Coaching: Academics and Mindfulness                                                

We offer one-on-one instruction, ongoing coaching and group classes for students, educators, parents and professionals:

  • Organizational Skills and Time Management

  • Procrastination “Busting”

  • Reading, Writing and Study Skills

  • Self-Advocacy

  • In-class Attention Strategies

  • Notes, Note-taking and Annotations

  • Test and Quiz Preparation

  • “Matherapy”

  • Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction

  • Yoga and Meditation

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WHAT’S ACADEMIC COACHING?

Coaching is a partnership. Working with a student is about helping them develop their academic and life skills. It’s about helping them develop the deep confidence that comes from them finding and harnessing their skills and intelligence in ways that work for them: identifying strategies, adopting effective behaviors and routines and taking the actions they need to get the results and success they want. Although I act as a ‘tutor’ wherever necessary and appropriate, the aim is always to help the student learn how to learn, and to learn about his/her habits of mind and attention. To do this, I draw from 30 years of teaching and coaching experience, cognitive psychology and mindfulness.

WHY MINDFULNESS”?

You can observe a lot by watching. -- Yogi Berra

“Mindfulness” is a practice of observing things as they are. The more time we spend just watching and observing without judgment, the more tamed and manageable our monkey minds become. Less prone to reacting so robotically to struggles and challenges. And less prone to the same, unsatisfying results in our lives.

In one way, mindfulness is nothing more or less than learning to respond with more poise and less reaction. It’s a way to keep the stimulus of the world from determining the quality of our minds and lives. It’s about seeing and experiencing more clearly and completely. About taking just a moment to find a little bit of space before the automatic response kicks in, when we can really make a choice about things.  It’s about learning to break a bad habit of struggling through life. 

So, really, there’s no better place to put mindfulness into practice than right here, with whatever you’re engaged, and no better time than now.