Maintaining a Mindful Life

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At FutureLearn, we want to inspire learning for life. We offer a diverse selection of free, high quality online courses from some of the world’s leading universities and other outstanding cultural institutions. Our aim is to connect learners from all over the globe with high quality educators, and with each other. We believe learning should be an enjoyable, social experience, with plenty of opportunities to discuss what you’ve studied, in order to make fresh discoveries and form new ideas....
At FutureLearn, we want to inspire learning for life. We offer a diverse selection of free, high quality online courses from some of the world’s leading universities and other outstanding cultural institutions. Our aim is to connect learners from all over the globe with high quality educators, and with each other. We believe learning should be an enjoyable, social experience, with plenty of opportunities to discuss what you’ve studied, in order to make fresh discoveries and form new ideas. Courses are delivered one step at a time, and are accessible on mobile, tablet and desktop, so you can fit learning around your life, rather than your life around learning. We are a private company wholly owned by The Open University, with the benefit of over 40 years of their experience in distance learning and online education. Our partners include over 20 of the best UK and international universities, as well as institutions with a huge archive of cultural and educational material, including the British Council, the British Library, and the British Museum.

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Discover techniques to help you maintain a mindful life

Interest in mindfulness has grown enormously over the last few years. It’s no surprise: mindfulness techniques can improve your communication skills, relationships and emotional health. But not everyone knows how to apply mindfulness in daily life.

Building upon the introductory Mindfulness for Wellbeing Peak Performance, this course will show you how to incorporate mindfulness principles in your own life to end unproductive behaviour, ensure your brain isn’t operating in ‘default mode’ and improve your overall wellbeing.

This course is for anyone looking to learn and apply mindfulness techniques. You don’t need any past experience but learners with some experience will appreciate additional material that explores other aspects of mindfulness.

This course is not designed to be therapeutic for significant health problems so if you have any concerns in this regard then it is r...

Discover techniques to help you maintain a mindful life

Interest in mindfulness has grown enormously over the last few years. It’s no surprise: mindfulness techniques can improve your communication skills, relationships and emotional health. But not everyone knows how to apply mindfulness in daily life.

Building upon the introductory Mindfulness for Wellbeing Peak Performance, this course will show you how to incorporate mindfulness principles in your own life to end unproductive behaviour, ensure your brain isn’t operating in ‘default mode’ and improve your overall wellbeing.

This course is for anyone looking to learn and apply mindfulness techniques. You don’t need any past experience but learners with some experience will appreciate additional material that explores other aspects of mindfulness.

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.
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Irma H

10/10 starsCompleted
6 months, 1 week ago
I cannot recommend this course highly enough. The Monash University course developers/presenters Craig Hassed's and Richard Chambers' calm, warm, caring, compassionate, curious, respectful and playful demeanour permeate the videos, audios and course content. This course helps us become more observant, aware and compassionate (including towards ourselves), enhancing our wellbeing, and making the world a better, kinder place. Not many courses do that!
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Wonderful online course, beautifully designed. It helps us understand mindfullness more broadly and reflect on how it can be applied in all aspects of our lives. Craig and Richard are wonderful teachers and you feel a true connection through their videos and Craig's voice on the meditations is really calming a reassuring, definetly helps you be kind to yourself. I feel that there is a lot to keep learning and practicing long after finishing the course. Really recommend it. Thank you Monash University from the other side of the Southern hemisphere.
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Michaela O'Shea

10/10 starsCompleted
6 months, 1 week ago
A fabulous course to gain a broader understanding of mindfulness and the world around us. It touches on so many aspects and is a fabulous way of improving our relationship with ourselves and the wider community. The tutors are extremely passionate and knowledgeable and I would highly recommend to anyone looking to live more mindfully! :-)
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Pablo Vargas

10/10 starsCompleted
6 months, 2 weeks ago
It's amazing to be able to access this level of teaching. Amazing teachers, resources, videos, feedback and practise exercises. The course is very well organised and each step contains material to support the topics discussed.
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Sue Uden

10/10 starsCompleted
6 months, 3 weeks ago
I have taken this course several times and cannot recommend it highly enough. The course leaders, Craig and Richard, present the course with friendly enthusiasm in a format that is not too technical and complicated with sound informative advice, a range of varying meditations to practice and a massive supply of optional extra research, information and links to other resources. The course mentors, Sherelle and Jen, provide incredible support to learners throughout the four weeks and work incredibly hard - even through their weekends - not something I have encountered with every FL course I have followed - by a long chalk! I would just say, that as recommended by the course team, for anyone with no prior knowledge or practice of mindfulness I would recommend taking the first course - Mindfulness for Well Being and Peak Performance before this one. Go for it! Enjoy! :-)
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Haydn Blackey

10/10 starsCompleted
6 months, 3 weeks ago
When you study a course and at almost every step are thinking – I wish I’d realised this before – that’s what it was like studying ‘Maintaining a Mindful Life’. The rich resources about mindfulness in a variety of life’s circumstances was supported by guided meditation exercises so that Mindfulness moved from the screen/page and into practice. More than anything else in the course this prompt to action, the tools for changing my practice, and by doing so changing my life, were what was most satisfying. Overall, I would not wanted to have missed a moment of this course, well done to the team who designed and delivered it.
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Rodica Banciu

10/10 starsCompleted
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Thank you a lot for a realy excinting course. There is a lot of useful information for our daily lives, that can improve our relationships, career and well-being. Actually, I wish I'd known this information before.
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Lilit Yeremyan

10/10 starsCompleted
10 months ago
Many thanks to educators;Graig and Richard and mentors Sherelle and Liz. This is one of my favourite courses, in which I can find lots of new practices, information every time. I take this course for the third time, as I needed more time to deepen in practices and working with the amount of information as well. The practices help me to be less tensed and be more mindful in my everyday life. The most important point this time is thinking about my values and goals.
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Denise P

10/10 starsCompleted
10 months ago
Thank you, Sherelle, Liz, Craig, Richard, Monash Uni and Future Learn for providing yet another wonderful course on living mindfully, truly an essential life skill. Thank you as well to fellow students, who engaged with insightful comments and supported each other. Great to be part of a positive and mindful global learning community. So many gems in this course but I particularly benefited from learning the difference between empathy and compassion, and am now trying to let go of over identification by wishing well to others experiencing pain. I very much appreciated the sections of self-compassion and dealing with chronic pain, and am using this information to help cope with trauma and migraines. As someone struggling to sleep, I appreciated the 'beditation' lesson and I found the section on dealing with death really important for my own mental health. Some beautiful quotations in that section too. A suggestion for future courses mi... Thank you, Sherelle, Liz, Craig, Richard, Monash Uni and Future Learn for providing yet another wonderful course on living mindfully, truly an essential life skill. Thank you as well to fellow students, who engaged with insightful comments and supported each other. Great to be part of a positive and mindful global learning community. So many gems in this course but I particularly benefited from learning the difference between empathy and compassion, and am now trying to let go of over identification by wishing well to others experiencing pain. I very much appreciated the sections of self-compassion and dealing with chronic pain, and am using this information to help cope with trauma and migraines. As someone struggling to sleep, I appreciated the 'beditation' lesson and I found the section on dealing with death really important for my own mental health. Some beautiful quotations in that section too. A suggestion for future courses might be to include some guidance on dealing with the fear of old age. Fabulous course and thank you also for the wealth of additional resources to help keep us on the path to living mindfully.
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Stephanie Ferretti

10/10 starsCompleted
10 months, 1 week ago
Mindfulness at its best. This course really touched on important aspects of practicing and benefiting from staying in the present moment, observing and detaching from outcome. Savoring experiences. Delving into our values and creating goals based on them. The attachments and videos were mesmerising. Great life enhancing course.
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Van Alm

10/10 starsCompleted
10 months, 2 weeks ago
This was a very insightful course and a great journey. I've started to apply the learnings and intend to continue. Lots of meditation to choose from. Recommend!
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Harriet Francis

10/10 starsCompleted
11 months, 1 week ago
This course is an excellent....it really made me aware of lots of things which is very important to our life. And i would like to advise tje other viewers to go through this wonderful course
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1 year, 2 months ago
I loved this course on FutureLearn -- in addition to the thoughtful instruction by Craig and Richard, there were also wonderful resources shared to take your learning onward. Life changing material.
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Margherita C.

10/10 starsCompleted
1 year, 3 months ago
Wonderful course, anyone with an interest in Mindfulness should take it. It's the follow up to the Mindfulness for Well Being and Performance course, also by Monash university. This course gives a theoretical insight and practical advice on mindful communication & relationships (how to deal with people), self-compassion and values. The guided meditations are just great and the explanations are straightforward. The educators are extremely kind, friendly and non-judgemental. It helped me a lot and I really recommend it.
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Jane Coomber

10/10 starsCompleted
1 year, 7 months ago
The Monash mindfulness courses have been hugely helpful to me in recovering from a sudden bereavement and coping with anxiety in particular. The course content is very accessible and the downloadable meditations helpful. I especially valued the experiences and insights of other learners.
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Ann Booth

10/10 starsCompleted
1 year, 7 months ago
This has been one of my favorite courses. The professors are so relaxed in their delivery that I (the student) felt enabled to learn without fear of getting it wrong. I'm hoping to repeat both mindfulness courses.
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S McC

10/10 starsCompleted
1 year, 7 months ago
This is a fantastic course. There are guided meditations as well as detailed explanations of all topics. I highly recommend it and hope to do it again in November.
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1 year, 7 months ago
An excellent course with guided meditation exercise, diverse situational settings and references. Instructors and mentors engaged with every session of the course. Good feedback and postings from fellow course participants. It is one course where you can revisit the meditation sessions.
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Harry Stefanatos

10/10 starsCompleted
1 year, 10 months ago
A great course with a very interesting subject and content for interaction. The teaching material covered a wide area of scientific knowledge and the lessons had also plenty or references and material to further study and practice.
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Georgios P

10/10 starsCompleted
1 year, 10 months ago
Excellent course with interesting material. Both the instructors were very engaging and with deep knowledge on the subject. The pace of the course was very smooth and it was easy to follow it even in days with full schedule. I would have like to see more courses like this in the future from Monash University.
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Pia Nystad

10/10 starsCompleted
1 year, 10 months ago
As life changes, it is good to develop your self-understanding and self-regulation and to get mental habits that can help you to cope with new situations. The course has a focus on how to practise mindfulness. The theory supports and motivates to keep going.
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Dermot Neville

10/10 starsCompleted
2 years, 3 months ago
This course is brilliant; not daunting, not too demanding and virtually immediately is perceptibly rewarding. The scope of the course is limited enough to make you not be over-awed but at the same time it allows you to branch out with the excellent and numerous references and access to other mindfulness workers and courses. Both Richard and Craig, the course instructors are clearly born teachers and make it so easy and pleasant to listen to and to learn from. The course mentors are also very responsive to comments and very clearly amplify the messages of the instructors. And a great feature of the course is the active participation of the course students and their comments - it brings you right into the forum. Highly appreciated, many thanks.
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Suzanne (Imarni) Walker

10/10 starsTaking Now
2 years, 4 months ago
OMG - Loved this course, did the first one a few years back and this one has just reiterated my keen love for learning and passion for practising mindfulness in all areas of my life. I found both Craig and Richard easy to understand and follow the lessons and very engaging and the moderators online to be very encouraging with positive comments to keep us all focused on the task at hand. Just do it, you WILL NOT regret this course!! :D
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Christine Mulhall

10/10 starsCompleted
2 years, 7 months ago
Excellent! My daughter persuaded me to do this and I am so glad I did. I am a firm believer in the ability of each of us to change our lives for the better and this course shows how we can. Well done to everyone involved!
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Puneet Rahi

10/10 starsCompleted
2 years, 8 months ago
The course content was meticulously arranged. The instructors were wonderful in guiding through the means of videos and discussions. The videos and meditations helped me reconnect to my own self and develop compassion for myself...
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William Stewart

10/10 starsCompleted
2 years, 8 months ago
Life changing content. Great range of materials, videos and references to related subjects and topics. Excellent providers and mentors who are extremely professional. There are opportunities to connect with the mentors other students. The mentors respond to S individually even. Can’t believe it is provided free.
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Lee Lee

10/10 starsCompleted
2 years, 8 months ago
Fantastic and Excellent course! I have enjoyed so much. The topics coverage were great, lots of practical exercises in meditation techniques, and the theories were very informative and interesting. Overall, I find it very beneficial to our mental and general well-being; and have learnt a great deal from this course!
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Sarah Webb

10/10 starsCompleted
2 years, 8 months ago
Excellent course, lots of practical exercises to do during the course and to take away. I also enjoyed the theory behind all the information. Very enjoyable and practical. A lovely supportive community too.
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10/10 starsTaking Now
2 years, 8 months ago
Excellent! I learned a lot that I hadn't learned in toher mindfulness courses and about how mindfulness is proved to help in the majority of things overall. I highly recommend this course to everyone.
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terry vaughan

10/10 starsCompleted
2 years, 8 months ago
A excellent course and feedback videos were very good and Meditations were great and i learned a lot from fellow learners and i would highly recommend this course to anyone
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