De-Mystifying Mindfulness
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De-Mystifying Mindfulness at Coursera Overview
Duration | 35 hours |
Start from | Start Now |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
De-Mystifying Mindfulness at Coursera Highlights
- Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
- 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
- Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
- Beginner Level
- Approx. 35 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish
De-Mystifying Mindfulness at Coursera Course details
- Interest in meditation, mindfulness, and contemplation has grown exponentially in recent years. Rather than being seen as mystical practices from ancient Buddhism or esoteric philosophy, they are increasingly seen as technologies rooted in evidence from psychology and neuroscience. Mindfulness has become the basis for numerous therapeutic interventions, both as a treatment in healthcare and as a means of enhancing well-being and happiness. For millions around the world, mindfulness has become a life-style choice, enhancing and enriching everyday experience. Mindfulness is big business.
- But, what actually is mindfulness? Is it really good for you? Can anyone learn it? How can you recognize charlatans? Would you want to live in a mindful society, and would it smell like sandalwood? What does it feel like to be mindful? Are you mindful already, and how would you know?
- Evolving from the popular Honours Academy course at Leiden University, this innovative course combines conventional scholarly inquiry from multiple disciplines (ranging from psychology, through philosophy, to politics) with experiential learning (including specially designed 'meditation labs', in which you'll get chance to practice and analyze mindfulness on yourself). In the end, the course aims to provide a responsible, comprehensive, and inclusive education about (and in) mindfulness as a contemporary phenomenon.
- During the production of this course, we have been supported by Willem Kuyken, Director of the University of Oxford Mindfulness Centre, and Stephen Batchelor, co-founder of Bodhi College. And we gratefully acknowledge the contributions made by Mark Williams, co-developer of Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), and Rebecca Crane, Director of the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice at the University of Bangor.
- "The course enabled me to explore the mindfulness construct at its deeper lever from philosophical, psychological and political lenses. The mindfulness labs were very useful in practicing the skills of being mindful." 23 nov 2018
- "i took this course after a period of time when I was trying to practice mindfulness and meditation, but with doubtful success. The course answered many questions to me, and I needed that to keep me motivated. It really helped me understand the origins and, more importantly, benefits of mindfulness practice and made me persist in my attempts. I'm really glad I took the course, I find it interesting, well taught and very useful for all those seeking deeper explanation in why trying mindfulness." 9 Oct 2018
- "I have taken other courses in other online platforms. However, this has been one of the best courses I have found online." 3 Oct 2018
- "I really like the invitation to us, the learners, to rethink our preconceptions and beliefs, and then make our own judgement about mindfulness. The overall tone was very friendly and open, resources very useful." 12 Dec 2017
De-Mystifying Mindfulness at Coursera Curriculum
Welcome to the course
Course introduction
How to succeed in your online class?
Leiden University: Facts & Figures
Assignments in this course
Meet the instructor & the team
Community Guidelines
What is your learning path?
How mindful are you?
This thing called 'mindfulness'
Preconception - enlightenment
Preconception - martial magic
Preconception - mindlessness
Summary
Meditation lab l part 1
Meditation Lab l part 2
Kuyken: why mindfulness?
Kuyken: representation of mindfulness
Batchelor: coming to mindfulness
Batchelor: what draws others to mindfulness?
Med Lab 1: Exercises
What is this thing called Mindfulness?
Check your knowledge
Journal after Meditation Lab 1
Psychology of/& Mindfulness
Introduction
Operationalizing mindfulness
Measuring mindfulness
The problem of dis-ease
Mindfulness-based stress reduction
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy
Common principles in mindfulness interventions
Summary
Meditation lab II
Kuyken: encountering difficulty
Kuyken: assessing teaching
Kuyken: science and Buddhism
Kuyken: who should teach?
Kuyken: 8 weeks later?
Batchelor: mindfulness teachers
Batchelor: mindfulness qualifications
Med Lab 2: Exercises
Psychology of/& Mindfulness
How stressed are you?
Check your knowledge
Journal after Meditation Lab 2
Philosophy of/& Mindfulness
Introduction - why philosophy?
Buddhism and sati
Vipassana and samatha
Zen
Daoism
Stoicism
Modernity and mindfulness
Summary
Meditation lab III
Kuyken: Buddhism and other traditions
Batchelor: was Buddha a therapist?
Batchelor: secular dharma
Batchelor: Pali canon
Batchelor: is dharma always Buddhism?
Batchelor: dharma needn't be Buddhist
Batchelor: towards modern dharma
Med Lab 3: Exercises
Philosophy of/& Mindfulness
Journal after Meditation Lab 3
Politics of/& Mindfulness
MANIFESTO! - Don't just do something, sit there!
Mindful utopias and distopias
Martial mindfulness
Mindfulness in education
The mindfulness industry
Summary
Meditation lab IV
Kuyken: mindfulness in society
Batchelor: mindfulness in society
Batchelor: commercialism and mindfulness
Med Lab 4: Exercises
Politics of/& Mindfulness
Journal after Meditation Lab 4
Mindfulness into the Future
Course Update 2019
PODCAST: The Art of Teaching Mindfulness, part 1
PODCAST: The Art of Teaching Mindfulness, part 2
PODCAST: The Art of Teaching Mindfulness, part 3
PODCAST: Mindfulness and Movement, part 1
PODCAST: Mindfulness and Movement, part 2
PODCAST: Mindfulness and Movement, part 3
PODCAST: Mindfulness & Despair
Should I be mindful all the time?
Meditation Lab V
PODCAST: Meditation Goto-Jones Breath & Body
PODCAST: Meditation Goto-Jones Sitting with Adversity
PODCAST: Meditation Goto-Jones Four Step Meditation
PODCAST Meditation Goto-Jones 3 step Breathing
Dana and Donation Box
Thank you: Dana Box Update 2019
Kuyken: Parting advice
Med Lab 5: Exercises
Donation box
Meet our contributors
How mindful are you now?
Letter to Self
Honours Project
Honourable Mindfulness
Project Sample: the Mindful Garden
Project Gallery
Project Sample: Mindfulness & Education
Project Sample: Mindfulness & the Workplace
Project Sample: Mindfulness & Health
Sample Project: Mindfulness & Individual Practice
Sample Project: Mindfulness & the Public Sphere
Project Sample: the Virtual Ninja Manifesto
Project Samples: honourable mentions
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