[Updated List] Free Online Resources for Educators, Parents, and Kids
As the weeks of unprecedented global crisis and uncertainty continue, educators, parents, and children face a variety of challenges. Some of us are coping with never imagined hardships, others with new responsibilities, and, for some, the quotidian joys and squables of increased family time have us alternately between at-wits-end and full-to-the-brim with gratitude.
In hopes of meeting you wherever you may be, we’re keeping an updated list of the wide variety of offerings coming from our many mindfulness teachers and partner organizations.
Be sure to bookmark this page and check back for new resources specific to the Mindful Education community. And, for more general offerings, check out our Updated List of Free Online Resources for Mindfulness & Resilience.
May you and your family find all the forms of support you may need at this time.
Free Mindfulness Classes for Kids — Mindful Schools
Mindful Schools has created ten free mindfulness classes for kids! Join us online for mindful activities, mindful movement, read-alouds—and let’s have fun exploring mindfulness together. Also check out our Shelter in Place with Kids! event on April 29, our weekly practice group for adults, and our many other programs!
Coronavirus Resources for Families and Schools: Things We Think You’d Like to Know — Susan Kaiser Greenland
From her own free offerings like Mindful Games, to an exhaustive list of resources for you, your family, and kids from organizations from around the globe—there is so much here to dig into. Thank you Susan!
Greater Good’s Guide to Well-Being During Coronavirus — Greater Good Science Center
Practices, resources, and articles for individuals, parents, educators, and health care professionals facing COVID-19.
Education of the Heart, Digital Dialogue with the Dalai Lama — Mind and Life
Hear from the Dalai Lama with Education of the Heart. These are precious teachings set and presented with care by Mind and Life. Education of the Heart is a multimedia site presenting the insights from leading scientists, scholars, educational practitioners, and the Dalai Lama, from the 33rd Mind and Life Dialogue with the Dalai Lama, “Reimagining Human Flourishing,” held in Dharmasala, India, in March 2018.
Contemplative Education Webinars — CMIND – The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society
Enjoy weekly live calls with the AMMHE Contemplative Education Webinar Series, and their Contemplative Practice Webinars!
Let us know if there’s anything we haven’t included here yet that you’re finding helpful!
David Prichard is the Head of Partnerships and Community Enrichment for The Awake Network. A new father, reformed spendthrift, and aspiring homesteader, David is also a meditation instructor who has been practicing for close to a decade. Most dear to him is the belief that together we are cre