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Attention Training for Students
Research shows that atteniton training for students can reduce stress and anxiety while improving academic performance, sustained focused attention, and relationships with others.
Mindful Presence’s attention training is for students in middle school and above and is designed to foster the important cognitive skills of attention and information processing, as well build stress resilience and adaptive interpersonal capacities to help students thrive in and out of school.
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What You Will Learn
Attention training positively effects how children think, learn and engage. A student who is aware of their mind and body is able to more easily respond to challenges faced both at school and home. Bring Mindful Presence to your school and help your students learn techniques to:
- Manage time effectively
- Boost memory, focus & concentration
- Improve deep learning
- Reduce test anxiety & the pressure to perform
- Combat information overload associated with living in a technological world
- Develop self-awareness, self-management and self-regulation
- Cultivate compassion & empathy
- Rebound more easily from adversity or failure
- Overcome the stress & anxiety associated with transitions to high school/college
- Learn the importance of mindful eating
- Gain health and wellness benefits
Pricing
Mindful Presence offers both introductory and multi-week attention training sessions. Each option is designed around your school’s specific needs and goals. Price is determined based on budget requirements and constraints. The typical time-frame to establish a regular mindfulness routine is 6-8 weeks.
What This Work Requires
Meaningful change requires more than insight. It requires attention, reflection, experimentation, and consistent application.
Our work together is designed to strengthen your awareness of how you think, respond, make decisions, and direct your attention. Through cognitive mapping, metacognitive practices, attention training, and coaching, you will begin to recognize patterns that support your performance and those that may limit it.
Between sessions, you will observe specific patterns, apply new strategies, experiment with different responses, and practice techniques to strengthen attention and cognitive flexibility.
The goal is to build the capacity to notice what is happening, understand what is driving it, and make more intentional choices.
The more consistently you engage with the work between sessions, the more effectively you will translate insight into lasting changes in leadership, performance, and decision-making.
Scientific Research
Learn more about how mindfulness and meditation influence attention, with downstream effects on functional domains of cognition, emotion, behavior, and physiology in the following studies:
- Still Thinking: The Case for Meditation with Children
Education Resources Information Center - Toward the Integration of Meditation into Higher Education: A Review of Research Evidence
Education Resources Information Center - Mindfulness for Recalling Information
Education Resources Information Center - Opening the Contemplative Mind in the Classroom
Hart, Tobin. (2004). Journal of Transformative Education. 2. 28-46. 10.1177/1541344603259311. - Mindful Learning: Why Attention Matters in Education
Education Resources Information Center