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Summer 2022 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: Opening to Joy
  • MAPs II: Working with Difficult Emotions
  • MAPs II: Cultivating Positive Emotions
  • MAPs II: Turning Obstacles into Allies
  • MAPs II: Ethics and Mindfulness
  • 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 with an additonal two weeks after for review for a total of 8 weeks of access to course materials. 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. If Monday falls on a holiday, you will be sent class details on the following business day. 

 

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!

     


           

Summer 2022 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 also an excellent introduction to mindfulness for clinicians, who are welcome to take it for credit.

Classes begin every Monday

8-Weeks of access to 
Pre-Recorded Class Video

Learn more about Pre-Recorded Classes

Pre-Recorded Online

Instructor: Diana Winston

Cost: $125*
UCLA Students**/ ◊TMF/ IPP: $0
No CEs

REGISTER

Tuesdays
July 5 - Aug 9
10:0 AM - 12 Noon, PT

Live Online

Instructor: Dr. Ali

Regular Rate: $200
Covid Rate: $165
UCLA Students**/◊TMF/ IPP: $0

CEs Available

REGISTER

Thursdays
July 7 - Aug 11
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM, PT

Live Online

Instructor: Kelly Barron

Regular Rate: $200
Covid Rate: $165
UCLA Students**/◊TMF/ IPP: $0

CEs Available

REGISTER

Wednesdays
Aug 17 - Sept 28
No Class Sept 7

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM, PT

Live Online

Instructors: Rick Sweeny
 
                Kathyrn Kaplan

Regular Rate: $200
Covid Rate: $165
UCLA Students**/◊TMF/ IPP: $0

CEs Available

REGISTER

Thursdays
Aug 18 - Sept 29
No Class Sept 8

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM, PT

Live Online

Instructors: Rick Sweeny

Regular Rate: $200
Covid Rate: $165
UCLA Students**/◊TMF/ IPP: $0

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.

*During 2020 in response to Covid-19, MARC reduced rates for all classes and programs. For 2021 we are returning to our pre-Covid rates in order to ensure the sustainability of our center. However, we remain deeply committed to equity and accessibility and recognize the economic hardship caused by the global pandemic. We invite you to contact us ([email protected]) if you cannot 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. 

◊ Anyone registering with the TMF/IPP discount must be enrolled in MARC's Training in Mindfulness Facilitation or Intensive Practice Program. If you are a member of these programs, please be sure to enroll with the name and email address associated with your program. 


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 [email protected] before class start date.

Classes begin every Monday

8-Weeks of access to 
Pre-Recorded Class Audio


Learn more about Pre-Recorded Classes

Pre-Recorded Online

Instructors: Diana Winston 

Cost: $125*
UCLA Students**/◊ TMF/ IPP: $0
No CEs

REGISTER

Wednesdays
Aug 17 - Sept 28
No Class Sept 7

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM, PT

Live Online

Instructors: Rick Sweeny

Regular Rate: $200
Covid Rate: $165
UCLA Students**/◊TMF/ IPP: $0

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.

*During 2020 in response to Covid-19, MARC reduced rates for all classes and programs. For 2021 we are returning to our pre-Covid rates in order to ensure the sustainability of our center. However, we remain deeply committed to equity and accessibility and recognize the economic hardship caused by the global pandemic. We invite you to contact us ([email protected]) if you cannot 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. 

◊ Anyone registering with the TMF/IPP discount must be enrolled in MARC's Training in Mindfulness Facilitation or Intensive Practice Program. If you are a member of these programs, please be sure to enroll with the name and email address associated with your program. 

MAPs II: Opening to Joy

The latest science shows us that the practice of mindfulness leads to states of joy and well-being. Join us for a class where we focus on cultivating states of joy. We will explore what gets in the way of joy, how joy arises in meditation practice, and how to bring more happiness and well-being into our daily lives.

We will also learn the practice of appreciative joy—taking delight in other’s good fortune. This practice is an excellent antidote to jealousy and covetousness. The class will include guided sitting and walking meditations, lectures and discussion, and relational practices, which all cultivate positive emotions and greater states of well-being. Suitable for beginning and experienced students (see pre-requisite below).

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 [email protected] before class start date.

Wednesdays
July 6 - Aug 10
12 Noon - 2:00 PM, PT

Live Online

Instructor: Gloria Kamler

Regular Rate: $200
Covid Rate: $165
UCLA Students**/◊TMF/ IPP: $0
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.

*During 2020 in response to Covid-19, MARC reduced rates for all classes and programs. For 2021 we are returning to our pre-Covid rates in order to ensure the sustainability of our center. However, we remain deeply committed to equity and accessibility and recognize the economic hardship caused by the global pandemic. We invite you to contact us ([email protected]) if you cannot 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. 

◊ Anyone registering with the TMF/IPP discount must be enrolled in MARC's Training in Mindfulness Facilitation or Intensive Practice Program. If you are a member of these programs, please be sure to enroll with the name and email address associated with your program. 


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 [email protected] before class start date.

Classes begin every Monday

8-Weeks of access to 
Pre-Recorded Class Video


Learn more about Pre-Recorded Classes

Pre-Recorded Online

Instructors: Diana Winston 

Cost: $125*
UCLA Students**/ ◊TMF/ IPP: $0
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.

*During 2020 in response to Covid-19, MARC reduced rates for all classes and programs. For 2021 we are returning to our pre-Covid rates in order to ensure the sustainability of our center. However, we remain deeply committed to equity and accessibility and recognize the economic hardship caused by the global pandemic. We invite you to contact us ([email protected]) if you cannot 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. 

◊ Anyone registering with the TMF/IPP discount must be enrolled in MARC's Training in Mindfulness Facilitation or Intensive Practice Program. If you are a member of these programs, please be sure to enroll with the name and email address associated with your program. 


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 [email protected] before class start date.

Classes begin every Monday

8-Weeks of access to 
Pre-Recorded Class Audio


Learn more about Pre-Recorded Classes

Pre-Recorded Online

Instructors: Diana Winston 

Cost: $165*
UCLA Students**/◊ TMF/ IPP: $0
No CEs

REGISTER

Wednesdays
July 13- Aug 17
4:30 -6:30, PT

Live Online

Instructor:Manijeh Motaghy, PsyD

Regular Rate: $200
Covid Rate: $165
UCLA Students**/◊TMF/ IPP: $0
No CEs

REGISTER

Mondays
July 25- Aug 29
3:00 -5:00, PT

Live Online

Instructor:Bhanu Harrison

Regular Rate: $200
Covid Rate: $165
UCLA Students**/◊TMF/ IPP: $0
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.

*During 2020 in response to Covid-19, MARC reduced rates for all classes and programs. For 2021 we are returning to our pre-Covid rates in order to ensure the sustainability of our center. However, we remain deeply committed to equity and accessibility and recognize the economic hardship caused by the global pandemic. We invite you to contact us ([email protected]) if you cannot 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. 

◊ Anyone registering with the TMF/IPP discount must be enrolled in MARC's Training in Mindfulness Facilitation or Intensive Practice Program. If you are a member of these programs, please be sure to enroll with the name and email address associated with your program. 


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 [email protected] before class start date.

Classes begin every Monday

8-Weeks of access to 
Pre-Recorded Class Video


Learn more about Pre-Recorded Classes

Pre-Recorded Online

Instructor:  Diana Winston 

Cost: $125*

UCLA Students**/ ◊TMF/ IPP: $0
No CEs

REGISTER

Saturdays
July 9 - Aug 20
No Class July 16
9:00 AM- 11:00 AM, PST

Live Online

Instructor: Brian Shiers


Regular Rate: $200
Covid Rate: $165
UCLA Students**/◊TMF/ IPP: $0
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.

*During 2020 in response to Covid-19, MARC reduced rates for all classes and programs. For 2021 we are returning to our pre-Covid rates in order to ensure the sustainability of our center. However, we remain deeply committed to equity and accessibility and recognize the economic hardship caused by the global pandemic. We invite you to contact us ([email protected]) if you cannot 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. 

◊ Anyone registering with the TMF/IPP discount must be enrolled in MARC's Training in Mindfulness Facilitation or Intensive Practice Program. If you are a member of these programs, please be sure to enroll with the name and email address associated with your program.



MAPs II: Ethics and Mindfulness

In this MAPs II class, we will explore mindfulness-based ethics. We will look at how ethical behavior emerges from and influences our meditation practice. Topics will include 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, influence our behavior, and affect our meditation practice.

Pre-requisite: MAPs I or permission from instructor. If you have not taken these classes at MARC but have equivalent experience, please email us a brief description of your equivalent experience to [email protected] before class start date.

Thursdays
July 7 - Aug 11
10:00 AM - 12:00 Noon , PST

Live Online

Instructor:  Gloria Kamler 

Regular Rate: $200
Covid Rate: $165
UCLA Students**/◊TMF/ IPP: $0
No CEs

Register

Jump to Class - Notes & Policies

Technical Recommendations

*During 2020 in response to Covid-19, MARC reduced rates for all classes and programs. For 2021 we are returning to our pre-Covid rates in order to ensure the sustainability of our center. However, we remain deeply committed to equity and accessibility and recognize the economic hardship caused by the global pandemic. We invite you to contact us ([email protected]) if you cannot 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. 


◊ Anyone registering with the TMF/IPP discount must be enrolled in MARC's Training in Mindfulness Facilitation or Intensive Practice Program. If you are a member of these programs, please be sure to enroll with the name and email address associated with your program. 




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. Participants need to attend all 6 weeks to receive 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.

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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