Mashkiki Gitigaan Medicine Garden in the spring
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Mashkiki Gitigaan Medicine Garden will be part of the 2026 Jane's Walk at UM.
Mashkiki Gitigaan Medicine Garden will be part of the 2026 Jane's Walk at UM.
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Office of Sustainability

Jane’s Walk: Exploring mindfulness and connection at Bannatyne

Celebrating Jane Jacobs with a guided mindfulness walk around the Bannatyne campus lead by Sensei Tanis Moore.

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Office of Sustainability

Join the UM Spiritual Care and Multi-Faith Centre and the Office of Sustainability on a guided mindfulness walk around the Bannatyne campus. All UM staff, faculty, students and community members are welcome to participate.

What: Jane’s Walk: Exploring mindfulness and connection at Bannatyne
When: Friday, May 1, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Where: Mashkiki Gitigaan Medicine Garden, 745 Bannatyne Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3E 0W3

RSVP to the Jane's Walk Winnipeg page. 
 

"There is something so deeply profound about the practice of walking and its relation to being human. It is engrained in our psyches, reflected in our frameworks of meaning and language, and typified in our responses to all forms of adversity."

Edgar French, Spiritual Care Coordinator

Connecting through mindfulness

You are invited to slow down, step away from routine and experience the Bannatyne campus and surrounding area in a new way. Sensei Tanis Moore will introduce mindfulness and lead you through an optional, beginner-friendly mindful walking practice. You’ll be  encouraged to listen, observe and engage in ways that feel comfortable to you, whether that means taking part in the guided practices or simply enjoying the spring weather. No prior experience with mindfulness or meditation is required.

The route includes stops at several unique locations on and around campus, including the Medicine Garden (Mashkiki Gitigaan) of Indigenous Learning, the new Multi-Faith Centre, and a visit inside the nearby Buddhist temple. You will have an opportunity to explore these spaces together while learning about their roles within the community.

Edgar French, Spiritual Care Coordinator, Spiritual Care and Multi-Faith Centre says, "Extensive research and studies have shown the broad range of benefits walking bestows on our cognitive, emotional, and physical states of being," while pointing to Ferris Jabr's article in the New Yorker, Why Walking Helps Us Think. There is something so deeply profound about the practice of walking and its relation to being human. It is engrained in our psyches, reflected in our frameworks of meaning and language, and typified in our responses to all forms of adversity.

The walk highlights how practicing mindfulness through simple, everyday activities like walking can deepen our sense of connection to place and to one another, supporting healthy communities and more thoughtful use of the environments we share. 

What is Jane's Walk?

Jane’s Walk is an annual festival of free, citizen-led walking conversations inspired by citizen activist Jane Jacobs. On the first weekend of May every year, Jane’s Walk festivals take place in hundreds of cities around the world. Jane’s Walks encourage people to share stories about their neighbourhoods and discover unseen aspects of their communities. Celebrating Jane’s ideas and principles, we encourage walking together to create connections between creativity and community, to engage experiences as both observers and participants, and for shared reflection, questioning, and re-imagining.

Accessibility

The walk includes both indoor and outdoor spaces and will be approximately 2 km from start to finish. We will be walking and standing on sidewalks and grass, where the ground may be uneven. There will be benches along the route to rest. Some of the streets that we will be crossing do not have traffic lights.