Meet the course team
This course has been created by your lead educators, Craig Hassed and Richard Chambers, along with course team member Sherelle Connaughton and others from Monash University. Professor Craig Hassed Craig …
Course: Maintaining a Mindful Life
Feedback from the educators
Watch Craig and Richard chat about the conversations and questions that have arisen from comments, discussions and learner activity throughout Week 4 of the course. We hope you enjoy it. …
Feedback from the educators
Watch Craig chat about the conversations and questions that have arisen from comments, discussions and learner activity throughout Week 3 of the course. We hope you enjoy it. This is …
Feedback from the educators
Watch Craig chat about the conversations and questions that have arisen from comments, discussions and learner activity throughout Week 2 of the course. We hope you enjoy it. This is …
Feedback from the educators
Watch Craig and Richard chat about the conversations and questions that have arisen from comments, discussions and learner activity throughout Week 1 of the course. We hope you enjoy it. …
Have you completed ‘Mindfulness for Wellbeing and Peak Performance’?
Have you completed ‘Mindfulness for Wellbeing and Peak Performance’? This course, Maintaining a Mindful Life is a follow up to Mindfulness for Wellbeing and Peak Performance. We strongly recommend completing …
Managing media reporting of tragic events
Vicarious stress is a normal response to repeated exposure and empathetic engagement when in the presence of stress that others are experiencing. When extreme and/or prolonged, such as continually witnessing …
Recommended resources
As well as continuing to cultivate your meditation practice and continuing to apply mindfulness in your life, you may be interested in exploring the following resources to learn more about …
Learning and support outside the course
An option for ongoing learning and support is to find a meditation group in your area. Although some regions are more isolated than others, there are a growing number classes …
Mindfulness for decision making
Watch Neil provide an overview of how practising mindfulness improves executive function, and how it impacts our decision making.
Mindful goals
Watch Craig discuss how our goals and actions (means) impact our happiness and our life, and explore strategies that we can use to move towards our goals in a mindful …
Final comments
Watch Craig and Richard provide their final comments on the course. Don’t forget, mindfulness is a lifelong practice. So while you might have established a meditation practice, built on what …
Mindful values
Watch Richard discuss the concept of mindful values, and explore how mindfulness can help us to connect with our values and discover what’s important. Identifying our core values In the …
Mindful ethics
Watch Craig and Richard discuss the concept of mindful ethics and decision making, and explore how mindfulness can inform the decisions we make to help us lead a better life.
Mindfulness and pain
Watch Craig discuss how to bring mindfulness to pain, and how it can change the way we choose to respond with it. It is important to note that practising mindfulness …