Mindfulness Meditation

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Coming Home to Yourself: A Mindfulness Meditation Series for UC Berkeley Staff - Spring 2025

Practical Tools for Presence, Resilience, and Well-Being

Program Overview

Coming Home to Yourself is a new, transformative 4-week program designed exclusively for UC Berkeley staff. This series introduces mindfulness meditation as a practical and powerful tool for cultivating resilience, emotional balance, and greater well-being in your personal and professional life.

In today’s fast-paced world, mindfulness meditation is an essential resource for navigating the stress and complexity of work and life. Incorporating mindfulness practices into your daily routine can help you avoid burnout, enhance resilience, and foster sustainable growth and thriving.

Whether you are new to meditation or looking to deepen your practice, this series offers a structured, supportive, and accessible framework to cultivate mindfulness, presence, and inner calm.

This is a 4-week program. You’ll gain the greatest benefit by attending all four sessions, but you are welcome to register for any sessions that feel most useful and interesting to you.

Why Attend All 4 Weeks?

By participating in all four sessions, you will unlock the full transformative potential of mindfulness meditation, allowing for gradual, integrated learning. Each session builds upon the previous one, fostering the development of new habits and neural pathways that support clarity, resilience, and well-being.

Program Description

In this 4-week eCourse you will:

Learn foundational principles of mindfulness meditation and its real-world applications.
Explore practical techniques to cultivate greater awareness, emotional resilience, and self-compassion.
Develop skills for working mindfully with stress, emotions, and challenges as they arise.
Practice mindfulness of body, breath, thoughts, and emotions, building your personal meditation toolkit.
Learn about the foundations of heart practices such as lovingkindness (metta), compassion, and equanimity.

After attending this program, you can expect to:

Have a clearer understanding of mindfulness principles and how they apply to everyday challenges.

Cultivate a more supportive and compassionate relationship with your thoughts and emotions.

Build and strengthen a personal mindfulness meditation practice.

Experience greater balance, calm, and resilience both at work and in your personal life.

Connect with a supportive, mindful community of UC Berkeley staff.

Eligibility & Intended Audience

This program is open to any UC Berkeley staff member who is interested in deepening their understanding of mindfulness meditation. You can sign up for 1, 2, 3, or all 4 sessions in the UC Learning Center.

Program Dates & Time Commitment

June 6, 2025 | 2:00–3:00 pm

June 13, 2025 | 2:00–3:00 pm

June 20, 2025 | 2:00–3:00 pm

June 27, 2025 | 2:00–3:00 pm

We strongly encourage staff to sign up and commit to attending all four sessions to truly gain the benefit of this powerful program.

Participation is limited to 300 Zoom attendees per session, so once you sign up, please make sure you can attend. If your availability changes and you need to cancel your participation, please do so in the UC Learning Center 48 hours before the session so individual’s on the waitlist can be admitted into the session.

Program Sessions

Each 60-minute session will be divided approximately as follows:

20 minutes of teaching and discussion
20 minutes of guided meditation practice
20 minutes for share-out, reflection, and Q&A

Session 1: The Power of Presence — Building Awareness in Daily Life

Date: Friday, June 6, 2025 | Time: 2:00–3:00 pm | Virtually
Experience a guided mindfulness meditation focused on the breath and body.
Learn how mindful awareness can help you anchor attention, reduce reactivity, and feel more grounded throughout your day.
Please register through the UC Learning Center.

Session 2: Self-Compassion in Action — Responding to Stress with Kindness

Date: Friday, June 13, 2025 | Time: 2:00–3:00 pm | Virtually
Learn the practice of self-compassion using the RAIN technique (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture).
Explore how kindness toward yourself can transform your relationship with stress and challenge.
Please register through the UC Learning Center.

Session 3: Navigating Stress and Difficulty — Tools for Emotional Resilience

Date: Friday, June 20, 2025 | Time: 2:00–3:00 pm | Virtually
Practice working mindfully with difficult emotions through meditation and awareness.
Learn how mindfulness can help you respond more skillfully to inner and outer challenges.
Please register through the UC Learning Center.

Session 4: Sustaining Mindfulness — Bringing Calm and Clarity to Everyday Life

Date: Friday, June 27, 2025 | Time: 2:00–3:00 pm | Virtually
Conclude the series by learning practical strategies for sustaining your mindfulness practice in daily life.
Experience an integrated guided meditation that weaves together breath, body, and emotions.
Please register through the UC Learning Center.

About the Instructor

Ramona Harvey is a certified professional leadership coach and mindfulness meditation teacher. She helps leaders and entrepreneurs overcome Imposter Syndrome, Perfectionism, People Pleasing, and other self-sabotaging tendencies.

Ramona's mission is to help people unlock their potential for healing, happiness, and for making a powerful, positive impact in their communities. Using mindfulness and holistic leadership development, she guides deep inner transformation as catalysts for a more peaceful and harmonious world.

Ramona coaches senior leaders and conducts mindfulness and leadership workshops, trainings, and retreats for organizations and private clients. She collaborates with several non-profits focused on social change and justice.