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Integrate Mindfulness into Your School Community
What is the Mindful Life School Program?
The Mindful Life School Program is a comprehensive approach to integrating mindfulness skills and strategies into today’s classrooms. The program is sustainable, flexible and easy to implement, and it integrates the entire school community.
Sustainability: Through the weekly lesson plans, teachers develop skills in a mindfulness approach to the classroom. Teachers can continue to implement this approach even outside of the delivered curriculum, creating longevity and sustainability.
Flexibility: The Mindful Life School Program provides faculties and parents with skills to implement lessons and activities themselves in a manner that fits their specific classroom needs and schedules.
Easy to Implement: Each activity takes approximately 1-5 minutes and requires little planning.
Integration of Entire School Community: We know that practicing mindfulness skills benefits teachers as much as it benefits students. That is why it is critical for teachers to be full participants in the program. We also provide free family coaching to parents to reinforce mindfulness skills at home.
What is Included in the Mindful Life School Program?
Children today are demonstrating increasingly higher levels of stress, anxiety, depression and attention problems. Research on the use of mindfulness strategies in the classroom has demonstrated:
- Increased working memory and planning and organization
- Increased social skills
- Increased ability to orient attention
- Increased self esteem
- Decreased test anxiety
- Decreased ADHD behaviors- specifically hyperactivity and impulsivity
- Decreased negative affect/ emotions
- Decreased anxiety and depression
- Fewer conduct and anger management problems
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