Unified Mindfulness

Unified Mindfulness

Pathways

The Mindfulness Coach Training That Transforms How You Teach

By the time you complete Pathways, you won't be wondering if you're ready to work with students.

You'll have already been doing it — with expert guidance — for five months.

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Next cohort begins January 31st · 20 spots available

That's the Transformation

Not just knowledge. Not just certification. Genuine skill you've developed through practice.

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"You become a mindfulness coach who's genuinely ready to serve students — and you have everything you need to do it well."

Why the Unified Mindfulness Approach Works

Most mindfulness training fails for a simple reason — it teaches techniques as if the technique itself is the point.

Do body scanning. Focus on your breath. Follow this specific protocol. And if a student doesn't connect with that particular technique? They assume meditation "isn't for them."

As a teacher, you're stuck. You know mindfulness could help this person, but you've only got one or two techniques in your toolkit.

The Unified Mindfulness system works differently.

You're learning what's actually being trained underneath any meditation practice:

Concentration

The ability to focus on what you deem relevant

Sensory Clarity

The ability to track what you're experiencing in real time

Equanimity

The ability to let experiences come and go without push or pull

The UM system has 40 standard techniques that cover every possible sensory experience. Not because you need to memorize 40 practices, but because you're learning the principles deeply enough that you can work with whatever experience your student is actually having.

A corporate executive between meetings. A therapy client working with difficult emotions. An athlete preparing for competition. Same foundational principles — different applications because you understand what's actually happening beneath the surface.

What You're Actually Learning

12 weeks of live instruction, 90 minutes every Saturday. From week one, you're not just learning — you're teaching.

Weeks 1-4: Foundation Techniques

Master the core UM techniques that address the most immediate client needs — anxiety relief, stress management, and cultivating positive states.

Weeks 1-4: Foundation Techniques

Learn to guide flow states, work with challenging experiences, and teach movement-based practices.

Weeks 1-4: Foundation Techniques

Develop the coaching skills that let you adapt to whoever's sitting across from you.

Weeks 1-4: Foundation Techniques

Teach a complete 8-week UM course with full instructor support — to one person or a group, in whatever setting makes sense for y

Week by Week Breakdown

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Who This Training Serves

Pathways is designed for professionals who've hit the limits of rigid, protocol-focused approaches to mindfulness.

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What all of these professionals share: you've seen the limitations of approaches that treat techniques as if the technique itself is the point. You understand there's something deeper happening — actual trainable skills being developed.

Before You Apply

Complete Foundations training before starting (required)
Ready for experiential training — you'll be teaching from week one
Willing to commit 4-5 hours/week (class + study group + homework)
Open to giving and receiving feedback

What You Receive as a Graduate

When you finish the program, you become a Certified Unified Mindfulness Coach.

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But here's what you're really receiving:

The confidence to actually do this work
RThe skills to serve your students effectively
The framework to adapt to whoever's in front of you
A community that supports you as you grow

The People Behind This Training

When you finish the program, you become a Certified Unified Mindfulness Coach.

Julianna Raye

CEO & Head Trainer of Unified Mindfulness, Creator of Foundations, Pathways & Compass

Julianna has completed more than 150 weeks of immersive silent training in both mindfulness and Zen traditions — over 20,000 hours of formal practice. She's devoted her work to making research-supported mindfulness accessible and empowering people to guide others in its practice.

Don McCormick

Director of Education, Ph.D.

Don completed his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior at Case Western Reserve University in 1985 and has been studying mindfulness with Shinzen Young since then. He's a pioneer in workplace mindfulness and spirituality in professional settings. He's particularly passionate about using scientifically supported teaching methods — which is exactly what you'll experience in Pathways.

Your Instructors & Mentors

Certified UM Trainers who've completed the full certification journey — Foundations, Pathways, and our year-long Compass training program. They're not distant experts. They're practitioners who've walked the path you're about to walk. They know the challenges because they've faced them.

What Graduates Are Saying

We've trained mindfulness coaches since 2017. Hundreds of practitioners have completed Pathways and gone on to teach in therapy practices, wellness centers, schools, and coaching businesses.

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The Investment

Five months of structured training where you're not just learning content — you're developing teaching skills through repeated practice with expert feedback.

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A note on class times: Since we have students joining from around the world, we don't set the Saturday class time in advance. Instead, we wait to see where registrants are located, then choose a time that works best for the group as a whole.

How To Apply

Five months of structured training where you're not just learning content — you're developing teaching skills through repeated practice with expert feedback.

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By May, You Won't Be Wondering

You'll have practiced teaching in every session. You'll have worked with different students, received expert feedback, refined your approach, and completed an 8-week practicum where you delivered a full mindfulness program under supervision.

For those considering the full certification path, completing Pathways this spring positions you to join Compass in September — our year-long advanced training that leads to full UM Teacher certification.

Cohort begins January 31st

New Year's pricing ends January 4th

Your Instructor for the January 2024 Pathways Cohort (P24)

Kristen Connolly

I began practicing mindfulness meditation more than 20 years ago while working as a deadline-oriented, stressed-out journalist.

Early on, I had an obvious, but profound realization: The more I meditated, the better my life became. Mindfulness was like a multi-faceted jewel that made every aspect of my life sparkle. And the ease, clarity, and joy I drew from meditating inspired me to share mindfulness with others, both young and old.

As a mother, I recognized the value of teaching mindfulness to kids, teens, and families. As a former associate editor and staff writer for Forbes magazine, I saw the importance of bringing mindfulness within corporations and other settings to teach adults. Over the years, I’ve also realized the deep benefits of working intimately with individuals, coaching them one-on-one, and guiding them in their practice.

My training and teaching experience reflect the breadth of those pursuits.

Along with being a UM Level 2 coach, I’m also a certified mindfulness facilitator trained through UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center and a senior teacher with Inner Kids, an organization founded on the pioneering work of mindfulness educator Susan Kaiser Greenland. I’m also part of Unified Mindfulness’ yearlong Compass training.

I teach classes for UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center and eMindful, a leading provider of online mindfulness programming. I also work with schools and universities, teaching students, faculty, and administrators mindfulness and designing curricula to implement in school-wide programs. My work for corporations and organizations includes T Mobile, Northern Trust, the City of Hope, Korn Ferry, Intuit, the Broad Center, Orrick, the University of Virginia, and others. And last but not at all least, I teach Unified Mindfulness classes, coach clients one-on-one, and work as a Pathways Lead coach and Support coach.

I continue to write, and my journalistic curiosity and storytelling influence my teaching and coaching. So, too, does the belief that mediation practice ought to reach beyond the cushion to help us become more fulfilled and compassionate toward others and ourselves in our daily lives.

The Unified Mindfulness system has helped me do just that, and I’ve found the techniques and skills I’ve acquired through Shinzen Young’s wisdom life changing.

A quote from author Winifred Gallagher serves as an overarching promise of what I hope to offer those who work with me. She writes:

“Paying rapt attention, whether to a trout stream or a novel, a do-it-yourself-project or a prayer, increases your capacity for concentration, expands your inner boundaries, and lifts your spirits, but more important, it simply makes you feel life is worth living.”

To learn more about Kelly, go here.

Bob Chiang

Bob Chiang is a UK-based UM Mindfulness L2 Coach . Being born and raised in Singapore, he experienced a rich and diverse environment, drawing on the varied influences of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Christianity. He later lived in Kuwait for seven years, before moving to Scotland, and then finally settling in Derbyshire, England. Living in so many varied places cultivated an appreciation for the beauty and diversity of different cultures and people.

Bob enjoys connecting with and interacting with people, and exploring the areas of life that speak to our deeper selves. This has led him to pursue his vocation as a Mindfulness Coach. He works with people from all walks of life, through one-to-one mindfulness coaching or through courses he runs for the corporate sector. In particular, he finds the techniques in Unified Mindfulness to be useful and effective in helping people to be happy and fulfilled. In his sessions, he brings warmth, patience, and a touch of humor. Alongside his practice as a Mindfulness Coach, he has an ongoing interest in mindful approaches to the experiences of those in hospices and for the end of life. He also teaches Tai Chi Chuan and is a bodyworker.

To learn more about Bob, go here.

Robert McClure

Robert McClure is a Certified Mindfulness Facilitator and instructor at UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center. He is also a Certified Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) teacher for Stanford University Center for Compassion, Altruism, Research and Education (CCARE).

He is a Human Resources Consultant at Sharp HealthCare in San Diego CA and teaches mindfulness and compassion skills to healthcare professionals. Bob teaches a system of mindfulness training that develops the skills of attention, clarity, and balance not just in meditation but to enhance every moment of your daily life

To learn more about Bob, go here.

Our Guarantee

Our 100%, No-Questions-Asked Refund.

It goes without saying that we fully stand behind the Pathways training program.

We also acknowledge and honor your commitment to "do the work" necessary to help share the gift of mindfulness with others.

So your Pathways tuition is 100% refundable until the start of this next cohort or 6 months from your registration date, whichever comes first.

After this date, your registration will be deferred and applied to a future cohort of your choosing.

Have Questions About Pathways? Let's Talk

If you'd like to connect to discuss any aspects of the Pathways program, then please schedule a call, and let's connect! Just follow the instructions to schedule time - it's fast and easy.

Thanks! I look forward to connecting.

Dave Dennis

Co-Founder | Unified Mindfulness

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Unified Mindfulness

A comprehensive, systematic approach to mindfulness — developed over 50+ years.

Unified Mindfulness

Pathways

The Mindfulness Coach Training That Transforms How You Teach

By the time you complete Pathways, you won't be wondering if you're ready to work with students.

You'll have already been doing it — with expert guidance — for five months.

Next cohort begins January 31st · 20 spots available

That's the Transformation

Not just knowledge. Not just certification. Genuine skill you've developed through practice.

"You become a mindfulness coach who's genuinely ready to serve students — and you have everything you need to do it well."

Why the Unified Mindfulness Approach Works

Most mindfulness training fails for a simple reason — it teaches techniques as if the technique itself is the point.

The Unified Mindfulness system works differently.

You're learning what's actually being trained underneath any meditation practice:

Concentration

The ability to focus on what you deem relevant

Sensory Clarity

The ability to track what you're experiencing in real time

Equanimity

The ability to let experiences come and go without push or pull

What You're Actually Learning

12 weeks of live instruction, 90 minutes every Saturday. From week one, you're not just learning — you're teaching.

Weeks 1-4: Foundation Techniques

Master the core UM techniques that address the most immediate client needs — anxiety relief, stress management, and cultivating positive states.

Weeks 1-4: Foundation Techniques

Learn to guide flow states, work with challenging experiences, and teach movement-based practices.

Weeks 1-4: Foundation Techniques

Develop the coaching skills that let you adapt to whoever's sitting across from you.

Weeks 1-4: Foundation Techniques

Teach a complete 8-week UM course with full instructor support — to one person or a group, in whatever setting makes sense for y

Week by Week Breakdown

Who This Training Serves

Pathways is designed for professionals who've hit the limits of rigid, protocol-focused approaches to mindfulness.

What all of these professionals share: you've seen the limitations of approaches that treat techniques as if the technique itself is the point. You understand there's something deeper happening — actual trainable skills being developed.

Before You Apply

What You Receive as a Graduate

When you finish the program, you become a Certified Unified Mindfulness Coach.

But here's what you're really receiving:

The People Behind This Training

When you finish the program, you become a Certified Unified Mindfulness Coach.

Julianna Raye

CEO & Head Trainer of Unified Mindfulness, Creator of Foundations, Pathways & Compass

Julianna has completed more than 150 weeks of immersive silent training in both mindfulness and Zen traditions — over 20,000 hours of formal practice. She's devoted her work to making research-supported mindfulness accessible and empowering people to guide others in its practice.

Don McCormick

Director of Education, Ph.D.

Your Instructors & Mentors

Certified UM Trainers who've completed the full certification journey — Foundations, Pathways, and our year-long Compass training program. They're not distant experts. They're practitioners who've walked the path you're about to walk. They know the challenges because they've faced them.

What Graduates Are Saying

We've trained mindfulness coaches since 2017. Hundreds of practitioners have completed Pathways and gone on to teach in therapy practices, wellness centers, schools, and coaching businesses.

The Investment

Five months of structured training where you're not just learning content — you're developing teaching skills through repeated practice with expert feedback.

A note on class times: Since we have students joining from around the world, we don't set the Saturday class time in advance. Instead, we wait to see where registrants are located, then choose a time that works best for the group as a whole.

How To Apply

Five months of structured training where you're not just learning content — you're developing teaching skills through repeated practice with expert feedback.

By May, You Won't Be Wondering

Cohort begins January 31st New Year's pricing ends January 4th

Your Instructor for the January 2024 Pathways Cohort (P24)

Kristen Connolly

Bob Chiang

Robert McClure

Our Guarantee

Have Questions About Pathways? Let's Talk

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Cohort begins January 31st

New Year's pricing ends January 4th