Mindfulness for Habit Awareness and Behavior Change

Course Goals:  This course helps you recognize the impulses behind your behavior and build the skills to respond with intention, not autopilot. Using evidence-based mindfulness practices and real-world application, it supports you in aligning your actions with your values—especially in moments of stress or challenge. Course Outcomes: • Recognize action impulses and their emotional and physiologial triggers • Learn to pause and create space for choice • Build mindfulness tools to break reactive habits and cycles • Bring awareness and intention to daily decisions • Align actions with values, not stress or conditioning • Understand common habit-change challenges and how to navigate them compassionately Course Content: • What Are Impulses? Understanding Behavior • Mindfulness Tools for Impulse Awareness and Regulation • Body-Emotion-Thought-Impulse Connections • Core Practices: Mindful Action Impulse Awareness & Mindful Movement • Q&A: Common questions and challenges • Suggestions for Integration into Daily Life This course adapts an approach taught in university classrooms and supported by emerging research on mindfulness and habit change. It’s both accessible and actionable, grounded in science and enriched with lived experience. Who is it for: • Anyone who wants to change how they respond to life—from reactivity to intentional action. • Beginner mindfulness practitioners who want to understand how mindfulness can help shift daily habits and reactions • Experienced meditators looking for new insights into behavioral awareness and impulse regulation • Busy professionals and caregivers who want and caregivers who want to reduce stress-driven behavior and act more in line with their values • Coaches, educators, and facilitators seeking to integrate mindfulness and behavioral awareness tools into their client or group work • Lifelong learners and changemakers who are committed to living more consciously and with greater agency