Befriend Your Breath

This Rise course was created for an organization that wants to promote well-being by introducing employees to meditation practice. It provides background knowledge about the history, types, and benefits of meditation. It guides learners to establish a meditation space and start a home practice, and it suggests strategies for dealing with common setbacks. 

Problem Addressed: 

The organization has noticed an increase in burnout among employees since the pandemic. The leadership team, which oversees mostly remote workers, wants to promote wellbeing and acknowledge the need for work-life balance. This decision is informed by statistics showing that stress-management leads to increased productivity and job satisfaction. This course is one of several options that staff can choose to explore during a virtual staff wellness retreat. 

Principles of eLearning and Adult Learning Theories: 

• Provides immediate feedback to ensure that participants are redirected when they display a misunderstanding of the content.

• Allows opportunites for self-direction by allowing free navigation of the course

• Utilizes Mayer's Media Principles such as multimedia principle (people learn best from a combination of visual and text information), coherence principle (exclude unnecessary information), personalization principle (people learn best from an informal and converstional tone), and contiguity principle (place printed words near corresponding graphics) 

Features:

• Process Blocks

• Multimedia 

• Sorting Activity

• Labeled Graphic

• Branching Scenario

Storyboard for "Befriending the Breath"