Resilient schools in Santa Barbara
Mission
Empowering schools and communities to practice mindfulness, kindness and nature-immersion that enhance belonging, social-emotional learning, resilience, equity, and caring for our world.
Through in-person connections with cultural-sensitivity and a trauma-informed approach, we empower and collaborate with educators and leaders to implement Kind Mind tailored to each unique community, district, school, grade-level, & classroom.
Children developed self-awareness and the ability to articulate what is happening inside of them. They start practicing mindfulness skills unprompted, and ask to take a moment before responding in a difficult conversation.
- observations by Anna Scharfeld, SBCA principal 2022
Enhance focus, attention and self-awareness
Create a sense of inner calm
Strengthen impulse control
Alleviate stress and isolation
Decrease reactivity
Improve resilience
Increase empathy, caring and compassion for self and others
Enhance the sense of engagement and belonging to school
Offerings:
We support students and teachers in learning and practicing hands-on skills to co-create calm, productive, mindful and caring classrooms.
We train how to facilitate secular mindfulness for each developmental stage and in various school settings.
We draw upon evidence-based practices to create culturally relevant and engaging lessons for experiential learning of kindness and mindfulness.
We work with teachers and principals to tailor our programming to their unique classroom themes, curricula and student needs.
Goals:
Students were asked what they have noticed about themselves after learning Kind Mind skills.
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“It has helped me feel better about myself. I've found that mindful breathing and sending kind wishes were the ones that have helped me the most throughout the year. Especially through hard times.” - SBCA student 2020
“Mindfulness is helpful for all of your feelings . . . helps you feel strong feelings letting go, from your brain into your heart.”
This is a sample of our Santa Barbara students sending kind wishes to orphans in Myanmar for the gift of giving from the heart project.
KIND MIND is supported by the Bower Foundation, Roosevelt PTO, Washington School, SB Junior High School, SB Unified School District and generous private donors.
Dr. Frann Wageneck, Asst. Superintendent of SBUSD encouraged our KIND MIND elementary school pilots in 2019. Shakenya Edison, new Asst. Superintendent, contracted with us to serve all 9 SBUSD Elementary schools in 2023.
https://www.jsbowerfoundation.org/
Contact
Feel free to contact us with any questions.
Email
KindMindSB@gmail.com
Phone
(805) 229-1737