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For the Community...
Mindful in May
The May Edition of the D67 E-Pulse is being dedicated to Mindfulness. What is Mindfulness Anyway?
Mindfulness is the basic human ability to be fully present, aware of where we are and what we're doing, and not overly reactive or overwhelmed by what's going on around us. When we're mindful, we reduce stress, enhance performance, gain insight and awareness through observing our own mind, and increase our attention to our own and others' well-being.
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For Parents...
5 Mindful Tips for Parenting Conundrums
- Explore how mindfulness can help you enjoy your family time instead of being anxious or easily provoked by your children into unhelpful reactions.
Meditators Have Younger Brains
- When researchers at UCLA compared the brains of meditators to non-meditators they found that meditator's brains were almost a decade younger by the time people reach their mid 50s.
Free Mindfulness Apps Worthy of Your Attention
- Mindfulness apps are trending in a big way. Here are five apps that will help to kick start your mindful journey.
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For Teachers...
Seven Ways Mindfulness Can Help Teachers
- Most teacher training focuses primarily on content and pedagogy, overlooking the very real social, emotional, and cognitive demands of teaching itself. Luckily, learning and cultivating skills of mindfulness - the ability to stay focused on one's present experience with nonjudgmental awareness-can help us to promote the calm, relaxed, but enlivened classroom environment that children need to learn. Mindfulness can also help us to be more effective at reducing conflict and developing more positive ways of relating in the classroom, which can help us feel more job satisfaction.
Mindfulteachers.org
- A whole website dedicated to mindful teaching! This website includes:
- Mindfulness teaching activities & resources
- Recommended Mindfulness reads
- Mindfulness Training Links
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For Students...
For children specifically, mindfulness has been found to:
- Mitigate the effects of bullying (Zhou, Liu, Niu, Sun, & Fan, 2016)
- Enhance focus in children with ADHD (Zhang et al., 2016)
- Reduce attention problems (Crescentini, Capurso, Furlan, & Fabbro, 2016)
- Improving mental health and wellbeing
- Improve social skills when well taught and practiced in children and adolescents
- Find out more at: Mindfulness Activities for Children And Teens: 25 Fun Exercises For Kids
10 Ways to Teach Mindfulness to Kids
- We all know that Mindfulness is good for us. Mindfulness is also good for our kids. There is an emerging body of research that indicates that mindfulness can help our children improve their abilities to pay attention, to calm down when they are upset, and to make better decisions. In short, it helps with emotional regulation and cognitive focus.
7 Fun Ways to Teach Kids Mindfulness
- Researchers claim that Mindfulness education in schools has proven benefits: it increases optimism and happiness in classrooms, decreases bullying and aggression, increases compassion and empathy for others and helps students resolve conflicts. Here are 7 ways to kick start your child's Mindful journey.
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016-2017 School Year
EWC Parent Speaker Series
Kick Off Event
Dr. Kim Fletcher presents "Un-Stressed Out: Understanding and Managing Modern-Day Stress,"
Wednesday, October 4, 2017, 9-11 am at DPM
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