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Mindfulness for Health is a six-week course led by Dr. Mark Bertin—pediatrician, author, professor, and mindfulness teacher. This foundational mindfulness course focuses on helping you steadily make positive shifts in your everyday life so you can make long-lasting changes to benefit your health and overall well-being.
Over the course of this course, Mark will help you establish a consistent mindfulness practice while exploring different aspects of mindfulness that you can use in your everyday life. As you move through the course and increase your capacity for mindfulness, you’ll begin to tap into and strengthen your own unbiased awareness as a way to make skillful choices in your day-to-day life—helping you to shift out of negative patterns to increase awareness, clarity, and intention.
This course is for you if you want to:
- Make positive changes to your everyday relationships
- Develop healthy habits to support your health and well-being
- Shift towards long-lasting changes
By enrolling, you’ll learn how to:
- Cultivate compassion for yourself and others
- Build resilience in an intentional, meaningful way
- Work mindfully with technology
This 6-week course includes:
- Video lessons on developing mindful, healthy habits:
- Week 1 — An Introduction to Mindfulness and Resilience
- Week 2 — Understanding How Habits Impact Our Health
- Week 3 — Healthy Living in a High-Tech World
- Week 4 — Cultivating Self-Compassion
- Week 5 — Cultivating Compassion for Others
- Week 6 — Making Mindfulness Stick
- Hand-outs and exercises to complement each week’s themes
- Bonus audio meditations and body scans
Enroll today!
Dr. Mark Bertin is a developmental pediatrician and author of How Children Thrive: Mindful Parenting for ADHD and The Family ADHD Solution, which integrate mindfulness into the rest of evidence-based pediatric care. He is a contributing author for the book Teaching Mindfulness Skills to Kids and Teens. Dr. Bertin is on faculty at New York Medical College and the Windward Teacher Training Institute, and on the advisory boards for the non-profits Common Sense Media and Reach Out and Read. His blog is available through Mindful.org, Psychology Today, and elsewhere.
Course Curriculum
- 1.1 Welcome (1:59)
- 1.2 Guided Meditation (7:56)
- 1.3 Introduction to Mindfulness and Resilience (8:10)
- 1.4 Understanding Negativity Bias (4:23)
- 1.5 Summary and Practice for the Week (2:03)
- AUDIO: Guided Breathing Meditation
- Reading: "All of Mindfulness in One Breath" by Mark Bertin
- Reading: "How to Be a Resilient Parent" by Mark Bertin
- Handout: Summary and Home Practice
- 2.1. Introduction and Guided Meditation (10:12)
- 2.2 Understanding How Habits Impact Our Health (8:53)
- 2.3 First Foundation of Health: Nutrition (5:35)
- 2.4 Second Foundation of Help: Sleep (4:31)
- 2.5 Third Foundation of Health: Exercise (4:36)
- AUDIO: Body Scan Meditation (25:15)
- Reading: "Struggling in the Dark" by Mark Bertin
- Reading: "6 Ways to Practice Mindful Eating" by Chris Willard
- Reading: "Two Mindful Practices for Anxious Eaters" by Jan Chozen Bays
- Reading: "How Mindfulness Can Help You Stay Motivated to Exercise" by Lynn Rossy
- Handout: Summary and Home Practice
- RECORDING of Q&A - Thursday, January 16, 2020, 9 a.m. PT/12:00 p.m. ET (43:44)
- 4.1 Guided Meditation (7:35)
- 4.2 Working with the Inner Critic (11:42)
- 4.3 Developing Self-Compassion (12:36)
- AUDIO: Loving-Kindness Meditation, by Mark Bertin (17:48)
- AUDIO: Meditation to Tame the Inner Critic, by Mark Bertin (12:21)
- Instructions for a Self-Compassion Journal by Dr. Kristin Neff
- Reading: "Kind to Me" by Drs. K. Neff and C. Germer
- Reading: "Living with, and Loving, Your Imperfect Life" by Mark Bertin
- Handout: Summary and Home Practice
- RECORDING of Q&A - Thursday, January 30, 2020, (41:21)