Restorative Wellness Workshop for Students — University of North Carolina
Project Overview
Professor Kelvin Cooper of Restorative Wellness Playground facilitated a restorative wellness workshop experience for students at the University of North Carolina.
The workshop created space for students to slow down, reflect, move, engage in dialogue, and explore wellness as something practiced through the body, through honest conversation, and through community connection.
Rather than treating wellness as a one-time activity, the session centered restoration as a lived practice that supports self-awareness, emotional regulation, healing, and healthier relationships.
Program Organization and Collaboration
This student-centered workshop was held within a University of North Carolina educational setting, creating an opportunity for students to engage restorative wellness through movement, reflection, and embodied learning.
Restorative Wellness Playground brought a grounded, human-centered approach to the experience, helping students reconnect with themselves and one another in a more intentional way.
The collaboration reflected Restorative Wellness Playground’s continued commitment to bringing restorative wellness, community care, and transformative learning into educational and community spaces.
Workshop Activities
The workshop focused on integrating restorative practice, somatic movement, emotional awareness, and community dialogue.
Participants engaged in activities such as:
- Reflective dialogue and group discussion
- Somatic movement and body-awareness practices
- Exercises supporting emotional awareness and self-regulation
- Community-centered activities designed to support connection and trust
These activities helped students explore how wellness can be practiced in practical, embodied, and communal ways.
Participants
The University of North Carolina workshop welcomed students into a guided restorative wellness experience designed to support reflection, connection, and personal grounding.
Participants were invited to engage with themselves and one another in ways that encouraged presence, openness, and authentic community connection.
Impact
The workshop helped students experience restoration as more than an individual practice. It became a shared process of movement, dialogue, reflection, and connection.
By creating space for students to slow down and check in with themselves, the session supported greater self-awareness, emotional grounding, and healthier ways of relating to others.
This project reflects the broader mission of Restorative Wellness Playground—helping people reconnect with their authentic selves, build capacity for connection, and create spaces where restoration becomes practical, embodied, and communal.
Project Partners
University of North Carolina
Host educational setting
Professor Kelvin Cooper
Restorative Wellness Playground
Participants
University students
Student wellness participants