Utah Mindful Living FoundationUtah Mindful Living Foundation
A Course in Mindful Living includes movement, meditation, readings, journaling, and discussion for students grades 8-12. We’ve got everything your school needs to bring powerful tools to your most at-risk students and reinforce the mental health of your entire staff and student body.
I have grown to know myself on a different level so that I can love and accept who I am. My favorite part was being able to dig deep and find out how my mind works. Also I loved being able to hear each other and what we’re all going through because I could relate so much.
I have honestly had less mental breakdowns and have been able to notice and accept where I am at. I have also been able to see others with more compassion and understanding. Instead of demonizing others, I am able to see them as people.
So much of finding peace is knowing what to let go of and when. From Week One, we hold your students’ hand through the life-changing mental shift of radical acceptance, giving them concrete tools to help them surrender to the flow of life.
By the end of the Course, your students will have a solid understanding of their own mind, with concrete tools that allow them to work skillfully with thoughts, emotions, traumas, and physical experience.
Coursework and Daily Practice will guide students again and again to explore and deepen their connection to a greater purpose. Feeling connected to healthy people, greater purpose, and a hopeful future is the foundation of the resilience our kids need.
A Course in Mindful Living invites students into their bodies to create balance, release stress, and find their center. In our view, any approach to mental-emotional health and healing that does not incorporate the body is incomplete.
A Course in Mindful Living helps students acknowledge, understand, heal, and change the self-defeating behaviors that keep them stuck. We build a deep well of self-compassion through our guided meditations, allowing students to overcome fear and learn to trust their own soul’s inner wisdom.
The curriculum is built to last an entire semester–around 18 weeks. We suggest incorporating 6 basic elements of Course material to help students get the most out of the experience.
Students Should Expect to invest consistent time to their practice for 18 weeks (whether in or out of class):
A Course in Mindful Living will give students the skills, strategy, and resources that will allow them to confidently give themselves and those they love most the gift that keeps on giving — the foundation of awareness and loving compassion that fuels mental, emotional, and physical freedom and greater ability to give and receive love in healthy relationships.
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I have learned how to listen to my emotions and observe my thoughts and the messages my body was sending me. I am more than what I look like and what I can do.
My life has totally changed from A Course in Mindful Living. Now I practice taking deep breaths when I am feeling anxious, feeling my feet underneath me, and finding a connection to something bigger than myself. I have learned skills that help me remember that I am not alone.
Part One: Foundations of Mindfulness
Week 1: Accepting & Allowing
Week 2: Becoming the Observer
Week 3: Exploring the Human Condition
Week 4: Finding Our Center
Week 5: The Subconscious Mind
Week 6: Trauma & Triggers
Week 7: Part One Synthesis & Review
Part Two: Behavior Change & Empowerment
Week 8: Craving, Alignment & Abundance
Week 9: Self-Care & Savoring
Week 10: Self-Defeating Behaviors
Week 11: Acknowledging Our Strengths
Week 12: Moving Toward Oneness
Week 13: Taking Ownership
Week 14: Part Two Synthesis & Review
Part Three: Moving Forward with Compassion
Week 15: Self-Compassion
Week 16: Power Dynamics & Inclusion
Week 17: Expanding Humility, Tolerance & Gratitude
Week 18: Celebrations, Reflections & Paying it Forward
Each lesson is supported by 6 elements. These elements can be utilized at your discretion to best fit your school schedule.
There is simply no substitute for actually getting students into their body for movement and meditation, so make these elements a priority.
(approximately 10 minutes)
Each Lesson Includes :
Possible Breakdown of Course Curriculum:
A/B 67-minute class periods:
2 Class Work Days
(5) 3-5 minute silent meditation or “sit.”
(5) All students verbally check-in on 3 specific measures w/partner
(40) Class Reads Course Content with Guided Audio, pausing for questions, discussion, & application
(15) Class spends 15 minutes in journaling
Additional Day: Movement Day
(5) 3-5 minute silent meditation or “sit.”
(5) All students verbally check-in on 3 specific measures w/partner
(50) Class participates in walking meditation or Fitness & Meditation practice via digital Learning Platform
(5) Sharing & Processing time after meditation
Evaluation: All journaling prompts must be turned in by end of the week. Graded on completion.
Our trauma-informed curriculum gives students the tools they need to ground and find their center through triggers and tailspins.
Our curriculum helps students to identify and understand their self-defeating behaviors from a place of compassion.
Our Mindful Living Course is based in compassion practices. 98% of our participants report a significant increase in self-love.
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We can help those who are most at-risk, visibly and invisibly: perfectionists, rebels, addicts, and everyone in-between. If a student has a willing heart, there are answers for them here, whatever their issue.
Utah Mindful Living provides:
Utah Mindful Living provides professional development for all classroom teachers. This professional development includes:
Our Courses are pre-packaged with lessons taught via video and audio recordings and guided meditations.
Essentially, teachers only need to be able to facilitate a safe space and healthy classroom discussion according to principles of Mindful Communication.
To speak to a Mindfulness Education specialist, reach out to us at becky@utahmindful.org.
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You want to set your school apart, taking a proactive and progressive approach to the current mental health crisis.
You believe the latest research—which overwhelmingly points to mindfulness concepts as the most accessible tools for daily application to improve mental health and overall well-being.
You need a solution that your staff can plug into—with solutions that do not place additional burden on teachers and staff. Our curriculum is delivered almost entirely via Digital Learning, and supports educators with personal mindfulness training.
You believe in the best in humanity—and sense that we can do better than the status quo when it comes to the way we approach mental and emotional health. It’s time to break the norms and explore innovative solutions.
You can bring these life-changing tools to your school community!
I hope you will help us create a new chapter in the way we meet the mental, emotional, and physical needs of our students—where simple awareness, peace, and progress become the foundation of a new way of moving through the world. All of these gifts are within our reach as we learn to approach life one moment at a time.
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I want you to know it is truly my privilege to work with students and teachers to help them discover their best life. Every individual has the capacity to live with purpose and integrity as they are given the tools to understand themselves from a place of compassionate accountability.
These tools—a unique marriage of 12-Step principles, mindfulness concepts, and embodied practices—are the very tools that have shaped my life and the lives of countless others.
If your student body is in need of additional resources, I hope you decide to do something truly remarkable—and offer them a progressive curriculum rich in research-backed tools for body, mind, and spirit.
We can do better for our students and teachers. We can offer them more. Let’s be part of a new solution–together.
Namaste,
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