UCLA Mindful

Mindfulness & You

Mindfulness & You: Decrease Stress and Increase Well-Being Through Mindfulness

with Diana Winston

UCLA Health logo and "Mindfulness & You" title promoting stress reduction and well-being

Mindfulness & You is the newly designed mindfulness course from UCLA Mindful drawing from UCLA evidence-based programs that were taught to the general public at UCLA for two decades. Mindfulness & You is an exciting new iteration designed solely for UCLA patients. It speaks to patients in multiple settings (inpatient and outpatient) and addresses a range of patient concerns. 

Themes covered include:

  • What is mindfulness
  • The science of mindfulness
  • Developing a meditation practice
  • Effective mindfulness tools for working with physical pain    
  • The mindfulness approach to for difficult thoughts and emotions
  • Cultivating positive emotions for health and well-being
  • Bringing mindfulness into your daily life
      

Format:

Mindfulness & You has six modules and is a self-paced video course, intended to run over 6 weeks. This course is designed for ages 15 and up. 

Mindfulness & You is available on our learning platform Teachable. Teachable can be accessed via web platform and is also available as an app on iOS and Android for practice on the go.
 

Registration Rate:

Regular Rate: $60
UCLA Student: $0**

Registration Coming Soon

**UCLA Students must register with their UCLA student email. 

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About the Instructor:

Diana Winston stands smiling with arms crossed against a blue background with leaf shadows. Text: ‘Diana Winston, Director, UCLA Mindful.

Diana Winston, Director UCLA Mindful

Diana Winston is the Director of UCLA Mindful, the author of The Little Book of Being: Practices and Guidance for Uncovering your Natural Awareness, and the co-author, with Susan Smalley PhD, of Fully Present, the Science, Art and Practice of Mindfulness. She has taught mindfulness for health and well-being since 1993 in a variety of settings including the medical and mental health field, and in universities, businesses, non-profits, and schools. At UCLA she has developed the evidence-based Mindful Awareness Practices (MAPs) curriculum and the Training in Mindfulness Facilitation (TMF), which trains mindfulness teachers worldwide. She is also a founder of the International Mindfulness Teachers Association. Her work has been mentioned in the New York Times, O Magazine, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, Allure, Women’s Health, and in a variety of magazines, books, and journals. The LA Times calls her “one of the nation’s best-known teachers of mindfulness.” Diana has been practicing mindfulness since 1989, including a year a Buddhist nun in Burma (Myanmar) and is the mom of a teenager.

Class Notes & Policies

  • UCLA Mindful classes are educational programs, not a clinical treatment.
  • All UCLA Mindful events are subject to audio and/or video recording.

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.