Books ALIVE

15/02/2020

How do you share this moment with the children in your life?

Would you like to be more present with the people in your life specifically the children you share this wild and wacky journey called life with?

Join us on March 1st for the Mindful March Launch Event for Westside families at Footscray Library! It's FREE, fabulous and so much fun!

Follow this link to join us!!!https://www.facebook.com/events/1540661902752844/

How do you share this moment with the children in your life?

Would you like to be more present with the people in your life specifically the children you share this wild and wacky journey called life with?

Join us on March 1st for the Mindful March Launch Event for Westside families at Footscray Library! It's FREE, fabulous and so much fun!

Follow this link to join us!!!https://www.facebook.com/events/1540661902752844/

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16/01/2020

Gorgeous books from some fantastic serieses to inspire young and old be more mindful, kind and,compassionate. These instalments of the Big Books and the ABC books let readers know the benefits, in age appropriate fashion while also reaffirming that mindfulness takes practice. I also recommend Your thoughts are like clouds and ABC Yoga.

Interested in Mindful Storytime? Join us for Mindful March for free Mindful Storytimes and much more... https://www.facebook.com/mindfulmarch2020/

12/01/2020

Presented by Mindful Storytelling

03/01/2020

Mindful March is a month-long event which will hold free workshops and talks throughout the West. All sessions and activities will support families, students, educators and teachers to learn about mindfulness and other tools that enhance our sense of well being, connection to the people in our lives, outline how to share the journey with young people and thus celebrating the gift of being present together.

Now taking expressions of interest (until January 18th) from local business with an offering they would like include on the calendar.

Join the event page bellow: There will be more info included about how families, schools, childcares and kindergartens can join in.

https://www.facebook.com/events/506360160230967/

Mindful March is a month-long event which will hold free workshops and talks throughout the West. All sessions and activities will support families, students, educators and teachers to learn about mindfulness and other tools that enhance our sense of well being, connection to the people in our lives, outline how to share the journey with young people and thus celebrating the gift of being present together.

Now taking expressions of interest (until January 18th) from local business with an offering they would like to include on the calendar.

Join the event page below: There will be more info soon about how families, schools, child care centres and kindergartens can join in.

https://www.facebook.com/events/506360160230967/

19/12/2019

Christmas Gift Ideas for the children or kids in your life:

Anna Walker is one of my favourite local picture book illustrator authors. If you have ever been to one of PD's I always talk about Peggy, a book about a fearless adventuring hen, and Mr. Huff. Any of Anna's books deserves a spot under your Christmas tree.

http://www.annawalker.com.au/books/

01/12/2019

So many gorgeous books! From Oliver Jeffers to Phillip Pullman...My holiday reading list has begun compliments of the Gaurdian.

Imogen Russell Williams picks beautiful illustrations, fun books to read aloud and new YA from Malorie Blackman and Philip Pullman

22/11/2019

❤️Put Love and kindness into your day.❤️

This is the love and kindness metta meditation I use for myself at least a couple of times a week. I have been teaching a modified version to children for 4 years now.

Thank you for sharing Dr. David R Hamilton.

This is my wish for you today. It is the Tibetan Buddhist, ‘Loving Kindness’ meditation, or ‘metta bhavana. In the Pali language, metta means ‘love’ (in the universal, non-romantic sense).
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First, we say these words for ourselves; that is, ‘May I be filled with loving kindness, etc’. Then we say them for a loved one, then a neutral person, a difficult person, then all sentient beings, three times for each in the standard form of the meditation.
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The meditation encourages us to generate feelings of love, kindness and compassion.
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It’s a very well-studied meditation in science. It causes physical brain changes in regions associated with empathy (left side of pre-frontal cortex and the insula). It also produces an anti-inflammatory effect through improving vagal tone, which affects the inflammatory reflex (the nervous system’s powerful anti-inflammatory mechanism).
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If you want to learn more about these physiological effects, you can find them in two of my books - ‘The Little Book of Kindness’ (Gaia, 2019) and ‘The Five Side Effects of Kindness’ (Hay House, 2018).😊

20/11/2019

We have a Books ALIVE worshop this weekend on a book inspired by Koko the signing gorilla. We will be grooving and signing our story into action. I am so moved by this story I hope you and your small person or persons can join us too.
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Watch Koko the signing gorilla in this clip from a 1981 National Geographic documentary. Koko died in her sleep on Tuesday, June 19, 2018. ➡ Subscribe: http:...

13/11/2019

I just did a lesson on Social Media and Digital Citizenship yesterday I wish I took this book with me. Another pearler from Nick Blande who brought you the Very Bear series, The Wrong Books, the Aunties, to name a few.

The Fabulous Friend Machine is perfect for literacy lessons on Inference, questioning and making connection. The image of Popcorn the chicken going from the most outgoing and attentive friend to staring at a screen all day is a lesson for all of us. It has the perfect mix of farm yard cute and real world scary played out by animals.

Movement activity: Set a timer. Students hold a pretend phone in their hand and pretend they are texting or playing games. When you bump into someone you need to sit down. When almost everyone is out check the time to see how long it took.

After reading the text ask what rules or behaviors should we consider/create when it comes to digital devices and internet safety?