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Mindful by Design
A Practical Guide for Cultivating Aware, Advancing, and Authentic Learning Experiences

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January 2019 | 224 pages | Corwin

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

 

 
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

"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

"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

“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

“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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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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Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1


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