Maintaining a Mindful Life (FutureLearn)

Offered by Monash University,
Maintaining a Mindful Life (FutureLearn)

Learn how to apply mindfulness techniques, so you can improve your communication, relationships and emotional health. Interest in mindfulness has grown enormously over the last few years. It’s no surprise: mindfulness techniques can improve your communication skills, relationships and emotional health. But not everyone knows how to apply mindfulness in daily life.

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Building upon the introductory Mindfulness for Wellbeing Peak Performance, this course will show you how to incorporate mindfulness principles in your own life to end unproductive behaviour, ensure your brain isn’t operating in ‘default mode’ and improve your overall wellbeing.

What topics will you cover?

  • Communication
  • Mindful relationships
  • Empathy, compassion and kindness
  • Mindfulness and pain
  • Self-compassion and performance
  • The big picture
  • Ethics, values and goals
  • Mindfulness meditation

What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you'll be able to...

  • Experiment with a range of mindfulness techniques.
  • Develop and apply a range of mindfulness techniques that are effective.
  • Evaluate the impact of a variety of mindfulness techniques.
  • Model a more mindful approach to communication, relationships and emotional health.
  • Engage with informal and formal mindfulness practices.
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