This course has been canceled.
Tools for Teens: Stress Management and Emotional Resilience
Focus Area: Cultivating Mindfulness & Compassion
Drop-in Session: Giving and Receiving Compassion: Caring for Others without Losing Ourselves
How can we maintain our calm and continue to be caring during these times of worldwide turmoil and distress? Caring for others requires caring for oneself. Research demonstrates the many benefits of compassion practices in reducing depression, anxiety, and empathetic distress. This workshop will include didactic practices as well as two compassionate practices: Giving and Receiving Compassion and Compassion with Equanimity.
All The Feels: A 5-day Mindfulness Retreat for Teens
This week-long, experiential program for high school students is based on the evidenced-based curriculum of Mindful Self Compassion, the Mindful Schools curriculum, and principles of positive psychology. During this week, we will spend time practicing mindfulness through many senses and avenues; creative projects; connect with each other through discussions and age-appropriate games; spend time outdoors, and do some gentle movement. Mindfulness practices have been studied and shown to help manage stress, increase feelings of well-being, and promote emotional resilience.
Providers Working with Justice-system Involved Families
This workshop was offered to providers who work with incarcerated or formerly incarcerated parents or the alternate caregivers of children with incarcerated parents.
Drop-in Session: Cultivating Somatic Safety
Mindfulness allows us to cultivate a sense of safety within our bodies and minds. For some who have experienced bodily trauma, dissociation, dysphoria, and other experiences where our bodies have felt unsafe, mindfulness can be difficult to integrate into our lives. Join us for a discussion of barriers to mindfulness and adaptations to mindfulness practices that support those of us who have not felt safe in our bodies.
Drop-in Session: Rooted in Compassion
Compassion is a good place to develop roots to support your mindfulness practice and to support taking action in your life that is aligned with your values. We will have time to explore the many aspects of compassion, and how to develop more compassionate roots. and then have time for guided meditation practice. This drop-in session is designed to be useful for those new to mindfulness meditation, as well as those who have been meditating for a while and wish to develop a deeper grounding for your practice.