• Hawn foundation
• Mindful Schools
• The Inner Kids Program teaches children a new type of ABCs: Attention, balance, and compassion. The children also learn to become more in tune with other people’s emotions, perspectives and worldviews. The outside-of-school classes lengthen as the children grow older and teach practices of kindness, compassion, gratitude, and emphasize the importance of community service and compassionate action. http://www.susankaisergreenland.com/inner-kids-program.html

-Submitted by Reilly Weinstein

The Inner Resilience program was originally founded to mend the community of the NYC schools affected by the terrorist attacks of September 11^th, 2001. However, when the education community saw the valuables of the program, they insisted that these methods be used in the classroom as well so that they could teach students inner resilience; and thus a new classroom curriculum that incorporated these contemplative practices, was written up and has already been used in a few schools. Studies have shown that teachers who have practiced contemplative thought are less stressful, more mindful, and maintain greater relational trust with the students and co-workers, whereas beforehand, the teachers were too overwhelmed with their own stress to pay attention to how they were teaching students or interacting with other faculty.   http://www.innerresilience-tidescenter.org/