Mindful Awareness Research Center (UCLA)

MARC.ucla.edu; Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Dhr. Seven, Jen B., Wisdom Quarterly

Spring Has Sprung! Time to schedule your spring classes.

MAPs I This evidence-based class lays the foundation for students to understand the basics of mindfulness, develop a personal practice, and apply the principles in their daily life on an ongoing basis. Clinicians are welcome to take this course for credit.

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MAPs II For those who wish to continue and advance their practice, MARC has a series of MAPs II classes that are taught on a rotating basis throughout the year.  The following classes are still open for registrations:  MAPs II: Next Steps - Improve Your Meditation MAPs II: Cultivating Self-Compassion MAPs II: Working with Difficult Emotions MAPs II: Cultivating Positive Emotions MAPs II: Turning Obstacles into Allies

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Day of  Mindfulness: Mind Games - A Mindfulness and Creativity Playshop with Brian Shiers and Laurie Shiers What do mindfulness and creativity have in common? The answer is cognitive flexibility: the ability to observe your thoughts, and the skill to change what and how you think. But while mindfulness is rooted in compassion non-judgment, the creative process can be wrought with self-criticism and doubt. Mindfulness can help us here. In combining mindfulness practices with games participants will come away with new insights and practical tools to meet life's challenges. Date: Sunday April 25, 2021 Time: 10am-3pm, PST

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Re-Writing the Story of Your Life (3-Week Class) with Mitra Manesh In this class we will identify our "story"—the story we tell ourselves, consciously or not, to explain, excuse, and justify the recurring patterns of our lives. We'll identify whose story we’re actually living. We'll summon the authority to author our own story. And we'll begin to write that story, the one we truly wish to live, with compassion and a deeper sense of awareness. This is an interactive, participatory, experiential class. Date: Mondays, May 3 - 17, 2021 Time: 6 – 7:30pm,  PST

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