Elisha Goldstein posted the following video on his Mindfulness and Psychotherapy blog. It’s very heartening for me to see this type of mindfulness training being offered to children at such a young age.
Mindful Schools, a community outreach program of Park Day School in Oakland, CA, seems to base their training on the principles of Jon Kabat-Zinn’s MBSR model (adapting it to the context of elementary school). According to the news story above, Park Day School (a private school) paid for the training to be offered to students at nearby Emerson Elementary School (a public school serving many economically disadvantaged kids). Ah, sweet hope! I would love to be involved in this kind of work one day.
Elisha Goldstein also did an interview with Susan Kaiser Greenland a few months back on the topic of teaching mindfulness meditation to children. This is a very positive trend as far as I’m concerned.