Mindfulness

Mindfulness

Our staff has been provided mindfulness professional development.  The goals of mindfulness training include:

• Reducing stress
• Increasing focus
• Increasing emotional regulation
• Increasing compassion
• Increasing resilience to future stresses

Practicing mindfulness has measurable effects on the brain including:

• Increasing the activity in the prefrontal cortex (the decision-making center of the brain)
• Increasing grey matter through practices resulting in increasing the capacity to learn and remember
• Better impulse control related to shrinking emotional responses centered on the amygdala