This program will teach participants how to weave mindfulness practices throughout daily life, nurturing the art of mindful living. As educators, we will slow down and reconnect with our own bodies, hearts, and minds through mindful sitting, walking, yoga and movement, and listening, speaking, eating, and resting. Only when we embody the practice of peace and happiness can we share it with our students. 

As a path of practice, mindfulness promotes awareness of ourselves and our environment, supporting greater compassion, peace, understanding, and happiness, as well as personal and societal transformation and healing. As educators, we will learn self-care practices, ways to resolve conflict, how to work with difficult emotions, and how to support focused attention and concentration, all of which are relevant to classroom and school settings. Buddhist teachings on the nature of consciousness will help us focus on how to cultivate our own practice as individuals and as members of our community.

This program is co-sponsored by Plum Village’s Wake Up Schools program as a Level I training. Participants will be invited to receive the Five Mindfulness Trainings, Thich Nhat Hanh’s rendering of the Buddha’s Five Precepts for lay practitioners. Affinity spaces will be offered in this program