Megan Cowan: Mindful Schools, Compassionate Schools

The program director for the nonprofit organization Mindful Schools explains how mindfulness practice helps schools to become more compassionate places. Megan Cowan created the curricula for teaching mindfulness to elementary school students and adolescents. She has taught more than 3500 youth via Mindful Schools' in-class direct-service program, and trained more than 2000 educators, mental health professionals, and parents in mindfulness practices and applications for youth.
This video is from the "Practicing Mindfulness & Compassion" conference on March 8, 2013. The Greater Good Science Center co-hosted this conference with Mindful magazine.

[@MrHitchslap]

She is a fantastic speaker! I LOOOOVE this idea! Being in school is great (im in grade 12 now) but in soo many ways students r mindlessly following teachers and its this competitive stressful feeling for the majority. It is also soo crucial what teachers r inserting into students minds and therefore what we study (because thoughts flow to words which manifest to actions very gradually ofc) and its all so far away from being meaningful! Theyre all drawn towards math, science, and business

[@Laughinggray]

You are blessed to see this so clearly Vivacious. I wish for you to be able to apply patience and compassion on to yourself and others while being in school and that you will travel well on the path of mindfulness, maybe one day becoming a Mindfulness Trainer yourself.

[@MrHitchslap]

wow thank you for that, well said :) I've been learning and applying MANY ideas from Buddhism recently :) this video and many others on this channel have been persuading me to join this mindfulness movement in some way!

[@DucVietNguyenPhD]

Great thanks.

[@MrCanigou]

:-)