UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center

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About MARC

UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC)

The mission of the Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC) is to foster mindful awareness across the lifespan through education and research to promote well-being and a more compassionate society. Mindful awareness (mindfulness) can be defined as paying attention to present-moment experiences with openness, curiosity, and a willingness to be with what is. Mindfulness can be trained systematically, and it can be implemented more fully in daily life by people of any age, profession, or background. MARC offers classes, programs, trainings, and events to UCLA, the Los Angeles community, and to a wider global community through virtual and in-person learning, web resources, and our free app with guided meditations, "UCLA Mindful"
https://uclahealth.org/programs/marc

Specialty Care: Education/Research - Integrative Medicine | UCLA Health

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UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior
740 Westwood Plaza, Rm. 17- 468
Los Angeles, CA 90095

For more information, please contact us at [email protected]

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A Five-Night Silent Meditation Retreat

In Collaboration with Big Bear Retreat Center

Join Diana Winston, Leslie Booker, and Marvin G. Belzer, and Lissa Edmond (movement) for a five-night silent retreat in the beautiful natural setting of the Big Bear Retreat Center, only two and a half hours from Los Angeles. We will spend our days deepening our meditation practice in the service of cultivating wisdom and compassion needed to transfer out to our lives. As we settle our minds, supported by nature, we can see ourselves and the world with deeper clarity and allow our inner wisdom to emerge.

September 28 - October 3, 2023

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Bring Mindfulness to your Workplace

Collaborate with MARC to introduce or fully integrate mindfulness into your work setting.

For medical or mental health settings, K-12 schools, businesses, or nonprofits, click here

For within UCLA and other higher education related inquiries, click here

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What is Mindfulness Meditation?

Join Diana Winston, director of mindfulness education at the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC), and learn the science behind mindfulness, as well as practical, scientifically-proven techniques for reducing stress and cultivating well-being.

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