About the Show
Children are growing up in a highly digital age with endless opportunities to consume content. This overload of stimuli has been proven to affect everything from social and emotional health, to a child’s patterns of movement, nourishment and sleep.
Mark organized a team of experts to create and produce Hello, Humans! to teach children practical ways of incorporating mindfulness into everything that they do. Mark aims to demystify these practices and make them playful and engaging, to unlock their benefits to better position our children to thrive socially, emotionally, physically and academically.
Mindfulness Video Shorts for Kids
Enjoy these short video designed to help children explore mindfulness and their emotions.
Scared But I’m Doing it Anyway
Our friend Mark teaches us about a little bird who is learning how to fly and explains that it’s okay to feel scared and do things anyway!
We’ve put together an educator resource for this video:
Getting to Know Our Fear
Mark and his friend Heidi explore the feeling of fear and learn how to turn their fear into a sock puppet! He and his friend Sarah take a trip to a construction site to visit a crane operator who teaches them that talking about your fear with someone you trust can help you work through it.
The Mindfulness Toolbox
Mark shows us his Mindfulness Toolbox and explains how mindfulness can help us work with our big feelings.
The Bee Song
Buzz on over to our neighbor Mark and learn how to stay calm with the help of his new friend, the Bee! Mark teaches us what to do when we feel afraid.
Take a Deep Breath with Us: Breathing Strategy with Mark
Local educator, Mark Williams, leads you in a breathing exercise to calm the soul.
About the Creator
Mark Williams (he/him) is a father, an elementary educator, mindfulness student-practitioner-teacher, musician, and community gardener. He uses classroom teaching, storytelling, music making, food growing as his way to work towards his goal of being a kinder neighbor.
He has spent his career learning from and teaching children—in classrooms, on playgrounds, in afterschool programs, at summer camps, on wilderness trips, in urban gardens, in a Haitian orphanage. He finds the greatest joy in creating and protecting equitable and empathetic spaces for children to have the safety and freedom and joy to explore and learn from the world in the fullest expression of who they are. And he knows that sometimes the safest space a child needs help creating and protecting is the landscape of their mind.
He holds an M.Ed. in Mindfulness Education from Antioch University New England and a B.A. in Elementary Education from Wheaton College.
Hello, Humans! Produced by Make Roots LLC 