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This book is a cutting-edge resource for any youth professional wanting to share mindfulness with teens. Brensilver, Hardy, and Sofer offer a skillful, innovative, and developmentally tailored approach that promotes youth receptivity and buy-in. Sharing mindfulness is much more than teaching techniques, and this book will give you everything you need; from the practice of cultivating relationships, to working with resistance, to tough conversations about the issues teens struggle with. I recommend this book without hesitation.--Sam Himelstein, PhD, author of Trauma-Informed Mindfulness with Teens: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals Bolstered by the authors' years of meditation practice and real-world experience, this excellent book is a tract on how to navigate the ups and downs of daily life that not only supports readers in their work with adolescents but in their own lives as well.--Susan Kaiser Greenland, author of The Mindful Child, Mindful Games, and the Inner Kids Program In a time when teens face real inner and outer challenges, and quick-fix, faux mindfulness offerings are increasingly popular, this book is a true gift. Every page is infused with the authors' deep personal mindfulness practices and their years of experience in sharing these practices with diverse youth.--Amy Saltzman, M.D., Director of Still Quiet Place, Director of the Association for Mindfulness in Education In a world with many wonderful books on an important topic, this one stands above the crowd with practical advice built on hard won experience. Brensilver, Hardy, and Sofer empower not just adolescents but their caregivers and communities as well. A gift to mindfulness educators everywhere.--Christopher Willard, PsyD, author of Growing Up Mindful and Alphabreaths, part time faculty at Harvard Medical School Wise and revolutionary. These are skilled and caring teachers giving you the real deal. They show how to soothe, inspire, and awaken the teenage spirit.--Jack Kornfield, PhD, bestselling author of A Path with Heart Teaching Mindfulness to Empower Adolescents is a gorgeous gift in learning how to raise a generation of empaths. I am so grateful for the lesson in 'building relationships, leaving space, and establishing personal relevance.' As a parent and individual, I felt deep support and a renewed understanding in the most important teachings and practices a person can have. I particularly loved this book's guidance on the reminder to 'make space to listen.' Thank you to JoAnna Hardy, Matthew Brensilver, and Oren Jay Sofer for bringing such essential teaching to light.--Laura Dern, Actor and Producer

Wise and revolutionary. These are skilled and caring teachers giving you the real deal. They show how to soothe, inspire, and awaken the teenage spirit.--Jack Kornfield, PhD, bestselling author of A Path with Heart Bolstered by the authors' years of meditation practice and real-world experience, this excellent book is a tract on how to navigate the ups and downs of daily life that not only supports readers in their work with adolescents but in their own lives as well.--Susan Kaiser Greenland, author of The Mindful Child, Mindful Games, and the Inner Kids Program In a time when teens face real inner and outer challenges, and quick-fix, faux mindfulness offerings are increasingly popular, this book is a true gift. Every page is infused with the authors' deep personal mindfulness practices and their years of experience in sharing these practices with diverse youth.--Amy Saltzman, M.D., Director of Still Quiet Place, Director of the Association for Mindfulness in Education In a world with many wonderful books on an important topic, this one stands above the crowd with practical advice built on hard won experience. Brensilver, Hardy, and Sofer empower not just adolescents but their caregivers and communities as well. A gift to mindfulness educators everywhere.--Christopher Willard, PsyD, author of Growing Up Mindful and Alphabreaths, part time faculty at Harvard Medical School

This book is a cutting-edge resource for any youth professional wanting to share mindfulness with teens. Brensilver, Hardy, and Sofer offer a skillful, innovative, and developmentally tailored approach that promotes youth receptivity and buy-in. Sharing mindfulness is much more than teaching techniques, and this book will give you everything you need; from the practice of cultivating relationships, to working with resistance, to tough conversations about the issues teens struggle with. I recommend this book without hesitation.--Sam Himelstein, PhD, author of Trauma-Informed Mindfulness with Teens: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals Bolstered by the authors' years of meditation practice and real-world experience, this excellent book is a tract on how to navigate the ups and downs of daily life that not only supports readers in their work with adolescents but in their own lives as well.--Susan Kaiser Greenland, author of The Mindful Child, Mindful Games, and the Inner Kids Program In a time when teens face real inner and outer challenges, and quick-fix, faux mindfulness offerings are increasingly popular, this book is a true gift. Every page is infused with the authors' deep personal mindfulness practices and their years of experience in sharing these practices with diverse youth.--Amy Saltzman, M.D., Director of Still Quiet Place, Director of the Association for Mindfulness in Education In a world with many wonderful books on an important topic, this one stands above the crowd with practical advice built on hard won experience. Brensilver, Hardy, and Sofer empower not just adolescents but their caregivers and communities as well. A gift to mindfulness educators everywhere.--Christopher Willard, PsyD, author of Growing Up Mindful and Alphabreaths, part time faculty at Harvard Medical School Wise and revolutionary. These are skilled and caring teachers giving you the real deal. They show how to soothe, inspire, and awaken the teenage spirit.--Jack Kornfield, PhD, bestselling author of A Path with Heart Teaching Mindfulness to Empower Adolescents is a gorgeous gift in learning how to raise a generation of empaths. I am so grateful for the lesson in 'building relationships, leaving space, and establishing personal relevance.' As a parent and individual, I felt deep support and a renewed understanding in the most important teachings and practices a person can have. I particularly loved this book's guidance on the reminder to 'make space to listen.' Thank you to JoAnna Hardy, Matthew Brensilver, and Oren Jay Sofer for bringing such essential teaching to light.--Laura Dern, Actor and Producer Teaching Mindfulness to Empower Adolescents is a gorgeous gift in learning how to raise a generation of empaths. I am so grateful for the lesson in 'building relationships, leaving space, and establishing personal relevance.' As a parent and individual, I felt deep support and a renewed understanding in the most important teachings and practices a person can have. I particularly loved this book's guidance on the reminder to 'make space to listen.' Thank you to JoAnna Hardy, Matthew Brensilver, and Oren Jay Sofer for bringing such essential teaching to light.--Laura Dern, Actor and Producer

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Matthew Brensilver, MSW, PhD, is a member of the Teachers Council and Guiding Teachers Executive Committee at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. He previously served as Program Director for Mindful Schools and for more than a decade, was a core teacher at Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society. He lectures at UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center about the intersections between mindfulness and mental health and teaches retreats nationally. Before committing to teaching meditation full-time, he spent years doing research on addiction pharmacotherapy at the UCLA Center for Behavioral and Addiction Medicine and is interested in the unfolding dialogue between meditation and science. JoAnna Hardy has been teaching meditation practices to young people since 2005.  She teaches retreats, is on the Spirit Rock teachers council, and focuses her work on building multicultural community with a focus on social and racial justice issues. Oren Jay Sofer leads retreats and workshops on meditation and communication throughout the United States. A member of the Spirit Rock Teachers Council, he holds a degree in Comparative Religion from Columbia University and is a Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner for the healing of trauma.

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