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Flourish
Note: Flourish is new to us and is being piloted in the Spring Menu of the 2022-2023 school year
Flourish is a free classroom curriculum — suitable for kindergarten to grade 5 — created by the Compassionate Schools Project team at the University of Virginia. The lessons integrate social and emotional learning, deep self-understanding, stress resiliency skills, mental fitness training, physical regulation and exercise, and nutrition education within a contemplative and compassionate framework based on recent scientific advancements in the understanding of brain function and the body, child and family health, child development, and academic and social functioning.
A single, integrated health and wellness curriculum for the 21st century with the following components:
Social and emotional knowledge and skills training for success in school, personal relations, and future employment
Mindfulness practices for self-awareness, stress resiliency, and self-control
Physical movement and posture exercises integrated with breathing practices for stress resiliency and fitness
Nutrition education for ensuring healthy eating habits for lifelong health
About the Compassionate Schools Project
The Compassionate Schools Project is the most comprehensive study ever undertaken of a 21st century health and wellness curriculum in an elementary or secondary school setting. Facilitating the integrated development of mind and body, the project interweaves support in academic achievement, mental fitness, health, and compassionate character. The research aims to have a major impact on children’s education nationwide in terms of academic performance, physical education, character development, and child health policies due to its extraordinary scale of 45 schools and 20,000 children over the project’s seven years.
MHCB Program Manager Notes:
Flourish is a free program.
Flourish is an American resource.
Flourish is research-based.