Goldie Hawn’s gentle, heartfelt approach to mothering and her mission to help children develop happier, healthier lives will be both useful and inspiring for parents. In “Reflections” throughout the text, Hawn looks back on her own childhood and shares her personal experiences as a mother and grandmother. Hawn explains how to help children use mindful breathing and focused attention to become more reflective and self aware to gain greater emotional control. Hawn explains that mindfulness helps children develop social and emotional intelligence, resulting in greater self-awareness, less stress, and higher levels of happiness and empathy. In her newbook, Goldie Hawn presents elements of the MindUP program that parents can use in daily life with kids. She launched her Hawn Foundation in 2005 “to promote children’s academic success in school and in life through social and emotional learning”, and is promoting her meditation manual, 10 Mindful Minutes, which reached the New York Times bestseller list. Hawn believes “children light the path to joy” and dedicated much of her life’s work to creating innovative solutions to help children thrive.In recent years, since she semi-retired, Hollywood superstar Goldie Hawn has reinvented herself as a philanthropist and “mindfulness campaigner“. They have also been blessed with six grandchildren. Goldie has lived with her partner Kurt Russell for over 30 years and has four grown children, Oliver and Kate Hudson, Wyatt Russell and stepson Boston Russell. In 2015, Hawn released “10 Mindful Minutes: A Journal”, a practical application to her last book, offering prompts and exercises to enhance the reader’s daily life through mindfulness practice. Hawn authored two best-selling books, a memoir “A Lotus Grows in the Mud”, in 2005 and in 2011, “10 Mindful Minutes”, offering guidance on raising healthy, joyful and resilient children. The skills and mindfulness practices that are being taught have helped children improve learning and academic performance and learn valuable social and emotional skills that build personal resilience for a lifetime. MindUP ™ is the signature program of The Hawn Foundation which is serving over six million children in the US, Canada, UK, Finland, Ireland, Venezuela, Uganda, Portugal, Serbia, Jordan, Hong Kong, Australia, and New Zealand. Working with leading neuroscientists, educators, psychologists and researchers, the Foundation developed MindUP ™ an evidence-based curriculum and teaching model for grades K-12 that provide tools to help children self-regulate and understand their own emotions, moods and behaviors reduce stress and anxiety sharpen concentration increase empathy and improve academic performance. She created The Hawn Foundation, a public charity with a mission to equip children with the social and emotional skills they need to lead smarter, healthier, happier and ultimately more productive lives.Īlarmed by increases in school violence, youth depression and suicide, and the persistent failure of the education system to help children cope with increasingly stressful lives, Hawn started her Foundation in 2003, applying cutting edge scientific research to create education programs that support the social and emotional development of children. Goldie Hawn is an Academy Award winning actress, producer, director, best-selling author and true children’s advocate.
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