Mindfulness
Best Practices for Bringing Mindfulness into Schools - Creating a safe place for our kids to learn might begin with creating some space for them to breathe. (Mindful)
Best Practices for Bringing Mindfulness into Schools - Creating a safe place for our kids to learn might begin with creating some space for them to breathe. (Mindful)
Calm Breathing Techniques for Students - Adapted from the Open Circle curriculum, this brief activity includes three calm-breathing techniques to use in your personal practice or share with students. (Panorama Education)
Calm Breathing Techniques for Students - Adapted from the Open Circle curriculum, this brief activity includes three calm-breathing techniques to use in your personal practice or share with students. (Panorama Education)
Compilation of Mindfulness Exercises - Mindfulness exercises to increase your own wellbeing and the wellbeing of the people around you. (Positive Psychology)
Compilation of Mindfulness Exercises - Mindfulness exercises to increase your own wellbeing and the wellbeing of the people around you. (Positive Psychology)
Cultivating Presence and Mindfulness - A Guidebook for Educators: Mindfulness Practices to Enhance Our Own and Our Students Health and Well-Being (Breathe for Change)
Cultivating Presence and Mindfulness - A Guidebook for Educators: Mindfulness Practices to Enhance Our Own and Our Students Health and Well-Being (Breathe for Change)
Calm Classroom E-Learning Course - The Calm Classroom E-Learning Course is the foundational step in preparing teachers to integrate mindfulness in the classroom. This interactive 2-hour course develops an understanding of mindfulness through practice and reflection, along with an exploration of how mindfulness can increase well-being and off-set the negative effects of chronic stress and trauma. (Calm Classroom)
Calm Classroom E-Learning Course - The Calm Classroom E-Learning Course is the foundational step in preparing teachers to integrate mindfulness in the classroom. This interactive 2-hour course develops an understanding of mindfulness through practice and reflection, along with an exploration of how mindfulness can increase well-being and off-set the negative effects of chronic stress and trauma. (Calm Classroom)
Change to Chill - Offers free online mental health resources for teens designed to help them learn how to relax and integrate healthy habits into their lifestyle. (Allina Health)
Change to Chill - Offers free online mental health resources for teens designed to help them learn how to relax and integrate healthy habits into their lifestyle. (Allina Health)
Finding Calm - The experience of trauma is a loop where we're unable to imagine a future different than the traumatic past. Mindfulness can help us begin to unwind from trauma. (Mindful)
Finding Calm - The experience of trauma is a loop where we're unable to imagine a future different than the traumatic past. Mindfulness can help us begin to unwind from trauma. (Mindful)
Honing Attention - Teaching Students to Breathe - When we practice mindfulness practices such as core breathing, we're able to have a little separation between our thoughts, our feelings, the sensations in our body, and our breath—We're cultivating self-awareness. (Mindful)
Honing Attention - Teaching Students to Breathe - When we practice mindfulness practices such as core breathing, we're able to have a little separation between our thoughts, our feelings, the sensations in our body, and our breath—We're cultivating self-awareness. (Mindful)
Kindness Curriculum - What if kindness and compassion were taught in schools just like math and reading? What if kids were taught how to pay attention not only to lessons, but also to their own emotions? What if we all took steps to improve well-being in our lives and communities? A free research and science based curriculum practices. (Center for Healthy Minds/University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Kindness Curriculum - What if kindness and compassion were taught in schools just like math and reading? What if kids were taught how to pay attention not only to lessons, but also to their own emotions? What if we all took steps to improve well-being in our lives and communities? A free research and science based curriculum practices. (Center for Healthy Minds/University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Mindfulness Lessons - MindUP is an evidence-based program grounded in neuroscience, mindful awareness, positive psychology and social and emotional learning. (MindUp)
Mindfulness Lessons - MindUP is an evidence-based program grounded in neuroscience, mindful awareness, positive psychology and social and emotional learning. (MindUp)
Mindfulness Toolkit - A 90-minute professional development session designed for educators seeking research-based strategies to help their students build this particular competency. (Transforming Education)
Mindfulness Toolkit - A 90-minute professional development session designed for educators seeking research-based strategies to help their students build this particular competency. (Transforming Education)
Research on Mindfulness - Mindfulness research and resources to help parents, staff, and administrators understand the benefits of mindfulness, including neuroscience, latest scientific studies, and specific benefits for educators and students. (Mindful Schools)
Research on Mindfulness - Mindfulness research and resources to help parents, staff, and administrators understand the benefits of mindfulness, including neuroscience, latest scientific studies, and specific benefits for educators and students. (Mindful Schools)
Resources for Cultural Transformation - Whether we’re a teacher, whether we’re a director, whether we’re an administrative assistant, whatever we are because who we are and what our upbringing has been and what our life experiences have been is intricately a part of our authentic being. Unless we have taken time to look at how our socialization really affected that then we don’t really understand perhaps all the aspects of who we are in a way that helps us to be culturally responsive. (Mindful)
Resources for Cultural Transformation - Whether we’re a teacher, whether we’re a director, whether we’re an administrative assistant, whatever we are because who we are and what our upbringing has been and what our life experiences have been is intricately a part of our authentic being. Unless we have taken time to look at how our socialization really affected that then we don’t really understand perhaps all the aspects of who we are in a way that helps us to be culturally responsive. (Mindful)
Self-Care Circle - Students or staff sit in a circle, center themselves with a Mindfulness Moment, and reflect on and share ways they can practice self-care. (Greater Good Science Center)
Self-Care Circle - Students or staff sit in a circle, center themselves with a Mindfulness Moment, and reflect on and share ways they can practice self-care. (Greater Good Science Center)
10 Mindfulness Book Activities for Kids - These ten picture books about mindfulness pair well with the suggested activities for children ages four and up. Each short activity is designed to fit into as little as fifteen minutes. (Kids Yoga Stories)
10 Mindfulness Book Activities for Kids - These ten picture books about mindfulness pair well with the suggested activities for children ages four and up. Each short activity is designed to fit into as little as fifteen minutes. (Kids Yoga Stories)