Unlikely Collaborators and Mindful Life Project Announce Transformative Project Bringing Mindfulness to Elementary and Middle Schools in Los Angeles Area
Summary
MLP has successfully scaled the organization into 13 cities across the San Francisco Bay Area, California Central Coast and the California Central Valley to serve over 75 schools a year, providing a foundation of mental and emotional wellbeing so that schools can go from historically stress-and trauma-inducing places to spaces of healing and empowerment for students, teachers and communities. Unlikely Collaborators has provided MLP a seed grant of $50K to both grow capacity to help scale the organization to Los Angeles as well as to launch programming in two Los Angeles area schools.MLP programs serve TK-8th grade students, their educators, and families in schools and school districts that have high poverty, violence, and intergenerational trauma districts that also frequently lack adequate resources and programming to support the mental health of all in the educational ecosystem. "Starting mindfulness in early education creates a habit of expanding Perception Boxes when a child is still developing. This model stands in contrast to training the teacher models, which place the onus of mastery and implementation of social-emotional learning on already overworked and often burned-out classroom teachers.Unlikely Collaborators is a start-up with an ambitious but attainable mission: to untangle the stories that hold us back as individuals, communities, nations, and humanity at large. By asking sometimes contradictory but always consequential questions, we provoke powerful acceptance of self and others by helping people gain agency over their Perception Box.To learn more about Mindful Life Project go to www.mindfullifeproject.org, and for more information about Unlikely Collaborators, please visit https://www.unlikelycollaborators.com/.