Mindfulness and Well-being: Foundations
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About this Course
This course provides a broad overview of the fundamental concepts, principles, and practices of mindfulness. With interactive exercises to help students explore their own attitudes, mental habits and behaviors, Foundations of Mindfulness offers a pathway for living with more freedom, authenticity and ease. Featured components of the course include experiential exercises, guided meditations, personal reflection and interactive discussions.
Learner Career Outcomes
What you will learn
Key mindfulness concepts and practices that support the ability to use attention in an enhanced way.
Concepts and practices that deepen the understanding of the mind/body connection, and highlights ways that the body is a direct portal to presence.
Guidance for enhancing resilience, with specific regard to opening to and accepting a wide range of emotion.
How to take the benefits that come from regular meditation and integrate them into daily life, as well as establishing a regular meditation routine.
Skills you will gain
- interoceptive techniques
- Basics of meditation
- Improved focus
Instructor
Offered by
Rice University
Rice University is consistently ranked among the top 20 universities in the U.S. and the top 100 in the world. Rice has highly respected schools of Architecture, Business, Continuing Studies, Engineering, Humanities, Music, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences and is home to the Baker Institute for Public Policy.
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Coursera gives me the flexibility I need to take courses on my own time.
I want to learn new things, because that’s what brings joy to my life. With Coursera, I can meet and interact with others who feel the same way.
The design courses I took on Coursera gave me the tools I needed to propel my career into a new direction.
Coursera gives me the flexibility I need to take courses on my own time.
I want to learn new things, because that’s what brings joy to my life. With Coursera, I can meet and interact with others who feel the same way.
The design courses I took on Coursera gave me the tools I needed to propel my career into a new direction.
Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Welcome to the Course
Learning to Pay Attention
Understanding the Mind/Body Connection
Exploring Your Inner Landscape
The Nuts and Bolts of Establishing a Practice
Reviews
- 5 stars87.16%
- 4 stars9.50%
- 3 stars0.83%
- 2 stars1.33%
- 1 star1.16%
TOP REVIEWS FROM MINDFULNESS AND WELL-BEING: FOUNDATIONS
In four weeks you can move from someone who has never experienced mindfulness to someone who has a solid foundation to build a transformational practice. I highly recommend this course!!
This course is amazing for everyone thinking of investing in themselves and learning how your brain impacts your life. It has helped me grow a lot and I hope it helps others do too!
This course on Mindfulness was interesting and inspiring with easy to do mindfulness practices. Thanks for an excellent learning opportunity on mindfulness
This is a very well done course, both theoretical and practical. It provides the tools to be able to practice Mindfulness in a simple way through the use of audiovisuals.
About the Mindfulness and Well-being Specialization
The goal of the Specialization is to showcase the ways in which the practice of mindfulness is an effective means of enhancing and maintaining optimal health and overall well-being that can be implemented in every aspect of daily living. The intention of the Specialization is to supply learners with practical tools to support thriving in life. Each course will feature mindfulness practices, directions for implementation and application, experiential exercises and reflection opportunities.
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