mPEAK (Mindfulness, Performance Enhancement, Awareness & Knowledge) is a mindfulness training program for anyone seeking to achieve personal and professional goals, as well as attain new levels of performance and success. This cutting-edge training program is built around the latest brain research related to peak performance, resilience, focus, and “flow”. The mPEAK program enhances the human capacity of mindfulness through established and empirically supported practices and exercises. Mindfulness is effective precisely because it is a way of being and relating to all aspects of life, rather than a specific technique or tool for a particular goal. As with physical training, this brain training program is based upon the understanding that optimal outcomes occur most often when participants continue to engage in the practices and exercises on a daily basis as a part of their training regimen. The foundation of this program is based on the highly respected and empirically-supported Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program. Additionally, mPEAK incorporates elements of sports psychology, positive psychology and specific exercises formulated to correspond to recent neuroscientific findings and related research regarding optimal performance.

• Develop greater focus and concentration

• Tap into the power “flow states” during performance events and everyday life

• Learn to be present to the process and let go of attachment to outcome

• Practice responding wisely to stress rather than reacting out of fear

• Develop resilience by learning how to be with emotionally difficult or physically painful experiences

• Leverage personal strengths and stretching your personal edges without giving up or burning out

• Recognize and shift from critical to compassionate inner self talk

• Process and learn from inevitable mistakes and failures

This program was specially designed for athletes, first responders, leaders, entrepreneurs, executives, musicians, dancers, and busy professionals or parents who set big goals, face consistent challenges and stretch themselves towards excellence. mPEAK is appropriate for beginner and seasoned mindfulness practitioners alike. Previous meditation experience is not necessary to participate, but can facilitate a deeper learning experience.

mPEAK is offered in a safe and supportive environment for exploring how we typically respond to challenges and opportunities and provides tools for becoming more adept at meeting and overcoming these obstacles to enhance performance and well-being. The emphasis of the program is on enhancing attentional and emotional resources, as well as personal capacities for mindfulness and compassion. The mPEAK course is currently being offered once per week virtually via ZOOM over the course of 8-weeks (two hours per session).

8 WEEK COURSE SCHEDULE

• Class 1: Intro to Mindfulness & Performance

• Class 2: Interoceptive Resilience (Recognition and regulation of the sensations of stress and performance anxiety)

• Class 3: Performance Stories (Recognition and regulation of unhelpful thinking and mind wandering)

• Class 4: Priming for Flow (Getting out of your own way, trusting your training and performing naturally and spontaneously)

• Class 5: Working with Pain & Difficulty (Allowing physical or emotional pain rather than distracting, avoiding or repressing)

• Class 6: Your Inner Coaches (Cultivating compassionate rather than critical inner self talk around mistakes or failure)

• Class 7: Strengths in Balance (Leveraging personal character strengths without becoming attached or identified)

• Class 8: Living With Intention (Applying a mindful approach to goal setting)

For information on the next course availability please email me at [email protected]

Continuing Education Credit
Psychologists: This program is sponsored by UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness. The UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This course offers 14.0 CE credit.

California licensed MFTs, LPCCs, LEPs, LCSWs: This program is sponsored by UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness. The UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. 14.0 CE credit may be applied to your license renewal through the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. For those licensed outside California, please check with your local licensing board to determine if CE credit is accepted.

Nurses: UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP16351, for 16.5 contact hours.