We teach mindfulness and resilience skills to
children, parents, coaches, and educators.
“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our happiness.”
- Dr. Viktor Frankl
What is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness is focusing our attention on the present moment with curiosity, kindness, and non-judgment. Being mindful is taking a pause to notice our breath, thoughts, feelings, bodies, or surroundings.
Our attention is often distracted with past and future thoughts, which can cause anxiety and unhappiness.
Practicing mindfulness can help reduce reactivity in our daily lives and can help us find more peace, ease, and balance.
How mindfulness develops our brains
Mindfulness can help develop our brains by activating and regulating three key parts:
1) AMYGDALA
Primarily involved in the processing of emotions and memories associated with fear. A study determined that this area of the brain tended to be less active following mindfulness sessions.
2) HIPPOCAMPUS
Critical to learning and memory, and helps regulate the amygdala. The hippocampus is more activated, and produces more gray matter density following mindfulness training.
3) PREFRONTAL CORTEX
Associated with both impulse control and maturity. This part of the brain tended to become more active following mindfulness training.
Source: Mindful Schools
Growing Mindful Classes and Workshops
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Building Resilience In Sports
- Are your players having a hard time managing their emotions?
- Do they struggle after making mistakes?
- Do they perform well at practice and sometimes struggle during games?Our Building Resilience in Baseball Coaches Workshop explores the science of mindfulness and resilience and why they matter in baseball. We equip coaches with practical evidence-based tools and techniques to help players manage the ups and downs of the game and strengthen team camaraderie.
Practicing mindfulness and resilience skills help athletes stay focused, regulate big emotions, combat negative self-talk, and cope with the challenges of learning and playing the game. Ultimately helping them feel better and play better.
Parents also receive access to resources and tips to continue practice at home. -
After-School Programs
Growing Mindful’s after-school classes combine art, games, STEAM, and movement exercises with powerful evidence-based tools to equip students with the skills to boost their confidence, resilience, and discover their inner superpowers.
We practice:
- normalizing emotions
- emotional regulation strategies
- focusing our awareness
- identifying personal strengths
- positive self-talk
- self-compassion
- growth mindset
- resilience skills
- happiness strategies
- kindness, empathy, & gratitude
- and so much more!
Parents also receive access to resources and tips to continue practicing mindfulness at home.
We are teaching 6-week sessions at elementary schools in San Carlos, CA.We are teaching 6-week sessions at elementary schools in San Carlos:
- Brittan Acres: Sept. 11 - Oct. 16
- Brittan Acres: Oct. 23 - Dec. 4
- St. Charles: Jan 27 - Mar 10
- Arroyo: April 30 - June 4 -
Adult Education Workshops
Are you feeling overwhelmed by the daily hustle? Between work, family, and our endless to-do lists, we can find ourselves depleted, highly reactive, or checked out and operating on autopilot. You are not alone.
Growing Mindful’s workshop offers:
- foundations of mindfulness and why it’s important
- brain science at the root of our reactivity
- identifying our triggers
- mindfulness practices we can use once we’re triggered,
- simple ways to infuse mindfulness throughout our busy day in order to reduce stress and cultivate more inner peace, and
- ways to build more self-compassion.
This workshop is a great way to build community to remind us that we’re not alone in our experiences.Workshop format: in-person or virtual options available.
No prior experience with mindfulness necessary. All beginners welcome! -
Teacher Workshops
Research shows that learning and cultivating skills of mindfulness can help teachers experience greater well-being and teaching self-efficacy, as well as their ability to manage classroom behavior, and establish and maintain supportive relationships with students, which ultimately helps teachers feel more job satisfaction.
Growing Mindful teacher workshops offer:
- practical mindfulness tools to help enhance well-being for both teachers and students,
- evidence-based strategies rooted in mindfulness and positive psychology that can be integrated into daily classroom routines,
- strategies to help enhance students’ social emotional learning, and
- tools to help students’ develop concentration skills needed for academic success.
When educators feel more connected, grounded, and peaceful, they can, in turn, empower their students and create a safe and welcoming class environment.
We offer in-service workshop days to help teachers, camp counselors, after-school staff, etc. Each workshop is personalized to suit the needs of the group.
Workshop format: In person or virtual options available.
No prior experience necessary. -
Mindful Mamas Workshops
Motherhood is a journey that is filled with a lot of love and laughter and…let’s be honest, moments that feel like controlled chaos.
Come join us for our 6-week virtual class and we'll explore the power of mindfulness as a tool for navigating the joys and challenges of motherhood.
As a group, we will:
- practice strategies to help us cultivate more inner peace,
- learn practical tools to bring presence and compassion to interactions with our children,
- practice ways to cultivate more self-compassion,
- discover ways to enrich our home environments for mindful living, and
- connect with and learn from other like-minded mothers in a supportive and encouraging community.
No prior experience with mindfulness necessary. All beginners welcome! -
Private Workshops
Organize a group and we’ll create a personalized learning experience. Our workshops combine art, games, STEAM, and movement exercises with powerful evidence-based tools to equip students with the skills to boost their confidence, resilience, and discover their inner superpowers.
We practice:
- normalizing emotions
- emotional regulation strategies
- focusing our awareness
- identifying personal strengths
- enhancing self-compassion and positive self-talk
- growth mindset
- resilience skills
- happiness strategies
- kindness, empathy, & gratitude
- and so much more!
Parents also receive access to resources and tips to continue practicing mindfulness at home.
If you don’t live in Northern California and would like to organize a group for an online class, please contact us for details.
