Mindfulness for Teachers Quotes

“The hallmark of resiliency is the ability to harness positive emotions when we need to counter the effects of hardship.”
― Patricia A Jennings, Mindfulness for Teachers: Simple Skills for Peace and Productivity in the Classroom

“Congressman Ryan give a talk at the Contemplative Sciences Center at the University of Virginia. He said that we all want two things for our children: We want them to care about others and we want them to pay attention. He pointed out that parents and teachers are always telling children, “Pay attention” and “Be nice.” But he went on to ask, “How often do they teach them how to do those things?”
― Patricia A Jennings, Mindfulness for Teachers: Simple Skills for Peace and Productivity in the Classroom

“Frustrations happen and we begin to get triggered. When this happens to you, you can rely on a brief and very simple exercise to calm your nervous system. Simply take three long, slow, mindful breaths.”
― Patricia A. Jennings, Mindfulness for Teachers: Simple Skills for Peace and Productivity in the Classroom

“Setting an intention is not the same as setting a goal. If I don’t reach a goal, I may feel disappointed, as if I failed. Setting intention doesn’t assume that I will reach an end point, but that I will stay on course. Setting intention is gentle and forgiving. Throughout the day, I can check my”
― Patricia A. Jennings, Mindfulness for Teachers: Simple Skills for Peace and Productivity in the Classroom

“Just as physical exercise builds muscle, mindful awareness practice builds attentional focus and flexibility.”
― Patricia A. Jennings, Mindfulness for Teachers: Simple Skills for Peace and Productivity in the Classroom

“Over time, with practice, you will become more aware of your thoughts and feelings. You will notice which thoughts and feelings tend to capture your attention and which are easier to release.”
― Patricia A. Jennings, Mindfulness for Teachers: Simple Skills for Peace and Productivity in the Classroom

“The most widely studied mindfulness-based intervention is Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (or MBSR), developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of the Center for Mindfulness (Kabat-Zinn, 2009).”
― Patricia A. Jennings, Mindfulness for Teachers: Simple Skills for Peace and Productivity in the Classroom

“As you will discover in Chapter 6, mindful attention to the relational senses of your students can help you orchestrate the dynamics of the classroom to promote student engagement and prosocial behavior.”
― Patricia A. Jennings, Mindfulness for Teachers: Simple Skills for Peace and Productivity in the Classroom

“The eighth sense is relational. It is our ability to attune ourselves with another person. When”
― Patricia A. Jennings, Mindfulness for Teachers: Simple Skills for Peace and Productivity in the Classroom

“Interpersonal mindfulness helps us recognize how our behavior affects our students. Our students learn social values primarily by observing and responding to our behavior.”
― Patricia A. Jennings, Mindfulness for Teachers: Simple Skills for Peace and Productivity in the Classroom

“This sequence of intentionally engaging in present-moment awareness, becoming distracted, noticing your distraction, and then bringing your attention back to the present is the practice of mindful awareness itself.”
― Patricia A. Jennings, Mindfulness for Teachers: Simple Skills for Peace and Productivity in the Classroom

“Through practice we can strengthen our capacity to incorporate mindfulness into our daily lives until it becomes a habit of mind (Roeser & Zelazo, 2012). Mindful”
― Patricia A. Jennings, Mindfulness for Teachers: Simple Skills for Peace and Productivity in the Classroom

“Mindfulness involves three fundamental processes: forming intention, paying attention, and adjusting your attitude (Shapiro, Carlson, Astin, & Freedman, 2006).”
― Patricia A. Jennings, Mindfulness for Teachers: Simple Skills for Peace and Productivity in the Classroom

“Practicing mindfulness means monitoring, in real time, your experience, and doing so in a nonjudgmental way (Kabat-Zinn, 1994).”
― Patricia A. Jennings, Mindfulness for Teachers: Simple Skills for Peace and Productivity in the Classroom

“Mindfulness is a particular state of consciousness that involves awareness and acceptance of whatever is happening in the present moment. You can think of it as “fullness of mind,” because you bring your full, undivided attention to the present moment.”
― Patricia A. Jennings, Mindfulness for Teachers: Simple Skills for Peace and Productivity in the Classroom

“Another program that evolved from the Cultivating Emotional Balance project is Stress Management and Relaxation Techniques (SMART) in Education, an eight-week, 11-session program that involves after-school or evening sessions for a total of 36 contact hours. With the support of the Impact Foundation, this program was developed by Margaret Cullen, a licensed therapist, MBSR instructor, one of the developers of CEB, and a primary facilitator for CEB research.”
― Patricia A. Jennings, Mindfulness for Teachers: Simple Skills for Peace and Productivity in the Classroom

“CARE program components increase in complexity across sessions and are augmented by individual reflective writing and group discussion. Teachers are given a CD of recorded guided practices that they can use on their own at home and a series of homework activities designed to help them apply and practice the CARE skills.”
― Patricia A. Jennings, Mindfulness for Teachers: Simple Skills for Peace and Productivity in the Classroom

“These practices are introduced sequentially, beginning with short periods of silent reflection, extending to longer periods of mindfulness practice, and finally including activities that bring mindful awareness into everyday activities such as standing, walking, and role plays of challenging situations.”
― Patricia A. Jennings, Mindfulness for Teachers: Simple Skills for Peace and Productivity in the Classroom

“As part of the CARE program, teachers learn how to balance their work and personal lives in order to continually renew the inner strength they need to do their jobs well. To”
― Patricia A. Jennings, Mindfulness for Teachers: Simple Skills for Peace and Productivity in the Classroom

“In 2000, the Mind and Life Institute held a dialogue between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and a group of prominent scientists to explore ways to foster emotional balance and decrease “destructive emotions.” As documented in Daniel Goleman’s book Destructive Emotions (2003),”
― Patricia A. Jennings, Mindfulness for Teachers: Simple Skills for Peace and Productivity in the Classroom

“The Niroga Institute also offers a professional development program to prepare teachers and others to teach the TLS curriculum.”
― Patricia A. Jennings, Mindfulness for Teachers: Simple Skills for Peace and Productivity in the Classroom

“Rather than simply training our children’s minds to absorb and regurgitate facts so that they can do well on standardized tests, mindfulness has the potential to promote other valuable cognitive skills, such as creative thinking, perspective-taking, and innovative problem-solving.”
― Patricia A. Jennings, Mindfulness for Teachers: Simple Skills for Peace and Productivity in the Classroom

“Throughout history, the role of education has been to prepare children for adulthood. Today our world is changing so rapidly that it’s difficult to know what it will be like even a decade from now. While we cannot predict the features of the world our children will inherit, we do know that the pace of change will most likely continue to accelerate (Thomas & Brown, 2011).”
― Patricia A. Jennings, Mindfulness for Teachers: Simple Skills for Peace and Productivity in the Classroom

“2001, the program expanded to offer a low-residency, two-year contemplative education master’s degree that is designed for classroom teachers at all levels, pre-K through higher education”
― Patricia A. Jennings, Mindfulness for Teachers: Simple Skills for Peace and Productivity in the Classroom

“The Calm Classroom (CC) program is based on the work of Herbert Benson, the Harvard Medical School professor and pioneer in mind-body medicine who developed the relaxation response (RR) method in the 1970s (Benson & Klipper, 2009).”
― Patricia A. Jennings, Mindfulness for Teachers: Simple Skills for Peace and Productivity in the Classroom

“Inner Resilience Program (IRP) to help New York City teachers in Ground Zero cope with the resulting trauma (Lantieri, Nambiar, & Chavez-Reilly, 2006). Not long afterward, she began to develop a mindfulness-based curriculum for students in response to requests from teachers, parents, and administrators (Lantieri, 2008).”
― Patricia A. Jennings, Mindfulness for Teachers: Simple Skills for Peace and Productivity in the Classroom

“These programs have been successfully integrated into schools in the US, Canada, and/or the UK; have a clearly articulated curriculum that can be easily accessed and replicated; are based in developmentally appropriate practice; and have some preliminary evidence of efficacy that has been published in a peer-reviewed journal.”
― Patricia A. Jennings, Mindfulness for Teachers: Simple Skills for Peace and Productivity in the Classroom

“The Holistic Life Foundation’s program combines yoga postures, fluid movement exercises, breathing techniques, and guided mindfulness practices. The movement activities are designed to enhance muscle tone and flexibility, and students learn breathing techniques designed to help them calm themselves. Each class includes a didactic component where instructors talk to students about identifying stressors and using mindfulness and breathing to reduce stress. At the end of each class, students lie on their backs and close their eyes while the instructors guide them through a mindful awareness practice. The program has been offered in a variety of settings in school and outside school.”
― Patricia A. Jennings, Mindfulness for Teachers: Simple Skills for Peace and Productivity in the Classroom

“Developed by Susan Kaiser Greenland (2010), the Inner Kids program teaches the “new ABCs”—attention, balance, and compassion. Through direct instruction, games, and other activities, the program aims to develop awareness of inner experience (thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations), awareness of outer experience (other people, places, and things), and awareness of how these two blend together.”
― Patricia A. Jennings, Mindfulness for Teachers: Simple Skills for Peace and Productivity in the Classroom

“Kripalu Yoga in Schools (KYIS) was developed to empower adolescents to learn social and emotional skills such as stress management, emotion and behavior regulation, self-appreciation, self-confidence, and relationships skills.”
― Patricia A. Jennings, Mindfulness for Teachers: Simple Skills for Peace and Productivity in the Classroom