The meditation app, Insight Timer, has become the largest free meditation app in the US and used by 17 million people around the globe.
The exercises are accredited by the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL).Ĭhristopher Plowman, CEO of Insight Timer, says, “We are proud to add MindUP’s learning resources to our free library to support parents and educators as they face new challenges teaching children with technology.” Its audio exercises are planned to help children manage stress and regulate emotions especially during these trying times of the pandemic. It also helps increase overall wellbeing through social-emotional learning, mind awareness, and positive psychology. The exercises are available in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese, with more languages to be added. The app has short five-minute exercises, based on its accredited curriculum, that teaches daily gratitude and “brain breaks” that have been proven to improve optimism, focus, empathy, and resiliency. The MindUP Program teaches the strategies and skills you need to find optimism, build resilience and create solutions for lifes challenges. In 11 countries, there has been an 83% increase in optimism among students and a 75% decrease in classroom fighting.ĭuring this pandemic, MindUP has partnered with Insight Timer and introduced a new free service that families can use 24/7. The MindUP Program Evidence-based and easy to implement, MindUP helps you develop the mental fitness to build a happier, healthier and more balanced life. The MindUP program of the Goldie Hawn Foundation has, for the past 16 years, been teaching mindfulness in schools. The program has had successful outcomes in students who often experience depression, anger, anxiety, and stress. Our program helps address these issues by creating mental fitness and emotional stability.” In a report of the World Health Organization, this 2020, more children are struggling with concentration and nervousness brought about by the pandemic restrictions and adjustments to the new normal.Īctress Goldie Hawn, the founder of the Goldie Hawn Foundation and MindUp, says, “During this time of uncertainty, children are affected negatively emotionally and are facing symptoms of stress and anxiety. Children have remote classes and parents work from home. The coronavirus pandemic has created a big change in the way people learn and behave. The app’s exercises would also help regulate behavior to improve empathy, focus, resiliency, and optimism.The Goldie Hawn Foundation’s new mindfulness app is free, available 24/7, and has exercises to manage stress.The pandemic has caused stress and anxiety to children and parents all over the globe.
Please find results, publications, and reports from previous years below. Karen Bax, the MindUP for Young Children project is entering the final year of implementation research funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada. The MindUP program helps educators learn how to stay attuned and responsive in their relationships with their children. The Trauma-Informed Framework informs educators on why they should meet their children’s needs, even if challenged with external stressors and adversity. There is also a component where the parents and children work together to help reinforce transferring the skills to their everyday lives. The MindUP lessons are also adapted into parent sessions and implemented with Merrymount families in concurrent weekly sessions for parents and young children. Lesson topics include: How Our Brains Work, Mindful Listening, Perspective Taking, Choosing Optimism, and Expressing Gratitude. ICL Academy invites Dido Balla, MindUp trainer, to share his insights on the MindUp pillars of the program. These lessons integrate attentional, self-regulatory, and social-emotional strategies for children. The project builds on MindUP, which is a universal, school-based education program that incorporates neuroscience, mindful awareness, and positive psychology in 15 teacher-led lessons.
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