Student Sessions

Lessons for Classrooms

20-30 min weekly, 4-6 weeks | (on-site where available)

These proven lessons increase engagement, comfort and success in students and teachers by providing consistent and relevant active-learning lessons. Weekly practice in a safe environment creates new habits and a mindful culture change within the classroom. Then during challenging times (in the classroom and out) students are more able to bring the learning brain back online when stress knocks it off. Lessons are taught by Wellness Works instructors with the students and teachers participating. 

Lesson Components

 

  • Choice-based participation - engage resistant students, a range of safe choices

  • Exploration and understanding - mindbody wellness (science and themes)

  • Mindful practices - awareness, attention and concentration

  • Healthy breathing - self-regulation, calming, alertness and becoming present

  • Mindful Movement - Mindbody connection, awareness of self, needs and care

  • Rest and quieting - foster self-care, balance and resilience

  • Reflection - group or self-inquiry, understanding an sharing


Mindful Classroom Mentoring

Structure: Wellness Works instructors provide - individualized mentoring, sample lessons, co-teaching opportunities and on-going support to teachers in 2-4 sessions.

Goal: We gradually release teachers with appropriate support, to integrate and lead their students in mindful practices and lessons. We can provide additional support through problem-solving related to: de-escalation, dealing with resistance and enhancing one's ability to address trauma in the classroom. 

Evidence-based Research

2 Decades | 1000 Classrooms | 20,000 Students

More Resources

Handbook of Mindfulness-Based Programmes

Mindfulness Interventions from Education to Health and Therapy (Chapter on Evidenced based research by Dr. Cheryl Desmond, Routledge, 2020)

Teaching Mindfulness Skills to Kids and Teens

a chapter on special education in Teaching Mindfulness Skills to Kids and Teens (2015)

After the Pandemic: Visions of Life Post COVID-19

a chapter on the New ACEs in After the Pandemic: Visions of Life Post COVID-19 (May 1, 2020)

GoNoodle.com

GoNoodle makes videos and games that get kids up and moving and developing their wellness, mental health, and resilience.

GoNoodle’s SuperNoodle offers teachers and students an easy to implement SEL curriculum, that foster positive social emotional health and well-being.

MindfullyADD.com

Audio practices for MindfullyADD.com

Who’s talking about Wellness Works?

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

Wellness Works in Schools featured on the cover of National Geographic's International Editions, Feb. 2010.


New York Times

In the Classroom, a new focus on quieting the mind. June 16, 2007

Patricia Leigh Brown

Child Mind Institute

Mindfulness in the Classroom - How it helps kids regulate and focus on learning. April 23, 2012

Juliann Garey

Lancaster Newspapers

Cultivating Mindfulness Beneficial, June 29, 2015

Kimberly Marselas