Spring Blooms with Mindfulness

In This Issue

Inspiration • What's New with MC4ME? • Recommended Resources • Research Findings •

Mindfulness Insights • Upcoming Events

Inspiration

"In each moment, what we choose to say and do plants the seed of our future." ~Tara Brach

What's New with MC4ME?

MC4ME Mindfulness Training for Youth Summer Institute

Join us for our 2-day summer institute for all teachers and

professionals interested in learning to apply mindfulness

to their work in the classroom or individual clinical setting.

The Institute will be held August 7-8 in Birmingham.

Learn more and register now for our Early Bird rate!

February Meet-Up & Live-Stream on Mindfulness in High School

The freezing cold did not deter thirty participants from traveling to Ann Arbor to engage in a morning of compassion and awareness practice. In the afternoon, we live- streamed the presentation by Natalie Freeburn, a wonderful high school teacher in Saline, who shared her experience in implementing a stress-management elective course for the last three years. Check out her video-recording here.

Recommended Resources

Little Seed's Journey, a Children's Book by Annmarie Chereso

Little Seed's Journey, written by Annmarie Chereso, our colleague from Chicago, was inspired through teaching mindfulness to students and parenting her own three children, to write a book to help kids understand who they are and how they are connected to the world around them.

Research Findings

Mindfulness Training in UK Secondary Schools: A Multiple Case Study Approach to Identification of Cornerstones of Implementation

This article explores the barriers and facilitating factors present as schools have embarked on implementing mindfulness into the school culture using a qualitative case study design.

Mindfulness Insights

Learning Mindfulness as a Life Skill

Stephanie Snider, (pictured far left) a social worker in the Troy school district, recently shared this story of the impact that mindfulness was having on one of her elementary school students.

We have been incorporating Mindfulness within our elementary school culture through the weekly lessons I have been teaching in the classrooms.

The other day, my principal received a call from one of our third grade parents , Read more

Upcoming Events

Spring & Summer Mindfulness Trainings

Grand Rapids Center for Mindfulness

The Art of Mindful Communication: Oren Sofer

May 10, 2019

Learn more

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