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Mindful by Design

A Practical Guide for Cultivating Aware, Advancing, and Authentic Learning Experiences
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By: Caitlin Krause

As we navigate complex changes in our professional and personal lives, Mindful by Design is a resource that provides ways to infuse meaningful connection into remote learning, so that learners, teachers, and leaders can flourish.


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  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781506388656
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Series: Corwin Teaching Essentials
  • Year: 2019
  • Page Count: 224
  • Publication date: January 15, 2019
Price: $39.95
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“Mindful by Design is a guide to well-being, a practical resource, and a creative call-to-action, as Caitlin Krause helps readers to bridge the gap between prioritizing true connection and achieving it.”

– Leah Weiss, author of How We Work: Live Your Purpose, Reclaim Your Sanity, and Embrace the Daily Grind; Lecturer, Stanford Graduate School of Business

"Krause shares valuable strategies that will help any educator, coach, manager, or learning professional bring out the best in those they serve.”

—Dorie Clark, adjunct professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and author, Entrepreneurial You and Stand Out

"Mindful by Design is a valuable and inspiring guide, offering generous insights and practical advice for those seeking to center, strengthen, and clarify their efforts both in and outside of the classroom."

—Dinty Moore, author, The Mindful Writer

Take mindfulness beyond the buzzword and spark powerful learning environments!

As we navigate complex changes in our professional and personal lives, Mindful by Design is a resource that provides ways to infuse meaningful connection into remote learning, so that learners, teachers, and leaders can flourish. If you're experiencing "zoom burnout," or just looking for ways to connect more deeply and integrate SEL and mindfulness into the context of your teaching practices, this book is for you!

In a busy world full of challenges and distractions, mindfulness is about increasing a sense of presence and intention in everything we do. This must-have resource explores how mindfulness can improve teaching and learning, promoting the development of future-forward skills including creativity, entrepreneurship, innovation, and communication. Readers will learn how to cultivate a personal mindfulness practice that reflects their individuality, and how to create a community of care and respect through mindfulness, inviting learners to seek more authentic interactions with the curriculum, with themselves, and with each other.

Mindful by Design provides 24 detailed exercises, including step-by-step mindfulness lessons embedded into specific curriculum areas, ready to implement immediately. Filled with practical, accessible explanations and applications that are adaptive and engaging, this book demystifies mindfulness and empowers each individual to embrace a personal mindfulness practice and inspire powerful learning environments.

Caitlin Krause on Mindful by Design


Key features

Teachers will learn:
  • How mindfulness can benefit them and their classrooms, creating a community of care and respect
  • How mindfulness helps students develop 21st century skills
  • 24 ready-to-go lessons to implement right away

Author(s)

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Caitlin Krause

Caitlin Krause is a globally-recognized learning expert, author, and keynote speaker. In her book Mindful by Design and through her organizational consulting, she helps individual leaders and teams leverage mindfulness, storytelling, and design principles to connect more deeply with their audiences.

As founder of the MindWise consultancy, co-founder of the Center of Wise Leadership, and a virtual reality specialist, Caitlin contributes to building products and experiences that promote humanity, innovation and emotional intelligence. She speaks extensively in Europe and North America, leading professional development and learning workshops. She holds a BA from Duke University and an MFA from Lesley University, and believes in embracing creative constraints, living a life filled with moments of wonder, and connecting with passion, purpose and presence.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Introduction: Making a Difference

Part I

Chapter 1: Mindfulness: Beyond the Buzzword

Chapter 2: Creating a Mindful Learning Environment

Part II

Chapter 3: Mindfulness for Teachers

Exercise 1: Just Three Breaths (Breathing Meditation)

Exercise 2: Kiss the Earth (Walking Meditation)

Exercise 3: On Listening and Being Heard: Reducing Stress and Anxiety

Exercise 4: Grateful Heart and Happiness

Exercise 5: Prime Values: Purpose and Presence

Exercise 6: Daring Greatly: Three Exercises for Freedom

Exercise 7: Building Solidarity

Exercise 8: Les Petits Plaisirs: Simple Pleasures for Sustenance

Chapter 4: Mindfulness in the Classroom and Community

Exercise 1: Great Debates: “Fire and Ice”

Exercise 2: Out of this World

Exercise 3: Story of My Name

Exercise 4: Levity Moments

Exercise 5: Gratitude and Mindful Mentors

Exercise 6: Storytelling, Empathy, and Kindness

Exercise 7: Digital Mindful Citizen

Exercise 8: Dignified Selfie

Exercise 9: The Danger of a Single Story

Exercise 10: Mindful Journaling: Nature Journals and Moments of Wonder

Exercise 11: Nature as Teacher: Bold Biomimicry and Design Thinking Applied

Exercise 12: Architecture and Virtual Worlds: Designing Mindful Community Spaces

Exercise 13: What Makes a Mindful Leader?

Exercise 14: Sustainability and Poetry Perspectives: Meditations on "Good"

Exercise 15: Mirror, Mirror: Empathetic Partner Exercises That Help to Hone Focus, Leadership, and Listening Skills in the Age of AI

Exercise 16: The Four P’s: Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play

Part III

Chapter 5: The Future of Mindfulness

References

Index

Reviews

Quote by Philippe Goldin, PhD, Director, Clinically Applied Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, University of California Davis:

"With the framework of the Three A’s -- being Aware, Advancing, Authentic – Krause has crafted a wonderful book for educators that shares her teaching experience and deep inquiry as a scaffold for integrating mindfulness into the classroom. This book skillfully provides an informed and practical set of guidelines and exercises for designing mindful experiences for the benefit of teachers and students. "

"With the framework of the Three A’s -- being Aware, Advancing, Authentic – Krause has crafted a wonderful book for educators that shares her teaching experience and deep inquiry as a scaffold for integrating mindfulness into the classroom. This book skillfully provides an informed and practical set of guidelines and exercises for designing mindful experiences for the benefit of teachers and students. "

Philippe Goldin, PhD, Director, Clinically Applied Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, University of California Davis
Quote by Jennifer Abrams, Speaker, Consultant, and Author, Having Hard Conversations:

"In Mindful By Design, Caitlin Krause shares her passion for mindfulness and how it can be applied in our lives and in our classrooms. Through a wealth of examples, Caitlin brings mindfulness to life and helps her readers become more ‘aware, advancing and authentic.’ A needed resource for us all.”


"In Mindful By Design, Caitlin Krause shares her passion for mindfulness and how it can be applied in our lives and in our classrooms. Through a wealth of examples, Caitlin brings mindfulness to life and helps her readers become more ‘aware, advancing and authentic.’ A needed resource for us all.”


Jennifer Abrams, Speaker, Consultant, and Author, Having Hard Conversations
Quote by Darren Kuropatwa, Professional Learning Consultant:

“Mindful by Design is grounded in an ethic of care. To see what I mean, and if you just picked up this book wondering if it’s for you, flip through a few pages and read the many quotes of student’s voices. Caitlin has written a book that speaks to the heart of what teachers do in classrooms: create a safe culture of care where we all learn to listen to each other to understand.”

“Mindful by Design is grounded in an ethic of care. To see what I mean, and if you just picked up this book wondering if it’s for you, flip through a few pages and read the many quotes of student’s voices. Caitlin has written a book that speaks to the heart of what teachers do in classrooms: create a safe culture of care where we all learn to listen to each other to understand.”


Darren Kuropatwa, Professional Learning Consultant
Quote by Carol Pelletier Radford, Author, Mentoring in Action and The First Years Matter:

“Caitlin brings her heart, experiences with students, and her authentic voice to us in her book, Mindful by Design! She not only offers us an inside view to a mindful classroom, she shares strategies that support our well-being as teachers and humans. This book is a must have resource for all educators!”

“Caitlin brings her heart, experiences with students, and her authentic voice to us in her book, Mindful by Design! She not only offers us an inside view to a mindful classroom, she shares strategies that support our well-being as teachers and humans. This book is a must have resource for all educators!”


Carol Pelletier Radford, Author, Mentoring in Action and The First Years Matter
Quote by Dinty W. Moore, Author, The Mindful Writer: "In a world that seems more turbulent, more distraction-filled by the day, students and teachers need the restorative power of breathing and mindfulness as never before. Caitlin Krause's Mindful by Design is a valuable and inspiring guide, offering generous insights and practical advice for those seeking to center, strengthen, and clarify their efforts both in and outside of the classroom."
"In a world that seems more turbulent, more distraction-filled by the day, students and teachers need the restorative power of breathing and mindfulness as never before. Caitlin Krause's Mindful by Design is a valuable and inspiring guide, offering generous insights and practical advice for those seeking to center, strengthen, and clarify their efforts both in and outside of the classroom."
Dinty W. Moore, Author, The Mindful Writer
Quote by Dorie Clark, Adjunct Professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business; author of Entrepreneurial You and Stand Out: "Mindfulness is key to effective learning, whether it's a classroom of students or a workplace full of adult learners. Caitlin Krause shares valuable strategies that will help any educator, coach, manager, or learning professional bring out the best in those they serve."
"Mindfulness is key to effective learning, whether it's a classroom of students or a workplace full of adult learners. Caitlin Krause shares valuable strategies that will help any educator, coach, manager, or learning professional bring out the best in those they serve."
Dorie Clark, Adjunct Professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business; author of Entrepreneurial You and Stand Out
Quote by DeWitt Henry, author of Sweet Marjoram: Notes and Essays; Founding Editor of Ploughshares: "Part meditation, impassioned credo and exhortation, and part practical guide addressed to educators at all levels, Krause’s book is urgent and provocative: not only in calling for us to create curricula and classrooms that meet the needs of the Gen Z world and beyond, but in encouraging our personal creativity, in offering sample exercises and resources, and in inviting ongoing collaboration through a companion website. Entering the Krause classroom as fellow teachers, we’re engaged as fellow learners and inspired to ‘wonder.’"
"Part meditation, impassioned credo and exhortation, and part practical guide addressed to educators at all levels, Krause’s book is urgent and provocative: not only in calling for us to create curricula and classrooms that meet the needs of the Gen Z world and beyond, but in encouraging our personal creativity, in offering sample exercises and resources, and in inviting ongoing collaboration through a companion website. Entering the Krause classroom as fellow teachers, we’re engaged as fellow learners and inspired to ‘wonder.’"
DeWitt Henry, author of Sweet Marjoram: Notes and Essays; Founding Editor of Ploughshares
Quote by Luz Santana and Dan Rothstein, co-authors, Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions:

"What might make a student more thoughtful about their own thinking, more engaged with the world, and more appreciative of the opportunities to learn from peers? This book offers clear tools and activities to foster mindfulness in the classroom so that students can think for themselves, learn from each other, and teachers can learn from all their students."

"What might make a student more thoughtful about their own thinking, more engaged with the world, and more appreciative of the opportunities to learn from peers? This book offers clear tools and activities to foster mindfulness in the classroom so that students can think for themselves, learn from each other, and teachers can learn from all their students."


Luz Santana and Dan Rothstein, co-authors, Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions
Quote by Leah Weiss, author of How We Work: Live Your Purpose, Reclaim Your Sanity, and Embrace the Daily Grind; Lecturer, Stanford Graduate School of Business:

“Mindfulness is beyond optional, it's imperative in today's society, be it the culture of business, learning, or personal life. By illuminating ways to apply the "intentional use of attention" to our active daily lives, Mindful by Design is a guide to well-being, a practical resource, and a creative call-to-action, as Caitlin Krause helps readers to bridge the gap between prioritizing true connection and achieving it.”

“Mindfulness is beyond optional, it's imperative in today's society, be it the culture of business, learning, or personal life. By illuminating ways to apply the "intentional use of attention" to our active daily lives, Mindful by Design is a guide to well-being, a practical resource, and a creative call-to-action, as Caitlin Krause helps readers to bridge the gap between prioritizing true connection and achieving it.”

Leah Weiss, author of How We Work: Live Your Purpose, Reclaim Your Sanity, and Embrace the Daily Grind; Lecturer, Stanford Graduate School of Business

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Price: $39.95
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Review Copies

Review copies may be requested by individuals planning to purchase 10 or more copies for a team or considering a book for adoption in a higher ed course. To request a review copy, contact sales@corwin.com.

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