Planting Seeds of Mindfulness: Transforming School Culture with Rob Owen

Welcome back to the Mindful You podcast! In today’s episode, host Alan Carroll sits down with Rob Owen, a fellow life-long educator and mindfulness practitioner, to explore how mindfulness can transform not just individual lives, but entire educational institutions. Rob shares his inspiring journey, from a life-altering car accident in his teens to his discovery of healing and rebirth through martial arts, meditation, and mindful movement. Together, Alan and Rob dive deep into how practices like Tai Chi and Qigong are being integrated in schools bringing calm and focus to students and teachers alike, especially those with neurodiverse backgrounds.

Rob offers insight into his unique approach, “Move 2 Focus,” and how teaching mindful movement is creating ripple effects in emotional regulation, self-discipline, and presence among kids and educators. Tune in for practical demonstrations, research-backed results, and heartfelt stories of how stillness and mindfulness are helping shape the next generation. If you're passionate about education, personal growth, or the quest for inner peace, you won't want to miss this episode!

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About Alan:

Alan Carroll is an Educational Psychologist who specializes in Transpersonal Psychology. He founded Alan Carroll & Associates 30 years ago and before that, he was a Senior Sales Training Consultant for 10 years at Digital Equipment Corporation. He has dedicated his life in search of mindfulness tools that can be used by everyone (young and old) to transform their ability to speak at a professional level, as well as, to reduce the psychological suffering caused by the misidentification with our ego and reconnect to the vast transcendent dimension of consciousness that lies just on the other side of the thoughts we think and in between the words we speak.

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