Susan Kaiser Greenland

Susan Kaiser Greenland is an internationally recognized leader in teaching mindfulness and meditation to children, teens, parents, and professionals. She played a foundational role in making mindfulness practices developmentally appropriate for young people and helped to pioneer activity-based mindfulness with her first book The Mindful Child. Her second book Mindful Games, offers simple explanations of complex concepts, methods, and themes while expanding upon her work developing activity-based mindfulness practices. In addition, Susan has recorded a series of brief guided meditations for grownups entitled Mindful Parent, Mindful Child. Susan collaborated with the creators of the award-winning App Stop, Breathe, Think to develop an App for children Stop, Breathe, Think Kids, she's a founding faculty member of UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center's facilitator trainings, and speaks widely at prestigious institutions and meditation centers in the United States and abroad. Susan worked as a corporate lawyer from 1988 to 2005 representing the ABC and later the CBS networks owned and operated television and radio stations. During that time, she developed the Inner Kids model while volunteering in public schools teaching secular mindfulness. Inner Kids is a hybrid of classical mindfulness and meditation practices that have been adapted for children, and one of the first mindfulness programs in education. Susan and her husband, the author Seth Greenland, founded The Inner Kids Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that taught secular mindfulness in schools and community-based programs in the greater Los Angeles area from 2001 through 2009. Susan was on the clinical team of the Pediatric Pain Clinic at UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital, co-investigator on several UCLA research studies on the impact of mindfulness in education, and a collaborator on an investigation of mindful eating for children and caregivers. Research on the Inner Kids elementary school program was published in the Journal of Applied School Psychology. In 2006, Susan was recognized as a "Champion for our Children" by First 5 LA, the largest and most influential children's advocacy group in Los Angeles. Her work has been featured in numerous magazines and newspapers, including The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, USA Today, and Parents. She speaks widely at prestigious institutions and meditation centers in the United States and abroad. Susan lives in Los Angeles with her husband. They have two grown children. To learn more, sign-up for her practice based newsletter at www.susankaisergreenland.com and follow her on social media.