Program Calendar
Explore Mindful Schools’ upcoming events, workshops, and trainings to expand your mindfulness practice and teaching. We offer programming for all levels of experience.
We’re Supporting Schools, Now.
To create wider access during these challenging times, Mindful Schools is offering more than $100 OFF course tuition for 101: Mindfulness Foundations. See our course pages for details.
Build a sustainable schoolwide program. Click here to learn about group rates and extra support for schools.
Aug
Practice: Passion, Presence, and Purpose
As you think about welcoming students and families back to school, what will support you to start the year with passion, presence, and purpose? Gain inspiration, connection, and support through this discussion and guided mindfulness practice led by Mindful Schools educators Mia Arakaki and Sarah Rudell Beach. This practice is free and open to all members of your school community.
Aug
101: Mindfulness Foundations
Be the change. In this 4-week course, get started with the science of mindfulness and simple yet powerful strategies to bring mindfulness into daily life to manage stress and burnout, and build resilience. Course forums and LIVE sessions are facilitated and guided by Mindful Schools faculty. Mindful Schools is currently offering $100 OFF tuition, learn more.
Aug
Self-Compassion for Educators
Educators, take a deep dive into the research, practice, and experience of self-compassion in this 6-week online course led by researcher and author, Kristin Neff, PhD. Enhance your well-being and revitalize your deep motivation for helping others.
Aug
301: School Implementation Clinic
Learn how to support your school to build a whole-school mindfulness program. Implement evaluation tools, learn strategies to align stakeholders, and begin facilitating peer learning. Programmatic and cultural change is a process––it takes time. That’s why, in addition to the training modules, this course gives you access to six LIVE Coaching Calls with a Mindful Schools Coach to get support and feedback along the way. Register before the next LIVE Coaching Call.
Aug
Bringing Mindfulness Back to School
Join our Open House Presentation: Bringing Mindfulness Back to School. What is mindfulness in schools? What does the science say? Experience mindfulness and discover how the practice can support the social-emotional well-being of your school community this year. Bring your questions for Q&A with the Mindful Schools faculty and access the Back-to-School toolkit.
Aug
201: Mindfulness in the Classroom
Teach youth. In this 8-week course, access the revised K-12 Mindful Schools Curriculum and complete Teaching Kit. Learn trauma-sensitive strategies to nurture social-emotional well-being in your classroom.
Sep
Mindful Communication
Deepen your practice. In this 8-week course, explore how to cultivate trust, cooperation, and collaboration to build stronger relationships. Transform your communication patterns. Course forums and LIVE sessions are facilitated and guided by Mindful Schools faculty.
Train Your Team
Did you know we offer extra support for schools?
Invest in mindfulness as a professional development training for your faculty, staff, and school community. Build a sustainable schoolwide program.
Why Mindful Educators?
Why is Mindful Schools so critically focused on the development of mindful educators?
Because teaching is incredibly challenging work.
Educators need more support. Education is a calling that draws some of the most hard-working and dedicated people on the planet. It’s challenging work and the stakes are high; and overwhelmed and under-resourced educators are prone to burnout. Words like “self-care,” “sustainability,” and “wellbeing” may seem at odds with the goals of a modern, performance-oriented educational system. We think differently.
Mindful educators feel more calm, effective, creative, and confident; they’re less likely to burn out and we’re less likely to miss out on their talents. Mindfulness is a practice that supports educators with skills to improve focus and better manage stress. Mindfulness also offers self-care strategies, so educators feel more nourished and energized to support students in the classroom.
Because apps can’t model the power of presence.
Mindful Schools resources include easy-to-use guided audios and lessons; but we know that children absorb and learn more through observation, mirroring, and modeling. Educators with a mindfulness practice bring a presence into the classroom and model the essential principles of mindfulness through their curious listening, caring words, and un-reactive actions. It’s not just what we teach, but how we teach it.
Because curriculum alone doesn’t change culture.
Mindful Schools resources include research-backed, adaptable K-12 curriculum; but we know that mindfulness has its great benefits beyond the curriculum. The mindful educator can skillfully integrate mindfulness into all aspects of learning activities – gradually and positively shifting culture in the classroom and school to cultivate new ways of thinking, learning, and being together that foster well-being for everyone in the school community.
Because we’re in this for the long game.
We’re committed to long-term, sustainable solutions. Educators are at the heart of our approach because they are the heart of school communities. The enduring health of our schools is dependent on the continuity of educators who create and nurture school relationships, traditions, and culture. These are educators who have the inner resources to support the daily challenges on campus, who are not going to burnout, and who share beneficial impact of their mindfulness practice with every individual they interact with: students, peer educators, parents, and others who are part of the wider community.
Testimonials from Educators and Students
“Training with Mindful Schools changed my life, no doubt about it.”
– Christine de Guzman, Elementary School Educator
Learn more about the Mindful Schools’ Certification Program that changed the lives of two school teachers.
“There have been a lot of days where I wouldn’t have been able to go to school, or wouldn’t have had the motivation to, and because of doing mindfulness, it’s the only reason I ever went.”
– Dylan, High School Student
Dylan’s teacher, Ms. O, is a graduate of the Mindful Schools online trainings and Certification Program. Watch how mindfulness impacted Dylan’s life.