

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)
- 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.
- Headspace - An app designed to teach mindfulness - web-based, IOS & Android. Some practices are free and some require a subscription.
- 10% Happier - An app designed for skeptics with 8 free sessions - web-based & IOS.
- 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.
- 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.
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.