Mindful Classroom

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

bell hooks meets with Thich Nhat Hanh to ask: how do we build a community of love?

01/15/2022

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

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

In the face of COVID-19, one doctor is prescribing habits for health and happiness.

11/26/2021

Parents can have conversations with kids to help them experience all four parts of gratitude.

09/07/2021

09/07/2021

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

07/29/2021

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/