Teen Retreats |
Residential Retreats:
Cultivating mindfulness,
interpersonal skills, creativity
and body awareness.
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Wilderness Retreats |
Wilderness Retreats:
Combining the practice of
meditation with awareness
of the natural world.
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School Retreats |
Introduction to Mindfulness:
Developing and increasing
concentration, compassion,
and self-awareness.
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About |
Inward Bound Mindfulness Education (iBme) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of teens, parents, and professionals. Through mindfulness retreats, iBme helps participants cultivate awareness, compassion, and kindness for themselves, others, and the natural world.
We lead mindfulness retreats for teenagers across the country at retreat centers and in wilderness settings. We also provide mindfulness retreats for individual schools and in partnership with other non-profits that work with teens. Learn more about our story and what we do.
Upcoming Events |
New Mexico Wilderness Teen Retreat
June 16th – 21st, 2013
West of Taos, NM
June 30th – July 6th, 2013
Cazadero, CA
July 7th – 13th, 2013
Madison, VA
N. California Wilderness Teen Retreat
July 19th – 28th, 2013
Emigrant Wilderness, CA
August 1st – 6th, 2013
Ojai, CA
Pacific Northwest Teen Retreat
August 3rd – 8th, 2013
Castle Rock, WA
North Carolina Teen Weekend Retreat
September 27th – 29th, 2013
Marshall, North Carolina (outside of Asheville)
For a list of all upcoming Teen and Adult Retreats, please visit our retreats calendar page.
Recent News |
Check out a recent Huffington Post blog entry describing iBme’s upcoming wilderness retreats written by Patrick Cook-Deegan, iBme’s West Coast Director: “Bringing Mindfulness for Teens into the Wilderness.”
Click on the links below to read a number of great new articles from the New York Times, Forbes Magazine and Time Magazine detailing research connecting mindfulness and academic performance:
New York Times: “How Mindfulness Might Boost Your Test Scores” (April 3, 2013)
Forbes Magazine: “The ‘New’ Benefits of Mindfulness: Improved Memory, Focus and GRE Scores” (March 27,2013)
Time Magazine: “Can ‘Mindfulness” Really Help You Focus?” (March 27, 2013)
Check out this cool video clip about mindful education, awareness and life by clicking here!
Also check out the video clip below, “Mindfulness: Youth Voices.” The Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre (Vancouver, BC, Canada) recently published this three-minute short film directly geared to youth, to address questions such as, “What is mindfulness? Why would I be interested in it?” The highlight of the film is the youth sharing, in their own words, how mindfulness practice has changed their lives.
Check out this recent article from the U.K.’s Guardian about mindfulness as “the latest great thing in schools” and the .b curriculum: “Could beditation be the answer to exam nerves?”
Friend of iBme and founder of the .b curriculum and Mindfulness in Schools Project, Richard Burnett, gives a great tedex talk (posted on YouTube) on mindfulness and the .b curriculum in schools; click here to see the talk.
Look for iBme Executive Director Jessica Morey’s article in the September Shambala Sun - “Chilling Out, Naturally.”
“Teens Explore Meditation and Mindfulness At Cloud Mountain Retreat” was written by iBme and Seattle Insight Meditation Society Teacher, Keri Pederson, about her experience on our Pacific Northwest Teen Retreat–her first ever teen retreat.
West Coast Director Patrick Cook-Deegan recently had an article on Huffington Post about the benefits of Mindfulness for Teenagers and how he found iBme.
