New grant from U.S. Department of Education

Scientific research demonstrating the benefits of mindfulness has created a huge demand for evidence-based training programs. However, research into the most effective strategies for teaching mindfulness is almost non-existent. The Center for Mindfulness & Human Potential just received a major three-year grant from the U.S. Dept. of Education to discover best practices for teaching mindfulness to youth. Our goal is to accelerate a new science of the instruction of mindfulness by making and sharing discoveries about how to teach mindfulness most effectively. The discoveries we make will culminate in a scalable online mindfulness training program that is systematically and continuously refined through empirical research with thousands of diverse high school students.