Partnering with Schools
Inner Strength partners with schools to help provide students, teachers, and administrators with tools to uplift the climate, improve relationships, augment focus, and create more supportive learning environments. Schools are populated by people. The culture of testing often obscures the humanity of teachers and students, as all rush to perform or discipline harshly when performance falls below standard. Supporting the social-emotional wellness of students and staff alleviates many disruptions and distractions. Once you lay the foundation for a reflective classroom, one that implements learning activities that cultivate calm, curiosity, and care, you’ll allow the flowering of a student’s creative potential and make schools true places of learning and discovery.
This whole school support model ensures that everyone benefits from integrating self-care and self-reflection into the fabric of the school.
Contact us to explore bringing the Inner Strength Mindfulness Teen Program to your school.
Schools are an ecosystem. The well-being of each part impacts the rest of the system. The Inner Strength approach works with the school community. A suite of programs is developed to suit an individual school’s culture. When teens, teachers, and the greater school community are all supported, everyone experiences the benefit. Each person models the positive choices and practices.
Programming can include our trademark semester-long Teen Mindfulness Program, student assemblies, Self Care and Stress Management PDs for educators, or a host of online courses and resources.
All of our programs combine the best evidence-based and trauma-sensitive mindfulness and emotional intelligence tools with systems-thinking, evolutionary brain science, context setting critical thinking strategies, and peer-to-peer compassion building.
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Results & Impact
Student participants show statistically significant improvement in long term self-regulation, self-compassion, success orientation, and a decrease in rumination.
The broad perspective and multi-faceted approach gives adolescents tools to transform the stresses that assault them from within and without. It also introduces them to a worldview that can directly help them engage productively with our rapidly changing world.
Students emerge from this inquiry and practice more deeply connected and connected to life. They regularly describe experiencing more calm, space, less stress and anxiety, greater happiness, and a sense of possibility.
External research studies show that Inner Strength student participants show statistically significant improvement in long term self-regulation, self-compassion, success orientation, and a decrease in rumination. These are all indicators of improved mental health and are correlated to improved learning outcomes.
This whole school support model ensures that everyone benefits from integrating self-care and self-reflection into the fabric of the school.
Signature Inner Strength Teen Program
Online Programs for Students
Resources for Educators
Additional Programming
- Staff Development Programs
- Parent Night Presentations
- Teen Mindfulness Retreats & Fieldtrips
- School-wide Programs
- Chill Spots - Staffed School Spaces for Students to Re-set
Click below for a PDF packet with our available programming.
Quick Facts
12 Lessons
Weekly for twelve 45-minute lessons
During School Time
In-school, as part of a regular academic class.
Greater
Philadelphia Area
Cost
We are committed to making the program affordable for under-funded, under-resourced public schools.
Host High Schools
- BARTRAM
- BODINE HS OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
- CENTRAL
- Frankford
- FURNESS
- GIRARD ACADEMIC MUSIC PROGRAM
- G.W. CARVER ENGINEERING SCIENCES
- George Washington High School
- HILL FREEDMAN PEACE & SOCIAL JUSTICE
- KENSINGTON HEALTH SCIENCES
- LANKENAU ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
- LINC
- Julia B. MASTERMAN
- MURRELL DOBBINS CAREER & TECH
- PALUMBO
- PARKWAY NORTHWEST
- PHILADELPHIA HS FOR GIRLS
- SCIENCE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
- SCHOOL OF THE FUTURE
- W.B SAUL AGRICULTURAL HIGH SCHOOL
- SOUTH PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL
- SWENSON ARTS & TECH
- YOUNG SCHOLARS ACADEMY
Special
Programs
- ARTISTYEAR, PHILADELPHIA, NYC, CO
- CB SCHOOLS, PHILADELPHIA
- CITYYEAR, PHILADELPHIA
- GILLINGHAM CHARTER SCHOOL
- GREAT VALLEY MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL FACULTY
- JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN’S SERVICES of PHILADELPHIA
- THE HAVERFORD MIDDLE SCHOOL DIVERSITY CONFERENCE
- MOORE COLLEGE OF THE ARTS
- PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION FUND |PHILADELPHIA SCHOLARS
- WORKREADY, URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION & PHILADELPHIA YOUTH NETWORK
"It taught me to be more aware of my physical mental and emotional states and to be aware of the world around me. Mindfulness helped me to harness little common factors in my everyday life, like eating and breathing and use them to calm myself down and regulate my states. I now use it during stressful times and during lacrosse games to keep myself from becoming too nervous."
–Hashim, 11th Grade
"Mindfulness is the fundamental human ability to be fully present, aware of where we are and what we’re performing, and not overly reactive or overwhelmed by what’s going on around us. While mindfulness is something we all naturally possess, it’s more readily comprehensible to us when we practice on a daily basis. Whenever you bring awareness to what you’re directly experiencing via your senses, or to your state of mind via your thoughts and emotions, you’re being mindful. And there’s growing research revealing that when you discipline your brain to be mindful, you’re actually remodeling the physical structure of your brain."
– Yize, 11th Grade
"In the classroom you always felt welcomed to answer a question and never afraid of being wrong. Having that type of environment made you want to learn because you were more at peace."
– Olivia, 10th Grade
Explore bringing the Inner Strength Teen Mindfulness Program to your school.
Email us to schedule an informational school visit or to learn more about our program.
