Peace with Youth Starts with Us
A Free Six-Part Series
In partnership with Sounds True and the Sounds True Foundation, this six-part series from Peace in Schools offers tools to connect with yourself and the young people in your community.
What You’ll Receive
VIDEO 1: Returning to the Present Moment
Having the attention in the present moment is key if you want to connect with youth. Presence is our very being.
VIDEO 4: Being the Mentor We Needed
Finding the compassionate mentor within and offering reassurance to the part of us who is struggling.
VIDEO 2: Being Ourselves and High Standards
Seeing ourselves and the youth in our lives clearly, having the courage to be ourselves, and recognizing that we are enough just as we are.
VIDEO 5: Working with Resistance
Trusting that our very being is enough, and realizing that this being is shared.
VIDEO 3: Connection over Control
Allowing love to lead. Connecting rather than defaulting to control.
VIDEO 6: Being Presence
Recognizing what’s possible as we not only refine our capacity to direct the attention to the present moment, but we learn to rest the attention in the heart of who we are as well.
Plus! 10 Bonus Meditations
Sign Up for the Series
What You’ll Receive
VIDEO 1: Returning to the Present Moment
Having attention in the present moment is key if you want to know your inherent freedom. Presence is our very being.
VIDEO 2: Being Ourselves and High Standards
See ourselves and the youth in our lives clearly, have the courage to be ourselves, and recognize that we are enough just as we are.
VIDEO 3: Connection over Control
Allowing love to lead, we are able to connect rather than default to control.
VIDEO4: Being the Mentor We Needed
Find the compassionate mentor within and offer reassurance to the part of us who is struggling.
VIDEO 5: Working with Resistance
Consciously respond to the moment and let go of our attachment to right and wrong.
VIDEO 6: Being Presence
Trust that our very being is enough, and realize it is shared.
Plus! 10 Bonus Meditations
Sign Up For The Series
Your Hosts
Caverly is a spiritual teacher, nonprofit founder, speaker, and writer who blends Zen with a modern nondual and relational approach. Author of The Heart of Who We Are: Realizing Freedom Together and A Kids Book About Mindfulness, she founded Peace in Schools, creating the first for-credit mindfulness class in US public high schools. Her practice began in 1995 and includes eight years in a silent Zen monastery. Caverly leads meditation retreats, workshops, and online classes internationally. Learn more at caverlymorgan.org.
Zakiya is the Program Director at Peace in Schools. She oversees Peace in Schools’ various programs (Teen, Adult, Mindful Studies Partnership Program, Training and Curriculum) and its lead teachers. Zakiya joined Peace in Schools in 2021 after previously working in higher education. Because she believes that teams do their best work when they feel fully supported, she views leadership through an equitable, holistic lens, discarding the notion of the typical white supremacy work culture.
Maggie is the creative and administrative Head of Training and Curriculum at Peace in Schools. She is also a licensed school social worker and training instructor. Since joining Peace in Schools, Maggie has developed curricula for and taught the Mindful Studies course to hundreds of teens. She co-created the adult program and regularly designs and facilitates in-depth courses for youth-serving professionals. Most recently, Maggie created a comprehensive framework for Peace in Schools’ pedagogical approach and designed the 150-hour Mindful Studies Teacher Certification.
Photo credit: Vineet Teames
About Peace in Schools
In 2014, a principal facing teen suicides partnered with Peace in Schools to launch Mindful Studies—the nation’s first for-credit, semester-long mindfulness class in a public high school. Independent research and ten years of rigorous program evaluation show that Peace in Schools Mindful Studies™ is an essential inner curriculum for teens. Today, Peace in Schools is rolling out a major initiative to expand access to Mindful Studies, raising over $2.4 million of support from Visionary Investors since May 2023.
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