Note: Sessions are conducted live online via Zoom.
Weekly | Wednesdays at 12:00-1:00pm ET
Join us for a weekly “taste” of mindfulness. No previous meditation experience is necessary, new participants will learn meditation practices with instructor guidance or experienced meditators can join us in deepening their daily practice in a community environment. Topics and instructors for each session vary.
Self-Paced Program | Register Now
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.
Note: Sessions are conducted live online via Zoom.
February 2023 | Starts February 25 | Register now through February 20
May 2023 | Starts May 6 | Register soon through May 3
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.
January 2023 | Starts January 10, 2023 | Register now through January 3, 2023
Many of us know the benefits yoga and MBSR can bring to our minds and bodies yet have not had the opportunity to explore how these benefits can be applied to our relationships. Join Kimberly and Jim Carson in a series of sessions drawing from Yoga practices as well as Kabat-Zinn’s MBSR protocol to learn impactful exercises that can be integrated into your relationship and will reduce stress, improve relaxation, and help you further connect and accept each other. The workshop consists of both lectures and practice, so please wear comfortable clothes you can move in.
Note: Sessions are conducted live online via Zoom.
January 2023 | Starts week of January 11, 2023 | Registration closes January 6, 2023
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.
In the MBSR Distance Learning course participants “meet” with their instructor and classmates once a week via web conference, from wherever they may be. This program is designed to deliver the same teachings and opportunities for group learning as our on-site MBSR program to those who are unable to visit our facility on a weekly basis, for reasons of scheduling difficulties, distance, or physical limitations.
January 2023 | Starts January 10, 2023 | Register now through January 6, 2023
MBSR can help people who are coping with medical problems, job or family-related stress, and anxiety and depression. The majority of participants report lasting decreases in both physical and psychological symptoms. Pain levels improve and people learn to better cope with pain that may not go away. Most people also report an increased ability to relax, greater enthusiasm for life, improved self-esteem, and increased ability to cope more effectively with stressful situations.
Note: Sessions are conducted live online via Zoom.
December 2022 | Creating Your Health Vision for 2023
December 09, 2022 | Register now through December 08, 2022
Would you like to start the new year with your BEST health in mind? Join Duke Health and Well-Being’s Brian Housle, M.S., M.Ed., NBC-HWC, and learn how to develop a vision of your optimal well-being, based on mindfulness, positivity and your personal values.
January 2023 | Setting SMART Goals to Achieve Success in 2023
January 24, 2023 | Register now through January 23, 2023
Do you have specific health goals you’d like to achieve in 2023? In order to realize success, you need to have specific, measurable, action-oriented, realistic, and time bound (SMART) goals to achieve your vision. Join Duke Health and Well-Being’s Lexi Monks, M.S., ACSM-CEP, and learn how to create SMART goals and an action plan specific to your health vision .
If you attend the December session, this session can be a continuation of making your vision actionable by applying SMART goals to what you developed. But whether you attended that session or not, this session will help you on your health journey in 2023.
The Leadership Program in Health and Well-Being
March 2023 | Register now through January 31, 2023
The Leadership Program in Health and Well-Being is a one-year robust, combined in-person and distance-based leadership development and mentoring program for well-being leaders that teaches the knowledge and skills necessary to successfully develop, launch, lead, sustain, and grow a health and well-being culture across all health care settings.
February 2023| Starts February 9, 2023 | Registration now through February 2, 2023
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 with their clients and patients.
Note: Sessions are conducted live online via Zoom.
Health & Well-Being Coach Training
Starts February 20, 2023 | Registration Open!
CEUs available: ACCME, ACPE, ANCC, IACET, ICF
Become a Health & Well-Being Coach! Acquire the core coaching skills and competencies as you learn to incorporate them into professional practice.
March 2023 | Starts March 5, 2023 | Apply now or Register now through February 26, 2023!
CEUs available: IAYT, YA
Integrative Yoga for Seniors Professional Training is an 8-day program for Registered Yoga Teachers that combines the best of evidenced-based research with the ancient wisdom of yoga. Structured on the foundation of the physiology of aging, this program offers a framework for Registered Yoga Teachers to safely provide specific recommendations when teaching yoga to older adults.
Note: Sessions are conducted live online via Zoom.
March 2023 | Starts March 15, 2023 | Registration open!
CEUs available: Yoga Alliance, IACET, JA-AH
The Mindful Yoga for Chronic Pain Professional Training is a unique 35-hour intensive course for yoga teachers, physical therapists, mental health therapists and other healthcare providers who wish to explore an innovative evidence-based program that provides lasting relief by addressing the neuroplasticity underlying chronic pain.
March 2023 (In-person) | Starts March 30, 2023| Register now through March 23, 2023
April 2023 (Virtual) | Starts April 04, 2023| Register now through March 28, 2023
CEUs available: AMA PRA, IACET
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.
Note: Sessions are conducted live online via Zoom.
April 2023 | Starts April 14 – 15, 2023 | Register now through April 07, 2023
CEUs available: AMA PRA, 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.
