This session is part of Marquette’s Mission Week

Location: AMU 252

Session Description: Gratitude improves the lives of students and adults. Recent educational research combined with the current thinking of CTL leaders suggest that a fittingly complex concept of gratitude can help students find hope in troubled times. Indeed, gratitude may be considered an act of service on campus, especially when working with today’s students. Using elements of Ignatian reflection, this roundtable session for all instructors across campus will articulate a concept of gratitude informed by current research and anecdotal experience from attendees, provide concrete ways to incorporate gratitude into participants’ pedagogical practices, and suggest ways that teaching through gratitude helps instill hope in students.

Outcomes:

• Find connections between our own experiences of gratitude and service in ways that will help students think deeper about their own place in the world.
• Move students from reflection to action to increase their well-being and support their journey to becoming people with and for others.

Lunch immediately following provided for each participant along with a swag bag of goodies!