Mindfulness is the active noticing of what’s happening inside and outside of your body.

ABOUT MINDFULNESS

What is Mindfulness?

Mindfulness is noticing what’s happening inside and outside of your body, right now. It’s active noticing of your thoughts, emotions, impulses, senses and physical/mental impulses, so that you can sit in the driver’s seat of your own body/your own biology. In Mindfulness lessons we teach easy to follow exercises that help us to repeatedly notice our thoughts, emotions, feelings, senses and physical/mental impulses until we know them so well, we start to regulate them in the special way that mindfulness permits.

Listen to students and teachers at Caurus Academy talk about prioritizing mental health wellness.

Our Mindfulness Curriculum

Mental health wellbeing is the missing piece in education, it ensures that we educate the whole child. Learning to have good mental health is as important as any other subject taught in school, in fact it is foundational and will help children to be successful students. It teaches skills to improve stress management, emotional regulation, improve attention, focus and concentration, as well as foster emotional well-being and a more positive outlook.

Preliminary research indicates that cultivating these inner skills can improve interpersonal relationships, develop empathy, increase awareness of assumptions and biases, and help to nurture global stewardship. The intended purpose of providing mindfulness education in schools is to enhance inner resilience, self-awareness and self-regulation in students and staff, while creating safer, kinder, healthier, more supportive and productive schools and communities.

Through trauma-responsive mindfulness we can help children to become critical thinkers, have strong social and emotional skills, and help them to reach their full potential.

At Mindfulness First we gratefully acknowledge that mindfulness-based practices have existed across the globe for centuries, including in various Asian cultures and Indigenous communities throughout the Americas and Africa. As an organization, we only offer programs informed by contemporary research in neuroscience and psychology, and we regularly update our programs as new findings become available. We are committed to providing mindfulness-based theory and practice that is cross-cultural, secular, and trauma-informed.