The MIND-BODY-GROW program maintains that when students feel safe and are provided with opportunities to tune in and pay attention to their inner world, they are building skills linked to self-regulation. With a supported and consistent practice that cultivates self-awareness, students can then harness learned coping skills to help them manage feelings, thoughts and behaviors that may be barriers to their learning. The more opportunities to put these skills into practice, the more self-aware and self-reliant students become.
The program also recognizes that a teacher’s ability to manage their own stress within the classroom has a direct and positive impact on their student’s well-being. Teachers participating in this program are supported in cultivating their own awareness practices, making self-care a priority and consistent routine in the classroom. When teachers learn to consciously manage their own nervous systems, they’re more available to attune to their students needs and to teach them to do the same.
The MIND-BODY-GROW Program:
The MIND-BODY-GROW Program provides:
The program also recognizes that a teacher’s ability to manage their own stress within the classroom has a direct and positive impact on their student’s well-being. Teachers participating in this program are supported in cultivating their own awareness practices, making self-care a priority and consistent routine in the classroom. When teachers learn to consciously manage their own nervous systems, they’re more available to attune to their students needs and to teach them to do the same.
The MIND-BODY-GROW Program:
- Is trauma-responsive. We lead with safety and attunement practices in order to meet the needs of every child in their personal mind-body growth experience.
- Recognizes mental and emotional health as skills that can be strengthened through training and repeated practice.
- Is rooted in research and informed through attachment theory, interpersonal neurobiology, psychology, mindfulness, yoga, somatic experiencing and child development.
- Aligns with the Michigan Department of Education's Social and Emotional Learning competencies.
The MIND-BODY-GROW Program provides:
- Professional development training to schools and educators.
- Twelve-weekly lessons taught by a Well-Bean Educator.
- A curriculum that systematically integrates skills and practices from the following areas:
- Mindfulness-Based Education and Practices
- Brain Education
- Mindful Movement/Yoga
- Breathing Exercises
- Mental Health Education and Practices
- Weekly newsletters designed to provide teachers with extension activities for the classroom and mindful self-care exercises to support teacher well-being.