The CosmiKids concept was born out of necessity.

When visiting the Chopra Center for Well Being in Carlsbad, California, parents would often bring their children and the center would provide for them while their parents attended classes. Over time, an innovative new program emerged that went far beyond mere babysitting but made it possible for children to reap the same self-improvement benefits their parents were simultaneously enjoying.

Launched in 2003, the program became formally known as CosmiKids - a colorful world in which children are free to think and dream and create and explore while gradually coming to understand the special way in which they influence - and are impacted by - the world around them.

Today, there are CosmiKids festivals throughout the country with new franchise storefront facilities already in the planning stages.

Inspired early-on by the work of Sri Aurobindo and Mirra Alfassa of the Sri Aurobindo International Centre for Education in India, CosmiKids founder Judy Julin forged an innovative curriculum path that was part old and new, incorporating self-empowerment principles from Deepak Chopra, Neale Donald Walsch, Don Beck, Barbara Marx Hubbard and her own distinctive perspective on life.

It was a match made in heaven when Judy Julin teamed up with Carolyn Kaufman to reinvent the CosmiKids curriculum and infuse Carolyn's futurist philosophies alongside other notable thinkers of today. Enlightening principles borne out of Carolyn's Free To Be Me kids camps and chapters from her Children of Today journal became guideposts for the ever-evolving Cosmikids experience.

The Stations of Discovery that now dot the CosmiKids landscape also include interactive experiences that were inspired, additionally, by the seminal work of:

• CosmiKids Roads to Riches™ - Inspired by the work of Lynne Twist, The Soul of Money.
• CosmiKids Beads of Empowerment™ - Inspired by the work of Barbara Marx Hubbard.
• CosmiKids Water Thoughts™ - Inspired by the research of Dr. Masaru Emoto.