mindfulness resources for educators + more

Susan Kaiser Greenland’s trademark approach to activity-based mindfulness was developed first in the classroom. Years ago, while working as an attorney, she discovered the mindfulness practices that would change her life’s trajectory. Passionate about the changes she saw in her own life, she knew that if children were given mindfulness tools they would not only benefit them then but grow up to be healthier, more fulfilled adults. What started as volunteering at local public schools rapidly turned into Inner Kids–a mindfulness model dedicated to teaching secular mindfulness in schools and community-based programs throughout Southern California, and then the world.

Enjoy this curated collection of tools and resources to both use in your work with children and support you in that work.

Learn about Susan’s pioneering approach to integrating mindfulness in the classroom.

Inner Kids Model

Find more ideas and tools in Susan’s books, games, and audio offerings.

books + more

Simple, mindful insights & lessons to bring to the children in your life.

meditations + more

Bring mindfulness into the classroom with these fun, simple, and powerful practices.

video lessons

Ready to try out some games, meditations, or other practices with kids? Check out these tips to help you get started.

Tips + FAQS

Inner Kids is a fun, pragmatic approach to sharing mindfulness with children and classrooms worldwide. Designed to be flexible, adaptive, and inclusive to the specific needs, cultures, and creativity of the children and adults who use it, Inner Kids is a powerful set of principles and tools that brings activity-based mindfulness to children in simple ways to empower them to develop their attention, balance, compassion, and playfulness.

Inner Kids Model

Life Skills

Six social, emotional & academic life skills.

Methods

The themes and life skills taught in the Inner Kids model are introduced through one of six methods.

Themes

In mindfulness and meditation, we explore universal themes that help us navigate life's ups and downs with wisdom and compassion.

Mindfulness Meditation + the Scientific Method

The Inner Kids model is loosely designed to follow the sequence Play, Practice, Share and Apply.

Tips + Faqs

tips for sharing mindfulness and meditation with children, teens, and families plus answers to frequently asked questions.

Inner Kids Model

Check out Susan’s books, games, and audio collection, to learn more and purchase wherever books are sold, or to find at your local library. If you’d like to order in bulk for your organization, please get in touch with us.

Books + More

Real-World Enlightenment

50 practical tools to ease anxiety, overwhelm, and stress by recognizing the enduring sense of love and well-being that’s with us regardless of our circumstances.

Mindful Games Book

Mindful play is a great way for kids to develop focusing skills while learning to regulate their emotions and respond to any situation calmly, with kindness and compassion. Here are sixty simple and accessible games that can bring mindfulness to your daily routine.

The Mindful Child

The mindful awareness techniques have helped millions of adults reduce stress in their lives. Now, children—who are under more pressure than ever before—can learn to protect themselves with these well-established methods adapted for their ages. Based on a program researched by UCLA, The Mindful Child is a groundbreaking book, the first to show parents how to teach these transformative practices to their children.

Mindful Parent, Mindful Child

50 practical tools to ease anxiety, overwhelm, and stress by recognizing the enduring sense of love and well-being that’s with us regardless of our circumstances.

Mindful Games Activity Cards

A deck of fifty-five mindful games for kids that takes a playful approach to developing attention and focus, and identifying and regulating emotions--by the author of Mindful Games and The Mindful Child.

All Books + More

These meditations & lessons are designed to help adults and children. The practices for kids offer a variety of mindfulness-building activities, whether you’re hoping to help your child with listening skills, relaxation, attention, reframing, or even connecting, you’re sure to find some wonderful resources here.

Listen

Five Enthusiastic Yesses for Every No

How much good news does it take to balance out a single piece of bad news?

Breathing on Purpose

Mindfulness-based strategies that target stress-management, pain-management, and quieting often encourage a light focus on the out-breath because that simple shift in attention can ease both physical and mental discomfort.

Awareness of Sound and Emotion - a six-minute guided meditation for teens and adults

For six short minutes, pause and listen to what's happening in and around you. In this live recording from a webinar for parents.

Mindful Mama Podcast: Special Pandemic Episode

We can broaden our bandwidth and use mindfulness skills to parent with more presence during difficult times.

Ten Percent Happier: Parenting in a Pandemic #231 | Susan Kaiser Greenland

We’re in the middle of one of the greatest tests for parents in modern memory. Tens of millions of us, cooped up in our homes with our kids, as a consequence of the coronavirus. Susan Kaiser Greenland can help.

A ladle of self-compassion, from "Mindful Parent, Mindful Child"

In the following visualization, we cool strong emotions by filling an imaginary coconut shell with compassion and pouring it over our heads.

More Audio for Educators + More

Look through our video library of lessons and activities for kids and adults. And be sure to also check out Susan’s YouTube channel for more.

Watch

Drop the Monkeys for Young Children

We build a chain of plastic monkeys to demonstrate how to notice thoughts and let them go.

Susan’s Books + More

Learn about Susan’s books and other offerings.

A Lightbulb Moment

Activity-based mindfulness for adults.

Making Space, Calming Your Nervous System

Simple, effective ways to bring mindfulness into daily life.

Perspective as Vast As The Sky

Universal themes for a wise and compassionate life.

Echoes of Enlightenment

Turning the abstract into simple and understandable tools.

What is Real-World Enlightenment?

Embodying attention, balance, compassion, and playfulness

Focus on What We Have In Common

In a polarized world, we can build bridges by focusing on common themes that cut across time-tested wisdom traditions instead of focusing on our differences.