(Online, Five-Week) Mindful HEART: Healing and Embodied Awareness to Recover from Trauma May-June Tuesday Evenings, 6:00-8:30 p.m.

Multi-week Course | Registration opens 2/1/2025 8:00 AM PST

Anyone
5/6/2025-6/14/2025
6:00 PM-8:30 PM PST on Tue
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$295.00

(Online, Five-Week) Mindful HEART: Healing and Embodied Awareness to Recover from Trauma May-June Tuesday Evenings, 6:00-8:30 p.m.

Multi-week Course | Registration opens 2/1/2025 8:00 AM PST

Mindful HEART: Healing and Embodied Awareness to Recover from Trauma 

5-week (online) course 

Discover a compassionate path to healing and resilience from wherever you are. 

Mindful HEART is a 5-week experiential program offered online to support individuals in the recovery stage of trauma. Through mindfulness, somatic practices, and group connection, participants will explore approaches to understand and regulate their body’s traumatic stress, process emotions, and restore a sense of ease, trust, and connection. 

Course Overview 

Trauma can affect us in many ways—physically, emotionally, mentally, and socially. In this program, you’ll develop practical strategies to navigate your body’s responses, such as fight, flight, freeze, or fawn. We’ll explore ways to process grief, cultivate self-compassion, and build resilience through mindfulness, gentle movement, and group connection. This is a supportive and non-judgmental space where you can learn at your own pace and comfort level. Our approach draws from modern research in psychology and neuroscience and traditional healing practices to provide a holistic path to recovery. 

Five Weekly Classes:

Each session includes: 

  • Guided mindfulness practices.
  • An exploration of the week’s theme.
  • Somatic and experiential exercises.
  • Optional group discussion and reflection.
  • Closing practice to integrate your experience.

May-June Tuesday Evenings 6:00–8:30 PM 

• Orientation: May 6, 2025 

• Class 1: May 13, 2025 

• Class 2: May 20, 2025 

• Class 3: May 27, 2025 

• Class 4: June 3, 2025 

• Class 5: June 10, 2025 

Daylong Retreat: At the end of the course, we’ll come together for a unique daylong retreat to deepen and integrate everything we’ve explored. Daylong Retreat: Saturday, June 14, 2025, 9:30 AM–4:30 PM

 

 

  • Scholarship: A Public-Classes scholarship may be available if you meet the financial eligibility requirements for the Community Care Fund (CCF). For more information and to apply for CCF, please see https://osher.ucsf.edu/CCF. 

    Discounts are available for University of California (UC) faculty, staff, students, UC retirees, and UCSF MBSR Alumni are eligible for a $35 discount when you sign up for a new class. To receive the discount, please email osher.center.classes@ucsf.edu with your request and the MBSR class you are interested in.

    Additional Support: We understand that healing is a unique and personal journey, and we want to ensure you feel supported throughout this program. If you need additional resources, here are some trusted options: 

    • National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (U.S.): Dial 988 or visit 988lifeline.org for free, confidential support. 

    • Crisis Text Line: Text HOME to 741741 to connect with a counselor anytime. 

    • National Domestic Violence Hotline: Call 800-799-7233 or text START to 88788. 

    • RAINN: Call 800-656-HOPE (4673) or visit rainn.org. 

    • SAMHSA’s National Helpline: Call 1-800-662-HELP (4357) for information on treatment and mental health services. 

    For ongoing support, consider exploring local mental health or counseling centers or visit Open Path Collective for affordable, sliding-scale therapy options. 

     


  • Zoom Meeting Information: Zoom meeting details will be emailed to participants closer to the start date.

     Workbook and Guided Practices: You can expect to receive an email containing resources to support your practice at home. 

     


Proffitt, Nichole
Nichole Proffitt

Nichole Proffitt, SEP, CMT-P, has been practicing and studying mindfulness and meditation since 2000, and she has been teaching mindfulness since 2006, with a focus on the cultivation of self-awareness and wisdom, stress and pain management, and loving-kindness and compassion. At the foundation of her meditation practice and her teaching is the belief that mindfulness helps us grow a more skillful relationship to the present moment, thereby allowing us to show up more fully for the joys and sorrows of our lives, equally.

In addition to teaching Mindfulness and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) throughout UCSF, Nichole works in private practice as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and Certified Mindfulness Teacher, offering trauma-informed and mindfulness-based interventions to clients addressing a range of wellness issues, including acute anxiety and stress, addiction recovery, healing from trauma, chronic illness, and grief and loss. She also teaches workshops and retreats and offers mindfulness-based programs at various institutions and organizations throughout the Bay Area.

Education and Training

  • Somatic Experiencing and Trauma Therapy (SEP), Trauma Healing Institute
  • Certified Mindfulness Teacher-Professional (CMT-P), International Mindfulness Teachers Association
  • Certified Mindfulness Facilitator (CMF), Certification in Mindfulness Facilitation
    Mindful Awareness Research Center, Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior, UCLA
  • BA, Interdisciplinary Psychology, Fairhaven College, Western Washington University