MBEL English | Oct 2026 | Asian Timezone
What is MBEL?
Mindfulness-Based Ethical Living (MBEL) explores how mindfulness can extend into the way we perceive situations, make decisions, relate to others, and act in everyday life.
MBEL is a guided online course for people with previous mindfulness experience who would like to take their practice beyond formal meditation and bring greater awareness, care, and responsibility into everyday situations.
At the heart of the course is a simple observation: our reactions and decisions are shaped by habitual patterns, often more than we realize.
Through mindfulness, reflection, and practice in everyday life, MBEL helps you notice these patterns, understand how they operate, and gradually open up different ways of responding. The course calls this the Ethical Habit Loop.
Over the course, you will explore how to:
- notice when something matters
- widen awareness to the situation and its context
- recognize reactive patterns as they begin to unfold
- clarify what matters and what you want your response to serve
- respond with greater care and responsibility
- learn from the consequences of your actions
In this way, mindfulness becomes not only a practice of awareness, but a way of seeing more clearly and responding more responsibly in everyday life.
Who is this course for?
MBEL is designed for people who:
- would like to extend their mindfulness practice into everyday life
- have already completed a mindfulness course such as MBSR, MBCT, or a comparable programme
- would like to recognize habitual reactions earlier and respond less automatically
- want to connect mindfulness with ethical responsibility, relationships, and everyday action
What MBEL is not
MBEL is not an introductory meditation course.
The foundations of mindfulness practice are assumed rather than taught from the beginning. Guided practices are part of every session, but the main focus is on bringing mindfulness into situations, relationships, decisions, and actions in everyday life.
Course format
Guided · Online · Nine live sessions
The course consists of one introductory session followed by eight course sessions.
Each live online session lasts 2 hours.
Between sessions, you will continue the practice through:
- guided audio practices
- brief everyday-life practices
- reflection exercises and worksheets
- written course materials
The emphasis is not on adding large amounts of practice time to your day. Much of the learning happens in ordinary situations as they occur.
Course fee
Regular fee: €240
Reduced fee: €120
The reduced fee is available for people on a low income.
We want MBEL to be accessible. You are welcome to choose the reduced fee without providing proof or an explanation.
Access to the course materials
Course materials are released week by week, in step with the live sessions.
They are not made available all at once before the course begins. This allows the course to unfold as intended: practice first, experience in everyday life, and then the next step.
You will retain access to the materials released during the programme.
- 02.12.2026
- 11:00 - 13:00
Local Time
- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: 02.12.2026
- Time: 5:00 - 7:00
- €240
- Online
Teachers / Facilitators/ Speakers
Atabey Sánchez-HaimanMindfulness TeacherAtabey Sánchez-Haiman is a biologist, pop artist and mindfulness based program teacher. From her Giraffes + Robots Pop Art & Mindfulness Studio she has created bright and playful pieces for schools, universities, hotels, toy stores, doctor’s offices and private homes.
She brings art and mindfulness to a wider audience through The Mind Bimble podcast, contributing to the growing field of neuroarts.
She teaches Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Mindful Self Compassion (MSC), Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Life (MBCT-L), Deeper Mindfulness, and Mindful Habit Change and facilitates weekly mindfulness practice and deep listening groups at Frazzled UK, Mindshift Recovery, and the Greater Good Science Center’s Flourishing Schools Program.
Atabey teaches and is part of the curriculum development and teacher training team at MBEL.
- Ayda DurouxMBEL Team - MBCT Teacher
Ayda is a medical doctor specialized in pediatric palliative care. Her path led from mindfulness to MBCT at Oxford, into early Buddhism, philosophy, and neuroscience. She co-founded of MBEL and volunteers with Mind & Life Europe, bridging science and contemplative wisdom in action.
Domenica Klinar AlfaroMBEL TeamDomenica Klinar Alfaro is a psychotherapist and educator with a Master’s degree in Cognitive Clinical Psychology from Universidad de Belgrano, Argentina. She has been working as a therapist since 2011, integrating evidence-based psychotherapy with mindfulness and compassion practices. Her work focuses on personal growth, emotional wellbeing, life transitions, and the relationship between inner development and human connection.
Domenica is particularly interested in how mindfulness and compassion can extend beyond individual wellbeing to shape the way we relate to ourselves, others, and the wider world. She explores ethical living as an embodied and relational process, where awareness, compassion, responsibility, and our everyday choices are deeply interconnected. She is the creator of ROOTABILIA, a concept exploring rootedness, belonging, and connection in times of change and migration. She is currently involved in the development of Mindfulness Based Ethical Living (MBEL).
Heea YangMBEL TeamDr. Heea Yang, PhD, is a counselor, educator, and leadership guide with over 20 years of experience in trauma recovery, stress resilience, and contemplative practice, integrating somatic and body-based approaches, meditation, and self-inquiry to support whole-person development.
Since 2008, she has led leadership and wellness programs for executives as founder of the Carpe Diem Healing Art Institute in South Korea. She now directs the Carpe Diem Counseling & Coaching Center in Turin, Italy, working with individuals, couples, and the international school community as a wellbeing educator, drawing on over 30 years of cross-traditional study in contemplative traditions.
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