Mindful ChildrenDaniel Rechtschaffen offers trainings, workshops, and consulting for schools, organizations and other groups interested in transforming their communities into mindful environments.
Daniel has helped develop mindfulness curriculum for Mindfulness Without Borders, Mindful Schools, and has developed his own Mindful Children Curiculum. Daniel offers conferences and professional trainings at The Omega Institute, East Bay Meditation Center, as well as other centers.
Mindfulness with Children?
Mindfulness is a technique
that fosters inner calm, increased awareness, and a sense of
well-being. Over the past three decades, the practice of mindfulness
has been taught to adults in hospitals and clinics to assist in pain
management, stress reduction, and healing. Now mindfulness is being
introduced into youth settings.
The new field of teaching
mindfulness to our youth is a profoundly beneficial
development for the education of children from grades K through 12.
Research shows that mindfulness decreases stress, attention deficit
issues, depression, anxiety, and hostility in children, while
benefiting their health, well-being, social relations, and academic
performance. Children can easily learn these techniques, and when
learned young, they become lifelong tools.
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