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This course will provide in-depth, experiential training in the cultivation of happiness, emotional health and healing for multi-disciplinary professions. Students will learn highly effective, ancient, and contemporary methods for the transformation of afflictive emotions, unhealthy patterns, and behaviors. Students will learn how to increase positive emotions and mind states including: compassion, joy, and equanimity. They will explore meditation and other integrative approaches that bring balance and wellbeing to the mind. Students will practice and explore the applications of these modalities. Students will learn how to creatively apply and integrate them into their lives, relationships, and work with a wide range of patient /client populations and settings. The class content draws on eastern and western approaches to emotional health and healing in a mindfulness-based, integrative model including: Buddhist and Transpersonal Psychology, meditation practices, spirituality, expressive, creative, & ritual arts. Case examples and neuroscience research on emotions will also be included in the course. Prereq: Jr, Sr or grad student, or instructor consent