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06/15/2018

Free preschool kindfulness curriculum!

The University of Wisconsin–Madison Center for Healthy Minds­ is releasing its free mindfulness-based “Kindness Curriculum,” a 12-week program designed for teachers to implement with their preschoolers.

06/05/2018

Joanie is a Mindful Librarian that we connected with at UCSD Center for Mindfulness Conference in 2015. Thank you for this great resource!

Mindful Book Recommendations from Joanie Terrizzi, The Mindful Librarian. This filterable list of books includes picture books and nonfiction - sorted by category. Each book has a useful description, interest and reading levels, and a quick link to purchase it.

02/19/2018

Hi friends. It's been a rough week. Here's an article to help you talk about and digest the toughness w/ young ones in your life:

We appreciate mindfulness as a practice of waking up to really see, especially the tough stuff. It is times like these when it's helpful to pool resources and call on community for guidance.

Feel free to reach out if you have specific questions - we'd love to help any way we can.

The school shooting in Parkland, Fla., has children all over the country asking difficult questions. Here are a few tips for their parents and teachers.

02/03/2018

Erik and I had an incredible experience today leading almost 30 people through some of our mindful games. Only 12 people pre-signed up. Our PowerPoint technology failed. And yet we got to guide our Play, Presence and Pitfalls workshop to a phenomenal group who asked great questions and really showed up. So grateful to get to be doing this work! To build stronger connection and deeper awakeness with ourselves , our teams, and our world.

01/10/2018

Anyone out there attending UCSD Center for Mindfulness's Bridging the Hearts & Minds of Youth Conference? Erik and Abigail are facilitating a workshop: Play, Pitfalls, & Presence.

Even if you can't join us for the weekend, you can come to our playshop a la carte from 2-5pm on Friday, February 2nd!

01/02/2018

Wellbeing, an active, awake, vibrant state of open attention, flourishes from the inside out. We can't chase it and we can't buy it. What we can do: develop a silent stillness practice.

"If you meditate, it turns out this strengthens the circuits in your brain that help you react less, be triggered less, and recover more quickly, which is what we call resilience.

Even at the beginning people get a better sense of of what they truly want and better ability to focus. Instead of being compelled by what is maybe seductively presented to them, they have more control of their attention."

“Ultimate wellbeing has nothing to do with what's outside us,” says Daniel Goleman. What would happen if we could fully take charge of our own wellbeing... and what's the neuroscience that will help make it so?

12/28/2017

12/12/2017

Did you know that Abbey hosts a free weekly discussion group called Mindful Thinktank? We meet in Hillcrest on Tuesday evenings from 7-8:30pm to discuss podcasts and articles grounded in discovering more and sharing about our relationship to ourselves, each other, and our environment.

For this week, we are discussing this podcast:
https://overcast.fm/+Ei1BFuA1Y

We the PRISM team are interested in cultivating a community of leaders and practitioners who want to be disentangled participants, more free from cultural and historical habits.

Our next workshop, Mindful Games for Leaders Round 3, is January 20th - join us - Erik, Alexis Williams, Mimie, and I at Station Co-Lab to learn about the power of mindfulness and improvisation to build leadership skills so you can be more impactful and awake for your families, teams, & organizations.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mindful-games-for-leaders-round-3-tickets-39278603360

We are here to help you LIVE FULLY and FOCUS ON WHAT MATTERS MOST to you.

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12/01/2017

Weekend listening material: this podcast with Tim Ferriss and Sharon Salzberg, a prolific author, thought leader, and mindfulness teacher since 1974. Nugget of wisdom: You can't do meditation wrong.

If you sit down and watch your mind wander, even if it's all over the place, you're on the right track. Add self-compassion here.

We are gearing up for Mindful Games for Leaders Round 3 on January 20th to bolster our growing community of practice!

Stay tuned - lots more details to come this weekend!

“Do the good that’s in front of you, even if it feels very small.” – Sharon Salzberg Sharon Salzberg () is a central figure in the field of meditation, a worl…

11/25/2017

Stressed? Take a deep breath! Changing the way you breathe can change your brain, which may in turn allow you to help you focus and improve your emotional state.

Researchers from Northwestern and North Shore University Hospital found that controlling your air intake, and even just focusing on breathing, gives extra access to parts of your brain and even increases the interaction between different regions.

During times of stress, or when heightened concentration is needed, focusing on one’s breathing or doing breathing exercises can indeed change the brain.

11/21/2017

Mindful Leaders! I just uploaded a slideshow of photos from Round 2. Scroll to the bottom of the page linked to see - Wow am I impressed by how you people showed up, full on. Thank you for growing your leadership skills with the PRISM team!

Mark your calendars - Round 3 is coming up Saturday, 1/20/18!

Travis Stiles Corazon De Cristo Cano Claudia Lee Rachel Millstone Dorian Kersch FJ Junior Adolfo Meza

A 3-part Leadership Training Workshop Series *each workshop stands alone and builds on the previous one*

11/21/2017

Check out this article published today by me, Abbey Jones, on Coaching. Did you know that Erik, Alexis, and I all offer leadership coaching using a mindfulness framework? We do!

It is only because of mindfulness that we can first be clear about our own leadership stance so that we can serve you.

To free up our clients to take new action, we lead from beside. "A great coach isn’t solving on behalf of the coachee, but serves as a facilitator of self-reflection and creative problem-solving."

If you're looking for a coach for professional and personal development, consider us, the PRISM team, who use methods backed by evidence-based practices on neuroscience.

Abigail is the Storyteller for Ziksana, a creative consulting team that makes work more productive through the science of play. As a research and community liaison for UCSD, Abigail uses play to create safe spaces where people can share stories, reimagine boundaries, and build bridges to their healt...