Here are a variety of songs, videos, and activities you can use to teach your students or clients about gratitude, without sugarcoating the serious challenges they may be facing in their lives. Finding Things to Be Grateful for 25 Reasons to Be Thankful by Kid President Cute video with a “List of Awesome Things …
Talking with teens about marijuana can be challenging. The following tips will help you communicate effectively with youth about their reasons for using cannabis and how it could be impacting them. Tip #1. Reframe the Conversation Dr. Sam Himelstein, the director of the Center for Adolescent Studies, has some advice for any adult who’s trying …
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Here are a variety of short (1-minute to 5-minute) videos that can help you teach mindfulness to adolescents. I’ve included brief descriptions to help you choose, but please preview any videos you plan to share, to make sure they’re appropriate for your context and the needs of your specific students or clients. 1-Minute Breathing Practice …
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Here are twenty-five different activities you can try with your students or clients to add some fun variety to your mindfulness lessons. Focusing on the five senses can also be a good alternative to breath-based practices for youth who suffer from anxiety or who’ve been impacted by trauma. Sense of Sight World of Color “Collect …
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Here are a variety of songs and videos that you can use to teach your students or clients about mindfulness. I’ve included brief descriptions to help you choose, but (as with any other materials you plan to share with youth) please preview them to make sure they’re appropriate for your context. All About the Breath, …
Your schedule is so packed you can’t possibly fit in any time for self-care. I get it. I really do. But I’m still going to tell you that you have to fit in some time for self-care. Here’s why: I nearly had a nervous breakdown when I was working a full-time administrative position while developing …
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They lost one of the Lost Boys on a trip to the zoo. The ‘Lost Boys’ were kids who fled southern Sudan, starting in 1987 with an original group of around 20,000 children (many as young as six years old) who “walked more than a thousand miles, half of them dying before reaching Kakuma refugee …
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“Wisdom is knowing when to employ the gentle compassion of understanding and when to employ the fierce compassion of good boundaries.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet If you work with youth in any capacity, there will inevitably be times when you’ll need to draw a line. This could be …
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Marshall Rosenberg encountered an unexpected reaction when he led a class on nonviolent communication at an inner city high school. The students had been having an animated conversation, but they stopped as soon as he entered the room, and the more he talked, the less interested they seemed to be in what he had to …
The narrator of the story “Standard Loneliness Package” works at a call center in Bangalore, experiencing other people’s pain for twelve dollars an hour. (Official company motto: “Don’t feel like having a bad day? Let us have it for you.”) “Pain is an illusion, I know, and so is time, I know, I know, I …
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