LOS
ANGELES, May 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Unlikely
Collaborators and Mindful Life Project (MLP) have announced a
transformative project that will bring a proven and successful
school-based mindfulness programming that supports the mental and
emotional health of the students, educators, and families to
schools in the Los Angeles area.
MLP has successfully scaled the organization into 13 cities across
the San Francisco Bay Area,
California Central Coast and the California Central Valley to serve
over 75 schools a year, providing a foundation of mental and
emotional wellbeing so that schools can go from historically
stress-and trauma-inducing places to spaces of healing and
empowerment for students, teachers and communities. Unlikely
Collaborators has provided MLP a seed grant of $50K to both grow capacity to help scale the
organization to Los Angeles as
well as to launch programming in two Los
Angeles area schools.
MLP programs serve TK-8th grade students, their educators, and
families in schools and school districts that have high poverty,
violence, and intergenerational trauma – districts that also
frequently lack adequate resources and programming to support the
mental health of all in the educational ecosystem. The Los Angeles launch took place in early April
at Aspire Titan Academy and Aspire Antonio Maria Lugo Academy.
"Schools can become places of belonging, compassion, and
wellness when students and educators practice mindfulness," says
Mindful Life Project founder and CEO JG Larochette. "Starting
mindfulness in early education creates a habit of expanding
Perception Boxes when a child is still developing. We're thrilled
about our new partnership with UC to bring this vision to
Los Angeles schools."
Said Elizabeth R. Koch, Founder
of Unlikely Collaborators: "It's our heartfelt wish that this
initial grant to MLP will spark a broader movement where
mindfulness and introspection become foundational elements of
educational systems, nurturing spaces of healing and empowerment
for students, educators, families, and the entire community."
MLP has pioneered dynamic school-based mindfulness programming
that supports the mental and emotional health of the students,
educators, and families within a school community so that everyone
in the school ecosystem is brought along a deeply impactful
wellness journey. This model stands in contrast to training the
teacher models, which place the onus of mastery and implementation
of social-emotional learning on already overworked and often
burned-out classroom teachers.
Unlikely Collaborators is a start-up with an ambitious but
attainable mission: to untangle the stories that hold us back as
individuals, communities, nations, and humanity at large. By asking
sometimes contradictory but always consequential questions, we
provoke powerful acceptance of self and others by helping people
gain agency over their Perception Box™.
To learn more about Mindful Life Project go to
www.mindfullifeproject.org, and for more information about Unlikely
Collaborators, please visit
https://www.unlikelycollaborators.com/.
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