Mindful Games by Susan Kaiser Greenland

Mindful Games by Susan Kaiser Greenland

A practical and playful guide for cultivating mindfulness in kids, with 50 simple games to develop attention and focus, and identify and regulate emotions

Playing games is a great way for kids to improve their focus and become more mindful. In this book, The Mindful Child author Susan Kaiser Greenland shares how parents, caregivers, and teachers can bring mindfulness into the classroom or home. She provides 50 entertaining games that develop what she calls the new A, B, C's--Attention, Balance, and Compassion--for your child's learning, happiness, and success, offering context and guidance throughout. She introduces:

- Anchor games that develop concentration
- Visualization games that encourage kindness and focus
- Analytical games that cultivate clear thinking
- Awareness games for sensory awareness, self-regulating emotions, and gaining insight into ourselves, others, and relationships

Even though the games are designed for kids, they can be just as fun and transformative for adults. Greenland encourages parents and caregivers to develop their own Attention, Balance, and Compassion and to explore the universal concepts that she presents. Our own mindfulness has a powerful effect on everyone in our lives--especially our children.

SUSAN KAISER GREENLAND developed the Inner Kids mindful awareness program, and teaches secular mindful awareness practices to children, parents, and professionals around the world. In 2000, she established the Inner Kids Foundation with her husband, author Seth Greenland, to bring mindful awareness to underserved schools in Los Angeles. She was a co-investigator in a multi-year, multi-site research study at UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center/Semel Institute on the impact of mindfulness in education. She has spoken at numerous prestigious institutions in the US and abroad, such as the Mind & Life Institute; the University of Massachusetts; the University of Kansas; Columbia University; Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; San Diego Children's Hospital; the Spirit Rock Meditation Center; the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies; and many others. Her work has been covered by The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, National Public Radio, and CBS Morning News.

ANNAKA HARRIS is a consultant for science writers, an editor of nonfiction books, and author of the children's book I Wonder. She is an Inner Kids volunteer teacher and has been working with Susan Kaiser Greenland and Inner Kids since 2005.

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ISBN 13	9781611803693
ISBN 10	1611803691
Title	Mindful Games
Author	Susan Kaiser Greenland
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Shambhala Publications Inc
Year published	2016-11-15
Number of pages	216
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