85-353 Mindfulness: Science and Practice

9 units, Carnegie Mellon University

This course will focus on blending firstperson experience with mindfulness practices including mindfulness meditation and learning about the scientific research on mindfulness. Students will engage in guided mindfulness exercises, develop a daily mindfulness practice, and try out different mindfulness training traditions. In addition, much of this course will be focused on applying a critical eye to the theory, measures, mechanisms, and effects of mindfulness and mindfulness training interventions across multiple domains cognition, social processes, behavior, biological mechanisms, and health. As such, this will be a small seminar course focused developing firstperson experiences of mindfulness and on discussing the debates and opportunities related to the emerging science of mindfulness.

Prerequisites: 85-310 or 85-340 or 85-320 or 85-314

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