Mindful Littles has impacted me and my community by first off teaching young kinds how to be mindful and give back to our community. In addition, this has helped my community by giving back to the less fortunate and proving them with care packages like food, hygiene, and more.

Being a part of Mindful Littles I have most enjoyed the opportunity to work with others to help out the community. I really enjoy all the activities that we do especially making care packages for the less fortunate. It is fun to work and come together with others and know that we are helping out members in our community.

"The Mindful Littles kits have been such thoughtful gifts for our schools. These free resources have provided our students with fun and meaningful ways to practice mindfulness and social-emotional learning habits with tangible tools that kids can take home! And what a special bonus that these kits are hand-assembled by caring adults who help us with the well-being of our children. Thank YOU!"

"This morning in our Mindful Littles Project, my students got the opportunity to see the hard work it takes for them to receive the goods they get from food banks and donations. Many of our students are dependent on these types of services and up until these service projects, they most likely have never seen what people are doing behind the scenes to make sure they have food on the table each night. Thank you for all the work you have done with our students and for continuing to help us provide social and emotional support to them."

“Mindful Littles donations are extremely thoughtful and intentional, which makes a major difference for the quality of our service window. It is always great to see a child receive an item donated by another child – the drawings and positive messages bring a sense of community and hope to the families we serve. We can always feel the love when working with such a beautiful organization!”

“A clinician just popped into my office and shared how one of our kids loved the positive words on the hygiene kit. The youth said it felt like Christmas – all because of a hygiene kit. Amazing.”

“Mindful Littles has been an absolute pleasure to partner with over the last half-decade. Through our collaboration, the North State Food Bank and Mindful Littles have worked closely together to provide high-impact Mindful Service Learning experiences for elementary students in Butte County. These experiences continue to provide simple but impactful ways for kids to engage in meaningful community service and build awareness of our cause. It has been great for the Food Bank's bottom dollar and for the hundreds of families that receive food packaged by local youth. We are thrilled to continue our partnership for greater collaborative impact for our community.”

"The Mindful Littles program provides individual calming approaches for the students as well as a sense of being part of the larger community."

"Mindful Littles empowers youth to discover themselves from within and to take pride in the treasured person each of us is. Learning to be self-compassionate from a young age should not be an added bonus curriculum in schools… it needs to be at the top of all of our priorities because every child deserves to discover the gift of self-worth. The consequential beneficial return into society will then be exponential — children who learn to genuinely love and respect themselves from an early age want the same for others and will spread compassion in the deepest ways."

“Although I taught many skills of emotional awareness and regulation it wasn’t until I worked with Mindful Littles that I transitioned from teaching individual lessons to starting habits. This shift has completely transformed my classroom. Many of my students have a hard time regulating themselves, which caused a lot of disruption in the classroom. I have seen a clear difference now that we have instilled this habit in their ability to focus on instruction, each other, and their work more deeply.”

“Every time I interact with Mindful Littles, I am reminded…of how easy, relaxing, and fun mindfulness and acts of service can be. These are lessons that I know will continue to impact my life for good, which I hope to continue incorporating into all aspects of my life, and helping the next generation learn.”

“Thanks so much for spending your afternoon with us yesterday! We have been looking for ways to teach our boys about gratitude and the importance of giving — this was perfect! We have been talking about what we learned and my older son has actually been examining his food much more closely."

“We enjoyed how interactive and learning-focused the event was — such a great way to raise thoughtful and mindful, giving, children!”

“We have never experienced "service" done in such a thoughtful, learning-oriented, way.”

"I was thinking back on this school year and the awesome impact Mindful Littles has had on my students and their ability to pause and breathe when they are feeling overwhelmed. Thank you for all the work you have done with our students and for continuing to help us provide social and emotional support to them."

"Thank you for helping us in our mission to break down the walls that divide and bring people together in meaningful, fun, and life-changing experiences."

"We [Penserra] picked an organization that works where we work, where we're stakeholders in the community."

"I’ve spoken to groups before, but this felt different. The younger kids were actively listening, and engaging. I saw the joy in their eyes and how they admired the kids from Pine hollow. The longer we did it the more I felt comfortable, and it progressively influenced the kids around us as well. They slowly also became confident."

"By the end of the day, students were interacting with the elementary students and running the presentation without any help from me. The transformation in their confidence level was profound. Every student, both elementary and middle school students, appeared positively impacted from this day."

"It was very special that we could connect as a family by doing something beneficial and kind for others. At the end [of the event] our kids were relaxed and happy, and as a family we felt heart-warmed and grateful. That is the power of practicing kindness for others.”

"Mindful Littles donations are extremely thoughtful and intentional, which makes a major difference for the quality of our service window. It is always great to see a child receive an item donated by another child - the drawings and positive messages bring a sense of community and hope to the families we serve. We can always feel the love when working with such a beautiful organization!"

"This organization has helped me make an impact in a really unique way while building my own mindfulness skills. Mental health is extremely important and Mindful Littles is working to remove the stigma and providing people with real, tangible support…from creating peace kits to role-modeling mindfulness practices, we felt connected more than ever!"

“Growing into a young adult and figuring out my own place and worth was a transformation full of stress, mistakes, and difficult decisions. Coming to Mindful Littles at the beginning of this process helped me develop and maintain a mental composure, kindness (to myself and others), and care that has made my transformation and journey one that I am genuinely happy with, and proud of.”

"Wow, on behalf of our Girl Scouts troop, a heart-felt Thank You for the thoughtful and enlightening workshop! We are so excited about the breathing and movement skills you shared, linking the concepts of feeling good and doing good, and reminding us these calming tools are useful everyday! This was an invaluable workshop, really well done, and we so appreciate what you all do!”

"I would 100% recommend this program to any school or district as a way to help students learn and utilize social/emotional life long skills and strategies to become more engaged and better learners."

"I learned that in life you have ups and you have downs. I learned something...that is not easy to learn. I learned how much one person can change a whole community."

"The event had quite an impact on my 7-year-old son, who, after assembling hygiene kits at your Mindful Littles event, decided to raise money for the kids in Haiti on his own. I think what you are doing through the Mindful Littles program is wonderful, and it's obviously having an impact on children near and far! I look forward to attending another one soon!"