Welcome to Guidance and Counseling! Wood River Middle School Social Worker and Counselors are here to help students with Academic, Career, and Personal/Social issues. 

We tell kids to pay attention but we don't tell them how - Mindfulness is a gentle way of teaching kids how to pay attention.

The practice of Mindfulness is secular.  It is not only breathing and promoting self-awareness, but it involves exercises relating to attention, emotion, caring and reflection.

Benefits include: 

Learning Readiness

• Skills to control and sustain attention 
• Increase in executive function

Emotional Regulation

• Stress reduction
• Self-regulate difficult emotions

Self-Understanding and Inner Wisdom

• Cultivate inner confidence and personal choice
• Increase resilience

Compassion and Empathy

• Toward self and others
• Anti-bullying

Mindfulness is introduced in the 6th grade Humanities classes.