Vikas Srivastava on Mindfulness Programs in Public Schools

Vikas P. Srivastava holds an MA in Education from Harvard (HGSE) in Education and a BA from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in Sociology. Vikas specializes in integrating mindfulness, nonviolence, creative confidence and an entrepreneurial mindset in educational design. Vikas is currently serving as a full time Director of Mindfulness at Legacy Early College k-12 Charter School since 2018. His impact includes every grade level from kindergarten through high school, every department from teachers to counselors to HR to transportation, as well as parent workshops. Vikas has worked as a professional educator since 1997. His roles have included counselor, teacher, administrator, consultant and public speaker. He has worked with the extremes of affluent and poor communities, as well as high and low achieving students (including special education). His experience ranges from outdoor classrooms, preschool, elementary school, middle school, high school and college. School sites include district, charter and private schools. Vikas first presented Mindfulness based school design in 1999. However, it was a retreat with Thich Nhat Hanh in 2004 that served as the inspiration to commit to the practice and path of Mindfulness. As a full time classroom teacher from 2005 to 2013, he integrated Mindfulness into the culture of his classes. In 2013, he accepted a position as a school administrator and began integrating mindfulness schoolwide including administration, culture and curriculum. A breakthrough experience in 2016 at a Vippassana retreat in the spirit of S.N. Goenka significantly impacted his practice and framework in addition to the continued influence of Thich Nhat Hanh. ​ Vikas's Book Recommendations Books by Thich Nhat Hanh Books by S.N. Goenka If you are interested in a Being Mindful Workshop, hosted by Vikas, go to https://lagracecenter.com/being-mindful-workshops/. If you are interested in connecting and collaborating with Vikas, you can e-mail him at [email protected].