Mindfulness Resources

 

General Resources for Learning About Mindfulness for Educators

• Cultivating Mindfulness for Educators Using Resources from the New York Times
• Greater Good Science Center (out of UC Berkeley)

  • Seven Ways Mindfulness Can Help Teachers

  • When Teachers Get Mindfulness Training, Students Win

• Taking Charge of Your Health and Wellbeing

Guided Mindfulness Practices with Audio or Video

• Center for Healthy Minds “Your Well-Being” site
• UW Health Audio Tracks
  • Audio Tracks Geared for Adults (longer practices)
  • Audio Tracks Geared for Middle Schoolers/Teens (shorter practices)
• UCSD Audio Tracks
• Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World: multiple guided practices
• University of Wisconsin Department of Psychiatry: The Mindful Pause
• Greater Good in Action - menu of guided practices targeted to particular themes, some of which include audio
• Qigong Movements Video

Web and Mobile Apps to Support Mindfulness Practice

• Insight Timer - A mobile app for IOS & Android with many free guided practices; also includes a customizable timer.
  • Insight Timer - IOS
  • Insight Timer - Android
• Headspace - An app designed to teach mindfulness - web-based, IOS & Android. Some practices are free and some require a subscription.
  • Headspace - IOS
  • Headspace - Android
  • Headspace - Web-Based
• 10% Happier - An app designed for skeptics with 8 free sessions - web-based & IOS.
  • 10% Happier - IOS
  • 10% Happier - Android
• Pause- Relaxation at your fingertip - Paid app for IOS & Android which encourages mindfulness through moving your finger at a steady pace across the screen, helping you regain focus and release stress.
  • Pause - IOS
  • Pause - Android
• Calm.com - web app, IOS and Android with some free content and some paid content. One free aspect of the web app is that the home screen after log-in (which is customizable with a variety of calming background scenes) can be used as a image on a projected screen to give a calm ambiance to a room.
  • Calm.com - IOS
  • Calm.com - Android
  • Calm.com - Web-Based

Websites To Learn More About The Practice of Mindfulness and Well-Being

• What is Mindfulness? From the Omega website: a non-profit focused on helping people and organization integrate personal growth and social change.
• Mindfulness resources reflecting science-based insights from Greater Good Berkeley Magazine
• UW Health, Madison (includes guided practices in English)
• Center for Healthy Minds, UW-Madison
• Association for Mindfulness in Education (AME)
• Mindfulness in Education Network (MiEN)
• Mindful Awareness Research Center - University of California, Los Angeles (includes short guided practices in both English and Spanish)
• Atentamente (Cambio Yo, Cambia Todo) en Español / in Spanish
• Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society - University of Massachusetts Medical School
• UCSD (University of California San Diego) - list of guided practices
• University of Minnesota: Taking Charge of your Health and Well Being

Recommended Books for Professional Learning about Mindfulness and Mindfulness in Education

• Real Happiness at Work, Sharon Salzberg
• Full Catastrophe Living, Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Wherever You Go, There You Are, Jon Kabat-Zinn
• The Way of Mindful Education: Cultivating Well-Being in Teachers and Students, Book and Workbook, Daniel Rechtschaffen
• Mindful Teacher, Mindful School: Improving Wellbeing in Teaching and Learning, Kevin Hawkins
• 10% Happier by Dan Harris

Books on Mindfulness (that you can check out from the Mindfulness in MMSD Program)

This is a list of books available for check-out from Mindfulness in MMSD including some of the above and others; they can be sent to you via school mail.

Ten to twenty copies of these are available for small book groups. Edgewood credit and PAC options being developed.

• Real Happiness at Work, Sharon Salzberg
• The Way of Mindful Education: Cultivating Well-Being in Teachers and Students, Book and Workbook, Daniel Rechtschaffen
• Mindful Teacher, Mindful School: Improving Wellbeing in Teaching and Learning, Kevin Hawkins
• Mindfulness for Teachers: Simple Skills for Peace and Productivity in the Classroom, Patricia A. Jennings

One to four copies of these books are available for individual check-out:

• The Mindful Teacher, Dennis Shirley & Elizabeth MacDonald (The Mindful Teacher website)
• Happy Teachers Change the World, Thich Nhat Hanh & Katherine Weare (The Mindful Teacher website)
• Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment and Your Life, Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Wherever You Go, There You Are, Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Full Catastrophe Living, Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky with Connie Burk (Trauma Stewardship Institute website)
• The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy, edited by John Brehm
• Mindful Games, Susan Kaiser Greenland
• Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection, Sharon Salzberg
• Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness:  Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing, David Treleaven

To check out books: Contact Sara Parrell, Project Lead for Mindfulness in MMSD, sparrell@madison.k12.wi.us.