Mindfulness and Resilience to Stress at Work
- Free to audit
- Paid certificate
- Beginner
- 4 weeks
Mindfulness and Resilience to Stress at Work is a four-week BerkeleyX course taught by Dacher Keltner and Emiliana Simon-Thomas of UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center. It begins with how stress impairs performance and well-being at work and damages organisations, separates healthy stress from toxic stress and shows how to use the former, then turns to the evidence on mindfulness as a route to resilience, innovation and team spirit, closing with research-based strategies for cultivating mindfulness personally and across an organisation. Guarding against burnout is a stated goal. edX lists it as introductory and self-paced at one to two hours a week.
The course page names GG101x The Science of Happiness and GG201x The Foundations of Happiness at Work as prerequisites. Auditing is free for the course's estimated length in weeks from the day you enrol and does not include graded assignments or a certificate; the verified certificate costs $199. Teaching is in English with English transcripts.
What you’ll learn
- Describe how stress undermines performance and well-being at work and harms organisations
- Distinguish healthy from toxic stress and put the healthy kind to use
- Explain how mindfulness builds resilience and supports innovation and team spirit
- Apply research-based strategies to cultivate mindfulness in yourself and your organisation
Who it’s for
Working people who want a short, research-led course on stress and mindfulness and have already taken the prerequisite happiness courses.
Instructors
- Dacher Keltner Director, Greater Good Science Center
- Emiliana Simon-Thomas Science Director, Greater Good Science Center
Course details
- Skills covered
- Marketing
- Scientific Studies
- Learning Platforms
- Resilience
- Psychology
- Case Study
- Program Management
- Stress Management
- Biology
- Prerequisites
- GG101x: The Science of Happiness GG201x: Foundations of Happiness at Work
- Subtitles
- 1 language
On edx.org
Rated 4.7 out of 5 by 27 learners; 60,394 enrolled, as shown on the course page on 20 Oct 2026. These are edx.org’s own figures, not ours.
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