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 $50 OFF course tuition for 101: Mindfulness Foundations. See our course pages for details.
Build a sustainable schoolwide program. Click here to learn about extra support for schools.
Jan
201: Mindfulness in the Classroom
In this comprehensive 8-week course, learn trauma-sensitive strategies to nurture social-emotional well-being in your classroom. Access the new Mindful Schools K-12 Curriculum and Teaching Kit.
Jan
New Year Half-Day Retreat for Educators
Ring in the New Year with a rejuvenating virtual half-day retreat with the Mindful Schools community. This experience is designed to nurture your sense of equanimity and well-being––supporting you to strengthen your resilience, agency, and inspiration throughout the rest of the school year.
Feb
101: Mindfulness Foundations
In this 4-week course, learn 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 calls are facilitated and guided by Mindful Schools faculty. Mindful Schools is currently offering $50 OFF tuition, learn more.
Feb
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.
Apr
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.
Apr
Spring Half-Day Retreat for Educators
Finish this school year feeling resourced and nourished at the Mindful Schools Virtual Half-Day Retreat. Strengthen your inner resilience and gain inspiration with a community of like-minded educators––together, we’ll practice mindfulness strategies that support your well-being in the classroom and beyond.
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.