Mindfulness for Habit Awareness and Behavioral Change

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Break Habits, Build Awareness, and Respond with Intention

Course Goals: 

This course is designed to help you become more aware of the impulses and habits that drive your behavior—and to build the skills needed to respond with intention instead of reacting on autopilot. Drawing on evidence-based mindfulness practices and real-world application, this course supports you in aligning your actions with your values, especially in moments of stress, reactivity, or challenge.

Course Outcomes:

At the end of this course, you will:

• Know how to recognize your action impulses in real-time and understand their emotional and physiological triggers

• Learn how to pause between impulse and action to create space for choice

• Develop mindfulness tools that increase behavioral flexibility and break reactive habits

• Practice bringing intention and awareness into everyday moments of decision and action

• Explore how to align your responses with your values rather than stress or conditioning

• Gain clarity on the common challenges people face when shifting habits—and how to work through them with compassion and persistence

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:

This course is for anyone who wants to change how they respond to life—from reactivity to intentional action.

It is ideal for:

• 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 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

Learn from a Mindfulness Expert:

I am an organizational psychologist with a PhD in Organizational Behavior and Human Resources. As a researcher, educator, and practitioner, I am passionate about advancing evidence-based mindfulness education in both university and professional settings. My work focuses on mindfulness, well-being, leadership, and entrepreneurship, and is rooted in both scientific rigor and lived experience.

Informed by my background as a certified mindfulness and yoga teacher, co-founder, and startup team member, I aim to bridge contemplative practice with organizational life. Through my work, I support individuals in cultivating healthy, connected, and sustainably productive lives, and I help entrepreneurs and organizations build mindful routines and cultures where people can thrive.