Facilitator: Cassandra Vieten, PhD
*If you are interested in the next offering of this program, please fill out this form to be added to the interest list. We will contact you once this program is scheduled.
Mindfulness for Wellbeing is a six-week course designed to help you cultivate greater presence, balance, and resilience in daily life. Facilitated by the Director of the Center for Mindfulness, this in-depth, six-week accelerated intensive course is designed to help you improve your physical, mental-emotional, and spiritual well-being.
Through guided practices, reflective exercises, and practical tools, you’ll learn how to reduce stress, manage emotions, and foster a deeper sense of calm and clarity. Each week builds on the last, offering step-by-step support in developing mindfulness skills you can easily integrate into your routine. You will also receive home exercises exclusive to this course.
Whether you are new to mindfulness or looking to strengthen your practice, this course provides a supportive environment to enhance your overall well-being and nurture a more grounded, intentional way of living.
Schedule
Tuesdays, November 11 - December 16, 2025
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. (PT)
*The sessions will not be recorded.
Registration Fee
$375 ($350 early-bird rate available for those who register on/before October 11, 2025)
UC San Diego Staff/Student Rate: $350 ($325 early-bird rate available for those who register on/before October 11, 2025)
Target Audience
Open to all levels of mindfulness practice.
Instructor
Cassandra Vieten, PhD
Executive Director, UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness
Cassandra Vieten is a licensed clinical psychologist and mind-body medicine researcher. In addition to providing strategic leadership at the Center for Mindfulness and Centers for Integrative Health, she also serves as Director of Research and Associate Scientist at the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at UC San Diego. Her research has focused on development and pilot testing of mindfulness-based interventions for substance dependence, obesity, mood disorders, improving psychological well-being, and increasing prosocial emotions and behaviors. This interest extended to developing and testing mindfulness-based approaches to prevention of postpartum depression in pregnant women, as well as "MAMAS" - a mindful eating and stress reduction intervention for overweight/obese low-income inner-city pregnant women, which showed not only reductions in stress for pregnant women, but also beneficial outcomes for their children, from immediately to 8 years postpartum.
She has also been a leader in establishing empirically-based competencies for mental health professionals in the area of spiritual and religious diversity, including currently serving as co-chair of the American Psychological Association Division 36 Task Force on developing practice guidelines in this area. Her recent research has focused on development of virtual reality interventions to foster development of prosocial emotions such as empathy and compassion. She has authored three books, including Mindful Motherhood: Practical Tools for Staying Sane During Pregnancy and Your Child’s First Year and Spiritual and Religious Competencies for Psychologists and Mental Health Professionals. She has published numerous articles in scientific journals and is an internationally recognized keynote speaker and workshop leader.
Cancellation Policy
A refund of your registration payment (minus your $50 non-refundable/non-transferable deposit) will be made for participants who withdraw prior to the start of the 1st class by emailing mindfulness@health.ucsd.edu. If you decide to cancel after the 1st session and before the 2nd session starts, 50% of your payment registration payment will be refunded. No refunds will be made after the 2nd session starts.
Please be aware that the registration fee, deposits, and funds are non-transferable to other programs.
In the unlikely event that the course is cancelled, UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness is responsible only for a full refund of the registration payment.
The refunds are processed in the same method as the payments were submitted.
