Wellness Events
Faculty Wellness hosts events throughout the year to support the professional and personal growth, development, and empowerment of our faculty.
Annual Wellness Event
Since 2019, Faculty Wellness has hosted an annual wellness event for the entire UTSW Community that highlights the importance of personal, professional, and institutional wellbeing.
Wellness Week 2025 takes place May 12-16 and centers on the theme of "Prioritizing You: Building Personal Wellness from the Inside Out."
Faculty & APP Wellness Symposium
This day-long in-person retreat allows participants to engage in interactive and practical workshops to enhance their personal professional wellbeing, as well as learn to be agents of change in creating a culture of wellness at UT Southwestern at a local, divisional, departmental, and divisional level.
The 2025 Faculty & APP Wellness Symposium takes place June 6 at Pegasus Park.
Weekly Mindfulness Event
Friday Mindfulness
Spend 45 minutes in a guided mindfulness meditation practice led by Bryan Elwood.
Mindfulness Program for Faculty Physicians
Option 1: Online introduction to mindfulness and burnout prevention (1-hour duration)
Option 2: The Mindfulness & Burnout Prevention Program, a four-week training module, provides:
- A description of burnout, factors, and tendencies leading to it
- An explanation of the mindfulness concept and how it improves resistance to burnout
- Training in meditation techniques, for the explicit purpose of acquiring personal skills at mindfulness meditation and burnout prevention