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What sets innerU curriculums apart from other mindfulness programs?
innerU offers mindfulness curriculums that go beyond providing your students mindfulness skills. In addition to teaching rich socio-emotional skills essential to your students’ lifelong success, innerU Mindfulness Nature Adventures offer an approach founded on ecological awareness and nature connection that is critical to one’s happiness and wellbeing.
The innerU makes exploring ones’ inner world fun. Each class is designed bring rich experiential learning that invite students to learn from the inside out using nature as its teacher.
Our mission is to bring mindfulness to schools that truly engage students in way that no other mindfulness curriculum provides.
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Why mindfulness in class?
Over the last decade, numerous researches have pointed to the benefits of mindfulness or “quiet time” in class. It helps children pay greater attention, be more focused, think in more innovative ways, use existing knowledge more effectively, improve working memory, and enhance planning, problem solving, and reasoning skills.
In addition to helping with academic endeavors, mindfulness research has shown the benefits of mindfulness to reduce stress and improve emotional wellbeing of children. With the increase of technology and stimuli of modern living, children get little time to let their brain rest. Mindfulness provides a vehicle to do just that, leaving students with a greater sense of inner peace.
Who are these curriculums for?
Preschool to 6th grade teachers, educators, and parents who understand the value of incorporating nature-based mindfulness practices in the classroom, in after-school programs, in camps, or at home.
Understanding that time is often a luxury in classroom settings as well as in fast-paced home environments, the innerU program is designed to make your experience stress-free and fun.
Using the rich, mixed-media capabilities, innerU offers easily accessible 20-minute lessons filled with engaging audio and eye-catching videos for visual support.
The supporting audio and video from each chapter can be used to engage children in developing a relationship with nature introduced in each lesson.
Why I developed innerU Mindfulness Nature Adventures?
As a mother and therapist who worked in schools for over 10 years, it was clear to me that the stressors of modern living and the pressures of overachievement were often causing greater harm than good in our schools. I spent much of my time dealing with frustrated and exhausted teachers, children, and parents who were looking for ways to deal with the increasing emotional breakdowns often experienced in class or in the school yard.
It was also clear that very few schools provided way for students to learn to manage their inner world (emotions, thoughts, sensations), a skill that would serve each child in all aspects of life.
Finally, my love for nature and science has led me to explore the impact of nature on the nervous system and brain. Research has shown that being in relationship with nature have optimum nervous systems, are less stressed, have improve memory, feel happier, and have greater respect for the environment.
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