www.nationalwellness.org
Founded in 1977, the National Wellness Institute, Inc. (NWI) was formed to realize the mission of providing health promotion and wellness professionals unparalleled resources and services that fuel professional and personal growth.  This mission continues to drive the National Wellness Institute and forms the basis for the annual National Wellness Conference, the most highly acclaimed professional conference in health and wellness.

www.infed.org/thinkers/palmer.htm
Parker J. Palmer's explorations of education as a spiritual journey and of the inner lives of educators have been deeply influential.

Children Full of Life

In the award-winning documentary Children Full of Life, a fourth-grade class in a primary school in Kanazawa, northwest of Tokyo, learn lessons about compassion from their homeroom teacher, Toshiro Kanamori. He instructs each to write their true inner feelings in a letter, and read it aloud in front of the class. By sharing their lives, the children begin to realize the importance of caring for their classmates.

www.mindfulschools.org
We teach children to pay attention to their experiences. Being self-aware is the first step to self-improvement. Teachers are seeing this play out in practice. In a series of engaging mindfulness exercises, students learn to focus on listening, breathing, movement, walking, eating, seeing, test taking, developing kind and caring thoughts toward oneself and others, and more. The program is delivered in 15-minute lessons offered 3 times a week during a 5-week course. It is school-wide so that everyone benefits from the same teaching, creating a school culture of calm, focus, and connection. Additionally, teachers receive four independent training sessions and a curriculum. Our intention is that they will continue to incorporate mindfulness into their daily schedules.

The Inner Resilience Program equips school staff and parents with the tools and skills necessary to build their inner strength, and assists them to model these skills for the young people in their care. We support long-term approaches to wellness that have an explicit focus on the emotional, social, and personal dimensions of teaching and learning. These approaches include residential and day-long retreats; after-school workshops and institutes; technical assistance and training; individual stress reduction sessions; and yoga classes. Our work with young people is designed to help them increase their capacity to manage stress and explore the role they can play in their own and their peers’ growth process. We work directly with students through our k-12 curriculum Building Resiliency from the Inside Out.

The Center for Courage & Renewal (CCR) is an educational non-profit that strengthens individuals, professions, and communities through retreats and programs that help people reconnect who they are with what they do. The Center helps foster personal and professional renewal through supporting retreats that offer the time and space to slow down and reflect on life and work. These retreats – called Courage to Teach®, Courage to Lead®, or Circles of Trust® – are led by skilled facilitators and make use of poetry and stories, solitude, reflection, and deep listening.

We are an organization committed to making the world better, especially for children. We believe that enlightened leadership is the key to making that vision a reality. The Center is committed to empowering enlightened leadership through the expression of universal spiritual principles. We believe everyone has a role to play in creating a better world. We invite you to get to know us and join with us in common purpose.

The Garrison Institute explores the intersection of contemplation and engaged action in the world. Founded in 2003, our mission is to apply the transformative power of contemplation to today's pressing social and environmental concerns, helping build a more compassionate, resilient future. Our retreat programs bring inspiring teachers and teachings from diverse wisdom traditions to wide audiences, supporting individual growth and communities of practice.

Our mission is to establish social and emotional learning (SEL) as an essential part of education. We envision a world where families, schools, and communities work together to promote children's success in school and life and to support the healthy development of all children. In this vision, children and adults are engaged life-long learners who are self-aware, caring and connected to others, and responsible in their decision-making. Children and adults achieve to their fullest potential, and participate constructively in a democratic society.

www.search-institute.org
Search Institute is an independent nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide leadership, knowledge, and resources to promote healthy children, youth, and communities. Search Institute helps people understand what kids need to succeed and to take action based on that knowledge. We do this by:

1. Conducting high-quality research and evaluation that deepens knowledge of young people, what they need, and how to care for and work with them more effectively.

2. Providing tools, resources, and services to equip parents, educators, youth workers, policy makers, and other leaders to create a world where all young people are valued and thrive.

3. Collaborating with partners (foundations, corporations, schools, communities, faith-based organizations, and other systems) to broaden and deepen commitments, capacity, and effectiveness in fostering healthy development and thriving among children and adolescents.

The PassageWorks Institute, founded by Rachael Kessler, is dedicated to transforming the culture of classrooms, schools and districts so that the inner life of students and teachers is safe, nurtured and welcomed. By “inner life” we refer to that essential aspect of human nature that yearns for deep connection, grapples with difficult questions about meaning, and seeks a sense of purpose and genuine self-expression. For twenty years, our model for supporting these yearnings in young people has fostered the development of compassion and character, humility and excellence, and skills for collaboration and dialogue that are essential for a just democracy and a sustainable world.  

The American Association of School Administrators, founded in 1865, is the professional organization for more than 13,000 educational leaders across the United States. AASA members range from chief executive officers, superintendents and senior level school administrators to cabinet members, professors and aspiring school system leaders. AASA members are the chief education advocates for children. AASA members advance the goals of public education and champion children’s causes in their districts and nationwide. As school system leaders, AASA members set the pace for academic achievement. They help shape policy, oversee its implementation and represent school districts to the public at large.

www.childspirit.org
We are a non-profit organization dedicated to understanding and nurturing the spirituality of children. ChildSpirit is a network of families, researchers, teachers, health care providers, community and religious leaders, and scholars. The formal organization includes a Board of Advisors, a Board of Directors and an Executive Board. Through an array of projects involving training, research, speaking, and consulting, ChildSpirit offers expertise and initiates projects to better understanding and nurture the spiritual life of young people and adults

www.nenetwork.org
We provide customized training and consultation in key areas of program and organizational development like assessment and evaluation, youth development, group facilitation, strategic planning, transitional living, spirituality and youth, and much, much more.