From My Heart to Yours

From My Heart to Yours: Activities For Families to Stay Close is a series of creative mindfulness activities for parents experiencing incarceration and their children. These activities are a resource for families to stay connected and even get to know each other better during incarceration. They can be completed separately and shared by mail or serve as conversation prompts for phone, video, or in-person visits. Each activity includes a brief mindfulness exercise, questions, and opportunities for creative reflection.

This project is a work in progress. We welcome collaboration with individuals and organizations working with justice-impacted families. If you use these activities, please let us know how you’re using them and how we could improve them. If you have any ideas for activities we could incorporate into this series, let us know!

You can scroll through all the activities below and download the activities by clicking here.