HOL 5850 - Applied Mindfulness Skills

This advanced mindfulness course will focus on the application and experiential strengthening of our mindfulness skills. This course will refresh and deepen your existing mindfulness skills and renew your formal practice commitment. Literature exploring the benefits of mindfulness for physical and mental health issues will be reviewed and expanded as we consider the systemic application of mindfulness in settings such as schools, medical facilities, and other professional contexts. We will also “stretch” and grow our informal mindfulness skills in areas such as improving personal communication, challenging relationships, and how we experience difficult emotional states. Living with chronic illness and pain, along with trauma-sensitive approaches will also be explored from a mindfulness-based perspective. Both formal mindfulness practices as well as informal strategies for everyday mindfulness will be offered and practiced in the class and encouraged individually. This class utilizes experiential activities, guided readings, and reflective learning as well as focused scholarly study in the context of a supportive classroom community.

Note: Open to upper-level undergraduate and graduate students.

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: HOL 3305 or HOL 5072 (A grade of B or better is required.)

Credits: 3 hours