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Kind Amidst the Chaos

Begin your 12 days

A 12 Day Online
Mindfulness Course with Michelle DuVal, MA

Over 12 days, Michelle will guide you through short mindfulness teachings and practices designed to help you meet the difficult moments of everyday life with greater steadiness, understanding, and kindness. Each lesson is delivered directly to your inbox, making it easy to practice at your own pace and bring what you're learning into your life as it's actually happening.

 When the world feels overwhelming—and the demands of work and life keep coming—how do we stay steady without shutting down, and kind without becoming depleted?

Your Guide

Michelle DuVal, MA

Michelle is the founder and director of The Mindful Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and has been leading workshops, hosting retreats, and teaching mindfulness for more than 25 years. Her warm, practical, and down-to-earth teaching style has helped thousands of people reduce stress, navigate life's challenges, and discover greater peace through mindfulness.

For Michelle, this course is also deeply personal.

As our world feels increasingly divided, I find myself returning again and again to the practices in this course. How do we stay open when it would be easier to close? How do we meet anger without adding more anger? How do we remember the humanity in one another, especially when we disagree? These practices have become some of the most important ones in my own life, and I'm grateful to share them with you.

A Look Inside the Course

Twelve days. Twelve teachings and practices. Each one explores a different way of staying open, steady, and kind—even when it isn't easy. 

Here’s a glimpse at three of the lessons we’ll practice together.

Each lesson is delivered to your inbox and includes a video teaching, a guided meditation, and downloadable MP3s—yours to keep.

Lesson 2

Dream Catcher

Explore what may lie beneath another person’s anger—the disappointment, loss, and broken dreams we don’t always see—and how looking deeper can help us respond with compassion without excusing harm.

Lesson 6

From Weight to Depth

Caring deeply can bring sadness with it. Discover how sadness can shift from something that weighs us down into something that gives our kindness depth, tenderness, and wisdom.

Lesson 11 

Dealing Grace

When someone hurts or disappoints us, kindness can feel like the last thing we want to offer. Explore how to respond from who you want to be—not from what someone else brings to the moment—and how to extend that same grace to yourself.

12 DAYS

See What Happens When You Practice Every Day

There is something powerful about showing up day after day, as what you practice consistently begins to find its way into your reactions, your relationships, and the way you move through the world.
Give yourself these 12 days and see what can shift.

If life gets in the way, the course is yours to keep, so simply come back when you can and continue where you left off.

The invitation is to commit. The practice is to be kind to yourself along the way.
Begin your 12 days
The 12 Day Course

$35 + tax

Your course includes:

12 video teachings + guided meditations
A new lesson delivered to your inbox each day.

12 downloadable MP3s
Download the teachings and meditations and keep them for future practice.

Lifetime access
Move through the course over 12 consecutive days—or return whenever life allows.

$35. Yours to keep.

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Faq's

Frequently Asked Questions

KIND AMIDST THE CHAOS

Daily Lessons

  • 1 Not Knowing is Nearest
    Practice loosening certainty about others and discover how “not knowing” can soften judgment, create space for understanding, and help you respond with greater compassion.

    2 Dream Catcher
    Explore the heartbreak that can live beneath anger and discover how seeing another person’s broken dreams can shift judgment toward understanding, compassion, and care.

    3 Wholesome Actions or Indignation
    Learn to recognize when outrage leaves you stuck and practice turning indignation into clear, compassionate action that moves you—and the world—toward healing.

    4 Off My Nerves
    Learn to recognize when stress and overstimulation are building in your nervous system and practice helping the body release tension so kindness has room to return.

    5 Human Warmth
    Explore our deeply human need for warmth and connection, and discover how small, intentional moments of genuine care can nourish both the people around you and you.

    6 From Weight to Depth
    Explore how sadness can accompany a caring heart and learn to let sorrow deepen your compassion without becoming a weight that overwhelms your capacity to stay engaged.

    7 Remedy the Cause
    Look beneath difficult emotions and reactions to discover what may be fueling them, and practice meeting the roots of suffering with awareness, curiosity, and kindness.

    8 A Stronger Way of Being
    Discover kindness as a form of inner strength—the capacity to remain steady, open, and compassionate when reacting, retaliating, or hardening would be much easier.

    9 The Value of Kindness
    Reconsider what you truly value and explore why kindness—often overlooked in a culture focused on achievement and status—may be one of our greatest sources of connection and happiness.

    10 Conscious Kindness
    Explore how to keep choosing kindness in a world with more need than any one person can meet, while letting care move both outward toward others and inward toward yourself.

    11 Dealing Grace
    Practice meeting the mistakes and difficult behavior of others—and yourself—with grace, choosing responses rooted in your values rather than reaction, judgment, or shame.

    12 Kind Mind
    Bring the course together by exploring a kindness that is both tender and strong—capable of holding life as it is, confronting harm, setting boundaries, and staying open.