Would you like to:
Feel happier and know how to bring yourself into balance when feeling overwhelmed?
Develop deeper, more satisfying relationships with the ones you love without losing sight of your own needs?
Have more inner freedom, clarity, and optimism about the future?
Discover Dr. Natalie Gruber’s signature course:
Loving KINDness in Family Matters
This class focuses on emotions and relationships within the family system, although it can be applied to any of our intimate relationships. We primarily focus on the family here because our earliest experience and understanding of ourselves most often begins within our families. Primary caregivers are our earliest teachers about emotions, relationships, life, and the world around us. They help us form our relationship “templates” and a fundamental understanding of ourselves. These messages and experiences are often generations in the making. Like genes, patterns connected to handling emotions, relating to others, understanding the world and life itself are handed down through families, across generations. As adults, we have the opportunity to create our own relationships, families, and lives and often aspire to create something new. Yet, as we go about living our adult lives, our most challenging relationships can be with our family members. Navigating challenging family dynamics and relationships can be a source of stress, anger, and anxiety. Having greater support in healing the past and gaining more mastery in steering family relationships in the present, in a way that is both kind and true to you can bring about tremendous freedom. As we do so, we model positive behaviors for our children, who will carry our relationship legacies forward.
During this class you will learn to practice KIND and in doing so:
- Explore your natural desire to be happy by uncovering what genuinely makes you happy and how this relates to others’ desire to be happy.
- Focus in-depth on the practice of loving kindness, directing kind intentions towards yourself and in your relationships with others, including your family members.
- Practice compassion, forgiveness, navigation of emotions and relationships, while setting and maintaining healthy boundaries.
- Uncover and develop a relationship with the best version of yourself.
- Connect with your life purpose and envision your future and dreams from a renewed perspective.
This class is perfect for you if you would like to:
- Experience more happiness and satisfaction with your relationships and life.
- Develop or enhance your meditation practice.
- Engage in personal growth and development in a positive and powerful manner.
- Learn more about ways to apply mindfulness to your emotions, relationships, and decision-making, living within greater alignment with what matters to you most.
- Be part of a group of likeminded people, interested in increasing their well-being.
What to expect:
- This is a live, eight week, interactive class that meets for 1.5 hours once a week.
- The class is centered mainly on one practice, KIND, developed by Dr. Gruber, applied many different ways.
- During the sessions, Natalie will offer teachings and facilitate practices
- Students will have the opportunity to share what they have experienced and ask questions
- Students may also engage in small group practices in breakout rooms
- Sessions will be recorded for any students who miss a class.
- To optimize benefit and participation, students will be encouraged to turn their cameras on.
What you will receive:
- Eight live teaching and practice sessions, with the opportunity to ask questions and share reflections and experiences within the group.
- Access to recorded practices for ongoing practice.
- Class summaries at the end of each session.
- The option to engage in further, monthly follow-up sessions to go deeper into learning and reinforce ongoing practice.
Dates and pricing: 3/27/25 – 5/15/25, 6:00PM-7:30PM MST, 8 sessions, $250
*Attend a free informational session on 3/20/25 to learn more and ask questions.
About the teacher:
Dr. Natalie Gruber is a licensed clinical social worker and an experienced clinician. She integrates her nuanced understanding of mental health and the role of healthy relationships in her teaching, research, and scholarship on mindfulness. Natalie has given talks, workshops, and presentations on mindfulness in universities, schools, and organizations across the country and around the world. She takes a positive, strengths-based approach to applying research and best practices in mental health and mindfulness to create innovative and effective ways to support and uplift individual and relational health and well-being.
My intentions for sharing mindfulness
I am wholeheartedly committed to supporting individuals to experience more meaning, connection, and happiness in their lives. All of my teachings are designed to promote insight, awareness, and tools for living with more tranquility and harmony, with greater capacity for developing and experiencing more fulfilling relationships with others. Relationships are the strongest predictor of our happiness, life satisfaction, health, success, and longevity. Developing and strengthening tools for connecting with ourselves and the ones we love most in a deeper way can have a powerful and lasting impact on the quality of life.
How you might expect to benefit from taking this class
Participants who have taken this class with me have benefited in the following ways:
- Reduced anxiety, hopelessness; easier time shifting from intense emotions to positive emotions
- Decreased feelings of self-blame and over responsibility
- More kindness towards oneself
- Ability to respond versus react in relationship with children, spouse, parents, siblings.
- Ability to remain in connection with people who are challenging to be in relationship with and set kind, healthy boundaries.
- Turning around relationships with challenging people.
- Ability to be more emotionally present for children and meet their needs for connection.
- Recognizing and experiencing happiness in the here and now even in the midst of challenges.
Invite Natalie to give a talk or a training on a specific topic, based on the needs of your organization or workplace
Example talks:
*Bringing mindfulness into daily life
*Mindfulness and parenting/family relationships
*Mindfulness and managing emotions
*Mindfulness and overcoming blocks to creativity
*Mindfulness and developing strong connections with others for success at work
Example workshops/trainings:
*Relational mindfulness for educators, coaches, therapists, and/or practitioners
*Mindfulness for beginners
Testimonials on Natalie’s teaching
“Dr. Gruber is a once in a lifetime teacher. She guides with knowledge and a true passion for what she is teaching and her students. What she taught me about myself and mindfulness continues to show its impact in my life.” -Student A
“Natalie’s services came at the perfect time in my life. Her science-backed approach to mindfulness and meditation practice have been an invaluable resource in my journey of self-betterment and inner peace.” – Student B
“Natalie taught me mindfulness practices I had never been introduced to before. She made each lesson feel accessible and engaging.” -Student C
“Dr. Gruber interacts with each student in such a unique and genuine manner. I’m lucky to have learned from her and continue to be able to apply her teachings to my everyday life!” -Student D
“Dr. Gruber’s science-backed teachings on mindfulness have left a lasting and positive impact on the way I live my life each day. Her passion for mindfulness is apparent in all of her teachings and leaves students with lifelong tools for inner peace and well-being.” – Student E