Family Resilience And Mindfulness Empowerment Research Lab

Announcements

  • Dr. Zhang offered a mom workshop

    In the evening of Nov 18th, Dr. Na Zhang offered a mindfulness workshop to moms in the Women’s Circle program at St. Joseph Parenting Center in Stamford. It was an amazing time to connect with the moms and chat about parenting!

  • Dr. Zhang offered a teacher professional development workshop

    In the evening of Sept 14, 2025, Dr. Zhang offered a Zoom interactive workshop to teachers at Norwalk Chinese School. The workshop focused on the importance of classroom management and effective strategies in managing student behaviors!

  • Hello!

    Welcome to our brand new lab website! Enjoy!

Students sitting in a lab together.

Our Mission

To strengthen family resiliency by developing and implementing mindfulness interventions that empower families and support parent and child well-being.

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Healing Hearts Project

The Healing Hearts project is funded by NIH – our goal is to develop and test a mindfulness app to support divorced/separated parents.

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MICROS-Early Project

The MICROS-Early Project examines how mindfulness shapes relationships among parents, grandparents, and young children in multigenerational families.

We are kicking off the semester with our first scholar meeting! Come listen to our researcher speak about their work and have a fun conversation to know more about research - what is research and why would or wouldn’t you want to get involved?! We hope to see you there!!! #uconnstamford #uconnstamfordadvising

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Snowy hills, shared laughter, and kids becoming happier and healthier through outdoor play with nature ❄️🛷 Parents help kids build confidence and resilience this way!

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Blizzard is coming to visit us in Connecticut! Stay safe but keep having fun inside, kids! ❄️ #framelab #blizzard #connecticut #uconnstamford #joy #peace

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Our MICROS-Early study invites participation! Screener link in bio.

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