Resilient schools in Santa Barbara

Mission

Empowering schools and communities to practice mindfulness, kindness and nature-immersion that enhance belonging, social-emotional learning, resilience, equity, and caring for our world.

Through in-person connections with cultural-sensitivity and a trauma-informed approach, we empower and collaborate with educators and leaders to implement Kind Mind tailored to each unique community, district, school, grade-level, & classroom.

Children developed self-awareness and the ability to articulate what is happening inside of them. They start practicing mindfulness skills unprompted, and ask to take a moment before responding in a difficult conversation.

- observations by Anna Scharfeld, SBCA principal 2022

  • Enhance focus, attention and self-awareness

  • Create a sense of inner calm

  • Strengthen impulse control  

  • Alleviate stress and isolation

  • Decrease reactivity

  • Improve resilience

  • Increase empathy, caring and compassion for self and others 

  • Enhance the sense of engagement and belonging to school

Offerings:

Goals:

We support students and teachers in learning and practicing hands-on skills to co-create calm, productive, mindful and caring classrooms.

We train how to facilitate secular mindfulness for each developmental stage and in various school settings.

We draw upon evidence-based practices to create culturally relevant and engaging lessons for experiential learning of kindness and mindfulness.

We work with teachers and principals to tailor our programming to their unique classroom themes, curricula and student needs.

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Students were asked what they have noticed about themselves after learning Kind Mind skills.

Students were asked what they have noticed about themselves after learning Kind Mind skills.

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“It has helped me feel better about myself. I've found that mindful breathing and sending kind wishes were the ones that have helped me the most throughout the year. Especially through hard times.” - SBCA student 2020

“Mindfulness is helpful for all of your feelings . . . helps you feel strong feelings letting go, from your brain into your heart.”

This is a sample of our Santa Barbara students sending kind wishes to orphans in Myanmar for the gift of giving from the heart project.

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KIND MIND was first supported by the Bower Foundation. Others soon joined, including Roosevelt PTO, Washington School, SB Junior High School, SB Unified School District, the Towbes, Natalie Orfalea, and Rotary Foundations and generous private donors. Currently Sacred Garden helps us raise awareness and funds! WE ARE VERY GRATEFUL FOR ALL OF OUR VOLUNTEERS AND SUPPORTERS - THANK YOU!

Contact

Feel free to contact us with any questions.

Email
KindMindSB@gmail.com

Phone
(805) 229-1737