Marie-Nathalie Beaudoin, Ph.D. is the director of Skills for Kids, Parents, and Schools (SKIPS), which offers creative mindfulness programs, socio-emotional skills projects, and private therapy to youth and adults. Marie-Nathalie’s life was significantly changed after participating in a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program in the early 1990. She has since attended numerous mindfulness trainings with teachers such as Jack Kornfield, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Thupten Jinpa, and others, and traveled to Nepal, India, & Tibet. Kelsey Maki, MS, is working toward her PsyD in clinical psychology at the University of San Francisco. She is interested in using mindfulness in her clinical work with children and families to improve regulation and foster connectedness. , ,

In a world with so many distractions all vying for our attention it should come as no surprise that there is a dramatic uptick in students and adults at all age levels struggling with their inability to focus, listen, and calm down. Utilizing her training in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, her clinical practice and her familiarity with neurobiological advances, Dr. Beaudoin, and co-author K. Maki, offer a detailed curriculum to facilitators and educators who are struggling to cope with this attention deficit. It is replete with creative mindfulness, breathing, and body exercises that offer opportunities for class participants "to discover in themselves, and experience first hand the unknown capacities of their minds.

• Preface AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: Why Mindfulness Is Definitely Worth It at This Time in Our HistoryChapter 2: Facilitating Engaging Experiences of MindfulnessChapter 3: Recruiting the Brain’s Attention Systems to Better Facilitate a Successful Experience of MindfulnessChapter 4: Powerful and Short Breathing Exercises for Stressed, Anxious, or Distracted MindsChapter 5: Mindlight on Senses: Guiding the Mind to Better FocusChapter 6: Fascinating Body PartsChapter 7: Nature Mindfulness Meditations: Creating Experiences of Peaceful Connection, Belonging, Empathy, andGratitudeChapter 8: Becoming Lords of the RingsReferences

Marie-Nathalie Beaudoin, Ph.D. is the director of Skills for Kids, Parents, and Schools (SKIPS), which offers creative mindfulness programs, socio-emotional skills projects, and private therapy to youth and adults. Marie-Nathalie’s life was significantly changed after participating in a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program in the early 1990. She has since attended numerous mindfulness trainings with teachers such as Jack Kornfield, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Thupten Jinpa, and others, and traveled to Nepal, India, & Tibet. Kelsey Maki, MS, is working toward her PsyD in clinical psychology at the University of San Francisco. She is interested in using mindfulness in her clinical work with children and families to improve regulation and foster connectedness. , ,

In a world with so many distractions all vying for our attention it should come as no surprise that there is a dramatic uptick in students and adults at all age levels struggling with their inability to focus, listen, and calm down. Utilizing her training in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, her clinical practice and her familiarity with neurobiological advances, Dr. Beaudoin, and co-author K. Maki, offer a detailed curriculum to facilitators and educators who are struggling to cope with this attention deficit. It is replete with creative mindfulness, breathing, and body exercises that offer opportunities for class participants "to discover in themselves, and experience first hand the unknown capacities of their minds.

• Preface AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: Why Mindfulness Is Definitely Worth It at This Time in Our HistoryChapter 2: Facilitating Engaging Experiences of MindfulnessChapter 3: Recruiting the Brain’s Attention Systems to Better Facilitate a Successful Experience of MindfulnessChapter 4: Powerful and Short Breathing Exercises for Stressed, Anxious, or Distracted MindsChapter 5: Mindlight on Senses: Guiding the Mind to Better FocusChapter 6: Fascinating Body PartsChapter 7: Nature Mindfulness Meditations: Creating Experiences of Peaceful Connection, Belonging, Empathy, andGratitudeChapter 8: Becoming Lords of the RingsReferences

Marie-Nathalie Beaudoin, Ph.D. is the director of Skills for Kids, Parents, and Schools (SKIPS), which offers creative mindfulness programs, socio-emotional skills projects, and private therapy to youth and adults. Marie-Nathalie’s life was significantly changed after participating in a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program in the early 1990. She has since attended numerous mindfulness trainings with teachers such as Jack Kornfield, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Thupten Jinpa, and others, and traveled to Nepal, India, & Tibet. Kelsey Maki, MS, is working toward her PsyD in clinical psychology at the University of San Francisco. She is interested in using mindfulness in her clinical work with children and families to improve regulation and foster connectedness. , ,

In a world with so many distractions all vying for our attention it should come as no surprise that there is a dramatic uptick in students and adults at all age levels struggling with their inability to focus, listen, and calm down. Utilizing her training in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, her clinical practice and her familiarity with neurobiological advances, Dr. Beaudoin, and co-author K. Maki, offer a detailed curriculum to facilitators and educators who are struggling to cope with this attention deficit. It is replete with creative mindfulness, breathing, and body exercises that offer opportunities for class participants "to discover in themselves, and experience first hand the unknown capacities of their minds.

• Preface AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: Why Mindfulness Is Definitely Worth It at This Time in Our HistoryChapter 2: Facilitating Engaging Experiences of MindfulnessChapter 3: Recruiting the Brain’s Attention Systems to Better Facilitate a Successful Experience of MindfulnessChapter 4: Powerful and Short Breathing Exercises for Stressed, Anxious, or Distracted MindsChapter 5: Mindlight on Senses: Guiding the Mind to Better FocusChapter 6: Fascinating Body PartsChapter 7: Nature Mindfulness Meditations: Creating Experiences of Peaceful Connection, Belonging, Empathy, andGratitudeChapter 8: Becoming Lords of the RingsReferences