Susan is an internationally recognized leader in teaching mindfulness and meditation to children, teens, parents, and professionals. She played a foundational role in making mindfulness practices developmentally appropriate for young people and helped to pioneer activity-based mindfulness with her first book The Mindful Child.

Her second book Mindful Games, offers simple explanations of complex concepts, methods, and themes while expanding upon her work developing activity-based mindfulness practices. In addition to her work sharing mindfulness with kids, Susan has recorded a series of brief guided meditations for grownups entitled Mindful Parent, Mindful Child.

Susan collaborated with the creators of the award-winning App Stop, Breathe, Think to develop an App for children Stop, Breathe, Think Kids, she's a founding faculty member of UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center's facilitator trainings, and speaks widely at prestigious institutions and meditation centers in the United States and abroad.

Learn more about Susan Kaiser Greenland: https://www.susankaisergreenland.com/
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00:00:24 – Sean welcomes Susan Kaiser Greenland
00:02:57 – Introductory words from Susan Kaiser Greenland
00:07:33 – Guided meditation by Susan Kaiser Greenland
00:19:52 – Setting an intention as a teacher: “May I be helpful”
00:24:36 – The experience of mindfulness
00:28:14 – Mindfulness develops life skills
00:28:51 – Personal development in adults comes first
00:32:21 – Three qualities of the Inner Kids program
00:34:41 – Methods of the Inner Kids program
00:37:38 – Play, practice, share, and apply
00:40:44 – The nervous system is like a watch dog
00:48:37 – Minds change bodies and bodies change minds
00:50:36 – Superhero pose
00:54:21 – Practical strategies for working with stress
00:58:20 – Different stances of attention: spotlight and floodlight
01:02:00 – Helping kids to work with big feelings
01:11:01 – Question: When can you introduce flood light-style practices to a child?
01:19:34 – On compassion and connection
01:25:53 – How can you tell if you have a mindful child?
01:28:50 – Question: How do you explain awe to a child?
01:32:31 – Question: Are the strategies the same when teaching children with ADD, ADHD, or other behavioral issues?
01:37:34 – Question: Do you have suggestions on how to introduce mindfulness to teenagers?
01:47:27 – Befriending difficult experiences
01:51:23 – Question: How can I reach out to schools to share mindfulness with kids?