Wellness Tidbits
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As of 2004, 84 out of 126 accredited US medical schools offered courses on spirituality in medicine. (JAMA, June 2004) |
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Raising a Spiritually Nourished Child |
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Five suggested steps from Tobin Hart
Beholding
Take the time to listen to a child without judgment, being present to their unique way of seeing, their questions, their deep feelings. This helps us really appreciate and respect this unique spiritual being and in turn helps the child see and trust his or her own inner light.
Holding
Offer appropriate limits, honest feedback and the safe space that tenderness provides. Little things, a daily bedtime story, a shared silly joke, or even a consistent reasonable limit sends a deep message of care. The little things are like glue that holds our lives together.
Images
Offer your richest images, stories, movies, heroes, ideas, and deepest questions, not as dogma, but as an alternative to the diet of the mass media. Notice which ones draw out the child’s own sense of truth, justice, goodness, and hope.
Wonder
Stay present to the spontaneous opportunities that arise for wonder. Make room daily for those things that invite wonder and wondering: play, imagination, nature, silence, touch, creative expression, questions, beauty, laughter.
Nourishing ourselves
Nourish and demonstrate your own love and wisdom each day through things like slow food, silence, service or song. Children learn through modeling. We teach mostly who we are; what does our life teach today?
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Calendar
“Teaching and Leading from the Inside Out”
An Evening Program for Educators on October 1st
And a follow-up Weekend Workshop
for Educators
October 2-3
Boulder, CO
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Wellness In Practice
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Wellness calls for balancing needs for good nutrition, exercise, caring ands success, but also for self-calming and reflection. For simple instruction in breathing exercises and mindfulness read more in these two articles: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for School-Age Children and Mindfulness in the Classroom
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Creating space for Silence; speaking and listening with more Kindness and Respect, identifying "tools" or self practices for Calming and Strengthening;
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Fewer: in-completions, school drop-outs, risky behaviors, disciplinary problems?
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For Parents
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Five suggested steps from Tobin Hart
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This piece is excerpted from Twelve Exercises
for Mindful Parenting by Jon and Myla
Kabat-Zinn, authors of Everyday
Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting.
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In recent years, rites of passage have captured the attention of educators, counselors, parents, and concerned community members who are asking the question: How can we support our friends, families, students, and community-members through life’s inevitable transitions in a healthy way?
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Spotlight: Wellness
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It is difficult to reconcile the work of leaders as strictly management when so much of it deals with the aspirations and dreams of people, when so much of it affirms or denies their very essence. When you mess with folks’ lives, you’d best be aware of the spiritual nature of what you are doing because at the core of our humanity is that golden cord of connection to the infinite. -Paul D. Houston |
Hannah Teter on Wellness
 Hannah Teter, Olympic gold medal winner, talks about the impact of wellness practices on her everyday life as well as her life as an athelete and competitor. Click here to watch the video.
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