Full course description
The Mindfulness Foundations Program is a 12-week synchronous online training that helps you learn mindfulness through these four pillars: body, mind, emotion, and connection. Starting on Jan 22nd and ending on Apr 16th, we will meet every Wednesday at 12 pm (Mountain Time) for one hour to go on a transformative learning journey to develop mindfulness.
Mindfulness is a human skill that we can cultivate through training our intentional attention with appropriate attitude. Among the many benefits of developing mindfulness are reduced anxiety and greater life balance. This training was designed to create an incremental learning process that helps you develop the skill of mindfulness in a smooth progression, while applying the exercises into your everyday life. You will learn a different exercise each week to practice it daily until the next meeting, then share and learn from each other's experiences and questions.
Creating community for mutual support is important for setting habit and a routine of practice. Thus, you will be encouraged to actively participate in the group. This semester the class will be exclusively online (through Zoom) and you will have recordings of the exercise portion of the class every week to practice.
We offer this training on a scale so you can pay according to your conditions. The price options are:
- Supporter: $360 (pays for the training and contributes to support scholarships)
- Base: $240 (pays for the training at its full rate) - Use code MIND240 to purchase
- Reduced: $120 (pays for the training at reduced rate) - Use code MIND120 to purchase
- Scholarship: $60 (pays for the training at minimum rate) - Use code MIND60 to purchase (please note that this is preferably exclusive to USU students and BIPOC)
- Full scholarship: $0 (receives the training completely free) - Please get in contact with the instructor via email (joana.franco@usu.edu) to apply for this scholarship.