Inner Resilience Program

Integrating social and emotional learning with contemplative practice. The mindfulness-based approaches used in the Inner Resilience Program (IRP) help create healthy environments for teaching and learning by assisting both teachers and students to hone the skills of self-regulation, attention, and caring for others. The underlying principle of teaching specific skills to teachers and students through sustained practice and the development of a mindful classroom environment may provide value-added benefits because of the emphasis on repeated practice of skills over time in the context of a caring learning community.