A LOCAL PROGRAM

CHILL brings mindfulness-based tools and strategies into learning environments, benefiting students, teachers and their schools. The program is for K - 8th grade private and public schools in the St. Louis region. 

BENEFITS For Students

Students do better in school when they are mindful of their own thoughts and feelings, can empathize with others, understand their bodies and practice healthy lifestyle habits.
They also benefit from:

Improved focus and academic performance
Improved relationships among students, with teachers and their school
Self-regulation and self-awareness
Increased empathy and compassion
Conflict resolution skills
Improved self-confidence

By The Numbers

89% Better Emotional Regulation
83% Improved Focus
79% More Engagement
76% More Compassion

When teachers learn mindfulness

CHILL supports teachers by providing them with ways they can help support their students' mindfulness skills, giving them ideas for bringing more mindfulness into their classrooms and offering suggestions for ways they can develop their own mindfulness practice.

Providing educators with mindfulness training can help increase their sense of well-being, their ability to manage classroom behavior, develop skills to help reduce stress and establish and maintain positive and supportive relationships with students. Teachers will be learning these skills alongside their students, which provides a unique and meaningful opportunity for students and teachers to connect in a new way that benefits the social and emotional health of everyone, both inside the classroom and out.

BY THE NUMBERS

82% Connect Better With Students
77% Are More Satisfied With Their Job

Bringing mindfulness into your home supports what your child is learning at school and helps you learn to recognize and appreciate the beautiful moments that can pass by without being noticed. It can also help parents through moments when they are at their wits' end and don't know what to do by learning how to recognize what is happening in the moment.

Mindfulness also helps create a wonderful opportunity to connect with one another through the many emotions a family feels. Talking with your children about how you're feeling and how you're going to take care of those feelings sets a wonderful example and helps you learn to take care of your own feelings in a healthy way, too.