Do you want to learn authentic, real-life skills with your kids to enhance your family’s well-being, but are not sure where to start? Does your family rush from one thing to the next, rarely feeling connected? If so, you are not alone.
Heartfulness4Kids is a uniquely designed program that helps kids, teens and parents learn together how to become more self-aware, compassionate and understanding of each other.
Build positive mental health and resilience skills with our experiential and interactive six-week video-based program.
Heartfulness4Kids brings families together to learn in a heart-centered way that makes everyone feel connected, heard, and loved.
Bio
Karen Desmeules, M.S. Ed, BMus, created Heartfulness4Kids after hearing about the challenges parents face in wanting to build more supportive and communicative relationships with their families at home.
While in the role of Mental Health and Well-being Consultant, Karen developed a four-month social emotional learning program for children and teens. After receiving positive feedback about her program in schools, she created Heartfulness4Kids to bring families together, so they can learn and grow in an interactive manner in the comfort of their home.
Karen is a life-long educator. She is passionate about using her educational background and personal experiences to help families live more loving, heart-centered lives.
Karen Desmeules
Bio
Heartfulness4Kids is a uniquely designed program that helps families learn together how to be more aware, compassionate and understanding of each other.
Heartfulness4Kids brings families together to learn in a heart-centered way that makes everyone feel connected, heard, and loved.
Karen Desmeules
Your Program Creator and Facilitator
Testimonials from the Field
developed by Karen Desmeules
The course that has been created is structured, easy-to-follow, and breaks what may be seen as big concepts into small manageable amounts that can be learned and practiced a little bit at a time for optimal student learning.
Karen’s extensive training in Social Emotional Learning makes her uniquely skilled to offer such a rich and educational programme.
I believe the discussions, skills, practices, and framework of this program are transforming lives…my students and my own.
Our Program
Learn in the comfort and privacy of your own home. Learn alongside your child!
Press PLAY and you and your family will participate in a carefully created program, developed by a former Mental Health and Well-Being Consultant and lifelong Educator.
- Daily 5-10 minute videos lessons, 5 days a week, providing experiential skill-based activities for families to self-awareness skills.
- Two separate program tracks are included: one for teens and one for children.
- Material in this program is backed by science-based tools to develop positive mental health. Learning is sequential, purposeful and practiced.
Develop positive mental health together
Heartfulness Articles
Reflections as a Parent
Anxious. Tense. Impatient. Rewind the clock 10 years ago and the words above describe exactly how I felt as I went about many of my days, in my work and home life. At the time my boys were in elementary school – and although from the outside it appeared that we were a...
Reflections as an Educator
During my 20 years as an educator, and with this past year being a Mental Health and Well-Being Consultant, I have witnessed a profound change in the students we teach, as many children struggle to feel joy, a sense of purpose or connected to the world around them....
The Inspiration Behind the Program
Imagine… Imagine a child who is given the time and space to connect to their deepest selves on a daily basis. Imagine a child who possesses the skills they need to notice their thoughts and possible reactions. Imagine they can pause, choose and practice a well-being...