Mindfulness for Health & Wellbeing

Catalog description

This course provides students with the opportunity to learn the principles of mindfulness, develop their own mindfulness mediation practice, and apply principles of mindfulness to daily life. This course also provides students with an overview of the relationship between mindfulness meditation and physical and mental health. Students learn mindfulness strategies to work with thoughts, emotions and sensations, while developing their capacity to enhance mind-body awareness of present-moment experience. Students in this course research the evidence supporting the use of mindfulness and meditation to improve overall physical and mental health outcomes. This course also introduces students to the public health implications of incorporating mindfulness into community-based and traditional medical settings. This course combines didactic, experiential, group and presentation-based learning.