Teachers, trainers, facilitators. Heck–parents, babysitters, and camp counselors. We all know that skillful transitions can make a huge difference in the quality of the experience we’re trying to lead. If we can shift groups, find partners, change places and forge multiple connections in ways that are both playfully spacious and effectively efficient, we’re halfway home [more…]
5 Easy Ways to Introduce Mindfulness into Your Classroom
You may have heard that mindfulness practice—learning to pay curious and kind attention to the present moment—brings a wide-ranging host of benefits to the classroom or workplace setting. Greater focus, improved self-awareness and collaboration, reduced anxiety and hostility: the evidence-based, scientifically-demonstrated list goes on. Thankfully, you need not polish your pedagogy or meditate in a [more…]
