Educators Coming to Mindful Schools Curriculum Training at USN
by Mary Agee and Helen Tarleton
An exciting event is coming to USN this Friday, thanks to our relationship with Mindful Schools, a leading organization which trains teachers to bring simple mindful awareness practices to youth.
An exciting event is coming to USN this Friday, thanks to our relationship with Mindful Schools, a leading organization which trains teachers to bring simple mindful awareness practices to youth.
In partnership with Mindful Schools, USN is hosting a 3-day curriculum training on mindfulness for those with prior experience, and it has drawn over 100 participants from schools around the country and Canada.
(For those not familiar with the term, mindfulness simply means paying attention to one’s experience in the moment without judgment. Brain and mindfulness research have revealed that one can improve one’s ability to pay attention, to self-regulate one’s emotions, and to empathize through regularly practicing mindfulness techniques. USN’s middle school faculty was trained by Mindful Schools in 2009 to understand and to teach these techniques to children, and mindfulness has remained a component of the program ever since.
(For those not familiar with the term, mindfulness simply means paying attention to one’s experience in the moment without judgment. Brain and mindfulness research have revealed that one can improve one’s ability to pay attention, to self-regulate one’s emotions, and to empathize through regularly practicing mindfulness techniques. USN’s middle school faculty was trained by Mindful Schools in 2009 to understand and to teach these techniques to children, and mindfulness has remained a component of the program ever since.
Registrations for the Mindful Schools Curriculum Training we are hosting have sold out and there is a waiting list.
Along with the 35 teachers coming from USN (from all three divisions), people are coming from as far as Canada, Utah, Illinois, and Wisconsin. In addition, groups of teachers are coming from public and independent schools in Nashville and surrounding areas/states, many of them to learn how to establish their own mindfulness programs.
Momentum is growing for building mindfulness programs in public and charter schools as well as other independent schools in the Nashville area and far beyond.
To learn more about the mindfulness program in our middle school, please visit the website link: http://www.usn.org/page/Curriculum/Mindfulness-at-USN and the Mindfulness Group page (can be found at usn.org under the “Groups” section) which is available to anyone for viewing and to join for receiving regular updates.
Mindfulness seems to be in the news quite regularly these days. Along with the upsurge in mainstream media stories, the growth in publication of peer-reviewed studies has been exponential over the last few years. If you missed the Anderson Cooper story on CBS’s 60 Minutes, perhaps you caught an article titled, “Harvard Unveils MRI Study Proving Meditation Literally Rebuilds the Brain’s Gray Matter in 8 Weeks” about this ground-breaking study: (http://www.psyn-journal.com/article/S0925-4927(10)00288-X/abstract?cc=y) from the Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Program at Harvard’s Medical School.
Mindfulness seems to be in the news quite regularly these days. Along with the upsurge in mainstream media stories, the growth in publication of peer-reviewed studies has been exponential over the last few years. If you missed the Anderson Cooper story on CBS’s 60 Minutes, perhaps you caught an article titled, “Harvard Unveils MRI Study Proving Meditation Literally Rebuilds the Brain’s Gray Matter in 8 Weeks” about this ground-breaking study: (http://www.psyn-journal.com/article/S0925-4927(10)00288-X/abstract?cc=y) from the Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Program at Harvard’s Medical School.
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