Mindful Kids Miami

Mindful Kids Miami (MKM) seeks to bring the benefits of mindfulness to children from pre-K through the 12th grade in Miami-Dade County and throughout Florida. MKM trains educators, health providers, community organizations and caregivers to teach research-based mindfulness skills to children and youth in schools and other settings.

MKM offers a catalog of gold-standard mindfulness programs and workshops to carry out our mission. We scale our reach and impact by training adults who interact with children daily, such as educators, to embody mindfulness for themselves and to share age-appropriate activities with their students. Our signature programs are the 8-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn, and the 8-week Mindful Teachers Training Program (MTTP) developed in-house.

In 2021 Mindful Kids Miami (MKM), in collaboration with Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS), The Miami Heat, and Blue Cross Blue Shield, pioneered The Mindfulness Champions (MC) Initiative. Never before had a school district succeeded in appointing a mindfulness advocate at every primary and secondary public school. The 4th largest school district in the US, M-DCPS, provided one Mindfulness Champion (MC), from each of its 354 schools. The MC was an educator or counselor, distinguished by their passion for improved wellness and success for educators and students within their school. Mindful Kids Miami, with more than 10 years of dedication, innovation, and experience in bringing evidence-based mindfulness into schools, provided every MC with mindfulness training, guidance, and resources, through a six-hour workshop, weekly practice sessions, monthly meetings, a Mindful Educator email group, and access to highly trained mindfulness facilitators.