A calm, disembodied voice emanated from a computer in Katherine Grykien’s dimly lit fifth-grade classroom in Burlington’s Champlain Elementary School. “Breathe in and straighten your back. Breathe out ...

Diana Coholic receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. How do girls feel before and after learning mindfulness? The six girls in our program, aged 11 and 12 ...

A student named Royce closes his eyes during a mindfulness session in class at Patricia J. Sullivan Partnership School in Tampa, Fla. Students say the daily lessons help them cope with their feelings.

Undeniably, sooner or later, we all have to deal with life's realities—those hard surprises and "unknowns" that can literally change everything in less than a nanosecond. Imagine you've just been ...