SUSAN KAISER GREENLAND
Susan Kaiser Greenland teaches mindful awareness to children and teens, as well as educators, parents, therapists and health care professionals around the world. She also consults with various organizations on teaching mindful awareness in an age-appropriate and secular manner. Susan developed the Innter Kids mindful awareness program for children and families and in the year 2000, she and her husband co-founded the Inner Kids Foundation to teach mindful awareness in Los Angeles schools and other community settings.
Susan is a Co-Investigator on a multi-year, multi-site research study at UCLA's Semel Institue on the impact of mindfulness in education. She is also a collaborator on an investigation of mindful eating for children and their caregivers at UCSF, serves on the Garrison Institute's Initiative on Contemplation and Education Leadership Council and as an advisor to the UCLA Family Commons. Susan's work has been covered by The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, National Public Radio, various yoga journals, and The CBS Morning News.
Susan’s upcoming book The Mindful Child will be published by Free Press in May, 2010 and with psychotherapist Trudy Goodman, she contributed a chapter on mindfulness and children to the Clinical Handbook of Mindfulness, published by Springer in 2008.
For better or worse, she has embraced new technology and not only blogs for the Huffington Post and Intent, but also tweets, is on Facebook and, together with her daughter, created an online community dedicated to the inner lives of children and those who love them. Susan lives in Los Angeles with her husband Seth Greenland and their two children.
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