TEACHING & PROGRAMS

Go deeper with Mitra.

From organizational training programs and executive workshops to live classes, on demand courses, and private coaching — every format is built around one practice. Attentionism.

LIVE WITH MITRA

Live Classes & Events.

Mitra teaches regularly at UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center and select venues online. She also hosts Contemplative Art Viewing Sessions at the Fowler Museum at UCLA and online. All live events are open to all levels. No prior experience needed.

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LIVE CLASS

Mindful Awareness — Weekly Class

With Mitra Manesh

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Mindful Awareness — Weekly Class

With Mitra Manesh

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Art Viewing

Contemplative Art Viewing Session

Intersections: World Arts/Local Lives

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Art Viewing Online

Contemplative Art Viewing Session — Online

With Mitra Manesh

UCLA Mindful Awareness

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ON-DEMAND COURSES

Learn at your own pace.

These are real courses — recorded live, with real students, and all the warmth that comes with that. There are eleven courses in all. Each one is a complete journey into a different dimension of living more consciously. And each one includes home practices to carry the work into your daily life. Start with whatever calls you, or dive into the whole library.

Single course — $55 · Full library — $333

Course testimonials

These beautiful tools for mindful living are precious gifts that I will use and share with others for the rest of my life.

Chris C.

Thank you for helping me regain my own power. You have taught me to live in a way that I desired but did not know how.

Faranak H.

love everything about your style of teaching — your kind and patient presence, your playful and thoughtful way of using language and metaphors to convey deep meaning.

Steven B.

Words spoken by you carry depth with grace and kindness, courage and truth. Thank you for this transformative life affirming experience.

Damilya B.

Thank you for giving me back the key.

Clyde B.

Thank you for opening a whole new way of being.

Carlota S.

FOR ORGANIZATIONS & TEAMS

Organizational Program

The most common challenge in any workplace is not strategy, technology, or even communication. It is attention — scattered, reactive, and rarely directed with intention.

Mitra works with organizations to change that.

Through workshops and training programs designed specifically for your people and your culture, she gives employees and leaders practical tools to work with greater focus, communicate with greater clarity, and navigate change with greater steadiness.

Programs are available in person and online, as a single session or an ongoing series. Each one is shaped around what your organization actually needs.

Topics:

We live in a world engineered to steal our attention. The cost is not just distraction — it is identity, direction, and the capacity to lead. This talk reveals how the attention economy works, what it costs us, and what it means to reclaim the most powerful currency we have.

Audience Takeaways
  • Understand how attention shapes perception, identity, and decision-making
  • Recognize the patterns of unconscious attention spending
  • Leave with a practical framework for reclaiming attention at work and in life
Duration45 min / 60 min / 90 min
DeliveryIn-person or virtual
Ideal forLeadership summits, annual conferences
Q&AOptional · Recommended
FeeContact for fees
FormatKeynote · Workshop available
Audience size50 – 5,000+
CustomizationYes — industry & audience specific
LanguagesEnglish

Reactive leadership is costing organizations more than they know — in culture, retention, and results. This talk gives leaders a new map: one that starts with attention, moves through conscious choice, and ends with deliberate action aligned with intention.

Audience Takeaways
  • Distinguish reactive leadership from conscious leadership — and why it matters now
  • Understand the role of fear in organizational culture and decision-making
  • A practical model: Attention → Choice → Creation applied to leadership
Duration60 min / 90 min / Half-day workshop
DeliveryIn-person or virtual
Ideal forCorporate events, L&D programs
Q&AOptional · Recommended
FeeContact for fees
FormatKeynote · Workshop · Executive retreat
Audience size10 – 500 · Boardroom to ballroom
CustomizationYes — organizational context integrated
LanguagesEnglish

The most personal and most universal of Mitra's talks. It begins with a question: what if the life you're living isn't the one you chose? Through story, science, and Attentionism, this keynote takes audiences from the automatic life to the conscious one — and gives them the tools to stay there.

Audience Takeaways
  • Understand the difference between surviving and consciously creating
  • See the frightened mind clearly — without judgment, with compassion
  • Leave with one practice to begin directing attention knowingly
Duration60 min / 90 min
DeliveryIn-person · Virtual available
Ideal forWellness events, cultural gatherings
Q&AOptional · Recommended
FeeContact for fees
FormatKeynote · Community event · Festival
Audience sizeAny size · Intimate to festival scale
CustomizationYes — community context integrated
LanguagesEnglish

TRUSTED BY LEADING ORGANIZATIONS

amazon

"Mitra's work brought immediate clarity to our leadership team. The tools are practical and the impact is lasting.

Sarah Mitchell

VP of People & Culture, Amazon

UNILEVER

"This program shifted how our executives think about attention and decision-making. Highly recommend.

David Chen

Global Head of Learning, Unilever

KPMG

"Mitra brings a rare combination of depth and practicality. Our partners found it transformative.

Jennifer Williams

Managing Director, KPMG

The complete journey

The Attentionist Program.

Three months. One philosophy. A new way of being.

The most complete individual Attentionism experience available. Over three months — fully at your own pace — you move through the complete arc of Attentionism: from clarifying where you are, to clearing what stands in the way, to creating a fresh way of being and doing.

Month 1Clarify · Where you are and where you want to go.
Month 2Clear · What stands in the way. The stories. The patterns. The unconscious questions.
Month 3Create · A fresh way of being and doing. Intention, attention, and action aligned.
Fully self-paced — start any time. Move at the speed that serves you.
What's included
Full access to The Attentionism Course Library
Structured 3-month guided path
Reflection exercises and practice tools
Lifetime access to all program materials
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One-time program investment
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ONE ON ONE · ONLINE

Attentionist Coaching.

Private coaching sessions with Mitra — online, one on one, and entirely confidential. All sessions
are on Zoom. Available anywhere in the world.

Mitra provides online Attentionist Personal Coaching. She helps you see the deeper and bigger picture of your choices more clearly, from where you are now to where you would like to be.

Mitra's role in this context is a trusted and confidential sounding board, an honest and supportive partner who helps you peacefully navigate your life choices and achieve your most rewarding goals for a happier life.

You can access this service anywhere in the world. All you need is a computer or smartphone, an internet connection, and a desire to be happier and lead a more mindful life.

Mitra has a non-negotiable 24-hour cancellation policy with full payment for no-shows and last-minute cancellations.

Each session includes

Short opening meditation

Your personal check-in

Coaching process and Q&A

Written summary of 3 main points — delivered the following day

Duration50 minutes
FormatZoom only · Available worldwide
Cancellation24-hour policy · Full payment for no-shows

Attentionist Executive Coaching is distinct from other types of coaching. It guides you through knowing yourself better, realizing your wider options, and making mindful choices that add to the health, wealth, and wisdom of you and your organization.

Mitra provides a 360-degree survey from a wider choice point — an elevated and thorough inner and outer perspective that allows you to identify your skills, needs, and values, grow in and beyond your current position, improve productivity, and achieve sustainable happiness.

Her coaching covers subjects including compassionate self-awareness, mindful interpersonal relationships, listening skills, true influence, peaceful communication, leadership during times of change, and professional-personal balance.

Mitra has a non-negotiable 24-hour cancellation policy with full payment for no-shows and last-minute cancellations.

Each session includes

Short centering practice

Your executive check-in

360-degree coaching process and Q&A

Written summary of 3 main points — delivered the following day

Duration50 minutes
FormatZoom only · Available worldwide
ScopePersonal and organizational
Cancellation24-hour policy · Full payment for no-shows

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Bring Attentionism to your organization.

Attentionism is one philosophy — but every organization brings its own culture, challenges, and goals. Mitra works directly with you to shape the right program for your team.

Mitra also develops original engagements for specific contexts and audiences.

Mitra Manesh has an amazing gift for helping people get clear about what’s holding them back, and how best to move forward.

Sean Rad

Founder, Tinder

Her approach is no nonsense and practical — it brings calm yet somehow propels you forward at the same time. There is no one like her.

Steve Levitan

Creator & Producer, Modern Family

No matter the issue, the subject, or the magnitude, Mitra makes any resolution feel attainable. She truly is magic.

Jessica Graboff

Creative Artists Agency (CAA)

In the past decade, Mitra has provided me with the tools to create clarity, focus, and take action with a full heart.

Farryn Weiner

Founder, Farrynheight · Former VP, Sweetgreen · Senior Director, Michael Kors

My time with Mitra has completely transformed my life. I am forever grateful and full-heartedly recommend her magical services to anyone looking to live a life more fulfilled.

Shanit Frydman

Executive Business Coach · Former Criminal Defense Attorney / Prosecutor, City of Los Angeles

Mitra makes hard conversations easy. Her approach has helped me be a more mindful leader.

Betsy Hoover

Partner, Higher Ground Labs

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