CBD 2026: iPause Guided Practice - Envisioning a Positive Future with Diana Winston

In this guided meditation, we’ll ground ourselves in basic mindfulness meditation to cultivate clarity, stability, concentration, and calm. From a more internally connected place we will use the power of our imagination to envision the world we want to live in. This inspiring meditation is based on the idea that if we want to see healthier, kinder, and more ethical social, political, and environmental systems worldwide, we have to start with imagining it. This practice also will address the sense of hopelessness and disempowerment.

This iPause Practice is part of a two-part series with Diana Winston in the Contemplation By Design Summit.

To deepen the skills you develop during this iPause Guided practice, please consider attending Diana Winston's keynote lecture titled Reclaiming Presence and Ethical Grounding in Challenging Times on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 4:00-5:15pm.

You are welcome to join one or both of Diana's Summit sessions.

Diana Winston is the Director of UCLA Mindful, the mindfulness education center of UCLA Health and is the author of The Little Book of Being, Fully Present, and other books. Called by the LA Times “one of the nation’s best-known teachers of mindfulness,” her work is mentioned in the New York Times, NPR, LA Times, and Bloomberg, among others. Diana has taught mindfulness since 1993 in medical settings, universities, businesses, nonprofits, and schools in the US and Asia and she has trained over 500 mindfulness facilitators worldwide. She can be found on the UCLA Mindful, Waking Up, and Happier Apps and at www.uclahealth.org/uclamindful

This session is part of the FREE Contemplation by Design Summit, Oct. 14-25, 2026.

The full summit schedule for this year will be posted at: https://med.stanford.edu/contemplation/summit.html.