Flourishing Classrooms: Comprehensive Student and Staff Wellness for Grades 7-12

Like never before, our world needs prosocial, flourishing people who care for themselves and each other. Cultivating holistic well-being in schools is a powerfully upstream approach to save society and the planet. Flourishing Classrooms shows educators why and how to do just that, by putting wellness in its rightful place at the very heart of schooling. 

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Help Yourself ... Help Schools ... Help Everyone!

From the co-author of the Ben Franklin Gold Medal-Winning Best Book in Education for 2023.
“This is an incredibly valuable resource with a range of benefits. Whether students need to be calmer, build agency with their emotions, create more body awareness, or move out of trauma responses, there are practical exercises that are easy to apply. I know many adults will benefit from these practices as well. This book is chock full of activities to guide students into awareness and harmony with themselves.” ~ Gary van Warmerdam, MindWorks
"... provides a comprehensive overview of the theory and practice of implementing wellness practices in middle and secondary classrooms. This text examines all facets of wellness, from physical to mental, emotional, and spiritual. Catania begins each chapter by defining the aspect of wellness being addressed (social well-being, for instance), provides links to research and theory, and then fills the chapter with practical and pragmatic activities to generate that type of wellness in the classroom. His goal, ultimately, is to extend these wellness practices beyond the classroom and into the school as a whole and the community. Catania's writing is clear and easy to access. This text would be a great resource for beginning teachers or secondary schools just starting to implement a wellness thread into their programming or curricula. Recommended. Faculty and practitioners."
~ Choice Reviews
See Flourishing Classrooms featured on Dr. Rick Hanson's Positive Neuroplasticity website.