Starting the path of Mindfulness part 2: For your students

Teachers, mindfulness is terrific for you. It has been shown to result in “significant improvements in stress, wellbeing, mindfulness, and self-compassion” of teachers who learn and practice it. And it has super benefits for students:

  • Increased emotional regulation
  • Increased social skills
  • Increased ability to orient attention
  • Increased working memory and planning and organization
  • Increased self esteem
  • Increased sense of calmness, relaxation, and self acceptance.
  • Increased quality of sleep
  • Decreased test anxiety
  • Decreased ADHD behaviors- specifically hyperactivity and impulsivity
  • Decreased negative affect/ emotions
  • Decreased anxiety
  • Decreased depression
  • Fewer conduct and anger management problems

Sounds good, right? So how to get started? For those on a budget, I suggest starting with Smiling Minds from Australia. It is very well scoped and sequenced, comprehsnive and well laid out. 

Select your age group

   

Rate your mood before and after:

 

All the meditations can be streamed or downloaded to itunes

Super clean interface, nicely laid out. Learn more at their Youtube Channel

.B is a project of the Mindfulness in Schools project has a wonderful program but you must be trained in order to access the ten lessons:

 

They do offer training all over the world. Here is the founder talking about how it works. 

The other major player is John Kabat-Zinn with his Mindfulness Based Stress Reducation. They also require training:

Hear John speak about the project. 

 

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See mindful in action with such documentaries as Room to Breath

 

And Healthy Habbits of Mind (complete movie Below):

 

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Goldie Hawn Discusses Her Mind Up Program 

 

and with dan Siegal at TED MED

  

Move Into Learning is a hybre approach including mindfulness, yoga, movement etc.