The Conscious Classroom
The Conscious Classroom with host Amy Edelstein explores the future of education and the world of mindfulness and contemplative approaches in education. Amy is the Founder and Executive Director of the award winning nonprofit Inner Strength Education, which trained more than 35,000 students and supported 5,000 teachers in its first decade with evidence based programming. In each episode, Amy, who began her own meditation practice more than 40 years ago, leans into the edge of authentic transformative practices and makes them relevant and accessible. She shares classroom tools and activities for adolescents and young adults, articulates why teaching students about perspectives, worldviews, and context develops essential skills for long term happiness and success in work and life. Incorporating trauma sensitive approaches, systems thinking, and emotional intelligence to empower teens and uplift school communities, the Conscious Classroom is rooted in real life, field-tested approaches. Honored with a Philadelphia Social Innovation Award and a Philadelphia City Council Resolution for her work, Amy is passionate about what's possible and inspired to share that with you. More at: www.InnerStrengthEducation.org
The Conscious Classroom
Latest Episodes
Pat Croce: Finding Presence, Losing Ego
The strangest trap is the one that looks like success. Pat Croce has lived a life most people only read about, from pro sports leadership to entrepreneurship to daring adventures, yet he hit a moment where the wins stopped working. When the nex...
Awe: Education's Essential Ingredient
In this episode of The Conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein reflects on the role of awe and wonder in learning and how it's incumbent on us--the educators--to teach in a way that evokes that sense of being moved with what we teach, why we want ou...
Making Room for Stillness
Meditation Practice Changes How We Teach And ListenKnowing about mindfulness is easy. Practicing it, especially when life is loud, is when everything changes. In this episode, Amy Edelstein brings an inspiring and insightful&n...
The Gift of Boredom: How Downtime Builds A Teen's Brain
What if your teen's complaint of "I'm bored" is not something to fix? It's something to encourage?In this episode of The Conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein explores the value of unstructured downtime for adolescents. Drawing ...