 100 - PART
Spring
2025
18
1.00
Michael Pease,Michelle Letendre
TH 10:00AM 11:30AM
UMass Amherst
51075
Worcester Dining Room 339
michaelpease@umass.edu
mll@umass.edu
The 9-week Positivity and Relaxation Training (PART) program helps participants develop a self-care routine to help manage stress, improve their outlook and enhance their quality of life. Developed at the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, the PART program teaches participants a variety of mind body practices and self-care interventions:
-How to recognize their personal responses to stress
-Meditative techniques that elicit the relaxation response
-How to change thought patterns and emotional outlook to adaptive and positive perspectives
-Techniques to improve sleep, eating and physical activity
-Ways to harness creativity, humor and appreciations to cultivate positivity and personal well-being
Course manual must be purchased through eCampus prior to the start of the course. Course begins 2/27/25 and meets 3/6, 3/13, 3/27,4/3, 4/10, 4/17, 4/24 and 5/1.