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In less than an hour a week, Dr. Hanson will show you how to
cope with life’s challenges by growing these 12 Strengths for Well-Being:
Compassion
Get on your own side
and develop self-worth.
Mindfulness
Steady your mind and become
more focused and aware.
Learning
Take in the good.
Grit
Be more determined.
Gratitude
Find beauty and
pleasure in what you do have.
Confidence
Let go of shame and satisfy
your three core needs.
Calm
Cool your anger and
become more relaxed.
Motivation
Incline your mind toward your
wholesome desires.
Intimacy
Create better relationships.
Courage
Rise to Challenges.
Aspiration
Deal with fears so you
can realize your dreams.
Generosity
Resource yourself to
have more to offer the world.
Memorial Day Half-Off Sale
(Ends Midnight May 30)
In less than an hour a week, Dr. Hanson will show you how to cope with life’s challenges by growing these 12 Strengths for Well-Being:
Compassion
Get on your own side
and develop self-worth.
Mindfulness
Steady your mind and
be more focused.
Learning
Take in the good and
grow beneficial traits.
Grit
Be more determined
for yourself.
Gratitude
Appreciate what
you already have.
Confidence
Let to of shame and
satisfy your core needs.
Calm
Cool your anger and
become more relaxed.
Motivation
Incline your mind toward
your wholesome desires.
Intimacy
Connect and improve
your relationships.
Courage
Rise to challenges and
become more assertive.
Aspiration
Deal with fears so you
can realize your dreams.
Generosity
Resource yourself to have
more to offer others.
Memorial Day Half-Off Sale
(Ends Midnight May 30)
Because our brains are like Velcro for the bad and Teflon for the good, bad experiences such as frustration, worry, and stress tend to “stick” to us more, getting quickly wired into our nervous system.
To beat this negativity bias, Dr. Hanson will teach you powerful methods — using the science of positive neuroplasticity — for turning good experiences like mindfulness, self-compassion, and confidence into lasting inner strengths that stick with us.
Memorial Day Half-Off Sale
(Ends Midnight May 30)
Because our brains are like Velcro for the bad and Teflon for the good, bad experiences such as frustration, worry, and stress tend to “stick” to us more, getting quickly wired into our nervous system.
To beat this negativity bias, Dr. Hanson will teach you powerful methods — using the science of positive neuroplasticity — for turning good experiences like mindfulness, self-compassion, and confidence into lasting inner strengths that stick with us.
Memorial Day Half-Off Sale
(Ends Midnight May 30)
In this structured, step-by-step program, Dr. Rick Hanson will send you
new content each week, teaching you new ways to feel more peaceful, content, and loved with:
Inspiring Talks
giving you insights and practical tools for
your brain, mind, and relationships
Guided Meditations
to hardwire helpful, healing changes
into your nervous system
Self-Assessments
to learn new things about yourself
and simple ways to be happier
Guest Expert Interviews
with 30+ leading scholars and teachers
including Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield, Sharon Salzberg, Rhonda Freeman, Gretchen Rubin, and Jack Dan Siegel
Creative Activities
to use all of your brain for
more healing, learning, and growing
Supportive Community
with member forums
and discussion threads
Weekly Reminders
inspiring emails to keep
you motivated and on track
Printable Handouts and Downloadable Files
so you can keep growing at
your own pace, wherever you go
PLUS:
Lifetime Access, a 30-day Money-Back Guarantee, and
20 CE Credits* for Mental Health Professionals
*Additional Fee Applies. Click here for more information.
In this structured, step-by-step program, Dr. Rick Hanson will send you new content each week, teaching you new ways to feel more peaceful, content, and loved with:
Inspiring Talks
giving you insights and practical tools for your brain, mind, and relationships
Guided Meditations
to hardwire helpful, healing changes into your nervous system
Self-Assessments
to learn new things about yourself and simple ways to be happier
Guest Expert Interviews
with 30+ leading scholars and teachers including Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield, Sharon Salzberg, Rhonda Freeman, Gretchen Rubin, and Dan Siegel
Creative Activities
to use all of your brain for more healing, learning, and growing
Supportive Community
with member forums, discussion threads, and access to a private Facebook group
Weekly Reminders
via inspiring emails to keep you motivated and on track
Printable Transcripts and Downloadable Files
so you can review the teachings at your own pace, wherever you go
PLUS:
Lifetime Access, a 30-day Money-Back Guarantee, and 20 CE Credits* for Mental Health Professionals
*Additional Fee Applies. Click here for more information.
Surveyed participants in the original Foundations of Well-Being program experienced significant increases in:
Every week, Dr. Rick Hanson will support you through an enjoyable, effective, and warmhearted year of growing the inner strengths you need most.
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30-DAY MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE
Try the Foundations of Well-Being risk-free. Not happy with it in the first 30 days? We’ll send you a full refund.
GROUP AND BUDDY PROGRAMS
Save 15% when you sign up with a buddy or a group. Fill out our group form to get started.
FULL AND HALF SCHOLARSHIPS
For those who are unable to pay for the Foundations of Well-Being program, please see our scholarship information.
We want to provide great resources that are accessible and affordable to anyone with an internet connection, and do what we can to help the world become a better place.
The Foundations program is for the general public, with special benefits for coaches, counselors, educators, healthcare professionals, and human resources trainers.
We encourage you to take this program at your own pace, and to the depth that works best for you and your life. That being said, about an hour or two a week is plenty of time to get the primary benefits of the program. And you can always dive in more deeply if you like. Plus you can go back and explore the Foundations offerings any time you want. This program is designed to be flexible, so that different people can easily adapt it to their needs.
There is nothing that’s clear about the “dosing effect” of social-emotional practices (broadly defined), such as the ones in the Foundations program, other than the general principles of:
• the greater the frequency of practices, the greater the lasting effects seem to be
• the more depth of experience during a practice, the greater the lasting effects seem to be
• if one were going to spend, say, 60 minutes a week in experiential practice, six 10-minute practices would likely have more impact than one 60 minute practice (though sometimes a long deep practice that draws someone into deep absorption can be very powerful)
• there are individual differences, so that a person just needs to try different approaches and find the one(s) that work best for oneself
No, it is not.
This is an educational program, not treatment for any physical or mental health condition. Participants take responsibility for their own experience in the program, and Rick Hanson, his staff, and the guest experts do not have a professional relationship with them.
We welcome your comments and questions. We’ll let you know we received your question or comment, but please know that in a program of this size, it is just not possible for us to offer an individual reply.
Dr. Hanson really believes that no one is too wounded to improve. It’s really just a matter of finding the practices that work for you. The Foundations of Well-Being certainly has the potential to be of value to anyone – regardless of their history – and if you find that it is not beneficial, we of course would be happy to give you a full refund.
MBSR is a wonderful, 8-week program in mindfulness.
The Foundations of Well-Being is a comprehensive program in the methods of positive brain change applied to growing 12 vital mental resources, one of which is mindfulness. There are 72 guided practices in the Foundations of Well-Being (Dr. Rick Hanson’s guided meditations/practices, plus the creative activities), and we love it when people do them daily – but busy people can engage the heart of the program in just an hour or so a week for twelve months, and we also set it up so that people can go through it at their own pace.
Like almost all other self-help books or programs, the Foundations of Well-Being program is very much a “do-it-yourself” process, and is not set up to offer individualized support or counsel for participants – especially not in live conversation with Dr. Hanson or our staff.
We do realize that this could be disappointing, but with over 20,000 participants and growing, we trust that you can understand our stance here.
In lieu of live phone support, the program does contain extensive guidance for how to engage with it, and member forums to seek out support from others.
You bet. If you decide that this program is not for you, just tell us at foundations@rickhanson.net within 30 days of purchasing the program, (or within 30 days of the program beginning, if you signed up before it began) and we’ll give you a full refund.
If you decided to do the program with a buddy (which we highly suggest!), then you will get the 15% discount applied to whichever payment option you choose.
In order to get the group discount, you will need to fill out the form on this page.
We operate on the honor system. If someone can afford this, then we hope they will pay it. On the other hand, if this fee is a hardship (as it could be for students, the disabled, elderly people on a small fixed income, folks who are unemployed or on public assistance, or many people in third world countries), then most definitely we want the person to apply for a partial or full scholarship.
We believe there is value in not looking too far ahead, so we’ll be starting on January 1, 2023, releasing content one week at a time through 2023.
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To get a sense of the potential benefits of the Foundations of Well-Being program, we sent out a voluntary survey to participants before they began the program and then many months later, letting us make “before” and “after” comparisons. The survey consisted of ten well-established psychological measures that are listed in the Table of Results, and it was analyzed with standard statistical methods.
In sum, participants reported significant improvements in every single area that we assessed. In particular, they described becoming more mindful, self-compassionate, satisfied with life, and grateful, with increased happiness, self-esteem, and a sense of connection with others. They also reported less anxiety, loneliness, and depression.
Our findings showed that education did not impact the program outcomes, which supports the idea that this program is useful for everyone regardless of educational attainment.
We are really pleased with these results, and very glad that the Foundations of Well-Being program can be helpful to people.
Dr. Ramani Durvasula is a licensed clinical psychologist, author, and expert on the impact of toxic narcissism. She is a Professor of Psychology at California State University, Los Angeles, and also a Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg.
The focus of Dr. Ramani’s clinical, academic, and consultative work is the etiology and impact of narcissism and high-conflict, entitled, antagonistic personality styles on human relationships, mental health, and societal expectations. She has spoken on these issues to clinicians, educators, and researchers around the world.
She is the author of Should I Stay or Should I Go: Surviving a Relationship With a Narcissist, and Don't You Know Who I Am? How to Stay Sane in an Era of Narcissism, Entitlement, and Incivility. Her work has been featured at SxSW, TEDx, and on a wide range of media platforms including Red Table Talk, the Today Show, Oxygen, Investigation Discovery, and Bravo, and she is a featured expert on the digital media mental health platform MedCircle. Dr. Durvasula’s research on personality disorders has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and she is a Consulting Editor of the scientific journal Behavioral Medicine.
Dr. Stephen Porges is a Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, and Professor Emeritus at both the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Maryland. He is a former president of the Society for Psychophysiological Research and has been president of the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, and Cognitive Sciences, which represents approximately twenty-thousand biobehavioral scientists. He’s led a number of other organizations and received a wide variety of professional awards.
In 1994 he proposed the Polyvagal Theory, a theory that links the evolution of the mammalian autonomic nervous system to social behavior and emphasizes the importance of physiological states in the expression of behavioral problems and psychiatric disorders. The theory is leading to innovative treatments based on insights into the mechanisms mediating symptoms observed in several behavioral, psychiatric, and physical disorders, and has had a major impact on the field of psychology.
Dr. Porges has published more than 300 peer-reviewed papers across a wide array of disciplines. He’s also the author of several books including The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-regulation.
Dr. Bruce Perry is the Principal of the Neurosequential Network, Senior Fellow of The ChildTrauma Academy, and a Professor (Adjunct) in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago and the School of Allied Health at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. From 1993 to 2001 he was the Thomas S. Trammell Research Professor of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine and chief of psychiatry at Texas Children's Hospital.
He’s one of the world’s leading experts on the impact of trauma in childhood, and his work on the impact of abuse, neglect, and trauma on the developing brain has impacted clinical practice, programs, and policy across the world. His work has been instrumental in describing how traumatic events in childhood change the biology of the brain.
Dr. Perry's most recent book, What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing, co-authored with Oprah Winfrey, was released earlier this year. Dr. Perry is also the author, with Maia Szalavitz, of The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog, a bestselling book based on his work with maltreated children, and Born For Love: Why Empathy is Essential and Endangered. Additionally, he’s authored more than 300 journal articles and book chapters and has been the recipient of a variety of professional awards.
Dr. Allison Briscoe-Smith is a child clinical psychologist who specializes in trauma and issues of race. She earned her undergraduate degree from Harvard and then received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. She performed postdoctoral work at the University of California San Francisco/San Francisco General Hospital. She has combined her love of teaching and advocacy by serving as a professor and by directing mental health programs for children experiencing trauma, homelessness, or foster care.
Dr. Briscoe-Smith is also a senior fellow of Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center and is both a professor and the Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the Wright Institute. She provides consultation and training to nonprofits and schools on how to support trauma-informed practices and cultural accountability.
Sharon Salzberg is a world-renowned teacher and New York Times bestselling author. She is widely considered one of the most influential individuals in bringing mindfulness practices to the West, and co-founded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts alongside Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein. Sharon has been a student of Dipa Ma, Anagarika Munindra, and Sayadaw U Pandita alongside other masters.
Sharon has authored 10 books, and is the host of the fantastic Metta Hour podcast. She was a contributing editor of Oprah’s O Magazine, had her work featured in Time and on NPR, and contributed to panels alongside the Dalai Lama.
Rick Hanson, PhD is a psychologist, Senior Fellow of UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, and New York Times best-selling author. His books have been published in 29 languages and include Neurodharma, Resilient, Hardwiring Happiness, Buddha’s Brain, Just One Thing, and Mother Nurture – with 900,000 copies in English alone. His free newsletters have 215,000 subscribers and his online programs have scholarships available for those with financial need. He’s lectured at NASA, Google, Oxford, and Harvard, and taught in meditation centers worldwide. An expert on positive neuroplasticity, his work has been featured on the BBC, CBS, NPR, and other major media. He began meditating in 1974 and is the founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom. He and his wife live in northern California and have two adult children. He loves wilderness and taking a break from emails.
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