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Professional Learning

Staff who understand young people's digital lives can do something most can't — respond with knowledge, not just good intentions.

 

 

Mindful Media designs and delivers professional learning for educators, youth workers, child welfare professionals, and community leaders by building the digital literacy knowledge and practical skills your team needs to support young people with confidence.

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Professional learning is most effective when it connects to the realities of participants' day-to-day work. Every Mindful Media session is collaborative, discussion-based, and adapted to your organization's context, community, and the young people you serve.

Sessions Cover:

  • Media literacy and digital wellbeing

  • Youth digital culture, platforms, and online life

  • Supporting critical thinking and healthy engagement

  • Trauma-informed and developmentally grounded approaches

  • Youth voice, agency, and civic participation

  • Media, identity, and equity

Delivery Formats

  • Half-day or full-day workshops

  • Short trainings and in-service sessions

  • Multi-session learning series

  • Cohort-based and facilitated learning spaces

  • Virtual, in-person, or hybrid

  • Continuing education alignment available

Who this is for

  • K-12 schools and districts

  • Child and family services

  • Child welfare organizations

  • Youth-serving nonprofits

  • After-school programs

  • Libraries

  • Community leadership programs

  • Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts

The Approach

Mindful Media professional learning is grounded in the belief that staff already bring expertise and lived experience to this work. Sessions are designed to build on that by offering frameworks, tools, and shared language that participants can use immediately, rather than prescribing one-size-fits-all solutions.

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Learning spaces are culturally responsive and trauma-informed, prioritizing dialogue, shared problem-solving, and practical application. Content is always adapted to the audience, whether educators, nonprofit staff, child welfare professionals, or community leaders.

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Mindful Media brings particular experience working with professionals who support young people navigating complex systems, including LGBTQ+ youth, undocumented youth, youth living with mental illness, and youth experiencing homelessness or foster care.

Ready to build your team's capacity?

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Start with a free consultation to identify what your staff and organization need.

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