Hello, Humans! | Teaching Mindfulness to Kids and Adults
Support Materials
About
Hello, Humans! is a show our neighbor Mark Williams created to give kids and adults tools and language they can use to introduce mindfulness to their everyday lives.
00:00 Intro
03:20 Getting to Know Our Fear: Making a puppet with our friend Heidi
08:07 The Bee Song
12:44 Getting to Know Our Fear: Up in a crane with our friend Sarah
17:39 Scared But I’m Doing It Anyway!
20:22 Mindfulness Toolbox
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.
Credits: Mark Williams; Hello, Humans! Produced by Make Roots LLC
Standards
CASEL 5 Competencies for Grades K–5
1. Self‑Awareness
Understanding emotions, thoughts, and personal strengths.
- Identify and name basic emotions, including fear.
- Recognize physical and emotional cues that signal fear or worry.
- Describe situations that trigger fear and how it feels in the body.
- Develop a vocabulary for expressing emotions accurately.
2. Self‑Management
Regulating emotions, thoughts, and behaviors.
- Use strategies to manage strong emotions, including fear (breathing, grounding, positive self‑talk).
- Demonstrate calming techniques when feeling overwhelmed.
- Set personal goals for responding to fear in healthy ways.
- Practice persistence when facing challenges or worries.
3. Social Awareness
Understanding others’ perspectives and feelings.
- Recognize that everyone experiences fear, even adults.
- Show empathy toward peers who feel scared or anxious.
- Identify similarities and differences in what people fear.
- Understand that emotions are universal and part of being human.
4. Relationship Skills
Building healthy relationships and communicating effectively.
- Express feelings appropriately to peers and adults.
- Listen to others’ experiences with fear without judgment.
- Ask for help when feeling scared or unsure.
- Engage in respectful conversations about emotions.
5. Responsible Decision‑Making
Making caring, safe, and thoughtful choices.
- Identify safe ways to respond when fear arises.
- Evaluate whether a fear is helpful or unhelpful (real danger vs. imagined worry).
- Consider consequences of choices made while feeling afraid.
- Use problem‑solving steps to handle fear‑based situations.
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