Mindfulness in Education
Channel: PechaKucha 20x20
Date: 2014-07-18

Mindfulness in Education
By Carolyn Chandler

Watch on PechaKucha.org: 
http://www.pechakucha.org/presentations/mindfulness-in-education

User experience designer Carolyn Chandler discusses the importance of not only educating the minds of young people, but their hearts as well. She discusses the benefits of mindfulness exercises, and goes into depth on her work with UX for Good, an organization that partnered with the Dalai Lama Center for Peace in an effort to develop social and emotional skills for children as well as adults.

"Presentation of the Day" on May 27, 2014.

Recorded at PechaKucha Night Chicago Table Talks: Technology for Social Good:
http://www.pechakucha.org/events/535ff15fdbdd203def000001

For more presentations from Chicago or info on upcoming events:
http://www.pechakucha.org/cities/chicago

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PechaKucha Night, now in over 760 cities, was devised in Tokyo in February 2003 Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham (Klein Dytham architecture) as an event for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. 

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