Classes
Explore UCLA Mindful classes, grounded in evidence-based educational programs. Open to the public, UCLA staff, faculty, and students alike, these courses provide practical tools for cultivating mindfulness, reducing stress, and enhancing personal resilience.
Join us to discover scientifically supported methods for promoting mental clarity and emotional balance.
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Explore Our Classes
Free Weekly Meditation Class
with Diana Winston and Guests
Join UCLA Mindful’s Director, Diana Winston, and other guest teachers live online for a weekly opportunity to practice together and learn about different aspects of mindfulness. Each week we will explore a new theme or topic in mindfulness.
Topics may include self-compassion, working with judgments, obstacles to meditation, dealing with difficult emotions, mindfulness in challenging times, the spectrum of awareness, and much more.
Live-Online via Zoom
Wednesdays, 4-5:30 pm, PT
Cultivating Forgiveness
with Diana Winston
UCLA Mindful has teamed up with Mindful to present this online course: Cultivating Forgiveness.
In this class, Diana Winston guides us on a journey of forgiveness - a journey that includes forgiving others as well as ourselves. Diana teaches with empathy, kindness and gentleness, encouraging us to release the pain, anger and self-blame that we may be holding in our hearts to find a renewed sense of inner release and freedom.
Asynchronous Course
At Your Own Pace
The Art of Attention
with Mitra Manesh
This course will help you train your attention as a choice engine and equip you with practical tools to shift from survival mode (reactive, scarce, fear-driven) to choice mode (aware, intentional, creative).
Each session blends guided practice, teaching, shared insights, real-world applications, coaching, and Q&A—so you can carry mindfulness off the cushion and into the flow of daily life.
Live-Online via Zoom
Sundays, Oct 19 – Nov 16, & Dec 7, 1–2:30 pm, PT
Befriending Your Mind & Emotions
with Diana Winston
Befriending Your Mind & Emotions: The Essential Guide to Mindfulness Practice is a practical and insightful online course designed to help you build a lasting mindfulness practice to create greater awareness, emotional balance, and calm in your life.
Whether you’re new to mindfulness or seeking to enrich your meditation routine, this course provides the foundation and essential practices to help you live with more clarity, kindness, and ease.
Asynchronous Course
At Your Own Pace
Instructors and Guest Teachers
Diana Winston
Diana Winston is the Director of UCLA Mindful, the author of The Little Book of Being: Practices and Guidance for Uncovering your Natural Awareness, and the co-author, with Susan Smalley PhD, of Fully Present, the Science, Art and Practice of Mindfulness. She has taught mindfulness for health and well-being since 1993 in a variety of settings including the medical and mental health field, and in universities, businesses, non-profits, and schools.
Mitra Manesh
Mitra Manesh is a senior mindfulness educator and advisor to visionary leaders at Fortune 500 companies. She has coached many individuals, both well-known and unknown, helping them connect to their happiness. Since 1985, Mitra has brought mindfulness to boardrooms, classrooms, bedrooms, and many places in between.
Bhanu Joy Harrison, LCSW, SEP
Bhanu Joy Harrison, LCSW, SEP's passion is designing and teaching workshops on mindful living, nervous system regulation, embodiment practices and working with challenging emotions, trauma, and chronic pain. She loves teaching those new to mindfulness as well as providing continuing education for bodyworkers, social workers and counselors. Her focus is on body centered and mindful approaches to trauma resolution and self regulation...
Class Notes & Policies
- UCLA Mindful classes are educational programs, not a clinical treatment.
- All UCLA Mindful events are subject to audio and/or video recording.
Technical Recommendation: For optimal experience, we encourage you to access the course with a Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browser on a desktop/laptop with secure internet connection.