Mindfulness training for anyone, but specifically for K-12 teachers and students.

1. Mindfulness Training:
Teachers and Students
EDUT 6209
Emily Railey

2. National Programs
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http://www.thehawnfoundation.org/mindup
http://www.mindfulschools.org/
http://www.wellnessworksinschools.com/
http://www.mindfuleducation.org/
http://www.mindfuled.org/
http://www.mindfullearning.org/

3. WHAT YOUTH HAVE SAID ABOUT
LEARNING MINDFULNESS
• http://www.cml.me/?page_id=47
• “I love having mindfulness. It has made me feel a lot better,
especially through hard times”
• “It feels so good. I need to teach it to my sister in high school
because she is stressed out all the time.”
• “It helped keep me from using negative coping skills like
cutting and drugs.”
• “With mindfulness I have been able to let go of things and
move on from bad experiences.”

4. Tips
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Concentrating on one thing
Quiet your thoughts
Focus on Breathing
Observe
Describe
Participate
http://greatergood.berkeley.edu
/article/item/tips_for_teaching_
mindfulness_to_kids/ Some
simple teaching mindfulness tips

5. Five Senses Awareness
1. Touch- Hold an object behind their back
with their eyes closed and describe.
2. Taste- Savor. List foods and students
describe how each taste.
3. Smell- List four different smells and
students name things that smell that
way.
4. Hear- Take students outside and sit in a
circle quietly for 2 minutes then go
around and name sounds.
5. See- As lay outside on the ground and
look describe what they see in the
clouds. Or the mirroring activity seen in
the video below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkG
RM_fZPYY&feature=related
Raisin look, feel, taste, and hear.

6. 3 Other Senses
According to Jon Kabat Zinn’s
Coming to Our Senses
1. Body Sensation-The Hello Game- Sitting in
a circle say hello to the person to the right and say I
feel…
2. Thoughts- Clear Mind Game- Observe a clear glass of
water in center of circle and then watch how cloudy
it becomes when putting baking soda.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD99Vv38gtY&featur
e=relmfu
3. Connections with others- The Wave- Starting with
one student they stand and raise their arms then the
next and go around the room then back.
• Observe and Describe- Helps to Control

7. One Minute Mindfulness
• Look at your watch and for the next 60 seconds
focus only on your breathing.
• When your mind wanders return your focus to
your breathing.
• You can fail, as long as you try.
• Use throughout the day, to focus on the present.
• Can increase times.
• Mindfulness Bells (5 Minute Mindfulness Bellhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGFogOuFDM&feature=related)

8. Conscious Observation
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Pick up any object
Only observe it
Don’t analyze, think about, or study it
Feel awake, forget past and future
Listening Mindfully

9. Ten Second Count
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Concentration
Close your eyes
Count Slowly
If you lose focus start
back at 1

10. Mindfulness Cues
• Reminders to breath and be in
moment
• Anything: Phone Ring, Hands
touching, Washing Hands, Looking
in Mirror, Music, Touching a door
knob, Bathroom, Bell Rings, Desk
move, etc.
• Mindfulness Bell reminders like a
string or rubber band(I have an app
for my phone)
• Bring you out of mindless to mindful
present

11. Observe Your Thoughts
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Just Observe
Don’t Analyze, Think, Reaact
Sit back
Journaling Negative Emotions: Stress, Anxiety,
Anger

12. Mindful Child
• Free of Responsibilities
• Newness, Fascination,
Excitement
• “Mindful Learning” is
more effective, enjoyable,
and stimulating.
• Involve Students
• Keep Simple, Fun, and
Humorous

13. Monkey Chains Introspective Game
• Using the Barrel of Monkeys toyPlastic barrel of toy monkeys that
interlock.
• Ask students what distracts them
when practicing mindfulness.
• Every time they mention a
emotion, thought, or physical
sensation take out a representative
monkey and hang it on the chain.
• No one monkey or distraction is
more meaningful than any other.
• What do we do with these
distractions?
• Students call out, “Let them go”
and you drop the monkey chain.

14. Story Telling
• Model Positive Social Qualities
Everyone has their own special
star like a shadow. This star is
with you and only you all the
time, comforting you. Your star
can change, if you want it to.
Imagine your star in the sky
shining on to you. Warming you
slowly from head to toe like a
soft blanket. It relaxes your
whole body so that you can rest
and be yourself. Wow it feels
great to be me!

15. Accentuate the Positive
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ofC_8v38s
• Optimism song game-Play music and ask kids if
the song is happy or sad.
• Happy Memories Box- All kids write down their
favorite memories.
• Gratitude Stone
• Empathy creates Dopamine, a feel good
hormone, in the brain
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhheu2wXuM

16. Note Cards and Exercises
by Thich Nhat Hahn
• Flash Cards
• http://www.parallax.org/pdf/PebbleMeditatio
nCards.pdf
• 10 Mindful Movements
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vw0KS7k
vzY&feature=related
• Author of over 70
Mindful Books

17. Susan Kaiser Greenland’s
Inner Kids Program
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aOuxn7z
ASw
• http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkC
ast.jsp?masterId=115241&cmd=tc Susan
Greenland’s Techniques audio MPS

18. Hawn Foundation
Mind Up Program
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OdBXGH
wNCk&feature=related International Mind Up
Program
• http://www.thehawnfoundation.org/mindup

19. Relaxing Rhythms Biofeedback
Software Program
• http://store.wilddivine.com/rel
axing-rhythms-softwareiom.html
Healing Rhythms/Relaxing
Rhythms Biofeedback Program
by Chopra, Weil, and Cornish
Video:
• http://www.youtube.com/wat
ch?v=pTT2ps6XyEQ

20. Importance
New Movie Mindful Kids
http://www.youtube.co
m/watch?v=MMK481p5
wWM
Helps:
Health
Attention/Focus
Test Anxiety
Access
Curriculum Goals
Collaboration Needs
Literacy Needs

21. Mindfulness Successes
•http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/16/us/16mindful.html?pagewanted=all
•http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2008/01/29/mindfulness-and-meditation-inschools-for-stress-and-anxiety-management/
•http://www.mindfulnessinstitute.ca/MindfulnessApplications/Education.aspx
•Successes in Business and Military, next Schools

22. Workshops
• http://eomega.org/omega/workshops/c0772a9755df9e3f47b
a74cafe7a77f3/
• http://www.mindfulness-education.org/
• http://ibme.info/school-programs/in-school-programs/
• http://www.garrisoninstitute.org/education2011

23. Other Helpful Tools
• http://www.meditation-techniques-forhappiness.com/body-scan-meditation.html
Body Scan
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PMuOBG
pMos&feature=related Garden of Now for
Beginners
• http://marc.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id=22&oTopID
=22 Audio Podcasts Breathing Excercises,
Meditations, and Body Scan for Sleep