Wake Up Schools

Wake Up Schools supports educators to bring the practices of mindfulness and applied ethics into their own lives so they may be happy and free, and so they may in turn share these practices with colleagues and students in their school communities. With mindfulness teachers and students can experience more peace, learn how to take care of difficult emotions and create conditions for a happy school and a happy world.

Wake Up Schools is an initiative of Thich Nhat Hanh and his Plum Village community. Since finding himself exiled in Europe after speaking out against the war in his native Vietnam, Thich Nhat Hanh has been a pioneer of adapting and teaching mindfulness to western audiences. He published the classic meditation guide The Miracle of Mindfulness in 1975 and subsequently many other books on mindfulness.

Children and families have been welcomed at the annual Summer Opening retreat at Plum Village in France and other retreats around the world meaning he and his community have a wealth of experience in developing ways to successfully share mindfulness practice with young people.

Since 2008, Thich Nhat Hanh has been emphasising the need to support educators by sharing mindfulness practice. He has held retreat for educators around the world and called for a secular movement know as ‘Applied Ethics’ which later became Wake Up Schools.

For a brochure, click here: Wake Up Schools Brochure