About MindUP™
The Hawn Foundation, in collaboration with neuroscientists, behavioral psychologists, educators, and leading researchers in the field of social and emotional learning, has developed MindUP™, a comprehensive classroom-based program for children in grades K-7.
MindUP™ has four main goals:
• to foster mindful focused awareness;
• to increase positive human qualities, such as empathy, perspective-taking, helpfulness and kindness;
• to increase optimism and well-being;
• to foster a cohesive, caring classroom climate that enhances learning.
The fifteen lesson MindUP™ curriculum uniquely incorporates the brain science associated with each lesson concept so that children also learn how their thoughts and actions affect their brain and how their brain affects their thoughts and actions.
MindUP™ is also a teaching model, so its concepts are readily integrated into a teacher or school’s existing academic lesson plans.
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The MindUP™ program curriculum is theoretically derived and is informed by the latest scientific research in the fields of cognitive neuroscience, mindfulness training, social and emotional learning (SEL), and positive psychology.
MindUP™ is currently in use in schools in the United States and Canada.
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