About

Mindfulness-Based Wellness and Pedagogy (MBWP) is an approach to arts education and performance that uses mindful awareness and related practices to improve teaching, learning, personal wellness, and creative expression. Our instructors provide training and education through group classes, workshops, and individualized coaching. MBWP teachers are experienced educators, artists, scholars, and mindfulness practitioners and have completed MBWP teacher certification through our program. Our Institute is committed to transforming the culture of the performing arts and education through mindfulness.

MBWP Teacher Certification

The Mindfulness-Based Wellness and Pedagogy (MBWP) teacher certification program is designed for arts educators interested in deepening their knowledge and commitment to mindfulness-based education both in their personal and professional lives. The program aims to create a community of educators dedicated to transforming the…

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Workshops

MBWP Mindfulness Workshop Intensives The practice of mindfulness, with its emphasis on cultivating a non-judgmental and present moment orientation towards experience, has been scientifically linked to improved life-satisfaction, enhanced cognitive performance, and better interpersonal relationships. Through these workshop intensives, we will explore how mindfulness…

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Research

Mindfulness for Educators  As educators, the skills learned through MBWP have a direct impact on the states of mind and behavior that we bring to our professional work. Research suggests that practicing mindfulness may result in many beneficial outcomes for teachers, including:  Improved self-control,…

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Institute for Mindfulness-Based Wellness and Pedagogy

The initial stages of MBWP are focused on developing physiological regulation and embodied grounding as a means of aiding meditative practice and artistic expression. Working with our breath and bodies helps to calm our nervous system, facilitating our ability to anchor our awareness in the present moment.

During the middle stages of the curriculum, concentration and awareness are cultivated through mindful and deliberate exploration of our senses, emotions, and patterns of thought, leading to greater clarity, stability, and equanimity.

As we non-judgmentally examine our habitual ways of feeling, thinking, and acting, we gain insight into how our perceptions color reality, giving us the opportunity to let go of unfruitful ways of experiencing and responding to ourselves and others. We then work on reframing our experiences such that they are aligned with our personal values.

During the final stages of MBWP training, after reducing our reactivity through mindful awareness, we develop the capacity to act intentionally in the world, using our experiences, aspirations, values, and ethics as a compass for wise and compassionate action.