About Wise Heart Mindfulness and Dr. Ali

Dr. Ali

Dr. Ali is founder of Wise Heart Mindfulness and a certified mindfulness facilitator, trained at UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC) located at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Behavior. He is an authorized affiliated MAPs Teacher, facilitating the signature MAPs I program for UCLA MARC; and recognized by the International Mindfulness Teachers Association (IMTA) as a Certified Mindfulness Teacher, Professional (CMT-P).

He completed the year-long facilitator training at UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center in 2018 under the direction of Diana Winston, Dr. Susan Smalley, Dr. Dan Siegel, Dr. Marvin Belzer, and Dr. Matthew Brensilver. During the summer of 2018 and 2019, Dr. Ali served as a UCLA Teacher’s Assistant (TA) in Mindfulness in Psychiatry under the direction of Dr. Marvin Belzer, course faculty.

His doctorate is in Organizational Leadership and holds dual faculty appointments in the Colleges of Business and Public Management and La Fetra College of Education at the University of La Verne. As a leadership scholar he has advanced the fusion of mindfulness and leadership. He designed, developed curriculum, and teaches a graduate level course in Mindful Leadership at the University of La Verne. ​He is a retired Vice-President of Student Affairs with 40 years of leadership and teaching experience in higher education.

​Dr. Ali is an early adopter and innovator at the intersections of mindfulness and recovery and leads mindfulness and recovery workshops and retreats. “Mindfulness provides robust tools in support of recovery and offers practitioners skillful ways of working with anxiety, restlessness, irritability, and difficult emotions. Mindfulness also offers tools to cultivate positive emotions such as kindness, compassion, joy, and serenity.” 

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Wise Heart Mindfulness Mission and Vision

The Wise Heart Mindfulness mission is to bring the practice, art, and science of mindfulness to a diverse range of individuals and clients including the K-12, higher education, and non-profits sectors. 

​Wise Heart Mindfulness gently holds a vision that supports an ever expanding local/global consciousness built around practices of compassion, genuine care, kindness, generosity, and a deep reverence for life.