Mindful Life Project

Mindful Life Project (MLP) helps transform school communities from the inside out with mindfulness based social emotional learning programming. MLP programs provide a foundation of mental and emotional wellbeing so that schools can become places of healing and empowerment for students, teachers and communities. MLP aims to serve TK-8th grade students, their educators, and families in school districts that have high poverty, violence, and intergenerational trauma – districts that also frequently lack adequate resources and programming to support the mental health of all in the educational ecosystem. With the youth mental health crisis across the country that has been significantly growing over the last decade and a half it is key to provide upstream mental health programming. Mindfulness is a scientifically proven method that improves mental and emotional health for young people and adults. By learning to practice mindfulness, both young people and adults can build a strong foundation of social emotional skills that can support them in navigating stress, depression, and anxiety throughout their lifetime. MLP provides a dynamic school-based mindfulness coach who works closely with all students, educators, and families within a school community to bring everyone in the school ecosystem along a deeply impactful wellness journey. This model stands in contrast to train the teacher models, which place the onus of mastery and implementation of social emotional learning on already overworked and often burned-out classroom teachers.

Are you an educator that loves mindfulness and wants to support student and educator mental health? We are hiring full time MLP Coaches to provide transformative MLP programming at their school site. Check our hiring page on our website to apply today!

Join our team! MLP is looking for highly talented mindful educators to help transform schools from the inside out with comprehensive mindfulness based social emotional learning programs. #hiring

With schools being so challenged by the growing mental and behavioral health needs of youth, and with teacher stress and burnout at all time highs, we are so grateful to be a part of the solution. We provide mindfulness based social emotional learning programming to all in the school ecosystem and the impact on the individuals as well as the collective ecosystem is transformative!

Mindful Life Project’s team of 65 dedicated, passionate and mission driven staff completed programming for the 2023-2024 school year in our 75 schools this week! We send our deepest gratitude to the students, educators and families we are so lucky to serve and work with. While we are living in a time where there is a tragic mental health crisis for youth and adults, we want to highlight that there are also glimmers of hope, powerful healing, and innovative and comprehensive collaborations towards approaching mental health both “upstream” and “downstream”. With over 8,000 3rd -8th graders surveyed, 91 percent reported that MLP programs improved their mental health. With over 350 teachers surveyed 90 percent report that MLP programs improved their mental health. MLP provides programming from a deeply relational and connected way with all students and educators within a school community to bring everyone in the school ecosystem along a deeply impactful wellness journey. Please help us grow this work by referring us to schools, connecting us to funders, and advocating for mental health to be a priority for schools.

We are so excited to be in partnership with Unlikely Collaborators!

We serve over 40,000 students and their educators each week. Can you help us grow the impact? A $100 donation to MLP provides a student 32 weeks of Mindfulness through our Mindful Community Program. Not only does this program support student wellness it also supports teacher wellness ❤️ Go to our website to donate today 🎉 www.MindfulLifeProject.org #givingback #students #wellbeing #socialemotionallearning #mindfulness #donate #makeadifference

12 years ago today, our founder, JG Larochette, and his third graders in room 18 at Coronado Elementary school completed the creation of the pilot and JG took a big jump into the unknown of starting the nonprofit work that now has served over 300,000 students, their educators and families with weekly multi year comprehensive mindfulness based programming. We send our deepest gratitude to all the students, educators, educational leaders, families, funders, supporters, partners and allies! ❤️

Mental Health Awareness (and action) month is here! Let’s start by becoming our own bff ❤️ Let the “inner friend” grow and the “inner critic” go. Due to so many factors, including the wiring of our brain having a default negative bias and we are highly effected by societal conditioning, we often are extremely self critical and have inner narratives that create the storylines in our mind that can make us feel a lack of self worth, a lack of belonging, isolated and much more. If the “inner critic” can grow that means we can also grow the “inner friend.” A mindfulness technique that helps grow the inner friend is training ourselves to have gratitude and compassion for our authentic self and befriending our inner experiences. By taking time each day to cultivate gratitude for ourselves through a lens of compassion and celebrate what makes us unique while tapping into our inner resilience we can slowly start to eliminate the inner critic. Ideally we can start the day by doing this. Try it out, either with your eyes closed or looking with connection into the mirror think of things that you are grateful for about yourself and send yourself compassion and love. It might be hard at first but the more we practice the more it will grow! #mindfulness #compassion #love #selflove #gratitude #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawarenessmonth #wellness #emotionalhealth #wellbeing

Mindful Life Project is looking for a dynamic leader to join our team as MLP's Human Resources Manager! To learn more and apply go to https://lnkd.in/g92uT26W