Thrive: Journal of Mindfulness and Mindful Movement advances interdisciplinary dialogue, research, and practice that explore how mindfulness, contemplative inquiry, and embodied movement support human flourishing across educational, professional, clinical, and community contexts.

The journal serves as a global platform where scholars, educators, practitioners, and community leaders examine how mindful awareness and embodied practices shape learning, leadership, wellbeing, and social responsibility—bridging theory, lived experience, and application with particular attention to learning across the lifespan.

📢 Call for Submissions: This open-access journal publishes empirical research, program evaluations, practitioner case studies and briefs, implementation reports, policy analyses, resource reviews, and special issues.

Areas of focus include:

• Whole-school approaches to student and staff mental health

• Teacher wellbeing, burnout prevention, and resilience

• School-based mental health program implementation and evaluation

• Culturally responsive and trauma-informed practices

• Integration of mental health literacy into curriculum and pedagogy

• Equity, inclusion, and accessibility in mental health support

• Indigenous and community-led mental health frameworks

• Family and community partnerships for wellbeing

• Policy, leadership, and system-level innovations in school mental health

• Digital wellbeing and technology use in classrooms

Editorial Commitments

• Promote cross-sector collaboration among educators, mental health professionals, and researchers.

• Ensure equitable representation of diverse voices and cultural contexts in Canada.

• Provide structured abstracts and practitioner summaries for classroom and district use.

• Encourage contributions from early-career researchers and practicing educators.

Impact Goals

• Strengthen evidence-informed mental health practices in Canadian K–12 schools.

• Elevate teacher and staff wellbeing as a key component of student success.

• Support knowledge mobilization between researchers, practitioners, and policymakers.

• Establish a unified national venue for Canadian school mental health scholarship.

📬 Stay Connected: Sign up for updates, new issues, and calls for papers as we continue building a resource hub for teachers, school counsellors, administrators, psychologists, mental health professionals working in K–12 education, researchers, policymakers, and organizations supporting youth mental health in educational settings.