Welcome! Below are research and articles listed for your benefit. Feel free to click through them and learn some of the benefits you, your family, your school and your workplace can experience when you focus on building social-emotional, mindful skills. We encourage you to look at the ways we can partner with you to make mindful self-regulation habits and changes in your environment. We work with schools, families and businesses with the mission of making mindful self-regulation skills and brain-boosting techniques a part of everyday life as a way to increase academic potential, self-awareness and resiliency.

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Social-Emotional Learning & Mindfulness Research

• Early Social-Emotional Functioning and Public Health: The Relationship Between Kindergarten Social Competence and Future Wellness

• Why Children’s Social Emotional Skills are So Important 

• What predicts your success in life? It’s not your I.Q.

• Social skills in kindergarten predict success

• Definition of social/emotional learning and the link between your emotional awareness and your ability to learn

• Yale University Research: Transforming Students’ Lives with Social and Emotional Learning

• Contemplative Practices and Mental Training: Prospects for American Education

• Toward the Integration of Education and Mental Health in Schools

• Why Social and Emotional Learning Is Essential for Students

• How Trauma Affects Kids in School

• How Self-Compassion Supports Academic Motivation and Emotional Wellness

• Mindfulness in the Classroom: Learning from a School-based Mindfulness Intervention through the Boston Charter Research Collaborative

• How Making Time for Mindfulness Helps Students

• A Social/Cognitive Approach to Motivation and Personality Dr. Carol Dweck

• How to Help Students Apply SEL to Their Real Life

• Why Teachers Need Social Emotional Skills

• Research Stories From Harvard Graduate School Of Education:  Teaching Social and Emotional Skills All Day

• Yale University Research: Predicting school success: Comparing Conscientiousness, Grit, and Emotion Regulation Ability

• Early brain development research review and update

• Harvard University Center For The Developing Child:  Experiences Build Brain Architecture

• Can Mindfulness Help Kids Learn Self-Control?

• How Can We Help Kids With Self-Regulation?

• Meditation Can Make You Smarter and Happier

• American Psychological Association: What are the benefits of mindfulness

• 42 Worrying Workplace Stress Statistics

• Teachers Are Anxious and Overwhelmed. They Need SEL Now More Than Ever.

• Effects of teaching the concept of neuroplasticity to induce a growth mindset on motivation, achievement, and brain activity: A meta-analysis

• Mindfulness in the Classroom: Learning from a School-based Mindfulness Intervention through the Boston Charter Research Collaborative

• Making Time for Mindfulness

• The Positive Impact of Social and Emotional Learning for Kindergarten to Eighth-Grade Students

• Promoting Positive Youth Development Through School-Based Social and Emotional Learning Interventions: A Meta-Analysis of Follow-Up Effects

• Mindfulness at Work: Using Mindful Leadership in the Workplace

• How to Focus a Wandering Mind

• The Four Keys to Well-Being

• 3 Reasons Everyone At Google Is Meditating

• SEL Benefits Workers and Workplaces

• 24 Emotional Skills That Can Improve Your Life

• US Businesses Will Suffer If We Don’t Invest in Social-Emotional Learning

• Social-Emotional Skills in Early Childhood Support Workforce Success (PDF)

• How Understanding Your Brain Can Help You Learn