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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.
Each class is a combination of lecture, practice, and group feedback and discussion. MAPs I is taught in a context of a supportive community environment with classes no larger than 30-40 students. Classes are 6-weeks long and meet once per week for 2 hours.
Please register for one of the following MAPs I sections:
| Section 1 | Claremont Forum Instructor: Melanie Yetter | Cost: $200 |
| Section 2 | YogaBody Studio Instructor: Melanie Yetter | Cost: $200 |
| Section 3 | Now House | Cost: $200 |
| Section 4 | Silver Lake Mindfulness | Cost: $200 |
| Section 5 | Now House | Cost: $200 |
| Section 6 | UCLA Semel Institute Instructor: Marvin Belzer | Cost: $200* CLOSED |
| Section 7 | Perfectly Here Instructor: Manijeh Motaghy | Cost: $200*** |
| Section 8 | The DEN Instructor: Heather Prete | Cost: $200 |
| Section 9 | Peak Brain Institute Instructor: John Kneedler | Cost: $200 |
| Section 10 | UCLA Semel Institute Instructor: Gloria Kamler | Cost: $200* |
| Section 11 | Perfectly Here Instructor: Manijeh Motaghy | Cost: $200*** |
| Section 12 | Toluca Lake Tennis Club Instructors: Brian Shiers | Cost: $200 |
| Section 13 | Full Circle Wellness Center Instructors: Bhanu Joy Harrison | Cost: $200 |
| Section 14 | Moved by Mindfulness Studio Instructor: Moira Malzoni | Cost: $200 |
| Section 15 (Online) | Online Instructors: Diana Winston & | Cost: $165 |
| Jump to Class Notes & Policies *Work-exchange opportunities available. **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. ***Note: For MAPs I classes at the Perfectly Here location in Reseda only, veterans and first responders may sign up for special discount. To register, please choose the Vet/FR discount from the pulldown menu during the payment process. | ||
The MAPs I course is an excellent introduction to mindfulness for beginners. The MAPs I class lays the foundation for a daily meditation practice and provides insight into the basics of mindfulness and how it can be applied to daily life. It is also appropriate for an experienced practitioner who wishes to revitalize his/her practice. MAPs I is helpful for people of all backgrounds and religions.
This is an online course that is accessible anywhere with internet connection. You can work at your own pace for the duration of the 6 week course. The online course is pre-recorded. Participants will have access to audio materials as well as an optional weekly live chat with one of the instructors and other participants. Schedule for the weekly live chats will be determined after the class starts.
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.
Note: After you register, you will receive enrollment information on Friday, January 10th. If you register after 5pm on Friday, January 10th, we will send you enrollment details within 1 business day. Last day to register is Tuesday, January 21st.
| Section 15 (Online) | Online Instructors: Diana Winston & | Cost: $165 |
| Jump to Class Notes & Policies *Work-exchange opportunities available. **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. | ||
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.
This is an online course that is accessible anywhere with internet connection. You can work at your own pace for the duration of the 6 week course. The online course is pre-recorded. Participants will have access to audio materials as well as participate in a optional weekly live chat with one of the instructors and other participants. Schedule for the weekly live chats will be determined after the class starts.
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.
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.
Note: After you register, you will receive enrollment information on Friday, January 10th. If you register after 5pm on Friday, January 10th, we will send you enrollment details within 1 business day. Last day to register is Tuesday, January 21st.
| Section 1 (Online) | Online Instructors: Diana Winston & | Cost: $165 |
| Jump to Class Notes & Policies **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. | ||
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.
Each class is a combination of lecture, practice, and group feedback and discussion. It is taught in a context of a supportive community environment with classes no larger than 30-40 students. Classes are 6-weeks long and meet once per week for 2 hours.
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.
| Section 1 | UCLA Semel Institute Instructor: Gloria Kamler | Cost: $200* |
| Jump to Class Notes & Policies **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. | ||
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.
This is an online course that is accessible anywhere with internet connection. You can work at your own pace for the duration of the 6 week course. The online course is pre-recorded. Participants will have access to audio materials as well as participate in a optional weekly live chat with one of the instructors and other participants. Schedule for the weekly live chats will be determined after the class starts.
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.
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.
Note: After you register, you will receive enrollment information on Friday, January 10th. If you register after 5pm on Friday, January 10th, we will send you enrollment details within 1 business day. Last day to register is Tuesday, January 21st.
| Section 1 (Online) January 13 - February 21 Self-paced | Online Instructors: Diana Winston & | Cost: $165
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| Jump to Class Notes & Policies **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. | ||
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.
| Section 1 | Perfectly Here Instructor: Manijeh Motaghy | Cost: $200 |
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 before class start date.
| Section 1 | The DEN Instructor: Heather Prete | |
| Section 2 (Online) January 13 - February 21 Self-paced | Online Instructors: Diana Winston & Stella Chow | Cost: $165
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| Jump to Class Notes & Policies **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. | ||
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.
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.
Note: After you register, you will receive enrollment information on Friday, January 10th. If you register after 5pm on Friday, January 10th, we will send you enrollment details within 1 business day. Last day to register is Tuesday, January 21st.
| Section 2 (Online) Live Q&A: | Online Instructors: Diana Winston & Stella Chow | Cost: $165
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| Jump to Class Notes & Policies **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. | ||
This class is for students who have taken MAPs I and MAPs II classes and wish to go deeper.
We will be exploring different facets of mindfulness and have an opportunity for longer practice sessions and ongoing study of different themes. Themes may include daily life practice, working with judgments, and the nuances of the meditative experience.
Prerequisite: MAPs 1 and at least two MAPs 2 classes, or permission from instructor.
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| UCLA Semel Institute Instructor: Diana Winston | Cost: $200* |
| Jump to Class Notes & Policies *Work-exchange opportunities available. **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. | ||
Our attention is so precious that advertising agencies, entertainment companies, and social media spend a great deal of money to try to gain it. The value for them is the amount of attention we are willing to give. We often may frivolously and unknowingly give it away. Our capacity to give attention is a precious and desirable asset that the world is fighting to attract. And yet the way we spend it has everything to do with the direction and quality of our lives.
Join us for this 4-week practical hands-on class, and explore a simple, doable, and effective method of valuing and paying attention, using mindfulness tools. Together we will learn and practice conscious ways of mindful attention management, and take better charge of our lives.
All curious and interested individuals, with or without mindfulness practice, are welcome to join.
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| UCLA Semel Institute Instructor: Mitra Manesh | |
| Jump to Class Notes & Policies *Work-exchange opportunities available. | ||
You’ll learn how to:
Pre-requisite: Mindfulness experience is a plus, but not a must.
| Section 1 (Online) | Online Instructors: Diana Winston | Cost: $160 $120**** No CEs |
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.
| UCLA Student (for classes at UCLA or online) | $0 |
| UCLA Student (for off-site classes) | $65 |
| Senior 65+ (in-person classes only) | $165 |
| UCLA Staff (in-person classes only) | $165 |
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 through the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. For those licensed outside California, please check with your local licensing board to determine if APA accreditation meets their requirements.
Nurses: UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP16351, for 12 contact hours.
