Spring 2019: Advanced Mindfulness in Health and Human Development — EDIS 4012

This course is designed to further build skills and knowledge learned in EDIS 3012 and to prepare students to lead and teach mindful awareness practices to others. Research on mindfulness-based interventions is confirming their value for supporting both physical and mental health. As a student in Mindfulness in Health and Human Development, you will gain a solid foundation in the science, pedagogy and teaching methods associated with evidence-based mindful awareness practices. This course is intended to prepare you to teach and lead mindful awareness practices to others following best practices in the field of mindfulness-based interventions. As part of this process, you will maintain a daily personal mindfulness practice that you began during EDIS 3012.

* 3 credits

Note: To take this course, students must have taken EDIS 3012, Mindfulness in Health & Human Development.