Benefits of Mindfulness
in Education
Wellbeing is essential for learning. With mindfulness students are more focussed and more engaged learners.1
Wellbeing is essential for learning. With mindfulness students are more focussed and more engaged learners.1
are experiencing high or very high levels of psychological distress. Triple the number since 2007.2
According to a meta-analysis of more than 70 studies comparing more than 6,000 school aged young people, those who practised mindfulness showed:
It improves working memory,cognitive flexibility, reasoning, planning, goal directed behaviour and self regulation,10 essential skills when it comes to learning new information.
It reduces emotional reactivity, behavioural issues, anxiety and depression.11 This means students have fewer potential obstacles standing in the way of their learning.
I have been doing the Smiling Mind program for two years with many of the same children and they absolutely love it. They ask every day if we are going to be doing it.