Free app · iPhone, iPad and Android
Short practice for the working day.
Not meditation. Practice at work. Five short courses, a few minutes a lesson, each one starting from a moment you already know.
Free. No account. No ads. Every lesson works offline.
On your phone? Point the camera here to open themindfuldesign.org, then get the app.
Five courses
Choose a moment.
Five lessons in each. Take them in any order; every lesson is open.
- 01
Pressure
For the days that arrive all at once.
- 02
Attention
Where your attention goes, and who can tell.
- 03
Listening
What happens while the other person is talking.
- 04
Friction
For the moments you’d rather skip.
- 05
Leadership
What reaches people from you.
How a lesson goes
A few cards. A few minutes. Then back to your day.
The moment
Three things need you. All of them say now.
The move
Stop before you choose. Let your eyes land on one thing. Then decide, on purpose, that it’s this one first.
A line to keep
One line, checked against its source, to carry out of the lesson.
A line to keep
“Be quick, but don’t hurry.”
John Wooden
What it doesn’t do
Nothing to sign in to. Nothing to buy.
- No account, no email address, no password.
- No ads, no analytics, no tracking.
- Your progress stays on your phone.
- Every lesson is already inside the app, so it works with no connection.
- The one thing that goes online is the Guide, which answers questions about the lessons. It tells you so, and asks, before your first question. Privacy
Go further
Emotional Intelligence Essentials
Our first in-depth course, on the web.
Feelings come with us into every meeting, invited or not. This course takes the five parts of emotional intelligence one at a time: noticing your own emotions, steadying yourself, finding what keeps you going, understanding other people, and getting along. It’s six short lessons in plain language, with real situations and a short quiz at the end.
$1 for now, while we’re getting going. Paid once, yours to keep.
More are on the way. Take a look, and let us know what would make the next one better.
Who made it
One teacher. One small nonprofit.
Matthew Grunewald founded Mindful Design and built every lesson himself. He is a certified mindfulness teacher, trained by Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield, with more than ten years of daily practice. Years of designing e-learning taught him two things worth keeping: keep it short, and start from a real moment, not an idea.
Mindful Design is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, EIN 41-3044531. It exists to make practical mindfulness education free for everyone, paid for by donations. The app is free and stays free.