Mindfulness for Wellbeing and Peak Performance Course - Monash University

Learn mindfulness techniques to reduce stress and improve your wellbeing and work/study performance in this online course.

Learn mindfulness techniques to reduce stress and improve performance

Stressed by the pace of modern life? Mindfulness might be the answer. In this 4-week online course, you’ll learn how to incorporate mindfulness practices into your life, reduce stress and improve your personal and professional life.

Research shows that when you’re not deliberately paying attention to something, your brain goes into default mode causing increased anxiety and poor communication. Mindfulness can help end this unproductive behaviour.

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The course will begin with an introduction to mindfulness and its benefits. You’ll discover how to practise mindfulness meditations such as body scan meditation. We’ll also discuss how unmindfulness can lead to feelings of stress and reduced performance in all areas of your life.

Discover mindfulness-based stress reduction

You’ll learn about the history and science of mindfulness before looking at how it can benefit you at work or in education.

Discover how mindfulness can reduce your stress levels, help you cultivate gentleness and allow you to harness the power of curiosity.

Improve your productivity and maintain lifelong mindfulness practices

You’ll learn about the main four cognitive practices of mindfulness: perception, letting go, acceptance and presence of mind. Discovering these will help you be productive and prevent procrastination.

Finally, you’ll understand how mindfulness can help you manage your emotions. You’ll discover how to maintain practices throughout your life, from mindful eating to mindfulness exercises.

This course has been recognised as one of the highest-rated online courses of all time by leading course aggregator Class Central

When would you like to start?

Most FutureLearn courses run multiple times. Every run of a course has a set start date but you can join it and work through it after it starts.

• Available now
• 4 October 2021

Who will you learn with?

Assoc. Prof. Craig Hassed

Associate Professor Craig Hassed is the coordinator of mindfulness programs at Monash. He teaches mindfulness nationally and internationally in health, educational, community and corporate settings.

Dr Richard Chambers

Richard is a clinical psychologist and internationally recognised expert in mindfulness. Widely published in the field, he works with many educational, business, sporting and community organisations.

Who developed the course?

Monash University

Monash University is one of Australia’s leading universities, ranked in the world’s top 1% by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. It was established in Melbourne in 1958.

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Who is the course for?

This course is for anyone because everyone can benefit from mindfulness. No previous experience of mindfulness is required. We will explain how mindfulness works, but above all, this is a practical course. We will ask you to explore different mindfulness techniques and reflect on your experience.

This course is not designed to be therapeutic for significant health problems so if you have any concerns in this regard then it is recommended that you speak to a suitably qualified health practitioner.

What topics will you cover?

• Introducing mindfulness
• Mindfulness and mindful stress reduction
• Improving work and study performance
• Mindfulness as a way of life

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to:

• Identify the causes of stress in your life.
• Experiment with a range of mindfulness techniques.
• Develop a range of mindfulness techniques that are effective in your life.
• Evaluate the impact of a variety of mindfulness techniques.
• Reflect on your experiences in a personal mindfulness journal.
• Model a more mindful approach to work, study and life.