Promoting the practice and power of mindfulness in the classroom. In 2009, Bonnie decided to bring her 30-year relationship with yoga into the classroom.
After more than 15 years as an educator at Corlears School in New York City, Bonnie Levine packed up her lesson plans to take on the mission of sharing the power of mindfulness in the classroom. She began asking her students where in their bodies they felt their frustration, happiness and anger. These questions subsequently invited a newfound sense of reflection and interconnectedness in her class
02/27/2022
Developing compassion in uncertain times 🙏🏽
- notice any emotional distress in the moment,
- pause to avoid getting reactive,
- reflect on the experience with curiosity and draw any insights from it,
- reframe your understanding of the experience,
- integrate what is happening in the present moment to consider more helpful responses, and...
- respond consciously.
02/23/2022
In his brave new book, “The Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves,” Shawn Ginwright, PhD asks a simple but profound question, “Can we heal the world without healing ourselves?”
I’ve always believed the answer is no, but I’ve never seen anyone propose a more daring solution than what’s in this book—and in our conversation on today’s “Unlocking Us.” There is so much wisdom in these four pivots. This conversation opened my heart and my mind. And, it’s tough.
I’ll share this one piece from Shawn’s book—it moved me.
“Dancing between accountability and grace is an art form. Without grace, accountability becomes social confinement, and without accountability, grace can become sentimental surrender. We need to joyfully dance between both, and when this happens, we collectively humanize one another and create new ways of being together, and we come to realize that the wilderness is not so scary as we believed. We need to be human with each other, and I need others to see me as human. This is the only way that our movements for justice will evolve, when we collectively turn inward to heal our hearts and soothe our souls. It’s not an easy dance, but it’s a worthy one.”
Here’s to hard but worthy dances.
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01/22/2022
Building a Community of Love – Lion's Roar bell hooks meets with Thich Nhat Hanh to ask: how do we build a community of love?
01/15/2022
How Four Deep Breaths Can Help Kids Calm Down A new study shows that a one-minute breathing video helps reduce stress in kids' bodies.
01/11/2022
“To me the classroom continues to be a place where paradise can be realized, a place of passion and possibility, a place where spirit matters, where all that we learn and know leads us into greater connection, into greater understanding of life lived in community,” she wrote in her 2003 book, Teaching Community, a Pedagogy of Hope.
bell hooks
The Classroom as a Radical Space: Teacher, Author and Fierce Intellectual, bell hooks Transformed Education, Especially for Women of Color From reimagining the classroom to tearing down imposter syndrome, author, critic and fierce public intellectual bell hooks inspired women of color across generations to create a world in which all are free to reach their potential. Born Gloria Jean Watkins in rural, segregated Kentucky, hooks gradua...
01/01/2022
Mindfulness is paying attention to the here and now with kindness and curiosity, and then choosing your behavior.
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12/22/2021
10 Happiness Practices a Doctor Prescribes to His Patients In the face of COVID-19, one doctor is prescribing habits for health and happiness.
11/26/2021
How to Talk with Kids about Gratitude Parents can have conversations with kids to help them experience all four parts of gratitude.
I've been teaching this Mindfulness 101 and Education workshop at Bank Street College for more than ten years. Join me this fall for the current zoom iteration for a two-session experience! We will practice breathing and observing our minds. Learn some short sensory-based practices to share with students of all ages, 4-year-olds to college-aged folks.
Register through the Bank Street college link. Reach out with any questions.
Monday and Wednesday, 10/25 &10/27, 5:15-7:15 pm
CPS Course Details - Bank Street Graduate School of Education
07/29/2021
This Is What Fierce Self-Compassion Looks Like - Mindful Researcher and Fierce Self-Compassion author Kristin Neff offers a practice to help women find empowerment.
07/29/2021
You can't pour from an empty cup. In order to take care of others, first take care of yourself.
For mindfulness practices that can help, take a look at my Just One Minute program: https://www.rickhanson.net/online-courses/just-one-minute/