This session provides an opportunity for early childhood educators to practice mindfulness, build self-awareness, and create calm. An understanding of mindfulness relies on felt experience. Explore the possibilities for bringing mindfulness into the classroom through practice. Learn how mindfulness can improve educators' well-being at work. Discover how mindfulness can change your interactions with your workload, your relationships with other staff, the children, and the classroom's learning environment. The practice of mindfulness and self-compassion can be the foundation of developing a thoughtful learning environment for children to work and play in. Through mindfulness, we can explore the wealth of human experience with active engagement in how we make sense of our world and act upon it: intellectually, ethically, spiritually, creatively, socially, emotionally, physically, and linguistically. “Real education can only begin out of a foundation of self-awareness. Know the truth of yourself.” John Gatto