Dartmouth Events

Hiking Zen: Train your Mind in Nature

Join us for a lecture on the joy of mindful walking and hiking, cultivating a deep connection with the world around you, and ultimately embracing the path of happiness.

4/3/2025
5 pm – 6 pm
Rollins Chapel
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Spiritual & Worship

This talk, offered in collaboration with the Dartmouth Outing Club, will explore ideas that are presented in the upcoming book by the same name. The talk will discuss how to discover the joy of mindful walking and hiking, cultivating a deep connection with the world around you, and ultimately embracing the path of happiness as a way of life. 

This event is part of a week of presentations, discussions, meditation practice, and retreats with senior monastic Dharma teachers in the Plum Village Tradition of scholar, poet, peace activist, and Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh from Deer Park Monastery in California.

More details and schedule: https://students.dartmouth.edu/tucker/events/zen-and-art-mindful-living

The week is sponsored by The William Jewett Tucker Center and The Student Wellness Center; with additional support from the Dartmouth President's Office, The Thich Nhat Hanh Center for Mindfulness in Public Health at Harvard, The Dartmouth Synergy Clinical Science and Translation Institute, The Design Initiative at Dartmouth, The Geisel School of Medicine Department of Epidemiology, The Wright Center for the Study of Computation and Just Communities, The Dartmouth Cancer Center. The Arthur L. Irving Institute, The Geisel School of Medicine Center for Molecular Epidemiology, The Center for Quantitative Biology, The Hood Museum of Art, Wellness at Dartmouth, The Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies, Tuck Compass, and the Undergraduate House Communities at Dartmouth.

For more information, contact:
Tucker Center

Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.