Selected programs from around the country that offer secular mindfulness-related information and training curricula.

• C.A.R.E  ( Cultivating-awareness-and-resilience-in-education)
  ​A professional development training program to cultivate mindfulness in teachers.
• ​Center for Adolescent Studies
  ​The  Center for Adolescent Studies facilitated by Sam Himelstein provides a a variety of mindfulness training programs focused to support professionals who work with youth suffering from  trauma, addiction and incarceration. ​
• Center for Healthy Minds
  ​​An organization that investigates the neuroscience of mindfulness and well-being across the life span, develops related training programs and offers workshops and conferences.
• Coalition of Schools Educating Mindfully
  ​An organization that offers a yearly mindfulness conference for educators with the intention to develop chapters of mindfulness throughout each state and a membership model.
• Collaboration for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning
  CASEL provides information on programs and competencies to establish social and emotional learning (SEL) as an essential part of education. Mindfulness programs are considered as a recommended resource.
• Holistic Life Foundation
  The HLF offers a variety of innovative during and after school programs with urban youth that involves training in yoga and mindfulness along with mentoring ship opportunities as peer leaders and future program trainers. 
• The Inner Kids Program
  A  mindful awareness training programs based on the ABC’s of attention, balance and compassion for  Pre-k through elementary school children.
• Inward Bound Mindfulness in Education
  Offers retreats for teens and year long training program to teach professionals how to bring mindfulness to their work with adolescents.
• Learn to Breathe
  An excellent curriculum developed for Middle and High School Students consisting of 6 to 18 lessons depending upon length. ​
• Mind and Life Institute
  This organization offers training conferences and research programs to advance the scientific understanding of the contemplative practices of mindfulness and compassion.  
• Mind-UP
  This program initiated through the Goldie Hawn foundation offer training to schools on how to teach social and emotional learning skill complete with lesson plans, linking  cognitive neuroscience, positive psychology and mindful awareness training to students.
  
• Mindful Education
  ​Daniel Rechtschaffen’s comprehensive online training program for administrators and educators.
• Mindful Self-Compassion Center (MSC)
  ​This program created by Kristin Neff and Chris Germer offers multi-level training program that combines both the skills of mindfulness and self-compassion to provide a solid foundation upon which to build emotional resilience. ​
  

• Mindful Schools
  ​A premier leadership non-profit organization that offers a complete online multi-level training program for how to teach mindfulness to youth, and implement school building level transformation.
• Mindfulness Based Professional Training Institute (MBPTI)
  This Institute provides core training in several evidence based mindfulness programs (e.g. MBSR, MSC, etc)  in a variety of formats, with the intention to create specific pathways toward competence and certification in these mindfulness based interventions.
• Mindfulness Center, Brown University
  ​​This Mindfulness Center investigates the science of mindfulness and offers mindfulness based training programs in-person and live-online. They offer the gold standard eight week Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn and a tiered MBSR teacher training certification program.
  
• Mindfulness in Education Network
  Manages an active Yahoo Group/mailing list with news, announcements and events for educators who want to bring a contemplative awareness to their work.
  To subscribe: [email protected]
• The Mindfulness in Schools Project
  PAWs and .b [dot-be], is the name for the range of courses created by the Mindfulness in Schools Project, a non-profit organization whose aim is to bring mindfulness practice in the UK to students.
  
• Mindfulness without Borders
  An organization that promotes innovative educational programs to teachers, advocates and students to support mindfulness learning.
• MIndsight Institute
  ​This Institute, developed by Daniel Siegel MD, offers online and in-person training regarding the interface of human relationships and neurobiology,​
• Still Quiet Place 
  An online training program for parents, athletic  coaches and teachers geared towards teaching mindfulness practices to elementary age children.
• Stressed Teens
  This is a curriculum program for teens adapted from the original MBSR program and offered in a variety of formats and audiences (teens or professionals).
• Transforming Educational Leadership (TEL)
  This is a yearlong program created and led by Daniel Rechtschaffen, Linda Lantieri and Meena Srinivasan  to help participants cultivate the inner and outer dimensions of leadership, applying the principles of equity, mindfulness and social emotional learning to transforming the schools within which they work. ​