The mission of The UCLA Family Commons is to inspire families and communities to discover their unique potential for well-being. We offer a welcoming environment filled with classes, events, coaching and excitement about creating healthy, engaged lives.
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We envision a world where all possess the tools they need to move through the world with confidence and innovation—for life. Healthier families make stronger communities, and healthier communities make stronger families. When children and parents take charge of their own well-being, they build both.
Diana Winston
Diana Winston
Diana Winston is a Mindfulness Instructor at The UCLA Family Commons and the Director of Mindfulness Education at the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center. She brings a gentle, gradual, and secular approach to teaching mindfulness across the age spectrum. Diana has been teaching mindfulness since 1993 and has brought mindful awareness into schools, hospitals, and nonprofits, as well as to adolescents, seniors, leaders, teachers, activists, and health professionals in the US and Asia. She is the author of Wide Awake: A Buddhist Guide for Teens a member of the teacher's council at Spirit Rock Meditation Center.
Diana’s first child was born in early September, and she is doing a beautiful job of taking the time to experience being with her daughter. She will be back from maternity leave soon, and more information will be forthcoming at that time.