Beyond Thinking is a beautiful, practical guide for educators who want to cultivate greater awareness, balance, and presence-both in themselves and in their students. With clarity and compassion, Diego shows us why learning to manage our inner world is just as essential as cultivating critical thinking skills, and how mindfulness can become a powerful pathway to well-being in our schools. This book is an invitation and a roadmap for anyone committed to building healthier, more human-centered learning communities.

Marc Brackett, founding director, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, and bestselling author of "Permission to Feel" and "Dealing with Feeling"

Beyond Thinking: Cultivating Awareness and Well-Being in Education is an eye-opening guide for educators, administrators, and anyone interested in the mental health of youth and young adults. Diego Estrada illuminates a key, but surmountable, gap in helping the youth in our lives understand what it means to not only use their mind, but be mindful. At an age where pressures abound and identity is often tied to academic success, seeing role models themselves value presence as much as output is so critical to equipping youth with the resources they need to thrive.

Alison Malmon, founder and Executive Director of Active Minds, the nation's leading nonprofit organization supporting youth mental health.