Resources

For a list of schools and organizations that provide mindfulness education, please click here.

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Conference Materials
From the Fall 2009 Assocation for Mindfulness in Education Conference

• Still Quiet Place Outline Amy Saltzman, M.D.
• Betsy Rose Mindfulness Handouts Betsy Rose
• The Neuroscience of Attention, Emotion, & Meditation: Implications for Education
  Alfred W. Kaszniak, Ph.D.
• Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for the Treatment of Adolescent
  Psychiatric Outpatients: A Randomized Clinical Trial Gina M. Biegel
• Somewhere Deep Within Poem
  

Reports

• Garrison Institute Report: A Survey of Programs Using Contemplative Practices in K-12 Educational Settings: A Mapping Report

Journal Articles

• Teaching Mindfulness to Children, Karen Hooker and Iris Fodor.
• Opening the Contemplative Mind in the Classroom, Tobin Hart, Ph.D.
• Mindfulness in the Classroom—Getting to Know Yourself in School, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.
• Love and Knowledge: Recovering the Heart of Learning Through Contemplation, Arthur Zajonc
• Learning to Stop; Stopping to Learn: Embarking on the Contemplative Learning Path, Richard Brady
• Mindful Kids, Peaceful Schools, Jill Suttie

Newspaper Articles

• USA Today, 6/8/09 Mindfulness Meditation Being Used in Hospitals, Schools
• New York Times, 6/16/07: In the Classroom, A New Focus on Quieting the Mind
• Los Angeles Times, 7/25/07: Take a Breath: Meditation in Schools is Not a Religious Practice That Raises Any Church-State Issues

Books

• Acceptance and Mindfulness Treatments for Children and Adolescents,  Laurie Greco, ed and Stephen Hayes, ed.
  
  

Chapter 7 - Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for School-Age Children. By Amy Saltzman, M.D. and Philippe Goldin, Ph.D
Reprinted with permission by New Harbinger Publications, Inc. www.newharbinger.com


• Teaching Meditation to Children, David Fontana and Ingrid Slack
• Meditation in Schools: Calmer Classrooms, edited by Clive and Jane Erricker
• Mindful Teaching, and Teaching Mindfulness, Deborah Schoeberlein.
• Tuning In Mindfulness in Teaching and Learning, Irene McHenry and Richard Brady

Helpful Links

• Center for Contemplative Mind in Society
• Center for Mindfulness, in Medicine, Health Care, and Society (CFM), University of Massachusetts Medical School
• Clinically Applied Affective Neuroscience Lab in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University
• Garrison Institute
• Hawn Foundation
• Impact Foundation
• InnerKids Foundations: Offering mindfulness in the Los Angeles Public School System
• Inner Resilience Program
• Kinder Associates: Offering mindfulness in the Lancaster and Reading Public School Systems
• Mindful Awareness Research Center, UCLA
• Mindfulschools.org
• Mindfulness in Education Network
• Open Circle Program
• Psych-Insights: The Mindfulness Project
• Still Quiet Place

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