3 Mindful Ways to Start a Meeting
Learn three mindful ways to start a meeting and listen to a personal story about the simple, yet powerful ways that meetings can impact both self-care and community care.
Implementation
3 Simple Ways to Refocus Attention in Your Classroom
Distractions are constant. Luckily, paying attention is a natural capacity that all of us have––we just exercise it differently. Discover three strategies to practice focusing with mindfulness anchors.
Steering the Cargo Ship: Thoughts on Schoolwide Implementation Amidst a Pandemic
This year we are seeing the education system at large openly embrace the need for educator wellbeing. How can educators build mindfulness programs amidst the monumental challenges of the pandemic and a tumultuous year?
Back-to-School Kit: Tips, Resources, and Support for Learning During the Pandemic
This fall, how will your virtual classroom *feel*? In this year's unique back-to-school kit, we bring our focus to connection and certainty –– during what may feel like a disconnected and highly uncertain time.
Negative Thinking Impacts Kids: 4 Ways You Can Help
The negativity bias is the fact that we’re all hardwired to see the negative more than the positive. There’s good news: once kids know about the negativity bias, they can do something about it. Here are some tools to help.
A Mindful Way to Reflect: Rose, Thorn, and Bud
At times of transition, we can help our children reflect back on the year, the month, and even each day. Try this reflection activity and help students think about successes, challenges, and new ideas.
Mindfulness in an Emergency
In an emergency state – when the streets are burning, pandemic is spreading, and ecology is crumbling, what do we do with our mindfulness practice? Try the Three R's of Mindfulness to rise to the moment: regulation, resilience, and realization.
Healing Our Hearts
In the wake of the killing of George Floyd and the resulting nationwide protests, many of us are challenged with making sense of our grief and loss – both for ourselves, and with the children in our lives. Mindfulness can be a tool to develop awareness and compassion so we are resourced to take action to address racism and injustice.
Screens, Schooling, Structure: Finding Family Balance During the Pandemic
There’s no perfect answer as to what our kids need in the middle of a pandemic, we’re all doing our best. Developmental pediatrician and parent, Dr. Mark Bertin, offers 4 helpful tips for consideration.
Perspective from an NYC Educator: The Merits of “Passing Time”
An NYC educator shares what he's hearing from his students in these unprecedented times and how he's bringing back virtual "passing time" or "recess" – a critical element in his students' day. Try these 4 ideas in your virtual classroom.
Resilience and Routines for Families During the Pandemic
Parents are juggling jobs, kids, school, screen time – and trying to create balanced routines for their families. Here are some simple tips for sustaining health and well being during the pandemic.
Fight, Flight, and Mindfulness in Response to Overwhelm
In times of stress and overwhelm, our brain naturally triggers physical fight-or-flight responses. Try 3 tips on how to use mindfulness practice to work with this natural response to overwhelm.
3 Mindful Ways to Start a Meeting
Learn three mindful ways to start a meeting and listen to a personal story about the simple, yet powerful ways that meetings can impact both self-care and community care.
3 Simple Ways to Refocus Attention in Your Classroom
Distractions are constant. Luckily, paying attention is a natural capacity that all of us have––we just exercise it differently. Discover three strategies to practice focusing with mindfulness anchors.
Steering the Cargo Ship: Thoughts on Schoolwide Implementation Amidst a Pandemic
This year we are seeing the education system at large openly embrace the need for educator wellbeing. How can educators build mindfulness programs amidst the monumental challenges of the pandemic and a tumultuous year?
Back-to-School Kit: Tips, Resources, and Support for Learning During the Pandemic
This fall, how will your virtual classroom *feel*? In this year's unique back-to-school kit, we bring our focus to connection and certainty –– during what may feel like a disconnected and highly uncertain time.
Negative Thinking Impacts Kids: 4 Ways You Can Help
The negativity bias is the fact that we’re all hardwired to see the negative more than the positive. There’s good news: once kids know about the negativity bias, they can do something about it. Here are some tools to help.
A Mindful Way to Reflect: Rose, Thorn, and Bud
At times of transition, we can help our children reflect back on the year, the month, and even each day. Try this reflection activity and help students think about successes, challenges, and new ideas.
Mindfulness in an Emergency
In an emergency state – when the streets are burning, pandemic is spreading, and ecology is crumbling, what do we do with our mindfulness practice? Try the Three R's of Mindfulness to rise to the moment: regulation, resilience, and realization.
Healing Our Hearts
In the wake of the killing of George Floyd and the resulting nationwide protests, many of us are challenged with making sense of our grief and loss – both for ourselves, and with the children in our lives. Mindfulness can be a tool to develop awareness and compassion so we are resourced to take action to address racism and injustice.
Screens, Schooling, Structure: Finding Family Balance During the Pandemic
There’s no perfect answer as to what our kids need in the middle of a pandemic, we’re all doing our best. Developmental pediatrician and parent, Dr. Mark Bertin, offers 4 helpful tips for consideration.
Perspective from an NYC Educator: The Merits of “Passing Time”
An NYC educator shares what he's hearing from his students in these unprecedented times and how he's bringing back virtual "passing time" or "recess" – a critical element in his students' day. Try these 4 ideas in your virtual classroom.
Resilience and Routines for Families During the Pandemic
Parents are juggling jobs, kids, school, screen time – and trying to create balanced routines for their families. Here are some simple tips for sustaining health and well being during the pandemic.
Fight, Flight, and Mindfulness in Response to Overwhelm
In times of stress and overwhelm, our brain naturally triggers physical fight-or-flight responses. Try 3 tips on how to use mindfulness practice to work with this natural response to overwhelm.
