Mindful Life Project

Mindful Community: Our Mindful Community whole-school program provided over 25,000 students with mindfulness-based social emotional programming weekly during the 2023-2024 school year. The 25 minute sessions help cultivate a whole-school foundation of mental wellness and emotional intelligence through lessons delivered weekly during the regular school day. Mindful Community is particularly impactful as its social-emotional learning programming is delivered to every student on a school campus, emphasizing the school's cultural focus on wellness. Mindful Community has helped schools cultivate ecosystems of mental health and wellness, which can lead to thriving school environments. In the 2023-2024 school year, 91% of students stated that mindfulness was important to them. MLP asked teachers to rate our programming on a scale of 1-10. The following metrics are how the scoring is being interpreted: [10-9 - extremely effective, 8-7 - very effective, 6-5 - effective, 4-3 - not effective, 2-1 - extremely ineffective]. Teachers rated Mindful Community a 8.1/10 (very effective) for helping create healthier learning environments in the classroom, with a reported gain of 19 minutes of average quality teaching time per day as a direct result of MLP's programming! Overall, 96% of teachers reported that they saw improvements in their students' self awareness, and 93% of teachers saw improvements in their student's ability to relate to one another. In all, Mindful Community betters schools' climates to emphasize the importance of mental and emotional health by providing students with mindfulness based tools to help them in their daily lives.

Rise Up: In the 2023-2024 school year, MLP's Rise Up program provided over 2,700 students with curated mindfulness-based support. Rise Up's signature programs feature a wide array of means to help high-need students and students impacted by trauma to explore lived experiences in an emotionally safe community alongside their peers. Using accessible avenues such as music, art, dance, poetry, yoga, and performing arts, all interwoven with mindfulness, students can explore different methods for healthy emotional release and inner exploration. MLP surveyed teachers on and asked them of their perceived impact of our Rise Up Programming. Overall, 89% rated that they have a better understanding of the needs of their Rise Up students and 90% reported that they are better able to establish more supportive relationships with their Rise Up students. Rise Up is an incredibly powerful program that impacts both teachers and students within a school. To quote a 4th grade teacher from a partner school, one of the highlights from Mindful Life Project's programming was that "mindfulness was helpful with the Rise Up students because it gives them the strategies they need to succeed."