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Personal Well-Being and Professional Programs Currently Registering

Mindfulness in Nature: Exploring the Four Elements

April 2024 | Starts April 5 | Register Now
This four-week course will be an opportunity to come together and practice mindfulness in the beautiful and natural setting of Sarah P. Duke Gardens on the campus of Duke University. We will explore how mindful awareness of and within Nature can be used to facilitate a sense of spaciousness, helping us realize the truth of our interconnection with all of life as it unfolds, breath by breath, moment by moment.

Experiencing Mindfulness

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 or experienced meditators can join us in deepening their daily practice in a community environment.  Topics and instructors for each session vary.

Nourish: Fundamentals of Medical Weight Management

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.

Sound Bath Meditation

April 2024 | Starts April 5 | Register Now
This four-week course will be an opportunity to come together and practice mindfulness in the beautiful and natural setting of Sarah P. Duke Gardens on the campus of Duke University. We will explore how mindful awareness of and within Nature can be used to facilitate a sense of spaciousness, helping us realize the truth of our interconnection with all of life as it unfolds, breath by breath, moment by moment.

Meditate to Wellness

April 2024 | Starts April 23 | Register Now

This program uses mindfulness meditation (awareness of breathing and body scan focused on the skin), gentle yoga-style movement, loving kindness meditation with an emphasis on skin, mindful touch, as well as a workbook with background information and ideas for home practice.

Transform Your Health: Write to Heal

Starts May 7 | Register now through May 4

This workshop is designed to help you discover ways to manage stressful events and upheavals in your life through writing. The act of writing engages internal healing resources that affect mental and physical health. Expressive writing has the power to help you reduce heart rate and blood pressure, minimize stress, strengthen the immune system, and improve your self-esteem.

Mastering Goal Setting in Health & Well-Being Coaching: Strategies for Sustainable Transformation

Thursday, June 6, 2024: 4:00 – 6:00 PM EDT | Register now through June 3, 2024
Virtual  

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 2 credit hours.
In order to obtain credit hours, attendees must attend the live session plus complete the evaluation.

 

60-Second Stress Relief

Starts May 4 | Register now through May 1

Join yoga therapist Carol Krucoff to learn “Yoga Sparks,” a series of micro-practices designed to help you find comfort, peace, and joy in your body, mind, and spirit.

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Distance Learning

Note:  Sessions are conducted live online via Zoom.

April 2024  | Starts April 10, 2024 |  Registration closes April 3, 2024

CEUs available: NBHWC
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.

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction

April 2024 | Starts April 10, 2024 | Register now through April 3, 2024

CEUs available: NBHWC
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.

Tapping into Health: Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) for Self-Healing

October 2024 | Registration Open!

This course is being offered as a hybrid. Learners will be joining in person at Duke Integrative Medicine and online via Zoom. When registering, please select whether you will be in-person or online.

EFT is a mind-body-spirit self-care approach which involves tapping on acupuncture points while repeating emotionally-charged statements that relate to specific health issues. This workshop will be an intensive four-week experiential program featuring group tapping exercises and individual tapping demonstrations for a variety of topics.

Day of Mindfulness

March/May 2024 | Register now 

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.

Cultivating Kindness

Starts March 19, 2024 | Register now!

Learn to step out of the fray and into the present moment with joy that can help you cope with a stress-inducing environment.  Bring meditation practices teaching kindness, compassion, joy and balance into your busy life, helping to cultivate happiness and promote well-being.

Reiki: Level One

March 2024 (In-person) | Starts March 7, 2024| Register now through March 1, 2024
April 2024 (Virtual) | Starts April 12, 2024| Register now through April 9, 2024 

 

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.

Reiki: Level Two

 

March 2024 | March 28-29, 2024 | Register now through March 22, 2024
April 2024 | April 18-19, 2024 | Register now through April 15, 2024

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. 

Reiki: Level Three

Note:  Sessions are conducted via Zoom .

April 2024| April 25-26, 2024 | Register now through April 22, 2024

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: Level One and Reiki: Level Two from any lineage is a prerequisite for Reiki: Level Three.

Tapping into Health: Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) for Practitioners

May 2024 | May 18, 2024 | Register now through May 15, 2024!

CEUs available: AMA PRA, ANCC, IACET

EFT is a mind-body-spirit self-care approach which 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.

Meaningful Health Visions: Partnering with Your Client Through Health & Well-Being Coaching

Wednesday, May 22, 2024: 12:00 – 1:00 PM EDT | Register now through May 20, 2024
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.

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