May 2025 | Starts May 2 | Register Now
In our society, end of life is a difficult subject to discuss. Join Duke Integrative Medicine’s Medical Director, Susan Blackford, MD, and Jeff Brantley, MD, founder of Duke’s Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program, for a new program exploring the aging process, grief, loss, and how to face one’s own mortality with grace and strength.
Note: Sessions are conducted both in-person and live online via Zoom.
Weekly | Wednesdays at 12:00-1:00pm ET (online); Thursdays at 12:00-1:00pm ET (onsite)
Join us for a weekly “taste” of mindfulness. No previous meditation experience is necessary, new participants will learn meditation practices with instructor guidance. Experienced meditators can join us in deepening their daily practice in a community environment. Topics and instructors for each session will vary on a weekly basis.
Self-Paced Program |
CEUs Available: NBHWC (CEA-000112-3)
Explore a self-paced online course that will help you understand how to set and achieve realistic health goals, overcome setbacks, and create the right mindset for long-term lifestyle changes that lead to successful weight management. It combines academic research and real-life insights from doctors, nutritionists, dietitians, exercise physiologists, behavioral therapists, and other health professionals.
May 2025 | Starts May 8 | Register Now
A Sound Bath Meditation is an immersive experience that uses resonant sounds to calm the nervous system and promote mind-body connection. A facilitator uses a variety of instruments – such as Crystal bowls, Himalayan singing bowls, gongs, drums, chimes, harps and more – shown to have restorative effects on the body.
Starts May 8 | Register now through May 5
The Orchestra of Life: Enhancing Awareness Through Music is an immersive exploration of the masterpieces of the symphony orchestra. Not your usual music appreciation class, this course leads students through a series of activities designed to enhance their awareness of what they hear and how they experience music. Each class session will focus on one major orchestral work and one minor work. Students will discover how to develop their own music library and how to create playlists. This journey will help students create a connection to music that can release stress, restore balance within the body, enhance creativity and promote productivity. Class activities will include lectures, visualizations, discussions and journaling. Students will be “conducted” as they sit in the places of orchestral musicians!
April 2025
CEUs available: NBHWC (CEA-000112-1)
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is a method of using meditation and yoga to cultivate awareness and reduce stress. It is based on the ancient practice of mindfulness, which is about waking up, being fully alive, and being present for the richness of each moment of our lives. Within this awakening, we gain access to our deepest inner resources for living, healing, and coping with stress.
Note: Sessions are conducted live online via Zoom.
April 2025
CEUs available: NBHWC (CEA-000112-2)
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is a method of using meditation and yoga to cultivate awareness and reduce stress. It is based on the ancient practice of mindfulness, which is about waking up, being fully alive, and being present for the richness of each moment of our lives. Within this awakening, we gain access to our deepest inner resources for living, healing, and coping with stress.
Note: Sessions are conducted live online via Zoom
June 2025 | Starts June 18
In this 10-week summer book club, participants will read assigned sections of the book Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD. independently. The book club will gather weekly for meditation practice, discussion and reflection focused on themes in mindfulness.
May 2025 | Starts May 7
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is a widely recognized approach within Energy Psychology. Often likened to acupuncture or acupressure, EFT utilizes finger tapping instead of needles to stimulate acupoints along the body’s meridian system, where life-force energy flows. This technique is grounded in the principles of Chinese Medicine and evolved from Thought Field Therapy (TFT) to help release blocked energy caused by negative emotions or trauma. EFT can help neutralize emotional distress, regulate feelings, improve physical conditions, strengthen performance, achieve goals, and enhance overall health and well-being.
February 2025 | May 2025
Join with those currently enrolled in an MBSR or MBSR Distance Learning course for a full-day meditation intensive. Renew or deepen your mindfulness practice in a supportive retreat environment.
Pre-requisite: Completion of an MBSR course is required to register for this course.
Duke Health & Well-Being Coach Training
Distance Learning- July 2025: Registration Open
Note: Sessions are conducted live online via Zoom.
Duke Health & Well-Being Coach Training
NBHWC Approved Training Program
CEUs Available: ACCME, ACPE, ANCC, IACET and ICF
Become a Health & Well-Being Coach! Acquire the core coaching skills and competencies as you learn to incorporate them into professional practice.
Self – Paced
Health and Well-Being Smarts webinar recordings are now available for purchase as a bundle.
Wednesday, April 30, 2025: 12:00 – 1:00 PM EDT | Register now through April 28, 2025
Virtual (Zoom)
Learn strategies for partnering with clients to cultivate a vision of their optimal health that encompasses all aspects of their well-being. Practice using a variety of tools to assist clients in connecting their values to their ultimate health vision in a way that will give them the meaningful life they desire.
CEUs available: This course is an NBHWC-Approved Continuing Education course. Those who successfully complete all the course modules and requirements will earn a Certificate of Completion and National Board for Health & Wellness Coaching (NBHWC) Continuing Education Credits. The National Board for Health & Wellness Coaching designates this course for 1 credit hour.
In order to obtain credit hours, attendees must attend the live session plus complete the evaluation.
May 2025 | Starts May 2, 2025| Register now through April 25, 2025
CEUs available: AMA PRA, ANCC, IACET, JA-Credit-AH
Reiki, a form of energy healing, is an ancient practice that is used to reduce stress, improve health and quality of life, and support physical and emotional healing. Research suggests that using Reiki as a complementary therapy activates the parasympathetic nervous system to heal body and mind via the relaxation response. Reiki is accessible to everyone and is easy to learn. Practitioners use specific hand positions, held for a few minutes on or near the client’s clothed body.
May 2025 | May 17, 2025 | Register now through May 13, 2025!
CEUs available: AMA PRA, ANCC, IACET, JA-Credit-AH
EFT is a mind-body-spirit self-care approach that involves tapping on acupuncture points while repeating emotionally-charged statements that relate to specific health issues, often referred to as acupressure for the emotions. It is an evidence-based method that has been shown in several dozen randomized controlled trials to be effective for a variety of conditions including anxiety, weight loss and food cravings, depression, PTSD, phobias, pain, and other physical symptoms. As a form of energy psychology, EFT addresses the root energetic imbalances that result from trauma and other emotional stressors.
May 2025| Starts May 15, 2025 | Register now through May 9, 2025
CEUs available: AMA PRA, ANCC, IACET, JA-AH, NBHWC (CEA-000112-4)
This 2-day workshop is a comprehensive, experiential training based on James Pennebaker’s 30 years of research in writing to heal. The curriculum will provide easily adaptable lessons, activities, and guideposts for anyone working in the healthcare field — physicians, nurses, mental health professionals, hospice workers, health coaches, and others — to use in their personal meditative practices for health and well-being. These learned skills subsequently transfer to the care of their clients and patients as they become more attuned to the benefits of writing for health.
May 2025 | May 8-9, 2025 | Register now through May 5, 2025
June 2025 | June 5-6, 2025 | Register now through June 2, 2025
CEUs available: AMA PRA, ANCC, IACET
Reiki, a form of energy healing, is an ancient practice that is used to reduce stress, improve health and quality of life, and supports physical and emotional healing. Research suggests that using Reiki as a complementary therapy activates the parasympathetic nervous system to heal body and mind via the relaxation response. Reiki is accessible to everyone and is easy to learn. Practitioners use specific hand positions, held for a few minutes on or near the client’s clothed body. Upon completion of Reiki 2, participants will be able to begin practicing professionally. Reiki 1 from any lineage is a prerequisite for Reiki 2.
June 2025 | Starts June 20, 2025| Register now through June 13, 2025
CEUs available: YA
This six-day professional training program offered to yoga instructors introduces the Mindful Yoga program developed by founders Jim and Kimberly Carson, based upon clinical trials of the Yoga of Awareness intervention conducted with cancer patients at Duke. The program incorporates discussion, practice, and instruction on more skillful yoga practices for people healing from cancer. Hear from Duke medical experts in oncology, health psychology, physical therapy, and palliative care who present relevant information for teaching yoga to those who are navigating the cancer journey.
Starts August 12 | Register now through August 9
This 3-day retreat will offer conditions conducive to your own inner search for balance and respite, where you will be pointed toward the silence that holds all noise, the stillness that holds all motion, and the peace that is always available, no matter the hectic nature of our day to day lives.
