Mindful Music Moments

Mindful Music Moments was designed to be played every day school-wide over the morning announcements so that individual teachers are not tasked with extra work to deliver Mindful Music each day and so teachers can model calm and stillness for their students and use Mindful Music as their own oxygen mask each day. That said, we understand every school has a different culture and established rituals so we’ve made our content as simple and flexible as possible to use in whatever way works best for you:

• School-wide, implemented by individual teachers.
• In one or a few classrooms.
• After lunch, recess, or gym (high-energy periods).
• Before a testing period.
• Download content from our portal and upload it into Google Classroom, Canvas, Schoology, or other student-learning systems.
• Once or a few times throughout the week.
• Ultimately, there is no wrong way to experience a Mindful Moment during your day!

Passwords are manually created by The Well staff. If you forgot or would like to change your password, please contact Bryce Kessler, Director of Music & Arts Programming, for assistance.

We encourage you to share your school’s custom-created password with your entire school community! That includes teachers, students, staff, paraprofessionals, parents, and anyone else that could benefit from having a Mindful Moment in their day. By sharing your account, appreciating music, and taking a brief moment each day to reflect, Mindful Music Moments can become a deeply loved and embedded part of your school culture.

All of our content is available online in our web portal. You can listen to audio files and access documents and video links without having to download anything extra. For quick access to the portal, download our web app for desktop, tablet, and mobile devices. Since it is web-based, our app can not be found in the app store, but rather downloaded from our website.

For web app download, video viewing, other tech instructions + FAQ, click here.

We strongly believe that everyone who listens to Mindful Music Moments — no matter their age — finds an element that speaks to them and their personal mindfulness experience. The prompts are written to be as engaging and relevant as possible across many ages and listening abilities.

• “Mindful Music makes me feel like a sea turtle swimming in the ocean”
  - Kindergarten Student, Cincinnati
• “I love the time we get to just "be" and listen to great music!”
  -Middle School Student, North Dakota
• “Mindful Music Moments piqued my curiosity as an adult. I now listen to certain composers that I had never known about prior to MMM.”
  -3rd Grade Teacher, San Francisco

We’ve also created a separate program for our earliest PreK/TK learners with simpler prompts and shorter music at a lower cost (view preview content here). And piloted a weekly version of Mindful Music Moments for adults in the workplace. Have a new idea for Mindful Music Moments? Let us know!

Yes! We offer lower rates for Single Classrooms, Preschools, & Homeschools available on our subscription page. We also have a discounted district rate of $800 per school ($760 to renew) if you’re interested in purchasing Mindful Music Moments for a district or multiple locations. If you're interested in district pricing, please contact Bryce Kessler, Director of Music & Arts Programming, for a special subscription link.

We believe everyone needs a mindful moment. That's why we make this affordable program even more affordable thanks to the generosity of our partners & funders across the country. If your school, classroom, or organization is looking for financial assistance, please contact Bryce Kessler, Director of Music & Arts Programming, before subscribing. We have many sponsorships and grant funding available!

Our program is already available for FREE in many regions including for Preschools in Ohio, PreK-12 in Greater Cleveland, PreK-12 in Greater Pittsburgh, and PreK-12 in Nevada.

For a school-wide subscription, the first year of Mindful Music Moments is $1000 ($25 per week for 40 weeks) for a year of daily content, training, support, and additional resources. The renewal fee is $760 every following year. For our lower-rate subscriptions (Single Classroom, Preschool, and Homeschool), the renewal rate is equal to the first-year rate.

You might be surprised about your students’ responses to Mindful Music Moments, especially when teachers and adults in the room are able to model stillness. For students who may not be able to sit still at first, encourage them to journal, color or draw using our printable student worksheets (preview here), or stare off into the distance. As long as they are quiet and respectful, the brain break that Mindful Music Moments affords works over time, even if the students aren't in the standard "eyes closed, still body" posture.

For students who need something more visual rather than audio-only, we now offer daily video content (preview here) with our new mascot Mel O. Dee and colorful, audio-responsive animations.

We find that in some schools, our K-12 content works across the board for PreK-12 environments, but for a more curated experience for our youngest learners, you may want to set up a separate PreK account.

To access both the PreK and K-12 content, you will need two accounts using different emails. You’ll receive unique login passwords to access the different content.

If your school has already signed up for K-12 school-wide, you can create a free PreK account. Otherwise, we have PreK subscriptions available for $125 (annually) and have many scholarships available for schools/classrooms that need financial assistance. You can find our subscription form online here, or email bryce@thewell.world for direct assistance.

Yes. To switch your content from K-12 to PreK with no additional charge, please contact Bryce Kessler, Director of Music & Arts Programming.

To switch your content from PreK to K-12*, please contact Bryce Kessler, Director of Music & Arts Programming.

*If you are currently using a paid PreK subscription and would like to use K-12 Mindful Music beyond a single-classroom, please contact Bryce Kessler, Director of Music & Arts Programming, to discuss rates and financial assistance. Otherwise, we can switch you over from PreK to K-12 with no additional charge.

Our program began in 2016 by integrating classical music into the classroom, but has since expanded to include orchestral, jazz, world, and new music (often commissioned by The Well). The majority of selections are instrumental, but you may come across a few vocal selections as well (choirs, musicals, or soundtracks).

Our goal with music selections is to:

1. Show students all types of music–both familiar and unfamiliar–that can be well-loved and well-appreciated in a mindfulness context.

2. Reflect our students’ lived experiences in the music by selecting composers and performers that match and exceed the ratio of demographics reported by schools when they sign up.

The order of music throughout the year is often determined by recommended themes which you can find on your playlist in the portal. There are a wide range of themes, but they tend to fall into one of these categories:

• Emotions, like Calm or Celebration
• Subject Matter, like Water, Nature, or Space
• Honoring Heritage, like Black or Women’s History Month
• Instrument Features, like Piano, Cello, or Percussion

Have a music recommendation or a new idea? We would love to hear! Please contact Bryce Kessler, Director of Music & Arts Programming.

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All of our video content is hosted on YouTube. We do our best to adjust video settings on our end, but you may experience ads, thumbnails for potentially mature content, or other unwanted videos on YouTube that are out of our control. Below are a few tips to help mitigate these unwanted videos and create the best in-classroom experience using your own account settings.

• Sign into a YouTube/Google account while using YouTube. This will help to filter out videos and ads that are less related to your viewing history and will allow you to adjust your own content filter settings.
• Turn on Restricted Mode on the devices you use to show Mindful Music Moments. This feature can help screen out potentially mature content that you or others using your devices may prefer not to view. It can be found in your YouTube settings and must be turned on individually for each device you use YouTube on. Click here for more detailed steps.
• Change your player view to Theater Mode or Full Screen. This will make the player screen larger so you don't see any unwanted thumbnails on the right side or below.The buttons to do that are in the bottom right hand of the video player. If you're logged into YouTube and using the same device, it should remember your preference and keep Theater Mode turned on every time you view a video. Click here for more detailed steps.
• Embed Mindful Music Moments videos into Google Classroom, Edpuzzle, Purdue University, or Purdue Global to completely refrain from showing ads, links, and video recommendations. Since 2022, YouTube has launched their YouTube Player for Education that allows educators to add YouTube videos–including Mindful Music Moments– to their Google Classroom. Playing the video within Google Classroom should prevent ads, links, and video recommendations and will make Mindful Music Moments available for students to view later or as an assignment (if you haven't already given them access to the Mindful Music Moments portal).
• If you're concerned about video thumbnails appearing at the end of the video, we recommend pausing the video before it ends. There is always about 10-15 seconds after the outro to pause the video before video thumbnails appear. We understand that manually pausing the video may not be an ideal solution, but it will prevent any thumbnails from appearing at the end.

Lastly, you may experience ads on YouTube while viewing our videos. We label all of our Mindful Music Moments videos as "Made for kids" to help mitigate inappropriate ads or any ads at all, but it is not a guarantee. YouTube ads are a built-in feature of using YouTube. As much as we try, curating or eliminating ads is largely out of our control just by using the platform.