Mindful Practice

Resilient Kids is a program that I am really excited about. I am advocate for mindfulness practice in general, I had no idea that public school are implementing mindful training and practices in classrooms. I am also a huge advocate for Social-Emotional Learning (SEL). Resilient Kids does a great job of aligning itself the SEL model, and with it, the research, data, and results that follow. For students, emotional regulation is a key to better make the use-of-self in an academic setting. Lack of emotional regulation can also correlate to an increase office referrals, school bullying, test anxiety, disruptions in classrooms, etc. If schools want to increase the outputs of their students in regards to standardized test, then taking time to teach mindfulness with yield better outputs.

It should be know that I have my own practice of mindfulness. The two Buddhist teachers that are very influential in Western Buddhism is Dalai Lama and Thich Naht Hanh. I was first introduced to one of Dalai Lama books when I was 17, Thich Naht Hanh  was a little later. I am able to better cope with my ADHD, as well as enjoying a happier, more meaningful life, from the teachings of these Zen Buddhist masters.

Here is a great book to introduce the core teachings of mindfulness. This is was one of my first books about mindfulness. It is short, concise, and written for a Western audience. http://www.amazon.com/Peace-Is-Every-Step-Mindfulness/dp/0553351397