Healing the heart-mind with insight: a path to psychological freedom 8 module online course about insight meditation. This online course is based on the book “Healing the heart and mind with mindfulness: Ancient path, present moment” (Routledge 2016) authored by Malcolm Huxter. It integrates both contemporary psychology and ancient Buddhist perspectives.

What will you learn in this course?

• Understand the basics of the Buddha’s four establishments of mindfulness and insight meditation
• Understand and practice mindfulness as meditation as well as a way of being in daily life
• Understand and reduce the distressing experiences of stress, anxiety, and depression
• Understand and practice ways to heal and transform destructive thoughts, emotions, and psychological patterns to awakened, insightful, and serene ways of well-being
• Engage in practices that incline towards genuine happiness and away from unhelpful reactive habits

Who should take this course?

• This course is suitable for anyone, lay or professional, who aspires towards the above aims, though experience in meditation will be an advantage, it is not necessary
• This course will be suitable for those experiencing milder forms of stress, anxiety, and depression
• The course would also be helpful for therapists, educators, and program leaders wishing to broaden their skills and understanding
• Given the online nature of this course, it would not be suitable for those with psychiatric conditions who may need acute care

Facilitator: Malcolm Huxter is a clinical psychologist in private practice. A practicing psychologist for 30 years, he has been teaching mindfulness, insight, serenity, and the four divine abode meditation practices to the general public, a range of cultures, clinical populations, therapists, and other professionals since 1991. He began training in Buddhist meditation practices in 1975, living in Thailand as a Buddhist monk for two years in the late 1970s.