Mindfulness education programs have entered schools in many countries for over a decade. They are part of a more global cultural shift emphasizing "care of the self". These techniques are supposed to produce new subjects with multiple skills which enable them to learn better, adapt better and ultimately live better. One could at first glance consider these programs as potentially virtuous. However, this first impression requires one to examine what subjectivities are potentially shaped by these “dispositifs” and to examine this phenomenon within Western history. The aim of this paper is to describe how mindfulness takes shape in education and to explore the backgrounds and displacements these programs operate when they enter school settings. This exploration leads to an analysis of the subjectivities potentially fabricated by such programs and concludes with a hypothesis that contemporary “care of the self” practices are an extension of a double Western Christian secularization.