This keynote will be experiential and practical. We will rest in stillness and quietness, and explore how to offer mindfulness to students, teachers, and parents in all types of school settings—kindergarten through postgraduate, woefully underserved to extremely affluent. We will briefly review the history of mindfulness, and mindfulness in education, and the growing body of research on the benefits for students, teachers, and parents. And most importantly we will discuss what is required to offer mindfulness with integrity and ensure that individuals in your community, and your community as a whole, receives the proven benefits of practicing mindfulness.

This lecture is one of two sessions offered by Amy Saltzman in the Contemplation By Design Summit. You are welcome to join one or both sessions. The other session is an interactive workshop titled Athletes, Students, Performing Artists, Future Leaders: FIND FLOW in the classroom, on the field or the stage, and in life on October 26th. 

Amy Saltzman, MD is a holistic physician, mindfulness coach, scientist, devoted student of transformation, long-time athlete, and occasional poet. Her passion is supporting people of all ages in enhancing their well-being and discovering the Still Quiet Place within. She is a pioneer in the fields of mindfulness for youth and began offering mindfulness to youth over 25 years ago.   

Dr. Saltzman co-founded and directs the Association for Mindfulness in Education, served on the steering committee for the Mindfulness in Education Network, and chaired the UC San Diego Bridging Hearts and Minds of Youth conference for many years. 

She offers mindfulness to students, teachers, and parents in pre-K to college, in socioeconomically diverse school and community settings. In collaboration with the Department of Psychology at Stanford University, she conducted two research studies evaluating the benefits of teaching mindfulness to child-parent pairs and to children in low-income elementary schools.

She also offers presentations and courses for athletes and teams (including those at Stanford) and business leaders and companies (including Apple, Google, Square, Genetech, and US Capital Advisors).

To support others in discovering the joy and peace of applying mindfulness in daily life, Dr. Saltzman has written three books:

·      A Still Quiet Place: A Mindfulness Program for Teaching Children and Adolescents to Ease Stress and Difficult Emotions

·       A Still Quiet Place for Teens: A Mindfulness Workbook to Ease Stress and Difficult Emotions

·      A Still Quiet Place for Athletes: Mindfulness Skills for Achieving Peak Performance and Finding Flow in Sport and in Life

This session is part of the FREE Contemplation by Design Summit, Oct. 15-27, 2025.

The full summit schedule is posted at: https://med.stanford.edu/contemplation/summit.html.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stanford-contemplation-by-design-summit-2025-online-oct-15-27-registration-1520413249959