Mindfulness/SEL Resources for Education and Wellness

Books and Manuals: (See Talk about Wellness web site for added resources)

 Mindfulness in Public Schools: Building Wellness and Resilience in Our Children.

Compiled by the South Burlington (VT) School District; Edited by Judith
Horstman and Foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn. (A manual)
Available at: www.mindfulnessink12education.com
 Rechtschaffen, Daniel, The Way of Mindful Education: Cultivating Well-Being in
Teachers and Students. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Co., 2014
 Lantieri, Linda, Building Emotional Intelligence: Techniques to Cultivate Inner
Strength in Children. Colorado: Sounds True Incorporated., [CD led by Daniel
Goleman for adults and for youths]
 Johnson, Aostre N. and Neagley, Marilyn Webb Neagley, Educating from the
Heart: Theoretical and Practical Approaches to Transforming Education. New
York: Rowman and Littlefield Education, 2011. SEL and Inner Resilience
See last chapter by Auriel Gray for additional elementary classroom resources.
 Broderick, Patricia C., Learning2Breathe- A Mindfulness Curriculum for
Adolescents to Cultivate Emotion Regulation, Attention and Performance. Grades
5-12. Foreword by Myla Kabat-Zinn and Jon Kabat-Zinn. California: New
Harbinger Publications, Inc., 2013.
 Greenland, S. K. The Mindful Child: How to Help Your Kid Manage Stress and
Become Happier, Kinder and More Compassionate. New York: Simon Schuster,
2012

A list of smart phone apps prepared by the University of Vermont Medical Center
and Dr. James Hudziak:

http://blog.uvm.edu/vfba/2015/04/21/mindfulness-and-meditation-apps/

Recommended Programs:

 Calm Classroom Pre-K-12 www.calmclassroom.com

 MindUP www.thehawnfoundation.org K-12
 Learning to Breathe www.learning2breathe.org/ (adolescents)

Organizations:

 Collaborative for Academic Social and Emotional Learning www.casel.com/

 Mindfulness in Education Network www.mindfuled.org
 Talk About Wellness www.talkaboutwellness.org
 Inner Resilience Program www.innerresilience-tidescenter.org/
 Mindful Schools www.mindfulschools.org

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Research Sources:

 Learning to Breathe: A Pilot Trial of a Mindfulness Curriculum for Adolescents.

 Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at Waisman Center U. Wisconsin Madison
See Richard Davidson.
 The Center for Mindfulness @ UMASS Medical School
 Oxford Mindfulness Center
 Mindful Research Monthly (American Mindfulness Research Association)
 Mindful.Org
 Scientific American Mind
 Time Magazine, The Mindful Revolution; Feb. 2013

Recent Research on Neuroscience and the Brain

http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/~britta/SUN July11 Baime.pdf

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2944261/

Articles related to Mindfulness and Education or Health:

In addition to more visible articles that have appeared in the New York Times, Scientific
American and Time magazine, here is a list of related articles:

http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_social_emotional_lear
ning_and_mindfulness_can_work_together Social and emotional Learning
and Mindfulness

http://on.wsj.com/1EH1mCf

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#label/Related+articles
%2Fresearch/14b35acdeb7746ce?projector Talk About Wellness and So. Burlington
Schools (mindfulness programs)

http://video.pbs.org/video/2365192246/ Low Income students combat stress with

mindfulness

http://theweek.com/article/index/259351/the-mainstreaming-of-mindfulness-meditation Excellent
general article on mindfulness

http://www.reuters.com/article/email/idUSBREA0511320140106 Mindfulness
and health

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/03/mindfulness-meditation-burnout_n_3860963.html Teacher

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Prepared by Marilyn Webb Neagley, 2015