ABOUT INNER STRENGTH EDUCATION
In 2014, Amy Edelstein founded Inner Strength Education to bring the benefits of the Conscious Classroom to as many students and educators as possible. Since that time, this evidence-based curriculum has empowered more than 30,000 teenagers with mindful awareness and systems thinking. It has also supported 3,800 classroom teachers with practical and profound stress management programs.
Key to this program is its multi-faceted approach to self-knowledge, self-regulation, and compassion building. Combining practice and perspectives, science and inner reflection, history and a systems approach, students learn to see their experience from a variety of vantage points. They learn to see the interconnectedness between themselves, others, and the environment and how our deep evolutionary history affects how our brains work today.
Inner Strength Education has garnered Amy a Philadelphia Social Innovation Award, the designation as a CASEL-recommended program for social-emotional learning, and an IPPY Award and #1 Amazon Education bestseller for The Conscious Classroom describing the philosophy and application of the program. The program is evidence based; research results from Syracuse University are available upon request.
As the world changes, Inner Strength continues to innovate, expand, and lead in the world of Education Design Thinking. There is much to explore - please visit Inner Strength Education to learn more, connect, and get involved.
Our next generation depends on us to share the best of what we've learned!
For Educators
Students depend on their teachers to set the tone, but far too many educators work under impossible demands. Inner Strength's Reducing Secondary Stress suite of programs for educators and youth program administrators reduces the effect of stress and trauma associated with high demand school and social work environments. We must care for ourselves in order to model that kindness and ease for those we support.
“This was the best Professional Development Program I’ve ever done.”
Dave P., Mathematics Teacher, Philadelphia, PA
For Teens
Inner Strength helps students cultivate calm, curiosity, and care. Teen programs weave together mindful awareness, compassion building, and critical thinking tools that prepare the youth of today to become the great leaders of tomorrow.
“I have come out of this program much wiser and more open-minded.”
Shania, 16 year-old student
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
AMY EDELSTEIN
Amy is a powerful communicator of ideas and beliefs that can help us transform ourselves and the culture we live in. She has 40-years experience working with mindfulness and other transformational tools and philosophies, and has taught around the world. In 2019, Amy was honored with a Philadelphia Social Innovator's Award for Inner Strength’s work in violence reduction. She is a Cornell University College Scholar and author of several books including The Conscious Classroom, winner of an IPPY Award for Excellence in Educational Theory.