Available Courses
Learn about all the programs currently available courses at the Mindfulness and Health Institute. The courses below are listed by date in the categories of Learning Mindfulness, Advancing Your Practice, and Teaching Mindfulness. You can see the courses in these areas using the buttons below.
Mindfulness for Life
Mindfulness for Life offers tools and practices that help students understand thinking and behavior patterns and how to apply this learning in everyday life to manage what is difficult and to cultivate qualities to flourish and savor life. This course is intended to cultivate lasting and sustainable change.
Sundays, October 5 to December 14, 2025 (skipping November 2, 23, 30)
Introducing Mindfulness
Introducing Mindfulness is a 3-week, evidence-informed course designed to be an accessible way to explore three core mindfulness themes, providing practical support for daily life without the commitment of a longer course.
Tuesdays, July 8 to 22, 2025
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is the longest and most researched 8-week mindfulness-based course designed to cultivate mindfulness through meditation, mind and body awareness, and yoga.
Wednesdays, July 30 to October 1, 2025
A Mindful Approach to Depression and Anxiety (Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, MBCT)
For those navigating the complexities of depression and anxiety, A Mindful Approach to Depression and Anxiety (Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, MBCT) combines cognitive therapy techniques with mindfulness practices to equip individuals with tools to interrupt negative thought patterns and manage difficult emotions, offering a path toward greater mental resilience.
Wednesdays, August 20 to October 8, 2025
Science and Practice of Habit Change
The Science and Practice of Habit Change helps individuals recognize habitual patterns, how they interplay in daily life, and uses the brain’s natural reward center to establish healthier patterns of behavior, informed by the latest research.
Tuesdays, September 9 to October 28, 2025
Mindful Eating
Mindful Eating explores how mindfulness-based practices can be applied to nourishing one’s body with food and drink. Students learn how to bring awareness to the thoughts, emotions and physical sensations of eating.
Tuesdays, September 16 to November 4, 2025
Mindfulness-Based College for Young Adults (MB-College)
MB-College is an 8-week, evidence-based course designed to support the distinct experiences and challenges of emerging adults aged 18-29 years.
Tuesdays, February 24 to April 14, 2026
One-to-One Mindfulness Coaching Sessions?
The One-to-One Mindfulness Coaching Sessions are 60 min meetings that are an opportunity to deepen your mindfulness-practice by receiving individual attention with mindfulness instructors.
Retreats
Informed and expanded by cutting-edge research in neuroscience, biochemistry, and technology, silent mindfulness retreats are an opportunity to experience a reprieve from the fast-paced, tech-driven, and stressful aspects of modern life.
August 1-6, 2025 (5-Day Retreat)
September 13, 2025 (1-Day Retreat)
December 5-10, 2025 (5-Day Retreat)
Interpersonal Mindfulness
Interpersonal Mindfulness explores how to bring mindful awareness, deep listening, and presence into our interactions with others. Through guided practices and structured dialogue, students learn to cultivate greater compassion, clarity, and connection in all relationships - personal, professional, and beyond.
Tuesdays, October 7 to December 2, 2025
Self-Compassion for Shame
Self-Compassion for Shame explores self-compassion as a tool to navigate the complex emotion of shame with kindness and understanding.
Tuesdays, October 7 to December 9, 2025
Deeper Mindfulness
Deeper Mindfulness delves into the moment-by-moment experience of what feels pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral - the often-overlooked aspect of mindfulness—feeling tone.
Wednesdays, December 3, 2025 to February 4, 2026 (skipping December 24, 31)
MBSR Intensive Practice and Teaching (IPT)
MBSR Intensive Practice and Teaching (IPT) is the second formal training on the pathway to teach, providing a deeper dive into the MBSR curriculum’s form and essence and greater clarity to its intention, content, and flow.
September 13 to November 16, 2025
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Training to Teach "Introducing Mindfulness"
In this 10 weeks intensive, the Training to Teach “Introducing Mindfulness” course, you learn the skills and a curriculum to bring mindfulness to your organization, community, healthcare setting, or as a public course.
Saturdays, September 27 to December 13, 2025
For MBSR Teachers: Training to Teach "Mindfulness for Life"
In this 6-day training, MBSR teachers will develop the skills and understanding needed to offer Mindfulness for Life as part of their teaching portfolio. The course offers a deep exploration of the unique theoretical and empirical foundations of Mindfulness for Life, along with the structure and progression of the curriculum. Emphasis is placed on key practices and exercises that distinguish this course from MBSR.
Saturdays, January 17 to March 7, 2026
Early Bird Pricing - 10% off - through July 31, 2025
Multi-Course Mindfulness Teacher Training:
One Year Intensive
Spanning 28 days over the course of 12 months, this comprehensive teacher training is designed to equip trainees with the skills and knowledge to teach mindfulness through three distinct courses: 1) Mindfulness for Life, 2) Introducing Mindfulness, and 3) Finding Peace in a Frantic World. If you're a clinician, you are also eligible to learn to teach MBCT (clinicians only). Training in multiple curricula provides a wider set of tools and resources, enabling teachers to choose the most suitable course for the populations and settings they serve. No prior teaching experience is required to participate, and experienced teachers are also welcome to join in order to expand their offerings.
Registration for 2026 cohort opens Fall 2025!
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