The Present is a spiral program that enables Elementary schools to introduce mindfulness and well-being in an incremental way; supporting learning across the curriculum and throughout the elementary school years. Read more

Why the Everyday Mindfulness 10-Week Program?

Because of the benefits. 

These include: 
• Reducing stress.

• Alleviating anxiety or depression.

• Building self-awareness.

• Developing emotional regulation skills.

• Growing in self-compassion.

• Feeling more present and connected to yourself and others.

• Achieving peak performance.

• Sharpening cognitive function.

• Growing in mental, emotional, and spiritual health. Read more

The Present will help you build an understanding of how mindful awareness and mindful attitudes can support you in the many different moments of your life, both joyful and challenging. Read more

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I am fascinated by the work of Ronald Epstein. Epstein is a practicing family physician, a professor of family medicine, psychiatry, and oncology. He has used mindfulness to transform physicians’ views of their work. Here are four questions he uses to help you transform your assumptions. Read more

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Do you get reactive in a challenging situation? So do I. Mindfulness has helped me realize that there is another, liberating way! Read more

Look at the image. The mobile has been removed and in so doing shows how our connection to our devices is disconnecting us from our most intimate moments. It's like we're learning a new intimacy. An intimacy where we equally love the device that disconnects us from the one we’re with. Read more

Here are 16 mindfulness exercises to help you arrive in the here and now Read more

Amy says, ‘Sir, I don’t think I’m going to pass.’ 

I notice anxiety in her posture and her eyes. 

Seems like she’s the little girl lost. Read more

A few summers ago a sunflower emerged in front of two weary, dilapidated sheds. It had pushed itself out between a crack of paving slab, and some scabrous weed. Read more