Peace with Youth Starts with Us

Heart Skills to Connect with Young People for Educators, Parents, Counselors, and the Rest of Us

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The youth mental health crisis is not just a problem for those who have young kids in their lives—it’s everyone’s problem. In 2023, a study found that approximately 87 percent of young people in the United States had suffered from some kind of mental health problem on a regular basis. This includes but is not limited to anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation. 

But each of us can also be part of the solution: we can start right here by learning some mindful resources. By grounding ourselves with mindful pauses and breath practices, we can show up for these young people—whether they are your own kids, a niece or nephew, your student at your school, or perhaps a young person you see at the bus stop every day. 

Each of us, as adults, can create a ripple effect in these young people’s lives. So why not have that ripple effect be one of compassion, understanding, and belonging? 

Join Sounds True and the Sounds True Foundation in partnership with Peace in Schools for Peace with Youth Starts with Us, a FREE six-part series where you’ll learn about connecting with yourself and, in turn, connect with youth. 

Founded by Sounds True author Caverly Morgan, Peace in Schools is a nonprofit organization based in Portland, Oregon, that makes it their mission to ensure that “every child deserves to know peace in their mind, in their heart, and in their school.” Peace in Schools created the nation’s first-ever for-credit mindfulness class in a public high school. Learn from their team how you can take these, as Caverly calls them, “contemplative technologies” into your life.  

What Your Audience Will 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

What Your Audience Will 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

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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.

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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Peace with Youth Starts with Us

A Free Six-Part Series

Starting September 2

What Others Are Saying

Learning to practice unconditional love and nonjudgment towards myself has literally changed my life.
Teen Mindful Studies Student
[Mindful Studies] provides hope, clarity, and acknowledgment of the things that have impacted our lives, positive and negative. We're given coping mechanisms to use in times of distress and a safe space in which we can receive nonjudgment from our teacher and classmates. It's a new and improved way to process and cope with the pain of everyday life.
Lincoln High School
12th Grade Student
Using the tools that I’ve learned in this class, I’ve managed to really get my anxiety under control. I feel more compassion for myself, and I worry slightly less. I think a long-term mindfulness practice will serve me well, and I’m not sure how I would’ve found it without it being offered at my school.
Roosevelt High School
12th Grade Student

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