Member Online Community

Educating Mindfully offers meaningful and intentional opportunities for connecting with other mindful educators and leaders. As a member, you gain access to: 

• Our Member Online Community: A supportive network and resource hub for integrating Mindfulness-Based Learning. Our members connect with each other, share insights, reflections, ideas, and more as we refine our teaching and leading practices.  

• Mindful Partner Discounts: As members, several of our Mindful Partners (resource and service providers) offer you special discounts to access their resources/services to reach your classroom/school/district goals. Partners are also active on our Member Online Community to learn from and engage with directly. 

• Community Circles: Monthly personal practice opportunities that are connected to the Educating Mindfully Framework and/or monthly resources. These are led by our leaders and members to empower our mindful mission through embodiment while developing mindfulness-based learning practices. 

• Brainstorming Support Sessions: These are quarterly opportunities to connect as a community to share and gain ideas for integrating mindfulness-based learning into your life and classroom. Reflect on your current experiences and questions, practice guiding mindful experiences together, and connect in an online small group setting.

• Mindfulness-Based Learning Lesson Inspirations: Resources to directly infuse the personal practices into your classroom and school. Our members, especially our Mindfulness-Based Learning Micro-Credential graduates, are able to submit inspirations for consideration for our community. 

• Voices Blog: An open-to-all professional blog that connects with our personal practices and stories within our field. As a member, you are able to submit your "voice" and share your story--we want to elevate the Voices of our members. 

• Educating Mindfully Learncast: Monthly integrative learncast featuring special guests in connection with the overarching framework-aligned topic for the month. The episode will contain a weekly self-paced reflective conversation in our Member Online Community for learning and integrating the mindfulness-based learning skill for optional professional development hours (like our online book club format). 

• Personal Practice Experiences: Opportunities to experience different personal practices to see what resonates with you and your personal growth development. These are led by certified practitioners in the field.

• Member Intention Ceremonies: These opportunities happen three times a year (beginning/middle/end) to set and reflect on our intention for the year. This is especially for new members to begin their journey with us throughout the school year and are highly encouraged to attend. This is open to all our members as well as a mindful support check-in.

• Special Events: Special events are led by mindful leaders in our field (and members in our community) that are grounded in best-practices, research, and experiences so we can continue growing together. 

• Learning Library: All events and learning experiences are recorded and available for on-demand learning and professional development hours within our Learning Library on our Member Online Community. 

• Professional Development Credit Hours: Educating Mindfully is an approved professional development provider for Professional Development Hours (PDHs) and Continuing Education Units (CEUs) within Illinois, which is often transferable to other states and locations. 

• Opportunity: Educating Mindfully Book Study Experience (additional cost of purchasing our book, discounted digital copy is available): This experience helps you find avenues to integrate mindfulness in your speciality area and is filled with inspiring stories and applicable actions. 

• Opportunity: Mindfulness-Based Learning Micro-Credential Program (additional cost of taking the program): Our supportive and self-paced Micro-Credential Program helps you to fully integrate Mindfulness-Based Learning within and beyond the classroom. Gain confidence in creating and facilitating framework-aligned experiences, while advocating your communities to become mindful global citizens. This program is only available to members. 

You can join Educating Mindfully as an individual member for $60-120/year; we have a scaled pricing option to choose your financial commitment. 

We also have a group membership option for $500-$1,500/year, depending on the size of your group. Groups can be any educational organization such as a school, district, Regional Office of Education, Department of Education, association, organizations, or cooperative.

• If you are signing up six or more educators/leaders, please contact us so we can give you the discounted group rate with a special group sign-up link to share with everyone.

We offer financial scholarships (or a free trial for one year, then $90/year) to anyone in need. More details can be found at https://www.educatingmindfully.org/membership.

A special thanks to our Sponsors: Jill Marie Charitable Fund/JabuMind; Racial Healing Allies; Tovi Scruggs-Hussein with Tici'ess; Challenge to Change; Barbara Larrivee; Mind Body Align; Global Compassion Coalition; Teach Plus; SEL4IL; Peace of Mind; The Butterfly Within®; Movemindfully; and IDEA Con. Thank you to GPS Parent Series for partnering to bring in expert mindfulness-focused presenters, free-to-all, to support nurturing our youth. Learn more about our Mindful Partners.

It is especially thanks to our financially supporting Mindful Partners our organization can continue its mindful mission within the world. 

To become a sponsor and support our mission while also promoting your programs, products, and services, please contact us.

Contact us at [email protected] if you need any support or have any questions.