Our scientific research shows that wellbeing can be learned.
The Healthy Minds Program Framework
Scientific research to train wellbeing is the foundation of all that we do.
The ground-breaking Healthy Minds Program uses neuroscience, contemplative traditions, and skill-based learning methods to help you develop the skills for a healthy mind. Translating pioneering neuroscience into tools for everyday life, our unique framework guides you through the four pillars of the science of training the mind for wellbeing.
Awareness
Be present. Train your mind to be more calm and focused with meditation training to strengthen mindfulness, attention, and self-awareness.
Connection
Feel connected. Develop skills to strengthen appreciation, kindness, and compassion through building connection skills.
Insight
Get curious. Learn how your sense of self shapes your emotions and reactions, and practice self-inquiry to decrease stress and emotional reactivity.
Purpose
Stay motivated. Strengthen your values and principles and learn simple skills to apply them in everyday life.
The Healthy Minds Program app has proven to be effective in the field.
General Study
This featured study found that the Healthy Minds Program app helped decrease stress by 28%, reduce symptoms of depression by 28% and anxiety by 18%, and increase social connection by 13%.*
Workplace
Completed by over 1,700 people, this Mindfulness in the Workplace Survey Report provides the most expansive and detailed examination of the state of mindfulness in the workplace ever conducted.
Educators
In this randomized controlled trial, Wisconsin educators will either receive four weeks of the Healthy Minds Program via the app or be assigned to a control condition where access to the program will be provided after data collection.
Students
Working in partnership with other academic institutions, the Center for Healthy Minds is creating and studying the impact of a wellbeing curriculum for college freshman, which includes use of the Healthy Minds Program app.
Firefighters
This is a pilot study aimed to learn what may decrease psychological distress and burnout in a sample of firefighters using the Healthy Minds Program app as the intervention.
