Program Overview

Program Overview

The Mindfulness Training for Everyday Life program offers an introduction to the fundamentals of mindfulness, aiming to increase awareness, manage stress, and cultivate greater joy, gratitude, and compassion.

Program Details

• The program is designed to be taken sequentially, with each course building on the previous one.
• However, students can take individual courses based on their interests and needs.
• The full program includes seven courses and costs $199.
• Individual courses cost $40 each.

Curriculum

The program curriculum includes the following courses:

• LMBB 1011: Creating Mindful Habits
• LMBB 1012: Responding to Stress
• LMBB 1013: Rewiring our Brains
• LMBB 1021: Emotional Resilience
• LMBB 1022: Coping with Pain and Loss
• LMBB 1031: Authentic Connection
• LMBB 1032: Widening our Circles of Compassion

Course Descriptions

• LMBB 1011: This course introduces the practice of mindfulness for personal wellbeing, exploring how mindfulness practices can help gain awareness of "habits of mind" that lead to reactivity, resistance, struggle, and suffering.
  • Topics include:
    • Our Habits of Mind
    • Coming to our Senses
    • Fundamentals of Practice
• LMBB 1012: This course explores the physiological and psychological impacts of stress, learning how to interrupt the cycle of stress and exploring mindfulness practices that can help decrease the stress response.
  • Topics include:
    • The Psychology of Stress
    • The Physiology of Stress
• LMBB 1013: This course helps students learn to involve their minds in changing their brains for the benefit of their health and wellbeing, exploring the concept of neuroplasticity and learning how to undo negativity bias.
  • Topics include:
    • Our Negativity Bias
    • The Power of Thoughts
    • Seeding Positivity
• LMBB 1021: This course unpacks the roots of difficult emotions like anxiety, fear, and depression, considering the ways in which negative thought patterns perpetuate and intensify these emotions.
  • Topics include:
    • Going Beneath the Storm
    • The Emotion of Fear
    • Anxiety and Depression
• LMBB 1022: This course examines how to interrupt the cycle of reaction, work with fear, and ride the waves of discomfort and loss, creating a new relationship to the controlling instinct and physical condition.
  • Topics include:
    • Interrupting the Pain Cycle
    • Accepting Aging and Loss
• LMBB 1031: This course explores the habits and behaviors that maintain separation from others, examining how mindful attunement, empathy, and presence can bring about authentic connection.
  • Topics include:
    • The Gift of Presence
    • Self-compassion
• LMBB 1032: This course explores the concepts, practices, and applications of compassion and loving kindness, learning about the relationship between gratitude, compassion, and joy.
  • Topics include:
    • Kindness and generosity
    • Compassion in action
    • Loving-kindness

Faculty

The program is led by Sue Schneider, Ph.D., an Extension Professor and State Health Specialist with Colorado State University's Office of Engagement and Extension. Dr. Schneider has extensive mindfulness training, including completing a 2-year certification program as a mindfulness instructor with the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley and the Awareness Training Institute. She is also a Duke-trained Certified Integrative Health Coach.

Program Benefits

The program aims to increase overall awareness and emotional resilience, helping students learn to better understand the connections between their emotions, mind, and body. Students will gain insightful, practical knowledge that can be applied right away, learning on their schedule with online, self-paced courses.