Table of Contents
Foreword 1
Preface 3
Introduction: The Mindful Classroom 9
Lesson 1 Introductions and Breathing 23
Getting to Know Your Students and Teaching Them How to Breathe Mindfully
Levels 2 My Puppy Mind 35
How to Train the Mind to Heel to the Present Moment
Lesson 3 Mindful Poem and Puppy Mind Game 45
Two Ways to Focus the Mind and Body to Stay in the Present Moment
Lesson 4 What Is Your Superpower? 53
How to Develop Our Five Senses of Sound, Sight, Smell, Touch, and Taste
Lesson 5 Just Stop and Breathe 63
How We Can Notice Our Feelings, Then Peacefully Proceed
Lesson 6 The Lion in Me 73
How to Name and Tame Anger, Our Inner Beast
Lesson 7 Finding the Pleasant in the Present 83
Noticing the Beauty Right in Front of You
Lesson 8 Bunny Flips His Lid 91
How to Drop Out of Flight, Fight, or Freeze
Lesson 9 The Wise Man and the Two Wolves 101
The Care and Feeding of Kindness
Lesson 10 What Size Is Kindness? 109
The Cultivation of Kindness and Heartfulness
Lesson 11 Mindful Midterm 119
A Review of All We Have Learned So Far
Lesson 12 Fearing the Wind 125
A Folktale that Teaches Compassion for Our Past and Present
Lesson 13 The Great Silver Deer King 135
A Folktale that Teaches Compassion, Courage, and Forgiveness
Lesson 14 Alli-Gator, the Investigator 145
How to Dial Up Our Curiosity to Explore Everything!
Lesson 15 Rainbow Walk (or Ride) and Scientists on Safari 151
Practice of Mindful Seeing I
Lesson 16 Nervous Nessie 159
Noticing Shyness and the Practice of Mindful Speech
Lesson 17 My Butterfly Belly 169
How to Keep Calm When Cocooning in Your Room Is Not an Option
Lesson 18 Mindful Museum 179
Mindful Movement
Lesson 19 Mindful Eating 187
Slowing Down to Notice the Pleasures of Eating
Lesson 20 Emotional Musical Chairs 193
Empathy Practices for Yourself and Others
Lesson 21 Now You See It, Now You Don't 201
Mindful Seeing II
Lesson 22 Mindful Moments Review and Mindfulness Award Ceremony 209
Appendix A Mindful Extras 217
Appendix B Mindful Breathing Options 235
Appendix C A Meditation for Difficult Times for Students and Teachers 242
Appendix D Guidelines for Additional Facilitator(s) in the Classroom 244
Appendix E Mindfulness Lesson Roster/Activity Log 246
Appendix F Materials for Additional Activities and Resources 248
Resources 260
Acknowledgments 261
About the Author 262