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Mindfulness & SEL

Mindfulness teaches students how to pay attention to the present moment. Our comprehensive, mindfulness-based social & emotional learning curriculum equips you and your students with all of the tools you need to reduce the impact of trauma and improve student outcomes. Enhance your teaching practices by using our step-by-step sample lessons in your classroom today.

Empowering Education offers the only fully-integrated mindfulness and SEL curriculum in the industry.

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Mindfulness teaches students how to pay attention to the present moment. Our comprehensive, mindfulness-based social & emotional learning curriculum equips you and your students with all of the tools you need to reduce the impact of trauma and improve student outcomes. Enhance your teaching practices by using our step-by-step sample lessons in your classroom today.

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Online & On-Site Calm Classroom Mindfulness Training
Calm Classroom offers mindfulness-based training for educators who are searching for a simple, accessible way to introduce mindfulness into the classroom. Mindfulness is the practice of cultivating present moment awareness of thoughts, emotions and physical sensations. By integrating our breathing, stretching, focusing and relaxation techniques into your daily schedule, students will develop emotional resilience and self-regulation skills, leading to a calmer, more engaged classroom.

Our online and on-site training will show you how to incorporate research-based mindfulness and relaxation response techniques into your daily schedule to help students learn how to manage stress and achieve a state of peaceful focus throughout the day.
Benefits of Mindful Awareness Practices in the Classroom
Mindful Awareness Practices (MAPS) like the ones found in Calm Classroom improve executive functioning, which includes working memory, emotion regulation, and self-monitoring. Research shows that participation in a program that utilizes MAPS leads to improvements in behavioral regulation and overall executive functioning in elementary school students.

Our data shows that a consistent daily practice of Calm Classroom techniques leads to positive behavioral and academic outcomes in students, and contributes to a learning-ready classroom environment. Across a sample of 1,400 Calm Classroom teachers, 74% reported that their students are more focused and ready to learn, and 81% said that their students are calmer and more peaceful after practicing Calm Classroom.

Sign up for one of our trainings to learn how to bring mindfulness into your classroom!

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Teacher Training

Calm Classroom Academy is our online introductory training course. In this 3-hour course, teachers, social workers, and administrators will learn how to introduce and manage all aspects of the program for use in classrooms and other learning spaces.

Our 2-hour on-site training supports teachers, administrators and school support staff in learning how to introduce, implement and sustain the Calm Classroom program school-wide.

Our Train-the-Trainer certification enables school staff to serve as on-site Calm Classroom facilitators in addition to providing ongoing program support.

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Online & On-Site Classroom Mindfulness Training Courses

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About This Course

Learn how to integrate mindfulness into your work with youth using our research-backed K-12 Mindful Schools Curriculum. Our curriculum - used by educators, mental health professionals, social workers, and parents across the U.S. and over 100 countries - is adaptable for classrooms, after-school programs, clinical settings, and home. It uses developmentally appropriate language for explaining key mindfulness concepts and practices to youth. You can see a sample module here.

Educators who have completed this course report strong improvements in students' emotional regulation, focus, and engagement, as well as improved connection with students and ability to deliver school curriculum. 98% of our graduates recommend this course.

This six-week self-paced course includes:

Training Kit

K-5 Curriculum (30 modules for ages 5-12)

Middle & High School Curriculum (25 modules for ages 12-17)

Student workbooks

Manuals on facilitation, classroom management plus a Parent Manual and Classroom Manual

Summaries of neuroscience concepts

Program evaluation tools

Over 150 resources for teaching mindfulness to youth in our online Resource Center

Research

Learn to accurately present the research on mindfulness and youth

Understand the basic neuroscience of attention and emotion

Facilitation Skills-Building

Working with youth at different developmental stages

Group facilitation and classroom management skills

Stakeholder Presentations

Resources to present to administrators, school, and agency staff

Graduate Support

Join our vibrant, supportive private community of graduates

Get unlimited access to course content and future update

Participate in our online educator Resource Center, with over 150 resources, including best practice guides, powerpoint presentations, lesson plans, games, classroom activities and more

View a Detailed Course Syllabus here

Credits

Upon completing this course:

Educators can receive up to 3 graduate level credits

Eligible Mental Health Professionals can receive 12 CEUs

Our Principles

One of the core principles of the Mindful Schools Community is the concept that a mindful classroom begins with you.

Teaching is a profession and an expression of personal values. Many of you sought careers in education as a means of expressing your appreciation of learning and your aspiration to support the healthy development of youth. When you teach mindfulness to your students, you are not merely a passive vehicle for delivering a curriculum - your own self-care and personal mindfulness practice serves as a model and a guide for your students.

In support of this principle, we strongly recommend that the first course you take be our personal practice course, Mindfulness Fundamentals.

Please visit our FAQ page for other practice recommendations.

Your Trainers

The course is taught by Megan Cowan, Chris McKenna, and Vinny Ferraro. This team has over 40 years of combined mindfulness practice and over 30 years of teaching mindfulness and/or emotional intelligence to children and adolescents, as well as experience training many thousands of adults. Their work is featured in documentary films Healthy Habits of Mind and Room to Breathe, and MTV's "If You Really Knew Me".

Guiding Teachers

In addition to the Program Team, each Mindful Educator Essentials course has a Guiding Teacher. The Guiding Teacher directs the learning process by synthesizing emerging themes, answering questions, and providing ongoing participant feedback. All of our Guiding Teachers have over a decade of mindfulness practice and broad teaching experience with different youth populations. Your Guiding Teacher is available to answer questions throughout the course.

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Mindful Educator Essentials | Teach Mindfulness to Youth

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Learn how to integrate mindfulness into your work with youth using our research-backed K-12 Mindful Schools Curriculum. Our curriculum - used by educators, mental health professionals, social workers, and parents across the U.S. and over 100 countries - is adaptable for classrooms, after-school programs, clinical settings, and home.

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10 Mindfulness Exercises You Can Use Tomorrow with Students

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Can Meditation Help with ADHD?

"Extensive research has proven that mindfulness training integrates the brain and strengthens the important executive functions that support emotional and social intelligence, as well as academic success," says Daniel J. Siegal, neurobiologist and author of The Mindful Brain. (#CommissionsEarned)

What Are the Benefits of Meditation for Students?

Classmates who practice mindful meditation together every day are more likely to trust and support one another. In addition, students who meditate often experience the following benefits:

Increase attention span

Harness energy in healthy ways

Tap into creativity

Improve self-regulation, confidence, problem solving, focus, compassion and empathy

Learn to pause, slow down, and be calm in times of stress

"Meditation is very, very, very peaceful, relaxing, and it makes me feel calm when I do meditation," said one student. "If I am sad, angry or disappointed meditation makes me feel better. That's why I love meditation!"

Indeed, teachers and parents report that students are ready to process new information and actively learn following meditation and yoga sessions, particularly physically active ones.

"Without mindfulness, my daughter cannot absorb what is being taught and she doesn't have the interest in learning," said one parent. "She is clouded with anxiety, but with daily meditation and some yoga she is able to clear her mind of these distractions and move into a state of reception and intrigue. Meditation was the most talked about learning tool during her second-grade year. She taught us how to do it and would practice it on her own as well. To this day, she uses meditation to calm herself when she is frustrated with her sister or me. These sorts of skills are imperative life skills that help her to feel confident, centered, and ready to take on the world."
[Free Download: Kid-Friendly Mindful Meditation Exercises]
How Can I Teach Mindfulness to a Child?

Integrate mindful meditation into your curriculum using these 10 exercises:

1. Set the stage for mindfulness by watching, "Teaching the ABCs of Attention, Balance, and Compassion by Susan Kaiser Greenland" together as a class. Assign books about mindfulness, like Imaginations by Carolyn Clarke, as well.

2. Put meditation and yoga on the daily schedule. Practice yoga poses in the morning, and meditation at the end of the day. Start with the "Take 5" method where students take five slow breaths inhaling through the nose, then exhaling through the mouth. From there, build up to longer activities.

3. Take a "noticing walk" around the school or playground. Tell students to silently tap into all of their senses. Stop to look at pebbles, or listen to the sound of leaves blowing in the breeze. Then, at the end of the walk, ask each student to share one observation. Talk about how you walk by these things every day, and rarely pause to take them in. On a rainy day, dim the lights and ask students to breathe in time to color-changing LED lights. Play soothing music and use a diffuser with lavender, orange, cinnamon, or lemon scent to create a peaceful atmosphere. Help students practice mindful listening by cataloging how many different noises they can notice in one minute.

4. Team up with the art teacher on a project to craft a glitter jar where students choose three colors of glitter - one each to represent thoughts, feelings, and behavior. Fill a container with water and a few pinches of each glitter, seal the jar, and ask students: What shakes up your emotions in positive and negative ways? Is it winning a sports game? Fighting with a sibling? Ask the kids to swirl the jar with each thought. Then tell them to be still, practice the "take 5" method, and set down the jar. As the glitter slowly settles to the bottom, so too will their thoughts and feelings come under control.

5. Buy a yoga card deck, like Yoga Pretzels. Let students take turns picking a pose and practicing it as a class. Challenge them to learn the Sanskrit name of each pose. Try changing from pose to pose in slow motion. After your students have mastered all of the poses in a deck, ask them to invent a new pose, and give it a name. As a bonus, let your students use chimes, a singing bowl, or a gong to signal the end of meditation.
[Your Child's Brain on Mindful Meditation]
6. Practice mindful eating during snack or lunch time. Give a few raisins to each student, telling them to pretend they are aliens who have just landed on earth. Ask them to look at each wrinkle and fold, to touch the fruit and notice its plumpness. Give the raisin a squeeze to see if it makes a sound. Smell it. Then ask your students to place one raisin in their mouths, and notice how it feels when they chew and swallow. Ask the children to answer three questions: Was anything surprising? What did you notice about the raisin that you never did before? Did any thoughts not related to raisins pop into your head? For homework, students can demonstrate this activity to their families.

7. Use a "peace rock" for meditation. Hand out smooth rocks you gathered over the summer, or take students on a walk to find a special rock on the playground. Instruct them to hold the rocks in their hands and stare at them while completing a breathing exercise. Then, use the rocks to build cairns in small groups. This exercise builds patience as each rock is carefully balanced atop another, and teaches frustration tolerance when the rocks fall down in a heap.

8.Create a gratitude circle. Ask your students to sit together and send peaceful thoughts to a person or a pet they really love. Then, stop and ask each child to send peaceful thoughts to himself or herself. Next, ask them to take turns sharing a reflection of thanksgiving or a kindness about another student. Write down their words and create a gratitude jar filled with the notes. Pull them out throughout the year.

9. Play the marble roll game. Give each student an empty paper towel or toilet paper roll, and have the class stand in a line. Give the student at the head of the line a marble, and instruct your students to pass it down the line using only the rolls - not their hands. If the marble falls to the ground, the activity starts over.

10. Ask students to write their own guided meditation scripts once the class is familiar with meditation practice. Start by asking students to imagine a special place they love. Ask them to describe it in great detail using each of their five senses. Include breathing techniques throughout the meditation, and then close with some form of relaxation. Share the first draft with classmates, then get suggestions (and compliments), revise, test it out, and create a final piece. Students can then go "on tour" and give guided meditations to other classes. You can even use Vocaroo to record the meditation to share with family and friends. Listen to a sample guided meditation here.
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"Extensive research has proven that mindfulness training integrates the brain and strengthens the important executive functions that support emotional and social intelligence, as well as academic success," says Daniel J. Siegal, neurobiologist and author of The Mindful Brain . (#CommissionsEarned) Classmates who practice mindful meditation together every day are more likely to trust and support one another.

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We know mindfulness is good for us. Mindfulness allows us to be present in our parenting, choosing the skillful response instead of succumbing to our visceral reactions.

Mindfulness is also good for our kids. There is an emerging body of research that indicates that mindfulness can help our children improve their abilities to pay attention, to calm down when they are upset, and to make better decisions. In short, it helps with emotional regulation and cognitive focus. Do I even need to ask if you want that for your kids? 🙂

So where do we start? How can we teach mindfulness to kids?

Establish your own practice. You would have trouble teaching your children ballet if you had never danced. To authentically teach mindfulness to your children, you need to practice it yourself. You can read my guide to establishing a meditation practice here, or my popular post 40 Ways to Bring Mindfulness to Your Days here for some ideas to get started. Don't let this step intimidate you - you're probably practicing a lot of mindful habits already!

Check your expectations. A core principle of mindfulness is letting go of expectations, and this certainly applies to teaching mindfulness to kids. Are you expecting mindfulness to eliminate tantrums? to make your active child calm? to make your house quiet? If so, you are likely to be disappointed. While feeling calm or being quiet are nice side-effects of mindfulness, they are not the ultimate purpose.

The purpose of teaching mindfulness to our children is to give them skills to develop their awareness of their inner and outer experiences, to recognize their thoughts as "just thoughts," to understand how emotions manifest in their bodies, to recognize when their attention has wandered, and to provide tools for impulse control. It is not a panacea, and it will not completely get rid of what is, frankly, normal kid behavior, like tantrums and loudness and whining and exuberance and arguing...

Don't force it. If your kids aren't interested in your lesson or activity, drop it. This is a good time for you to practice non-attachment to outcomes!

Don't make mindfulness a punishment. This shouldn't be, "You hit your sister! Go sit in the mindful corner!" 'nuff said.

Now that we've got the preliminaries out of the way, here are my suggestions for how you can begin to introduce mindfulness to your children.

10 Ways to Teach Mindfulness to Kids

1. Keep it simple. With older kids, you can share the widely-used definition from Jon Kabat-Zinn in the image above. But those are a lot of big words for little kids. I prefer to use the words awareness or noticing with my children {ages 5 and 7, for reference}. Mindfulness is noticing our thoughts, what our body feels like, what our ears are hearing, and anything else that is around us and happening right now.

2. Listen to the bell. An easy way for children to practice mindfulness is to focus on paying attention to what they can hear. I've used a singing bowl, like the one on the right, for this exercise, but you could use a bell, a set of chimes, or a phone app that has sounds on it. Tell your children that you will make the sound, and they should listen carefully until they can no longer hear the sound (which is usually 30 seconds to a minute). I find that this exercise does have a calming effect on my children, and it's a fun way to teach them to pay attention to their surroundings.

3. Create a mindful bedtime ritual. Bedtime is a great time to introduce mindfulness to kids. My daughter loves to do a short body-scan meditation before bed - she closes her eyes, and I tell her to bring her attention to her toes, to her feet, to her legs, etc. It is a calming way to return to the body at the end of the day. You can find several downloadable meditation scripts (including body scans) here, and you can read about the bedtime ritual my daughter and I created here.

4. Practice with a breathing buddy. For young children, an instruction to simply "pay attention to the breath" can be hard to follow. In this Edutopia video, Daniel Goleman describes a 2nd-grade classroom that does a "breathing buddy" exercise: each student grabs a stuffed animal, and then lies down on their back with their buddy on their belly. They focus their attention on the rise and fall of the stuffed animal as they breathe in and out. {You should definitely check out the video - it's less than 2 minutes and explains the exercise and all the good stuff that it teaches kids!}

5. Make your walks mindful. One of my children's favorite things to do in the summer is a "noticing walk." We stroll through our neighborhood and notice things we haven't seen before. We'll designate one minute of the walk where we are completely silent and simply pay attention to all the sounds we can hear - frogs, woodpeckers, a lawnmower. We don't even call it "mindfulness," but that's what it is.

6. Establish a gratitude practice. I believe gratitude is a fundamental component of mindfulness, teaching our children to appreciate the abundance in their lives, as opposed to focusing on all the toys and goodies that they crave. This post describes my family's nightly gratitude practice - each night at dinner we each share one thing we are thankful for. It is one of my favorite parts of the day.

7. Try the SpiderMan meditation! My five-year-old son is in to all things superheroes, and this SpiderMan meditation is right up his alley. This meditation from Kids Relaxation teaches children to activate their "spidey-senses" and their ability to focus on all they can smell, taste, and hear in the present moment. Such a clever idea!

8. Meditate with your children. I cannot even tell you how many times my meditation sessions have been interrupted by my children. They know by now what mommy is doing when she meditates, so I will try to continue with my meditation even as they play around me. Sometimes, my daughter will sit down and join me for a few minutes. It's beautiful.

9. Check your personal weather report. In Sitting Still Like a Frog, Eline Snel encourages children to "summon the weather report that best describes [their] feelings at the moment." Sunny, rainy, stormy, calm, windy, tsunami? This activity allows children to observe their present state without overly identifying with their emotions. They can't change the weather outside, and we can't change our emotions or feelings either. All we can change is how we relate to them. As Snel describes it, children can recognize, "I am not the downpour, but I notice that it is raining; I am not a scaredy-cat, but I realize that sometimes I have this big scared feeling somewhere near my throat."

10. Practice mindful eating. The exercise of mindfully eating a raisin or a piece of chocolate is a staple of mindfulness education, and is a great activity for kids. You can find a script for a 7-minute mindful eating exercise for children here. This is a fun way to teach children to pay attention to and savor their food, and by extension, the present moment.

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Above all, remember to have fun and keep it simple. You can provide your children with many opportunities to add helpful practices to their toolkit - some of them will work for them and some won't. But it's fun to experiment!

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Want more resources? You may find the following posts helpful:

Mindful Mantras for Kids {with coloring sheet downloads}

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Teaching Mindfulness to Teens: 5 Ways to Get Buy-In 5 Strategies for Teaching Mindfulness t The Totally Obvious Thing a Mindful Mama Overlooked

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Mindfulness is the state of mental calmness, often achieved by focusing your awareness on the present moment and accepting any feelings, thoughts, and sensations.

Regular practice enhances your overall health and reduces stress levels significantly. These videos delve into the science and joy of mindfulness, with several examples of how to begin or continue your practice.

I hope this list of mindfulness TED talks encourages you to try mindfulness for yourself and experience its numerous benefits.

Before you start reading this article, I recommend you to download Week 1 of Mindfulness X. It is free and will help you understand mindfulness on a theoretical level. Mindfulness X also includes tools to apply mindfulness in your work with clients, students, staff, and yourself.

You can download the package with PDF's for free on this page: https://bit.ly/2OUGkwI

All It Takes Is 10 Mindful Minutes

Do you know how much time you have spent lost in your own thoughts? In his talk, Puddicombe asks how many people in the audience have ever looked after their mind.

Meditation, as Puddicombe says, can be the aspirin for the mind. He also tells about some of his wonderful experiences as a monk in the Himalayas.

The Art of Stillness

Pico Iyer offers an astonishing amount of information about meditation that he's learned from visiting many of the top social network institutions.

By observing his thoughts during his journey all over the word, Pico found out that, "There is nothing either good or bad, as Shakespeare told us in 'Hamlet', but thinking makes it so." Do you agree? Let us know in the comments section below.

The Practice of Mindfulness

Diana Winston takes us through some of the research into the benefits of mindfulness.

Winston also explains why suffering from physical symptoms of stress has been helpful, and why people are happier if they pay attention to the present moment.

The Mindful Way Through Depression

Depression is episodic and recurrent. In working with people with mood disorders, Zindel faced the challenge of helping them recover from depression and continue with a healthy mindset.

Zindel wanted to understand the triggers that could make people fall into depression again and again. He found that mindfulness plays an important role in preventing depression.

Mindfulness and Healing

When Shannon Paige's cancer was gone, her battle with depression began. She proposes that yoga built her own mind-body connection, and can help in combatting depression.

Shannon was diagnosed with cancer when she was 21. She has been through lots of battles throughout the entire process but eventually beat it.

Mindfulness in Schools

Richard Burnett tells us that the second mode of mind-apart from thinking-is sensing. He then shows how training in sensing can help children cope with the depression and anxiety of over-thinking.

Do you think mindfulness is too boring for youngsters? Burnett launched his project "dot B," aiming to provide fun and memorable uses of meditation.

How Mindfulness Meditation Redefines Pain, Happiness, and Satisfaction

Dr. Kasim Al-Mashat tells us of his hilarious and joyful experiences in a forest-and explains why mindfulness meditation is not a quick-fix.

Even when we have everything we want, why is it sometimes not enough? And how "should" we look at pain? Did you agree with Dr. Kasim Al-Mashat insight to these questions?

Which one of these videos do you find most inspirational? How can you incorporate mindfulness into your daily life?

Let us know in the comments section below. We'd love to hear from you.

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It's a simple habit. From listening to sounds to mindful breathing, mindfulness exercises are easy for everyone to learn.

Here's the best part:

Teaching mindfulness early can have a lasting positive effect on kids. Helping them build resilience and cope with life's challenges as they grow.

Meditation can help you and your students develop skills like concentration, emotional regulation, kindness, compassion and self-soothing. All while elevating the mood of the classroom.

Luckily, there are many free tools out there for teachers and students to work on mindfulness together.

So it's time to take a deep breath.

Today, we're sharing the top free meditation apps for you and your students to help you integrate mindfulness at school.

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