A new operating system for family life
Help your kids learn to make better decisions and build a mindful mindset.
Small mindfulness routines that make you and your kids partners in calm.
The Journey is just around the corner. Be the first to know when the doors open.
Why did we create StarKid Universe?
We want to see a world where every child learns to access their full potential.
And every parent feels like they are doing an excellent job.
What we stand against
We refuse the quiet things that are eating our families.
Stress as a normal.
We refuse the cultural shrug that tells parents and children burnout is just life.
Addictive content.
We refuse infinite scroll, low-quality dopamine loops, and apps designed to capture our children's nervous systems.
Victim-thinking.
We refuse the story that anyone is permanently broken by their circumstances. There is always a way to meet life again.
Automatic parenting.
We refuse to repeat the scripts our parents inherited and never questioned.
How to surf the wave - instead of drowning beneath it.
These waves come for every family. Mindfulness can help us navigate and stay afloat.
- presence
- grace
- learning
- growing
- Stress.
- Burnout.
- Insecurity.
- Anger.
- Guilt.
- Shame.
- Addictions.
You and your child deserve a guided path.
- A few relaxing minutes a day, not hours.
- One important theme a month.
- Twelve months to re-architect family life.
For kids and parents
A guided StarKid Journey.
Only when we learn how to relax when stressed and tune in to focus are we able to work with our biology - not against it.
More about the Journey
Get a kid's poster as a visual clue every day.
Kids do enjoy mindfulness.
You teach them once, and they use it like it is their new favourite game.
They start using it in small moments throughout the day, becoming more mindful and more in control of their emotions, their reactions and their choices in life.
What mindfulness does
Three things it helps with.
Mindfulness programmes for young people reliably lower stress and anxiety symptoms.
Neurodiverse children: For neurodiverse children, studies report less anxiety and fewer meltdowns when calming routines are practised.
Among young people
Mental Health Epidemic
Did you know what is quietly happening over the last decade?
Suicide
Among young people aged 10 to 24 in the United States, the suicide rate rose 62% between 2007 and 2021.
Antidepressants
In the United States, 66% more antidepressants were given to young people aged 12 to 25 in 2022 than in 2016.
Neurodiversity
Most children with ADHD get no help at all. In a US study, only 1 in 4 had ever received mental health care. The rest are figuring it out at home, with their parents.
Why do you think that is?
Tap one
Show them how to find strength and resilience when they meet an obstacle.
Why are we not teaching mindfulness to all kids?
We are asking the same question. So we built the Journey that makes mindfulness easy and fun for the whole family.
What the Journey is not:
The creator of StarKid Journey
Yvonne Knap.
Yvonne has spent more than ten years learning meditation from Buddhist monks and has worked with over 11,000 children, including kids on the autism spectrum in a pediatric clinic in North Carolina.
- 11,000+
- children taught
- 10+ years
- of meditation training
- TEDx
- speaker
- NC, USA
- working with kids with autism
Validation of the methods
Built on the most researched mindfulness techniques.
Rooted in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, all wrapped up in a kid friendly way.
Scientific research
Our methods
Life is full of choices. Let us help our kids make them, together.
We pair ten short breathing exercises with important values, so children experience each lesson rather than just learning about it.
Anger
Choose peace over anger.
For kids
Kids get a gamified journey, with a treat at the end. With breathing exercises that do not teach values, but help kids experience them.
A kid friendly way to use mindfulness in day to day life.
For parents
Parents get to spend some mindful minutes with their kids.
The shortest way to architect the missing pieces of your family life.
The map of the year
Twelve stations. One treasure.
Ten short exercises for kids each month. Finish them all and discover a surprise at the end of the Journey!
Choose peace over anger.
Your child
The Peaceful: "I release what I don't want"
Your family
builds a less angry family
Make something instead of reaching for the next thing.
Your child
The Content: "I already have what I need"
Your family
builds less addicted to the phone
Hear the thing under the words.
Your child
The Listener: "I listen first, then I speak"
Your family
builds better communication in the family
Make home the place where everyone can come down.
Your child
The Protector: "I am safe, and I make others safe"
Your family
builds a home where everyone can calm down
Take up space at the table, and let them do it too.
Your child
The Shining: "I am allowed to take up space"
Your family
builds room for everyone at the table
Sleep, food and movement as care, never as correction.
Your child
The Steady: "I look after the body that carries me"
Your family
builds fewer fights about sleep, food and movement
Fair to them, and fair to you.
Your child
The Fair One: "I can be close without disappearing"
Your family
builds less resentment between you
Stay with the feeling until it softens.
Your child
The Diver: "I can feel it and still be safe"
Your family
builds fears that can be said out loud
Ask what this family is for.
Your child
The Curious: "I am here for something"
Your family
builds you know what your family is for
Keep your word, mood aside.
Your child
The Promise Keeper: "I do what I said I would do"
Your family
builds promises kept, less reminding
Kindness as a habit, not a lecture.
Your child
The Helper: "I am my own person, and I am good to others"
Your family
builds kinder to each other
Speak about yourself the way you want them to speak about themselves.
Your child
The Loving: "I love myself exactly as I am today"
Your family
builds less judgement, starting with how you speak about yourself
Our promise
We design it to be kid-friendly.
We make the exercises fun and easy, and simple for you to translate into a different language when needed.
The program is just around the corner.
Time is passing
Months pass and kids grow, in the blink of an eye.
The Journey is just around the corner.
Join the waitlist and be the first to know when the doors open.
