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Resources for Teen Mindfulness
This list was partially copied from mindfulnessforteens.com and was created by Dr. Dzung Vo, author of The Mindful Teen.
The Mindful Teen: Powerful Skills to Help You Handle Stress One Moment at a Time, by Dzung Vo MD (New Harbinger, 2015), is a mindfulness book for teens, with mindfulness instructions, guided meditations, examples, and youth voices. Click here to learn more about The Mindful Teen.
Here are some more useful resources for mindful teens:
Mobile Apps
Breathe: Dr. Vo helped to develop this mindfulness app for youth with the Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre (British Columbia, Canada). Free for Apple and Android mobile devices!
Stop, Breathe, and Think: Web and mobile app for youth, with meditations for mindfulness and compassion.
Calm.com: Free website and mobile app with guided meditation and relaxation exercises.
Insight Timer: Free mobile app with virtual “bells” to time and support your meditations, and access to lots of guided meditations by many different meditation teachers (including Dr. Vo).
Plum Village: Zen Meditation. Free app for iOS, loaded with beautiful meditations and teachings in the Plum Village / Thich Nhat Hanh tradition.
MindShift: Free mobile app for teens developed by AnxietyBC, with mindfulness and other coping skills for anxiety.
Smiling Mind: Free mobile mindfulness app for young people, from Australia.
Headspace: “Meditation made simple.” This app has a free introductory period, after which it requires a paid subscription to continue to use.
Mindfulness Books for Teens
Bluth K. The Self-Compassion Workbook for Teens: Mindfulness and Compassion Skills to Overcome Self-Criticism and Embrace Who You Are (Instant Help Books, 2017)
Gina M. Biegel, The Stress Reduction Workbook for Teens: Mindfulness Skills to Help You Deal with Stress (Instant Help Books, 2009)
Joseph V. Ciarrochi, Louise Hayes, and Ann Bailey, Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life for Teens: A Guide to Living an Extraordinary Life (Instant Help, 2012)
Mark C. Purcell and Jason R. Murphy, Mindfulness for Teen Anger: A Workbook to Overcome Anger and Aggression Using MBSR and DBT Skills (Instant Help, 2014)
Christopher Willard, Mindfulness for Teen Anxiety: A Workbook for Overcoming Anxiety at Home, at School, and Everywhere Else (Instant Help, 2014)
Christopher Willard and Mitch Abblett, Growing Mindful: A Deck of Mindfulness Practices for All Ages (Growing Mindful Games, 2015). A deck of cards with short mindfulness practices to “cultivate mindfulness on the go.” Available here and here.
Mindfulness Books for Parents, Educators, and Health Care Providers
Patricia C. Broderick, Learning to Breathe: A Mindfulness Curriculum for Adolescents to Cultivate Emotion Regulation, Attention, and Performance (New Harbinger Publications, 2013)
Valerie Brown and Kirsten Olson, The Mindful School Leader: Practices to Transform Your Leadership and School (Corwin, 2014)
Sam Himelstein, A Mindfulness-Based Approach to Working with High Risk Adolescents (Routledge, 2013)
Sam Himelstein and Stephen Saul, Mindfulness-Based Substance Abuse Treatment for Adolescents: A 12-Session Curriculum (Routledge, 2015)
Susan Kaiser Greenland, The Mindful Child: How to Help Your Kid Manage Stress and Become Happier, Kinder, and More Compassionate (Free Press, 2010)
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness (rev. and updated ed.) (Bantam Books, 2013)
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment—And Your Life (includes audio CD) (Sounds True, 2012)
Amy Saltzman, A Still Quiet Place: A Mindfulness Program for Teaching Children and Adolescents to Ease Stress and Difficult Emotions (New Harbinger Publications, 2014)
Daniel Siegel, Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain (Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2013)
Bob Stahl and Elisha Goldstein, A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook (New Harbinger Publications, 2010)
Meena Srinivasan, Teach, Breathe, Learn: Mindfulness in and out of the Classroom (Parallax, 2014)
Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation (Beacon Press, 1999)
Thich Nhat Hanh, Happiness: Essential Mindfulness Practices (Parallax Press, 2009)
Christopher Willard, Child’s Mind: Mindfulness Practices to Help Our Children Be More Focused, Calm, and Relaxed (Parallax Press, 2010)
Christopher Willard, Growing Up Mindful: Essential Practices to Help Children, Teens, and Families Find Balance, Calm, and Resilience (Sounds True, 2016)
Christopher Willard and Amy Saltzman, Eds, Teaching Mindfulness Skills to Kids and Teens (Guilford Press, 2015)
Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal, and Jon Kabat-Zinn, The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness (Guilford Press, 2007)
Websites and Organizations
Association for Mindfulness in Education
http://www.mindfuleducation.org/
“A collaborative association of organizations and individuals working together to provide support for mindfulness training as a component of K-12 education.”
Center for Adolescent Studies
www.centerforadolescentstudies.com
Founded by Sam Himelstein. Offers trainings for professionals in all disciplines, in mindfulness and building authentic relationships with adolescents.
Center for Mindful Learning
http://www.centerformindfullearning.org/
Based in Vermont, CML’s vision is “To build a mindfulness-based educational system that produces powerful, just, selfless leaders.”
Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society
http://www.umassmed.edu/cfm/Stress-Reduction Navigate to: The Stress Reduction Program > Find MBSR Programs Worldwide.
Based at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, this center is dedicated to integrating mindfulness-based approaches in mainstream medicine and health care. Provides a variety of educational opportunities in the United States and Canada.
Dalai Lama Centre for Peace and Education
http://dalailamacenter.org
Inspired by the Dalai Lama, and operating in a non-sectarian framework, this center (based in Vancouver, British Columbia) has as its mission “to educate the hearts of children by informing, inspiring and engaging the communities around them.”
Foundry (British Columbia), Mindfulness Page
https://foundrybc.ca/resource/mindfulness/
Check out “Laurie’s Story,” and all of the other great mindfulness information and resources for youth.
inner Explorer
https://www.innerexplorer.org/
“Inner Explorer program is a series of daily 5-10-minute audio-guided mindfulness practices. The program focuses on key areas of development, bringing mindfulness to education and helping students prepare for learning. Daily practice teaches kids the practical techniques to appropriately handle difficult emotions such as stress, anxiety, anger and more. Inner Explorer offers programs for all age-groups (PreK-12).”
Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre, Healthy Living Toolkit
http://keltymentalhealth.ca/toolkits
Toolkit for youth and families, with practical information on healthy sleeping, eating, exercise, and stress management.
Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre, mindfulness page
http://www.keltymentalhealth.ca/healthy-living/mindfulness
Learning 2 Breathe http://learning2breathe.org/
Resources related to Patricia Broderick’s Learning to Breathe mindfulness curriculum and book (see also “Books” section, above)
Making Friends with Yourself
http://www.mindfulselfcompassionforteens.com/
Resources on Mindful Self-Compassion for teens. Including free self-compassion guided meditations. Developed by my friends Lorraine Hobbs and Karen Bluth.
Mind and Life Institute, Call to Care (C2C)
http://www.mindandlife.org/care/
“Call to Care aims to address the limited attention in our educational systems for cultivating care and compassion—what we might call the forgotten heart of education. Operating at the intersections of education, developmental science, and contemplative scholarship, the project incorporates a distinctive hybrid approach focusing on both students and educators through a joint program operating within a common framework.”
Mindful Families
http://mindfulfamilies.net
Mindfulness, meditation, and Buddhist resources for families. From Sumi Kim, author of Sitting Together.
Mindful Magazine
http://www.mindful.org
A bimonthly magazine available in print and digital editions. The website features many informative articles and videos.
Mindful Schools http://www.mindfulschools.org/
This organization (based in Oakland, California) has as its mission to “lead the integration of mindfulness into education,” through training courses and research.
Mindfulness Everyday
www.mindfulnesseveryday.org
“Toronto-based Mindfulness Everyday, a registered charitable organization, offers MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction) workshops, in non-clinical settings as well as specifically designed programs for youth, parents and educators.”
Mindfulness in Education Network
http://www.mindfuled.org/
A network whose purpose is to “facilitate communication among all educators, parents, students and any others interested in promoting contemplative practice (mindfulness) in educational settings.” Dr. Vo is a member of the Board of Directors for this organization.
Mindfulness Without Borders http://mindfulnesswithoutborders.org/
A charitable organization offering programs and certification for educators and health professionals interested in facilitating their evidence-based social and emotional learning programs to youth in the communities they serve. Programs are available in Spanish and English.
MindUp
http://thehawnfoundation.org/mindup
A school-based curriculum that teaches social-emotional and mindfulness-based learning skills in the classroom.
Niroga Institute
http://www.niroga.org/
A non-profit organization based in Oakland, California, Niroga offers mindful yoga for youth in community, school, and juvenile justice settings.
Palouse Mindfulness
http://palousemindfulness.com/index.html
Free online Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course.
The Still Quiet Place
http://www.stillquietplace.com
Mindfulness resources from Dr. Amy Saltzman for parents, teens, teachers, and service providers.
Stressed Teens
http://www.stressedteens.com/
Online trainings and resources for parents, professionals, and teens.
Wake Up Schools
http://wakeupschools.org/
Cultivating Mindfulness in Education. “A global vision to walk the path of compassion, peace and joy in education through the practice of mindfulness.” Inspired by the teachings of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh.
Watch the film, “Happy Teachers Will Change the World,” about “teachers learning mindfulness, true transformation and happiness.”
This list was partially copied from mindfulnessforteens.com and was created by Dr. Dzung Vo, author of The Mindful Teen.
The Mindful Teen: Powerful Skills to Help You Handle Stress One Moment at a Time, by Dzung Vo MD (New Harbinger, 2015), is a mindfulness book for teens, with mindfulness instructions, guided meditations, examples, and youth voices. Click here to learn more about The Mindful Teen.
Here are some more useful resources for mindful teens:
Mobile Apps
Breathe: Dr. Vo helped to develop this mindfulness app for youth with the Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre (British Columbia, Canada). Free for Apple and Android mobile devices!
Stop, Breathe, and Think: Web and mobile app for youth, with meditations for mindfulness and compassion.
Calm.com: Free website and mobile app with guided meditation and relaxation exercises.
Insight Timer: Free mobile app with virtual “bells” to time and support your meditations, and access to lots of guided meditations by many different meditation teachers (including Dr. Vo).
Plum Village: Zen Meditation. Free app for iOS, loaded with beautiful meditations and teachings in the Plum Village / Thich Nhat Hanh tradition.
MindShift: Free mobile app for teens developed by AnxietyBC, with mindfulness and other coping skills for anxiety.
Smiling Mind: Free mobile mindfulness app for young people, from Australia.
Headspace: “Meditation made simple.” This app has a free introductory period, after which it requires a paid subscription to continue to use.
Mindfulness Books for Teens
Bluth K. The Self-Compassion Workbook for Teens: Mindfulness and Compassion Skills to Overcome Self-Criticism and Embrace Who You Are (Instant Help Books, 2017)
Gina M. Biegel, The Stress Reduction Workbook for Teens: Mindfulness Skills to Help You Deal with Stress (Instant Help Books, 2009)
Joseph V. Ciarrochi, Louise Hayes, and Ann Bailey, Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life for Teens: A Guide to Living an Extraordinary Life (Instant Help, 2012)
Mark C. Purcell and Jason R. Murphy, Mindfulness for Teen Anger: A Workbook to Overcome Anger and Aggression Using MBSR and DBT Skills (Instant Help, 2014)
Christopher Willard, Mindfulness for Teen Anxiety: A Workbook for Overcoming Anxiety at Home, at School, and Everywhere Else (Instant Help, 2014)
Christopher Willard and Mitch Abblett, Growing Mindful: A Deck of Mindfulness Practices for All Ages (Growing Mindful Games, 2015). A deck of cards with short mindfulness practices to “cultivate mindfulness on the go.” Available here and here.
Mindfulness Books for Parents, Educators, and Health Care Providers
Patricia C. Broderick, Learning to Breathe: A Mindfulness Curriculum for Adolescents to Cultivate Emotion Regulation, Attention, and Performance (New Harbinger Publications, 2013)
Valerie Brown and Kirsten Olson, The Mindful School Leader: Practices to Transform Your Leadership and School (Corwin, 2014)
Sam Himelstein, A Mindfulness-Based Approach to Working with High Risk Adolescents (Routledge, 2013)
Sam Himelstein and Stephen Saul, Mindfulness-Based Substance Abuse Treatment for Adolescents: A 12-Session Curriculum (Routledge, 2015)
Susan Kaiser Greenland, The Mindful Child: How to Help Your Kid Manage Stress and Become Happier, Kinder, and More Compassionate (Free Press, 2010)
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness (rev. and updated ed.) (Bantam Books, 2013)
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment—And Your Life (includes audio CD) (Sounds True, 2012)
Amy Saltzman, A Still Quiet Place: A Mindfulness Program for Teaching Children and Adolescents to Ease Stress and Difficult Emotions (New Harbinger Publications, 2014)
Daniel Siegel, Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain (Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2013)
Bob Stahl and Elisha Goldstein, A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook (New Harbinger Publications, 2010)
Meena Srinivasan, Teach, Breathe, Learn: Mindfulness in and out of the Classroom (Parallax, 2014)
Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation (Beacon Press, 1999)
Thich Nhat Hanh, Happiness: Essential Mindfulness Practices (Parallax Press, 2009)
Christopher Willard, Child’s Mind: Mindfulness Practices to Help Our Children Be More Focused, Calm, and Relaxed (Parallax Press, 2010)
Christopher Willard, Growing Up Mindful: Essential Practices to Help Children, Teens, and Families Find Balance, Calm, and Resilience (Sounds True, 2016)
Christopher Willard and Amy Saltzman, Eds, Teaching Mindfulness Skills to Kids and Teens (Guilford Press, 2015)
Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal, and Jon Kabat-Zinn, The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness (Guilford Press, 2007)
Websites and Organizations
Association for Mindfulness in Education
http://www.mindfuleducation.org/
“A collaborative association of organizations and individuals working together to provide support for mindfulness training as a component of K-12 education.”
Center for Adolescent Studies
www.centerforadolescentstudies.com
Founded by Sam Himelstein. Offers trainings for professionals in all disciplines, in mindfulness and building authentic relationships with adolescents.
Center for Mindful Learning
http://www.centerformindfullearning.org/
Based in Vermont, CML’s vision is “To build a mindfulness-based educational system that produces powerful, just, selfless leaders.”
Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society
http://www.umassmed.edu/cfm/Stress-Reduction Navigate to: The Stress Reduction Program > Find MBSR Programs Worldwide.
Based at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, this center is dedicated to integrating mindfulness-based approaches in mainstream medicine and health care. Provides a variety of educational opportunities in the United States and Canada.
Dalai Lama Centre for Peace and Education
http://dalailamacenter.org
Inspired by the Dalai Lama, and operating in a non-sectarian framework, this center (based in Vancouver, British Columbia) has as its mission “to educate the hearts of children by informing, inspiring and engaging the communities around them.”
Foundry (British Columbia), Mindfulness Page
https://foundrybc.ca/resource/mindfulness/
Check out “Laurie’s Story,” and all of the other great mindfulness information and resources for youth.
inner Explorer
https://www.innerexplorer.org/
“Inner Explorer program is a series of daily 5-10-minute audio-guided mindfulness practices. The program focuses on key areas of development, bringing mindfulness to education and helping students prepare for learning. Daily practice teaches kids the practical techniques to appropriately handle difficult emotions such as stress, anxiety, anger and more. Inner Explorer offers programs for all age-groups (PreK-12).”
Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre, Healthy Living Toolkit
http://keltymentalhealth.ca/toolkits
Toolkit for youth and families, with practical information on healthy sleeping, eating, exercise, and stress management.
Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre, mindfulness page
http://www.keltymentalhealth.ca/healthy-living/mindfulness
Learning 2 Breathe http://learning2breathe.org/
Resources related to Patricia Broderick’s Learning to Breathe mindfulness curriculum and book (see also “Books” section, above)
Making Friends with Yourself
http://www.mindfulselfcompassionforteens.com/
Resources on Mindful Self-Compassion for teens. Including free self-compassion guided meditations. Developed by my friends Lorraine Hobbs and Karen Bluth.
Mind and Life Institute, Call to Care (C2C)
http://www.mindandlife.org/care/
“Call to Care aims to address the limited attention in our educational systems for cultivating care and compassion—what we might call the forgotten heart of education. Operating at the intersections of education, developmental science, and contemplative scholarship, the project incorporates a distinctive hybrid approach focusing on both students and educators through a joint program operating within a common framework.”
Mindful Families
http://mindfulfamilies.net
Mindfulness, meditation, and Buddhist resources for families. From Sumi Kim, author of Sitting Together.
Mindful Magazine
http://www.mindful.org
A bimonthly magazine available in print and digital editions. The website features many informative articles and videos.
Mindful Schools http://www.mindfulschools.org/
This organization (based in Oakland, California) has as its mission to “lead the integration of mindfulness into education,” through training courses and research.
Mindfulness Everyday
www.mindfulnesseveryday.org
“Toronto-based Mindfulness Everyday, a registered charitable organization, offers MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction) workshops, in non-clinical settings as well as specifically designed programs for youth, parents and educators.”
Mindfulness in Education Network
http://www.mindfuled.org/
A network whose purpose is to “facilitate communication among all educators, parents, students and any others interested in promoting contemplative practice (mindfulness) in educational settings.” Dr. Vo is a member of the Board of Directors for this organization.
Mindfulness Without Borders http://mindfulnesswithoutborders.org/
A charitable organization offering programs and certification for educators and health professionals interested in facilitating their evidence-based social and emotional learning programs to youth in the communities they serve. Programs are available in Spanish and English.
MindUp
http://thehawnfoundation.org/mindup
A school-based curriculum that teaches social-emotional and mindfulness-based learning skills in the classroom.
Niroga Institute
http://www.niroga.org/
A non-profit organization based in Oakland, California, Niroga offers mindful yoga for youth in community, school, and juvenile justice settings.
Palouse Mindfulness
http://palousemindfulness.com/index.html
Free online Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course.
The Still Quiet Place
http://www.stillquietplace.com
Mindfulness resources from Dr. Amy Saltzman for parents, teens, teachers, and service providers.
Stressed Teens
http://www.stressedteens.com/
Online trainings and resources for parents, professionals, and teens.
Wake Up Schools
http://wakeupschools.org/
Cultivating Mindfulness in Education. “A global vision to walk the path of compassion, peace and joy in education through the practice of mindfulness.” Inspired by the teachings of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh.
Watch the film, “Happy Teachers Will Change the World,” about “teachers learning mindfulness, true transformation and happiness.”