Some people you come across and they just give you hope.  Hope for the future, hope for the children, and hope for the planet.  Fiona Jensen is one of those people and I feel enormously grateful that she took a little time out of her destiny, her mission, to share with us what she and her staff at Calmer Choice are doing for kids.

Fiona Jensen OTR/L, Founder and Executive Director is a graduate of Tufts University and a clinical occupational therapist, Fiona is a tireless advocate for mindfulness in education, and was featured in the April 2013 issue of Mindful magazine. She has presented the Calmer Choice program at numerous regional conferences and has been a guest lecturer at Tufts University.

Fiona started Calmer Choice in 2009, in response to the emotional devastation experienced by the community after the tragic death of several Barnstable High School students and graduates.  To date, Calmer Choice has reached over 15,000 students in 8 different school districts.  Beyond its work with children and adolescents, Calmer Choice provides programming for parents and educators, and collaborates with researchers at Tufts University and Yale University to establish precedents for the impact of mindful awareness on overall health, wellbeing, and academic performance.

Calmer Choice, a non-profit organization (donate here) that provides mindful awareness and social and emotional learning programs to students throughout Barnstable County in Massachusetts. Fiona started Calmer Choice in 2009, in response to the emotional devastation experienced by the community after the tragic death of several Barnstable High School students and graduates. To date, Calmer Choice has reached over 15,000 students in 10 different school districts across Cape Cod. Beyond its work with children and adolescents, Calmer Choice provides programming for parents and educators, and collaborates with researchers at Tufts Yale, MIT and Harvard Universities to establish precedents for the impact of mindful awareness on overall health, wellbeing, and academic performance in young people.

A graduate of Tufts University, Fiona is a tireless advocate for children, and was featured in the April 2013 issue of Mindful Magazine, Cape Cod Life and various other publications over the last 4 years. In 2014, Fiona Jensen received the Courage of Conscience award on behalf of the Peace Abbey, an international humanitarian award presented to the likes of Mother Theresa and Maya Angelou. She has been a guest lecturer at Tufts University and has been invited to present at numerous regional conferences around the country, including a Keynote speaker at the Bridging Hearts and Minds Conference in San Diego in February 2017 as a thought leader in bringing Secular Mindfulness into Education.

Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode

* Laura Bakosh show

* Tim Ryan show