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Winter 2021 MAPs Class Schedule

Class schedule is updated every two weeks. 

Class Quick Links                                                                                                             

  • MAPs I for Daily Living 
  • MAPs II: Next Steps - Improve Your Meditation
  • MAPs II: Cultivating Positive Emotions
  • MAPs II: Turning Obstacles into Allies
  • MAPs II: Working with Difficult Emotions
  • MAPs II: Ethics and Mindfulness
  • MAPs II: Cultivating Self-Compassion
  • MAPs Applications: Are You Ready to be Happy?
  • MAPs Applications: Mindful Aging
  • Cultivating Forgiveness

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Online MAPs now come in two formats. All classes offer the same curriculum: our evidence-based MAPs. Each class is a combination of lecture, practice, and group feedback and discussion.  Classes are 6-weeks long and meet once per week for 2 hours with summary handouts to continue your practice after class. Our online classes are an educational experience suitable for people of all backgrounds. 

Pre-Recorded Online Classes

This is a good choice for someone who wants a webinar without much community or teacher interaction. You can work at your own pace for the duration of the 6-week course. The online course consists of recordings from six previously live classes. Participants will have access to audio materials as well as an "Ask the Mindfulness Teacher" option to have any questions related to the course or your practice answered. Class sessions begin every Monday. You must register by Sunday at 11:59 pm, PST to begin the following Monday. Any registrations after, will begin the next Monday. 

 

Live Online Classes

These live online classes are held in a small community format led by senior MARC teachers as well as affiliate MARC teachers you’ve come to know and love. This is a good choice for those who want to go through MAPs with a group of others, live teacher support, and is date/time specific. Class start dates and times vary, choose the times that work best for you!

     


           

Winter 2021 Class Schedule: 


MAPs I for Daily Living 

The MAPs I course is an excellent introduction to mindfulness for beginners. MAPs I provides insight into the basics of mindfulness, how to develop a mindfulness meditation practice, and how mindfulness can be applied in daily life. It is also appropriate for experienced practitioners who wish to revitalize their practice.

MAPs I- for Daily Living is an excellent introduction to mindfulness for clinicians, who are welcome to take it for credit.

Self-paced
Classes begin every Monday

Pre-Recorded Online

Instructor: Diana Winston

Cost: $165*
No Discounts**
No CEs

REGISTER

Tuesdays
Jan 19- Feb 23

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, PST

Live Online

Instructor: Valerie Velez

Cost: $75-$200*
CEs Available

REGISTER

Wednesdays
Jan 20- Feb 24
5:00 PM-7:00 PM, PST

Live Online

Instructor: Bram Barouh 

Cost: $75-$200*
CEs Available

REGISTER

Mondays 
Feb 1- Mar 8
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, PST

Live Online

Instructor: Bhanu Harrison

Cost: $75-$200*
CEs Available

REGISTER

Jump to Class - Notes & Policies

Technical Recommendations

Recordings of live online classes will not be made available for viewing. Please see our missed class policy for more information.Live classes may be recorded for archive purposes only.

*We remain deeply committed to equity and accessibility. We invite you to contact us (marcinfo@ucla.edu) if you can not afford the minimum fee and want to participate. Please submit any scholarship requests at least 48 hours before event start date.

**Note: In support of the UCLA Healthy Campus Initiative, current UCLA students (non-Extension) may sign up for this class for FREE. To use this discount, please register using your UCLA email address, and select the "UCLA Student" discount from the pulldown menu during the payment process. 




MAPs II: Next Steps - Improve Your Meditation 

In this follow up class to MAPs I, we will focus on maintaining and sustaining a daily mindfulness practice, how to bring mindfulness into our daily activities, how to develop more concentration, and how more confidence and wisdom can arise in our practice.

Pre-requisite: Attendance in any introductory MAPs I series or equivalent mindfulness introductory class with permission from our instructor. If you have not taken a MAPs I class at MARC, please email us a brief description of your equivalent experience to marcinfo@ucla.edu before class start date.

Self-paced
Classes begin every Monday

Pre-Recorded Online

Instructors: Diana Winston 

Cost: $165*
No Discounts**
No CEs

REGISTER

Jump to Class - Notes & Policies

Technical Recommendations

Recordings of live online classes will not be made available for viewing. Please see our missed class policy for more information.Live classes may be recorded for archive purposes only.

*We remain deeply committed to equity and accessibility. We invite you to contact us (marcinfo@ucla.edu) if you can not afford the minimum fee and want to participate. Please submit any scholarship requests at least 48 hours before event start date.

**Note: In support of the UCLA Healthy Campus Initiative, current UCLA students (non-Extension) may sign up for this class for FREE. To use this discount, please register using your UCLA email address, and select the "UCLA Student" discount from the pulldown menu during the payment process. 


MAPs II: Cultivating Positive Emotions

In this follow up class to MAPs I, we will learn how to cultivate loving kindness, compassion, equanimity, joy, gratitude, and forgiveness.

We will learn new meditations to develop these qualities, tools to work with when we find them ourselves stuck and not feeling positive emotions, and practical exercises to incorporate them into our daily life. This is a helpful expansion to our basic mindfulness practice.

Pre-requisite: Attendance in any introductory MAPs I series or equivalent mindfulness introductory class with permission from our instructor. If you have not taken a MAPs I class at MARC, please email us a brief description of your equivalent experience to marcinfo@ucla.edu before class start date.

Self-paced
Classes begin every Monday

Pre-Recorded Online

Instructors: Diana Winston 

Cost: $165*
No Discounts**
No CEs

REGISTER

Jump to Class - Notes & Policies

Technical Recommendations

Recordings of live online classes will not be made available for viewing. Please see our missed class policy for more information.Live classes may be recorded for archive purposes only.

*We remain deeply committed to equity and accessibility. We invite you to contact us (marcinfo@ucla.edu) if you can not afford the minimum fee and want to participate. Please submit any scholarship requests at least 48 hours before event start date.

**Note: In support of the UCLA Healthy Campus Initiative, current UCLA students (non-Extension) may sign up for this class for FREE. To use this discount, please register using your UCLA email address, and select the "UCLA Student" discount from the pulldown menu during the payment process. 



MAPs II: Turning Obstacles into Allies

In this follow up class to MAPs I, this class will offer tools for working with both outer and inner obstacles, helping us to learn to see difficulties, not as problems, but as situations and mind states that can actually help us more deeply understand ourselves and our practice.

Pre-requisite: Attendance in any introductory MAPs I series or equivalent mindfulness introductory class with permission from our instructor. If you have not taken a MAPs I class at MARC, please email us a brief description of your equivalent experience to marcinfo@ucla.edu before class start date.

Self-paced
Classes begin every Monday

Pre-Recorded Online

Instructor:  Diana Winston 

Cost: $165*
No Discounts**
No CEs

REGISTER

Jump to Class - Notes & Policies

Technical Recommendations

Recordings of live online classes will not be made available for viewing. Please see our missed class policy for more information.Live classes may be recorded for archive purposes only.

*We remain deeply committed to equity and accessibility. We invite you to contact us (marcinfo@ucla.edu) if you can not afford the minimum fee and want to participate. Please submit any scholarship requests at least 48 hours before event start date.

**Note: In support of the UCLA Healthy Campus Initiative, current UCLA students (non-Extension) may sign up for this class for FREE. To use this discount, please register using your UCLA email address, and select the "UCLA Student" discount from the pulldown menu during the payment process. 




MAPs II: Working with Difficult Emotions

Many of us struggle with anxiety, depression and anger. These natural human emotions can be a source of suffering that can negatively impact quality of life. Mindfulness has been shown to promote more states of well being and happiness and has been incorporated into a variety of clinical treatments for mental health issues such as anxiety and depression. But whether or not you have a mental health concern or simply struggle with the challenges of 21st century living and the anxiety, stress, and frustration of life, this class can support you in finding more ease, balance, and happiness.

In the class we will work weekly with each emotion, exploring how to bring mindfulness to it and include other approaches to working with it. We will also learn practices that antidote difficult emotions such as equanimity or balance, compassion, and loving kindness.

This class may be particularly relevant for mental health clinicians, but is open to anyone.

Pre-requisite: Attendance in any introductory MAPs I series or equivalent mindfulness introductory class with permission from our instructor. If you have not taken a MAPs I class at MARC, please email us a brief description of your equivalent experience to marcinfo@ucla.edu before class start date.

Self-paced
Classes begin every Monday

Pre-Recorded Online

Instructors: Diana Winston 

Cost: $165*
No Discounts**
No CEs

REGISTER

Jump to Class Notes & Policies

Technical Recommendations

Recordings of live online classes will not be made available for viewing. Please see our missed class policy for more information.Live classes may be recorded for archive purposes only.

*We remain deeply committed to equity and accessibility. We invite you to contact us (marcinfo@ucla.edu) if you can not afford the minimum fee and want to participate.

**Note: In support of the UCLA Healthy Campus Initiative, current UCLA students (non-Extension) may sign up for this class for FREE. To use this discount, please register using your UCLA email address, and select the "UCLA Student" discount from the pulldown menu during the payment process. 


MAPs II: Ethics and Mindfulness

In this class we will look at how ethics emerge from and influence our meditation practice. We will look at protecting life, cultivating generosity, and being wise with our sexuality, consumption patterns, and speech. This class will be very experiential as we will mindfully explore how these ethics operate in our lives and affect our meditation practice.

Pre-requisite: Attendance in any introductory MAPs I series or equivalent mindfulness introductory class with permission from our instructor. If you have not taken a MAPs I class at MARC, please email us a brief description of your equivalent experience to marcinfo@ucla.edu before class start date.

Thursdays
Jan 14 - March 4
(no class Jan 28 & Feb 18)
10:00 AM- 12:00 PM, PST

Online with Live Instruction

Instructor: Diana Winston

Cost: $75-$200**
No CEs

Generosity Rate: $200
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Standard  Rate: $125
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Economic Hardship Rate: $75
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UCLA Student/ TMF: $0
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Jump to Class - Notes & Policies

Technical Recommendations

Recordings of live online classes will not be made available for viewing. Please see our missed class policy for more information.Live classes may be recorded for archive purposes only.

*We remain deeply committed to equity and accessibility. We invite you to contact us (marcinfo@ucla.edu) if you can not afford the minimum fee and want to participate. Please submit any scholarship requests at least 48 hours before event start date.

**Note: In support of the UCLA Healthy Campus Initiative, current UCLA students (non-Extension) may sign up for this class for FREE. To use this discount, please register using your UCLA email address, and select the "UCLA Student" discount from the pulldown menu during the payment process. 

MAPs II: Cultivating Self-Compassion

Many of us struggle with issues of self-judgment and self-criticism. People of all ages suffer from painful thoughts such as, "I'm not good enough," "I messed that up again," and "I hate my body." Although these thoughts may feel overwhelming and intractable, we can learn how to work with and lessen them. Science has shown that you can actually change your brain through mindfulness and the cultivation of positive emotional states.

In this class, we will explore mindfulness practices to work with self-critical thoughts, and self-compassion practices to nurture kindness and compassion for ourselves and others. This class will include sitting and walking mindfulness and kindness meditations, periods of silence, personal exploration, and discussion to help cultivate and encourage more self-compassion. The material in this class is very powerful. We encourage you to have a consistent daily meditation practice before attending this class.

Pre-requisite: Attendance in any introductory MAPs I series or equivalent mindfulness introductory class with permission from our instructor. If you have not taken a MAPs I class at MARC, please email us a brief description of your equivalent experience to marcinfo@ucla.edu before class start date.

Sundays
Jan 24
- Feb 28 (updated)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, PST

Live Online

Instructor: Heather Prete

Cost: $75-$200*
CEs Available

REGISTER

Jump to Class Notes & Policies

Technical Recommendations

Recordings of live online classes will not be made available for viewing. Please see our missed class policy for more information.Live classes may be recorded for archive purposes only.

*We remain deeply committed to equity and accessibility. We invite you to contact us (marcinfo@ucla.edu) if you can not afford the minimum fee and want to participate.

**Note: In support of the UCLA Healthy Campus Initiative, current UCLA students (non-Extension) may sign up for this class for FREE. To use this discount, please register using your UCLA email address, and select the "UCLA Student" discount from the pulldown menu during the payment process. 

MAPs Applications: Are You Ready To Be Happy? (3-Week Class)

Can we access happiness in these – or any other – challenging times? Does mindfulness have anything to do with happiness?

Join Mitra Manesh, our senior mindful living educator, to find answers to these and any other questions you may have about the cultivation and application of happiness in everyday life.

In this timely, 3-week applied mindfulness class, we’ll explore meanings, identify obstacles, and learn tools to invite and experience happiness in our homes and hearts. This course is suitable and open to anyone interested in being happy, from the inside out.

Tuesdays,
Feb 23 – Mar 9
5:30-7:30 pm PST

No CEs

Online with Live Instruction

Instructor: Mitra Manesh

Standard  Rate: $120
UCLA Student/ TMF: $30


REgister




Jump to Class - Notes & Policies

Technical Recommendations

Recordings of live online classes will not be made available for viewing. Please see our missed class policy for more information.Live classes may be recorded for archive purposes only.

*We remain deeply committed to equity and accessibility. We invite you to contact us (marcinfo@ucla.edu) if you can not afford the minimum fee and want to participate. Please submit any scholarship requests at least 48 hours before event start date.






MAPs Applications: Mindful Aging (3-Week Class)

If we stop it, we’re dead! If we continue it unmindfully, we’re suffering. Yes, we're talking about aging! We all are experiencing it, and we all can grow through it and benefit from it -- but how?


In this 3-week applied mindfulness class, Mitra Manesh, our senior mindful living educator, will guide you to examine your existing beliefs, assumptions & cultural narratives about aging, and provides practical mindfulness tools for you to experience this natural flow of life with a deeper sense of awareness, appreciation, and wonder. By befriending our aging process we can directly and positively participate in our experience of being alive.

Since all of us are indeed aging, this course is suitable for anyone interested in aging mindfully and open to people of all ages above 16.

Fridays
Feb 26 – Mar 12
10:00 am – 12:00 pm PST

No CEs

Online with Live Instruction

Instructor: Mitra Manesh

Standard  Rate: $120
UCLA Student/ TMF: $30


REGISTER




Jump to Class - Notes & Policies

Technical Recommendations

Recordings of live online classes will not be made available for viewing. Please see our missed class policy for more information.Live classes may be recorded for archive purposes only.

*We remain deeply committed to equity and accessibility. We invite you to contact us (marcinfo@ucla.edu) if you can not afford the minimum fee and want to participate. Please submit any scholarship requests at least 48 hours before event start date.




Cultivating Forgiveness (5-weeks, PRE-RECORDED ONLINE)

MARC has teamed up with Mindful to present a new online course: Cultivating Forgiveness.

In this class, Diana Winston guides us on a journey of forgiveness - a journey that includes forgiving others as well as ourselves. Diana teaches with empathy, kindness and gentleness, encouraging us to release the pain, anger and self-blame that we may be holding in our hearts to find a renewed sense of inner release and freedom.

You’ll learn how to:

  • Deepen these ideas through formal and informal meditation practices that you can apply every day, for the rest of your life
  • Transform pain and resentment into an abiding sense of well-being and freedom
  • Understand forgiveness as a kindness to yourself, rather than an act of condoning others’ harmful actions
  • Cultivate forgiveness for others, for actions you’ve done that have harmed others, and towards yourself

Pre-requisite: Mindfulness experience is a plus, but not a must.

Self-paced-Begin at any time

Online

Instructors: Diana Winston 

Cost: $160  $64** new discount price
****Register Now with MARC for 60% Off!

No CEs

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Class Notes & Policies

  • MARC classes are educational programs, not a clinical treatment.

  • Please avoid wearing restrictive clothing or jewelry to our workshops, classes, and daylongs. Please avoid wearing heavy fragrances and perfumes as well, since this may disturb the practice of others around you.

  • All MARC events are subject to audio and/or video recording.

  • Please review the Missed Class Policy

Technical Recommendation: For optimal experience, we encourage you to access the course with a Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browser on a desktop/laptop with secure internet connection. UCLA's online course website is also mobile responsive, so you can access it on a phone or tablet as necessary.

CE Policy 

MAPS are an excellent introduction to mindfulness for clinicians, who are welcome to take it for credit. The cost for the CEs is $50.


Psychologists: Continuing Education Credit for this program is provided by UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness. The UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This course offers 10 hours of credit.

California licensed MFTs, LPCCs, LEPs, LCSWs: Continuing Education Credit for this program is provided by UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness. The UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists 10 contact hours may be applied to your license renewal thrments.

Nurses: UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP16351, for 12 contact hours.

For those licensed outside California, please check with your local licensing board to determine if CE credit is accepted.

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