Welcome to Mindful Moments in Education
  • Mindfulness
    • The Science Behind Mindfulness
  • About
    • About Patti
    • About Mindful Moments
    • About our Teacher Team
  • OFFERINGS
    • FREE 30-45 minute Mindfulness Overview
    • We TEACH - Mindfulness in your classroom
    • YOU TEACH- Learn how to teach mindfulness K - 12
    • We SUPPORT- Mindful Meetup
    • Teacher Professional Learning
    • Custom and/or Individualized Sessions
  • Teachers
    • Teacher Personal Practice
    • Teaching Students Mindfulness
    • Teacher Resources
    • Books
    • Websites & Videos
  • Teens
    • Audio Files for Teens
    • Articles about Mindfulness for Teens
    • Videos about Mindfulness for Teens
    • Apps for Teens
  • FREE Session Resources

Resources to help teachers with their personal practice.

Our hope is for the classroom teacher to establish a 'personal practice' of their own.  There are a lot of resources today to support initial and on-going practice.


PERSONAL PRACTICE RESOURCES:

Grand Rapids Center for Mindfulness
in person course
  • April Hadley and Carol Hendershott, certified MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) Instructors

NEW Sustainable Blended Learning Model for Teacher Training

Mindful Schools
Mindfulness Fundamentals: A 6-Week Online Mindfulness Course Develop a personal mindfulness practice to deepen self-awareness and increase well-being.

Free Mindfulness Exercises, a selection of guided mindfulness meditations to introduce you to mindfulness practice and support your existing practice.
  • Mindfulness of Breath
  • Body Scan
  • Mindfulness of Walking

Free Online MBSR course - Palouse Mindfulness
SOME OF MY FAVORITE RESOURCES:

     Greater Good Science Center:  studies the psychology, sociology, and neuroscience of well-being, and teaches skills that foster a thriving, resilient, and compassionate society.

     Rick Hanson, Ph.D., is a psychologist, Senior Fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, and New York Times best-selling
author.            

     Mindful Magazine:
Mindful is the voice of the emerging mindfulness community. We’re the place to go for insight, information, and inspiration to help us all live more mindfully.





APPS FOR TEACHERS

Calm               LINK

Insight Timer
-free   LINK

10% Happier  LINK

Headspace
    LINK

Mindfulness    LINK




Miscellaneous Resources:

Mindfulness Quiz (Greater Good Science Center):  LINK

What is Mindfulness (30 sec. video)
  LINK

Meditation for Beginners - Dan Harris (6 min. video)  LINK
GUIDED AUDIO PRACTICE:

Morning Guided Mindfulness for the teacher, 10 minutes.
  LINK

Mid-day Guided Mindfulness for the teacher, 8 minutes.  LINK


Evening Guided Mindfulness for the teacher, 6 minutes.  LINK


CONTACT INFORMATION:
Patricia Ward, M.Ed.
Mindful Schools Certified Instructor

mindfulmomentsinedu@gmail.com
616.204.2099
Grand Rapids, MI


COMMUNITY RESOURCES:

Grand Rapids Center for Mindfulness

Teens Just Breathe, Cheryl Blackington, M.Ed.

Mangrum ConSOULtation, Doreen Mangrum, M.Ed.

Well-Bean, Jen Rapanos, LMSW, RCYT


Michigan Collaborative for Mindfulness in Education (mc4me)







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