In the spirit of keeping an open mind and a positive orientation about Mindfulness and its benefits to our students, I will say that the presenter tried to keep everyone as engaged as possible while also dealing with a crowd fresh back from Spring Break and affected by protests in the area. I think that it is common sense that encouraging our students to slow down and take deliberate moments to meditate or engage in other self-care will serve to help them now and in the future, even if some don't fully understand the importance right now.

Having said that, there are a few scientific inconsistencies that were presented in today's information, and while I might have overlooked one or a couple, there were enough here that made me question whether there isn't some sort of peer review that we should be consulting about the practice of Mindfulness. Several teachers at my group and neighboring groups were wondering about student (as well as teacher) buy-in, and with some of the inaccuracies I noted, I began to wonder if these are correlated with its overall efficacy.

For my part, I will continue to encourage and empower my students to engage in the self-care that works for them, and to try to give them more agency for selecting the style in which they will do so as groups.