Peacetime

Peacetime at School

• Attention and focusing
• Emotion Regulation and Impulse Control
• Development of empathy and community mindedness 

• Singing bowl and increasing amounts of mindful listening
• Mindful movement
• Daily topic and activity   
• Friendly Wishes(Based on an adaptation of Sharon Salzberg’s Loving Kindness meditation practices)
• Closing the practice and then journal time 

• Mindful Listening (Singing bowl,  tolerating distraction)       
• Mindful Movement(Walking and bits of yoga stretching)     
• Mindful Eating (The raisin)
• The Brain on Mindfulness (Upstairs and downstairs brain)
• Feeling Feelings (Flipping our lids)               
• Managing and Accepting Feelings (Safe place visualization,    
• Motivation vs. “I Don't Care”           
• Compassion and planting seeds of kindness      
• Self-Compassion and Kindness

Sample Peacetime books we read:

"Slowly, Slowly, Slowly," said the Sloth
By Eric Carle

Moody Cow Meditates
By Kerry Lee MacLean
 

For more Information and readings about Mindfulness in Schools:

• www.mindfulschools.org/about-mindfulness/research
• www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/01/should-schools-teach-kids-to-meditate/283229
• www.mindfulclassroom.org