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Get an introduction to the fundamentals of mindfulness in this online training program. Learn how to increase your awareness, move beyond distractions, and live more in the present.
Mindfulness offers us the ability to pay attention to our everyday moments with curiosity and an open heart and mind. This experiential online program will introduce you to fundamental mindfulness concepts, principles, and practices that can help you cultivate greater awareness, better manage stress, and tap into more joy, gratitude, and compassion.
Created by medical anthropologist and certified integrative health coach Sue Schneider, the program combines ancient wisdom with current scientific research to help you incorporate mindfulness into your everyday life.
Drawing from psychology, neurobiology, and contemplative science, the online Mindfulness Training program offers perspective on how to skillfully work with the difficulties and stressors in your life. The curriculum guides a process for creating mindful habits, stress resilience, and more authentic relationships. These behaviors can help you in your personal life and workplace, and they can support healthy communities.
Each online mindfulness course is part of a series designed to be taken sequentially. Taking all courses in order will provide the most continuity. However, any number of courses can be taken individually. In addition to providing video lectures, reading assignments, and activity resources, this online mindfulness training helps build a commitment to daily mindfulness practice. You will learn at least one new practice during every module. To get the most out of the program (when taken as a series), you should be willing to invest at least ten minutes a day to the practice of mindfulness techniques.
Throughout this program, you will learn a range of skills, including:
Whether you are new to mindfulness or you want to deepen your understanding, this program offers tools, support, and encouragement that can help you live a more mindful life.
This program includes seven courses. To enroll in the full program (and get the most value), sign up for LMBB 1000.
LMBB 1000 – Mindfulness Training Full Program | $199
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This course offers an introduction to the practice of mindfulness for personal wellbeing. Explore how mindfulness practices can help us gain awareness of "habits of mind" that lead us toward reactivity, resistance, struggle, and suffering. Learn that, by staying present in the moment and in our bodies, mindfulness can help us move beyond conditioned reaction and open space for insight and growth. Explore mental patterns that contribute to negativity and stress, and experiment with practices aimed at creating greater present-moment awareness.
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Stress can be our constant companion unless we learn how to work skillfully with the habits that keep us stuck in a cycle of stress. In this course, we will explore the physiological and psychological impacts of stress, learn how to interrupt the cycle of stress, and explore mindfulness practices that can help us decrease our stress response. By creating new pathways for mindful self-care, we will learn how to create greater stress resiliency.
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This course will help us learn to involve our minds in changing our brains for the benefit of our health and wellbeing. We will explore the concept of neuroplasticity and learn how to undo our negativity bias in order to rewire our brains for the good. We will experiment with a range of practices that help us create new neural pathways by seeding positivity and cultivating mindful presence.
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We all encounter difficult emotions like anxiety, fear, and depression. In this course, we will unpack the roots of these difficult emotions and consider the ways in which we perpetuate and intensify them through our negative thought patterns. Through the lens of mindfulness, we will bring greater perspective to our emotional difficulties, learn how to lean into them, and practice naming them to tame them. Viewing our symptoms as teachers, we will learn how to listen to our emotions and respond to them mindfully.
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We often push away and try to control the pain, distress, and loss that we encounter in our lives. Through our mindfulness practice, we can examine our aversion, cultural conditions, and control instincts that drive our fear of discomfort and difficulty. We will explore how to interrupt the cycle of reaction, work with our fear, and ride the waves of discomfort and loss as we create a new relationship to our controlling instinct and with our physical condition.
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Our closest relationships can often cause us the most difficulty. In this course, we will explore the habits and behaviors that maintain our separation from others and examine how mindful attunement, empathy, and presence can bring about authentic connection. We will experiment with three levels of listening that are part of mindful communication and practice a range of approaches to bring mindfulness into our parenting, homes, and relationships.
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This module explores the concepts, practices, and applications of compassion and loving kindness as they are applied within our communities. Learn about the relationship between gratitude, compassion, and joy; examine the principles of mindful service; explore compassion in the context of vulnerability and boundaries; and develop skills for building greater circles of care.
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Sue Schneider, Ph.D., is an Extension Professor and State Health Specialist with Colorado State University’s Office of Engagement and Extension where she provides leadership for CSU Extension's health initiatives across Colorado. She is also Adjunct Faculty with the Colorado School of Public Health. As a medical anthropologist, Sue has been teaching, conducting research, and evaluating health programs in academic and community settings for over 20 years.
Sue’s extensive mindfulness training includes completing a 2-year certification program as a mindfulness instructor with the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkely and the Awareness Training Institute. For the last 10 years, she has developed and taught hundreds of mindfulness classes that support individuals in developing inner resources like stress-management skills. She recently developed a companion book for Mindfulness Training titled, Meeting the Moment with Kindness: How Mindfulness Can Help Us Find Calm, Stability, and an Open Heart, which will be released in Oct. 2023. Sue holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Michigan State University and is a Duke-trained Certified Integrative Health Coach.