MLO 408: Cultivating MLO-Based Resilience
A Six-Week course from the “Art of Happiness” Series!
This is a preventative resilience course. Instead of picking oneself up after a catasrophe, loss, divorce, or other shocks, you learn to lessen the effects of these events. You develop qualities, skills, and capcities that prevent you from falling apart to begin with. To steadily be objective and make choices that are wise, kind, prevent most issues, and create success in whatever you do.
Instructor: Dr. Manijeh Motaghy, the Perfectly Here’s guiding teacher and the author of It’s Not Easy to Be Human: A Compassionate Journey and Guide to Optimize Human Potential, Achieve Fulfillment, and Systemic and Ecological Well-Being.
Overview:
The MLO-Based Resilience Course is a six week course covering important aspect of inner strenght that gives one resilience in the face of difficulty and uncertainty.
What is MLO-Based?
MLO (Mindful Life Optimization) refers to a methodology designed by Dr. Motaghy for human development, transformation, and life optimzation. MLO includes 60+ lessons compiling fundamental and essential perspectives, qualities, skills and capacities that all humans can benefit from. MLO is not only a compilation of lessons, it also includes a five-stage development process called the Human Software Optimization or HSO process. Any learning that is MLO-Based means that the learner benefits from having access to all these essential inner capacities and skills from one source.
What is Resilience?
Resilience is often described as the ability to bounce back after difficulty or to endure and push through while life gets tough.
MLO-Based resilience is more than enduring, pushing through, or returning to how things were. It is the inner capacity for clarity about what is happening, especially when things get tough. This clarity includes experiencing the hardship with a reasonable amount of emotional stability and responding with some level of courage, wisdom, and kindness to oneself and to everyone involved.
This six-week course, MLO 408: MLO-Based Resilience, draws from the Mindful Life Optimization™ lessons and methodology to help you strengthen such essential inner capacities.
Together, we will explore:
- Awareness and the how to of self-analysis
- Mental strength and courage
- Engaing wisely the superior powers of the heart
- Broadening perspective to the bigger picture of the situation and of life
- Practical ways to navigate change, uncertainty, and life transitions
Each session includes topics that prime participant’s perspectives, increase their life awareness, and courage to manage difficulties that come from change and transitions more effectively and with greater ease.
The MLO-Based Resilience Course Includes:
- Short lectures on MLO topics (see MLO Theory)
- Light meditation (no prior experience required)
- Question & Answers
- Community share and learning from one another
- Daily home practices
Choose the schedule that works for you:
- Six-Wednesdays beginning September 2nd, from 11:30 AM–1:00 PM, PT, In person or live on Zoom (Closed)
- Six-Thursdays beginning September 17, from 7:00–8:30 PM, PT, Live on Zoom
*No prior mindfulness or meditation experience is required.
For many years, I have attended numerous of Manijeh’s classes, retreats, and meditation sittings. These have been the catalysts and ongoing support for a continuing practice of mindful awareness, meditation, compassion, and loving-kindness. Manijeh’s depth of knowledge and wisdom have guided me in my journey of personal growth. Her offerings are an investment in self-care and self-love while promoting a peaceful global community.
~ Maria Vara, Educator and Sound Healer
Manijeh’s MLO teachings have helped increase accountability with myself, improve in habits/actions regarding our planet and increasingly become a better clinician. Her Life Optimization Method and approach exceed the training and education we’ve received to become therapists. It incorporates more depth into treatment regardless of diagnosis. It helps achieve a healthy happy lifestyle rather than just coping strategies/tools
~ Mary Aroyan, Psychotherapist
Instructor’s Bio
Dr. Manijeh Motaghy is the designer of the MLO (Mindful Life Optimization Methodology). She is an Organizational Psychologist and UCLA Affiliate Mindfulness Teacher. She is certified by NYU InnerMBA in creating Conscious Teams and Leaders. With over 15 years of deep Buddhist practice, over 800 courses and retreats helping thousands of people, she understand the inner-workings of the human mind and the causes for human suffering or happiness. She has trained teams and executives at fortune 500 companies such as Disney, Health Net, and Kaiser. She is a published author, It’s Not Easy to Be Human, written hundreds of blogs, and spoken at numerous conferences and summits and universities, globally.
Most importantly, Manijeh shares how she healed herself from her childhood traumas, adjusting to new cultures and systems as an immigrant, and the grief of losing her son, to living with an optimal inner peace and joy.
Manijeh’s ongoing personal practice, development, and Life Optimization Methodology continue to have a real positive impact on her students, clients, and the global community.
She is an AI Enthusiast and a blogger and contributor on the Planet Positive 2030 project for Stanford Advanced Technology for a Sustainable Planet, offering recommendations on how to address human transformation in order to achieve climate healing globally. Read more.
I’ve taken several of Manijeh’s MLO classes over the years, most recently her Art of Happiness courses and a day-long retreat, and I’ve always found her work genuinely helpful. What I like most is that what she teaches is practical. I can focus better, think more clearly when I’m dealing with something difficult, and I’m more patient with things. I’ve actually noticed those changes in myself.
My children have also taken Manijeh’s classes, and that means a lot to me. I’ve seen them benefit from her work in their own way, and I’m grateful that they’ve had that experience too. It’s one thing for something to help you personally, but it’s another to see your children get something valuable from it as well.
Manijeh is very knowledgeable, but she’s also warm, thoughtful, and easy to connect with. She has a way of explaining things that makes them feel useful in real life rather than abstract or overly complicated. I’m very grateful for everything I’ve learned from her, and I’m especially grateful that my children have had the chance to learn from her too. ~ Lisa Steinmetz
Studying Life Optimization with Manijeh, I’ve become a better leader and manager by integrating qualities of empathy, loving kindness, self-compassion, and equanimity into the workplace. My insomnia, stress, anxieties, and self-doubts have greatly diminished. I feel far more patient, aware and comfortable with myself.
~ Meryl Lander, VP of Operations, Global Tech Company
Certification Pathway:
Completion of this course series counts as some of the prerequisite courses to obtain the MLO Facilitation Certification, equipping participants with the foundational knowledge, experience, and growth to guide others on their journey of self-discovery and conscious living.
Understanding my mental patterns and expectations has expanded my horizon, from hopelessness to hopefulness. Watching the real me emerge, I am encouraged to expand out of my comfort zone, blossoming into living life fully.
~ Bonnie Janofsky, Composer
I am forever in debt to Manijeh. Her teachings have empowered me to push the boundaries of my comfort zone. My life has been immensely enriched. The practice of cultivating wisdom and wholesome qualities has brought me peace and happiness. Manijeh’s wide range of topics have increased my awareness and love for all living beings and our environment.
~ Randy Shultz, Entrepreneur