Wholeness: Mindful Mystery Box Challenge – Fruits, Roots & Leaves
Friday, May 2, 2025 12:10pm to 1pm
Friday, May 2, 2025 12:10pm to 1pm
About this Event
Wholeness: Mindful Mystery Box Challenge – Fruits, Roots & Leaves
What does mindfulness have to do with fruits, roots, and leaves? In this hands-on session, Selena Chan, DO and Ganiv Kahlon, BSN, RN guide participants through a mystery box challenge rooted in Southeast Asian healing traditions. Using touch, smell, and intuition, participants will identify culturally significant plants—like pandan, taro, or lemongrass—and uncover their uses in food, medicine, ceremony, and memory. The session also introduces the Natural Medicines Database, a UCSF library resource for exploring the scientific and cultural dimensions of herbs and botanicals, offering a mindful, immersive way to reconnect with the ancestral wisdom of plant medicine.
Rooted in 8 Senses: Connecting to AANHPI Wisdom Traditions. This event is part of Rooted in 8 Senses, an experiential series co-created by clinicians, faculty, and trainees from the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Health. The series explores time-honored healing traditions rooted in whole-person, collective, and relational well-being. Beyond the individual experience of sight, smell, sound, taste, and touch, many Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) healing traditions recognize three additional senses—balance, resourcefulness, and wholeness. These senses expand how we engage with the world: through community, in connection with nature, and within ecosystems of interdependence and care.
View the full April 28–May 9, schedule: apasa.ucsf.edu/aanhpi-wellness-week. The inaugural 2025 UCSF AANHPI Health & Wellness Weeks is a multi-organization collaboration co-led by the Asian Pacific American Systemwide Alliance (APASA). All events are free and supported by the UCSF Human Resources Community Wellbeing Grant. Everyone is welcome. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email apasa@ucsf.edu.