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Mindfulness in Education: Laying the Foundation for Teaching and Learning

Mindfulness-based Education is an exciting and important new development in K to 12 education. As a powerful tool to decrease stress, enhance academic performance, and promote emotional and social well-being, mindfulness is increasingly recognized as an essential support for students, teachers, school administrators, and parents.

Mindfulness-based education focuses on developing a person's capacity for attention and awareness. As such, we promote mindfulness training as a foundation for education: mindfulness provides the optimal conditions for learning and teaching, supporting all pedagogical approaches.

Mindfulness training develops skills such as:

- attention and concentration,

- emotional and cognitive awareness and understanding,

- bodily awareness and coordination,

- interpersonal awareness and skills.

Decades of research has shown that mindfulness decreases stress, attention deficit issues, depression, anxiety and hostility while benefiting health, social relations, academic ability, and most important, a sense of well-being. We are dedicated to bringing all these benefits to the field of education.