Laura Bean has an MFA in Creative Writing and spent ten years practicing meditation and teaching writing at the college level in Kyoto, Japan. Her work has been featured at a mindful youth conference sponsored by the Center for Mindfulness at UC San Diego, in UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Magazine, and mostly recently, in the Coalition of Schools Educating Mindfully (COSEM) anthology entitled Educating Mindfully: Stories of School Transformation Through Mindfulness.

Acknowledgments

Foreword by Dr. Amy Saltzman

Introduction
CHAPTER 1: Becoming a Mindful Educator

CHAPTER 2: Building Resiliency

CHAPTER 3: Anatomy of a Mindful Writing Lesson

CHAPTER 4: Creating a Practice Community: "Give a Little Love" by Charlie Fink

CHAPTER 5: The Gift of Attention: "The Summer Day" by Mary Oliver

CHAPTER 6: Belonging to the Natural World: Excerpt, "Song of Myself," Section 2 by Walt Whitman

CHAPTER 7: Why Practice Mindfulness?: "Keeping Quiet" by Pablo Neruda

CHAPTER 8: Self-Compassion: "Kindness" by Naomi Shihab Nye

CHAPTER 9: Welcoming Difficult Emotions: "The Guest House" by Rumi
CHAPTER 10: Acceptance: "So Much Happiness" by Naomi Shihab Nye

CHAPTER 11: Befriending Oneself: "Love After Love" by Derek Walcott

CHAPTER 12: Working with Habits: "Autobiography in Five Short Chapters" by Portia Nelson
CHAPTER 13: Compassion: "Saint Francis and the Sow" by Galway Kinnell

CHAPTER 14: Forgiveness: "Revenge" by Taha Muhammad Ali

CHAPTER 15: Joy: "Everything is Waiting for You" by David Whyte

CHAPTER 16: Celebrating Our Successes

Appendix

Author Biography