Our Mission
Our mission is to support teachers and schools to integrate social emotional learning into classrooms around the world.
Check out Mindful Meatball - an SEL book for kids ages 5 & up. This book demonstrates to kids ways in which they can navigate their emotional states. Click here for more information!
“Uncovering oneself happens through inner reflection and stillness. ”
Our Founder
Teacher, Author, Mindfulness Coach, Consultant, Parent and Global Citizen are some words to describe our Founder. Safina Hirji (B.A., B.Ed., M.Ed.) has been practising Mindfulness Meditation for over 8 years and is a published author of the Children’s Book Mindful Meatball.
She is also a seasoned veteran in the realm of adult education as demonstrated in her role as a Curriculum Consultant for the York Region District School Board where she coached, supported, mentored and trained hundreds of teachers and school administrators.
Safina has been featured as a speaker on the Dr. Will Show, Mindful Moments with Helen, Mindfulness Summits & on the Evolving Families Summit. Check out her interviews under the Featured tab.
Mindful Meatball
Help your child navigate their emotions!
Suitable for Ages 5 & Up
Educator Hub
Supporting mental and physical health, social emotional learning enhances cognition and overall success in children. Stillness Hub supports teachers and schools to develop their sense of self, balance their emotions and enhance their cognitive processes.
people hub
Emotions are difficult, especially when they cause pain in our physical and emotional bodies. Mindfulness can help us to express our feelings and heal our wounds to improve our relationships with others.
Parent Hub
The term ‘conscious parenting’ has become synonymous with self-parenting. By parenting our inner child, our ability to parent our children can improve dramatically.
Testimonials
"Safina always modelled excellent instructional leadership skills inspiring educators in both the elementary and secondary panels to develop meaningful and purposeful approaches to teaching and learning for greater student achievement and well-being....Safina has been a mentor and an extraordinary coach helping staff and students create healthy and engaging learning environments for each other.
Always demonstrating the attributes of a kind, thoughtful, caring leader with high expectations and a contagious optimism, Safina is an exemplary role-model for future leaders."
~ Sally (OCT)
"Safina is a skillful facilitator of learning. She is responsive, thoughtful, considerate and reflective. With respect to planning and facilitation of adult learning, she always hears what is being said but also, she hears what is not being said. This helps inform questioning and inquiry and allows her to drill down into the core of the professional needs in support of student learning.
Safina is clear and direct and always keeps the student at the centre of her work."
~ Jordan (Ontario Certified Teacher)
"Safina is an engaging and motivating deep thinker and lifelong learner whose leadership and mentoring helped to invigorate our department planning and instructional practices to help our students become 21st century thinkers.
Safina's coaching and mentoring helped us to identify our learning gaps, differentiate our learning to meet our individual needs and helped us to align our actions with our intentions so we could make impactful, positive changes in our school.
Through Safina's thoughtful and effective coaching practices as FSL consultant, we were able, as a regional heads group, start to ask the right questions, reflect on our practices and move forward to make positive changes that have resulted in increased student achievement and engagement across our board.
Safina guides professional learning in an encouraging, non-judgmental way; she guides, persuades and leads us through a process that promotes discovery, collaboration, innovation, risk-taking and most importantly, a growth mindset."
~ Rubina (OCT)