Susan Kaiser Greenland

Childrens Mental Health

Susan Kaiser Greenland, founder the Inner Kids mindful awareness program for children and families, which has taught mindful awareness to children in under-served Los Angeles schools and neighborhoods since 2000, comes on the show to discuss how to raise your children to be more mindful and peaceful.

Susan Kaiser Greenland and her husband co-founded the Inner Kids mindful awareness program for children and families, which has taught mindful awareness to children in under-served Los Angeles schools and neighborhoods since 2000. She teaches children, parents, and professionals around the world and consults with various organizations on teaching mindful awareness in an age-appropriate and secular manner. Susan has been on the clinical team of the Pediatric Pain Clinic at UCLA's Mattel's Children's Hospital for many years, co-investigator on a multi-year, multi-site research study at UCLA's Semel Institute on the impact of mindfulness in education, and collaborator on an investigation of mindful eating for children and their caregivers at UC-SF. She has also served on the Garrison Institute's Initiative on Contemplation and Education Leadership Council and, together with psychotherapist Trudy Goodman, contributed a chapter on mindfulness and children to the Clinical Handbook of Mindfulness (Springer 2008). She blogs of Huffington Post and has started an online community for those interested in the inner lives of children with over 1200 members. Susan lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Seth Greenland, and their two children.

Dr. Derrick DeSilva

5 / 3 / 2010