We invite anyone with the resources to help fund a young leader to attend. To become a Benefactor, please pay $550 enrollment fee. Or if you are unable to attend but would like to support a youth, please make your tax-deductible gift to THE OJAI FOUNDATION with memo line : "For Mindfulness and Council Scholarships." Or donate online at www.ojaifoundation.org. Thank you.
To Register as a benefactor...
- To understand the theory and practice of council and mindful awareness.
- To experience age-appropriate, secular, mindful awareness games and activities from the perspective of a child or teenager.
- To learn practical mindful awareness tools that can be applied in the course of your work with children, teens and their families.
This course is designed for those who have an established meditation practice. If you have not yet been trained in either secular or classical mindful awareness we encourage you to enroll in an introductory course prior to attending this workshop - recommended secular courses are MBSR, CEB, and MAPs in Daily Living. In the Los Angeles area they can be found at:
- Courses taught by Allan Wallace at the Santa Barbara Institute
- Courses taught by Ken McLeod at Unfettered Mind
- Courses taught by Sprit Rock in Woodacre California
- MBSR courses taught at InsightLA
- MAPs in daily living taught at UCLA's MARC Center
- Introductory courses at Against the Stream
- Introductory courses at Manzanita Village
About the teachers:
Tom Nolan is an educator, musician, and actor. Tom has been a leader in the council movement, training, and mentoring many teachers. He has seeded council programs at several California schools. He has been doing council with children and adults for over two decades. Tom is currently the Dean of Students at Crossroads School for the Arts and Sciences, where he has taught for the past 24 years. He studied and trained at Harvard College and Cornell University. Tom has a nine-piece rhythm & blues band that plays festivals throughout California and the West. He has recorded seven CDs, and worked as an actor on twenty films, two television series, and a Broadway play. Tom is married to Peggy O'Brien, who is also a long-time council trainer; they have two post college-aged children. This weekend marks Tom's return to teaching adults at The Ojai Foundation, after several years away.
Susan Kaiser Greenland teaches mindful awareness to children and teens, as well as educators, parents, therapists and health care professionals around the world. She also consults with various organizations on teaching mindful awareness in an age-appropriate and secular manner. Susan developed the Inner Kids mindful awareness program for children and families and in the year 2000, she co-founded the Inner Kids Foundation to teach mindful awareness in Los Angeles schools and other community settings. Susan is a Co-Investigator on a multi-year, multi-site research study at UCLA's Semel Institute on the impact of mindfulness in education. She is also a collaborator on an investigation of mindful eating for children and their caregivers at UCSF, serves on the Garrison Institute's Initiative on Contemplation and Education Leadership Council and as an advisor to the UCLA Family Commons. Susan's work has been covered by The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, National Public Radio, various yoga journals, and The CBS Morning News. Her book The Mindful Child will be published by Free Press in 2010. Susan can be found online at www.mindfulnesstogether.net, and on the social network she created with her daughter for those interested in practicing mindfulness with children at www.innerkids.ning.com. Susan also blogs occasionally for the Huffington Post and Intent. Susan and her husband have two children both of whom are veterans of the council program. They live in Los Angeles.
