In the short term, children understand how the brain experiences and regulates emotions, can apply strategies to focus attention and calm down, and are better able to act prosocially with their peers and community.This is supported by fostering a school wide mindful culture to support wellbeing and academic outcomes. Using an educational neuroscience approach, the programme teaches children strategies to focus attention, regulate emotions, and engage in prosocial behaviours in order to foster positive academic, social, and emotional well-being.Robust social and emotional competencies, such as self-awareness, self-management, and social awareness, facilitate children’s readiness for learning, prosocial behaviour, and positive mental health.This exercise is intended to be practiced three times a day, with the length being adaptable to children’s needs. A core part of the intervention is learning a mindfulness technique that consists of focusing the mind on a given stimulus. The intervention consists of 15 lessons that cover topics such as self-regulation, perspective taking, and mental health.
MindUP 8-11 is a universal programme that is intended to be inclusive, accessible, and adaptable to a range of educational settings. This is supported by promoting a school-wide mindful culture to support wellbeing and academic outcomes. Using an educational neuroscience approach, the programme teaches children strategies to focus attention, regulate emotions, and engage in prosocial behaviours in order to foster positive academic, social, and emotional well-being. MindUP 8-11 is delivered in primary schools and aims to improve self-regulation, prosociality in the short-term, and academic achievement and positive mental health in the long-term. The version described here is for children aged 8-11. It is a universal programme and is offered in three versions pertaining to children aged 3-7 (MindUP 3-7), 8-11 (MindUP 8-11), and 11-14 (MindUP 11-14). MindUP is a schools-based social and emotional learning and mindfulness programme.
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