Susan Kaiser Greenland: Nothing Is More Important Than Teaching Mindfulness to Kids

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Susan Kaiser Greenland is an author, meditation teacher, and the founder of the Inner Kids Foundation, which is devoted to bringing the lessons of mindfulness to children. Her books include The Mindful Child and Mindful Games. With Sounds True, Susan has created Mindful Parent, Mindful Child, a 30-day training program for integrating mindfulness into your family's everyday life. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon speaks with Susan about her efforts to fold mindfulness into basic childhood education, as well as how she came to this work after 20 years as a corporate lawyer. Susan outlines some of the practices that are ideal for children and why parents should have their own mindfulness routine. Susan and Tami discuss mindfulness-based games and the steps to making common practices (such as a body scan) more fun and engaging. Finally, they consider how to balance the ideal of non-striving with motivated work, as well as what the future of children's mindfulness education might look like. (62 minutes)

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0:00.0	Welcome to Insights at the Edge, produced by Sounds True.
0:04.0	My name is Tammy Simon. I'm the founder of Sounds True.
0:08.0	And I'd love to take a moment to introduce you to the new Sounds True Foundation.
0:12.0	The Sounds True Foundation is dedicated to creating a wiser and kinder world by making transformational education widely available. We want everyone to have access to
0:26.8	transformational tools such as mindfulness, emotional awareness, and self-compassion, regardless of financial, social, or physical challenges.
0:39.3	The Sounds True Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to providing these transformational tools to communities
0:46.9	in need, including at-risk youth, prisoners, veterans, and those in developing countries.
0:54.0	If you'd like to learn more or feel inspired to become a supporter,
0:58.4	please visit sounds true foundation.org. You're listening to Insights at the Edge.
1:10.0	Today my guest is Susan Kaiser Greenland.
1:14.0	Susan Kaiser Greenland is a mindfulness teacher and co-founder of the Inner Kids Foundation,
1:20.0	which is a not-for-profit organization that has taught secular mindfulness and community-based programs from 2001 to 2009.
1:31.0	She's researched the impact of mindfulness in education, child care, and family health at
1:37.8	UCLA, and her research has been published in the Journal of Applied School Psychology.
1:45.0	She's the author of the books The Mindful Child and Mindful Games,
1:50.0	and with sounds true she's put together a new 30-day training program in less than 10 minutes a day over the course of 30 days.
2:00.0	It's a mindful parent, mindful child program where together you do a game, a practice,
2:08.0	explore a teaching about mindfulness.
2:11.0	Again, it's called Mindful Parent, Mindful Child.
2:15.0	Susan Kaiser Greenland is a true pioneer.
2:19.0	She was one of the first people to 100% dedicate herself to bringing mindfulness into education and into families.
2:28.2	And it's a great honor to have this conversation with Susan Kaiser Greenland.
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