Mindful Teacher, Mindful School: Improving Wellbeing in Teaching and Learning by Kevin Hawkins is a practical, thoughtful guide aimed at helping educators cultivate mindfulness in their personal lives, their classrooms, and across the whole school environment. Hawkins draws on both theory (including scientific research) and real-life stories from his extensive experience as a teacher, principal…
Mindfulness @ Work: Reduce Stress, Live Mindfully, and Be Happier and More Productive at Work by Anna Black is a practical guide aimed at helping employees and professionals bring mindfulness into their daily work routines. The book argues that modern work life often leads to persistent mental stress—rumination over past mistakes, anxiety about future tasks, and difficulty switching off. Anna…
Everybody Present: Mindfulness in Education by Nikolaj Flor Rotne & Didde Flor Rotne is a manual-style guide offering educators and school staff concrete tools, stories, case studies, and exercises to foster mindfulness in themselves, their students, and the classroom environment. The book argues that mindfulness isn’t just an optional add-on but can reshape how education works: reducing stre…
Puzzles for Mindfulness: A Wonderful Collection to Help You Unwind by Eric Saunders offers 160 puzzles crafted to help readers slow down, reduce stress, and become more present. With diverse puzzle types — such as wordsearches, sudoku, odd-one-out, codewords, arrowords, and criss cross — the book leads you through engaging, themed challenges (e.g. spring flowers, cloud formations) intersper…
Take the Time: Mindfulness for Kids by Maud Roegiers gently invites young readers to pause in their busy lives and notice the world around them with all their senses. Through simple text paired with soothing, contemplative illustrations, the book encourages children to slow down—stop, listen, look, and experience—becoming more aware of their thoughts, feelings, and the beauty around them. O…
Mindful Games: Sharing Mindfulness and Meditation with Children, Teens, and Families by Susan Kaiser-Greenland is a practical and playful guide of about fifty simple games and meditative activities designed to help young people cultivate attention, emotional balance, compassion, and focus. The book is intended for use by parents, caregivers, and teachers, with clear instructions and context for…
A Handful of Quiet: Happiness in Four Pebbles introduces young children to a simple and playful meditation technique “pebble meditation” developed by Thích Nhất Hạnh. Using four ordinary pebbles—each representing something in nature (for example, a mountain, sky, ocean, and space)—the book guides children step by step to breathe, focus, and imagine being each one of these elements,…
I Am Peace: A Book of Mindfulness is a gentle picture book that guides young readers through calming their minds when overwhelmed by worry or rushing thoughts. Through simple, soothing language, the child narrator describes moments of feeling like a “boat with no anchor,” then shows how pausing, noticing the breath, engaging the senses (seeing clouds, touching the earth, listening, etc.), a…
Happy Teachers Change the World offers a rich and practical guide for educators that weaves together the wisdom of Thích Nhất Hạnh’s mindfulness teachings with research and classroom experience, via Katherine Weare. The book insists that for teachers—whether in preschool, primary, secondary, or higher education—the foundation of meaningful, compassionate teaching is a mindfulness pra…
Teach, Breathe, Learn shares how Meena Srinivasan, a classroom teacher, weaves mindfulness into her daily teaching practice to create more compassionate, calm, and present learning environments. The book is divided into three parts: the first focuses on personal mindfulness practices (like breathing, walking, eating mindfully) to help teachers shift from reacting to responding; the second shows…