Non-Certificate Programs
Resilience and Well-Being for Leaders
Resilience, vitality and well-being have been shown to be critical to the success of the best leaders. This course develops leaders who are mindful, hopeful, compassionate, resilient, and dedicated to their own self-care and the well-being of others. This program helps leaders deal with the stress and challenges associated with their leadership role; enables strategic thinking, decision making, and problem solving; and develops emotional intelligence and positive emotions, resulting in increased effectiveness and productivity, helping leaders motivate others to achieve goals.
Brain Fitness for Resilience and Well-Being
Science has shown that our brains are constantly changing as a result of our experiences. This course shows you how to use positive experiences to build lasting inner strengths by encoding them into the structure of the brain. This training helps you to get positive experiences to “stick” in your brain, creating enduring resources such as resilience, positivity, emotional balance, confidence, determination, patience, and compassion. These inner strengths are vital for managing stress and life’s challenges, being able to give more to others, and maintaining one’s own self-care.
HeartMath Resilience AdvantageTM: Skills for Personal and Professional Effectiveness
This program delivers a practical set of easy-to-learn self-regulation tools and resilience-building practices developed by the Institute of HeartMathR. Based on HeartMath’s research, this program helps you to experience the immediate benefits of bringing more ease and balance into your life. You will learn skills for building resilience in the face of change and uncertainty; energy regulation techniques to reduce stress, fatigue, burnout, anxiety, frustration and sleeplessness; and how to have more control, make better choices, protect your health and energy, and enjoy life overall.
The Heart of Democracy
The spread of democracy has substantially increased the happiness of people around the world, contributing to political, economic and social well-being. Safeguarding existing democracies and encouraging fledgling ones requires education and our full participation. We explore how democracies formed, and how we can access the intelligence inherent in our hearts for inspiration and guidance to build, preserve and advance vibrant democracies across the globe. Coming Fall 2019 (Online)