Tagged With "Emotional Intelligence"

At the November 2019 Northern California Safe and Healthy Schools Conference at UC Berkeley, Niroga Program Managers Sam Weiss and Fatima Ahmed facilitated a session incorporating the theory and practice of Dynamic Mindfulness (DMind) to a standing room only crowd.

  I did a successful pilot program with five 2nd grade classrooms in Hemet, Ca last year. If you are interested in information on the program and workbook please contact me at: djlancastersr@juno.com

Join us! Offered April 9th or May 7th in Sacramento California! Addressing Social and Emotional Learning by using research-based, behavior-focused strategies for staff, students & families, building resilience in our schools and communities. Anxiety and depression in students is running rampant. Workplace stress for educators and staff as well as rising litigation costs for schools are also top concerns for communities across the country. How can we reduce tension and improve how staff,...

From Weill Institute for Neurosciences, UCSF, May 2020 These are unprecedented times. We need to work extra hard to manage our emotions well. Expect to have a lot of mixed feelings. Naturally we feel anxiety, and maybe waves of panic, particularly when seeing new headlines. A recent article by stress scientist and Vice Chair of Adult Psychology Elissa Epel, PhD, outlines the psychology behind the COVID-19 panic response and how we can try to make the best of this situation. Our anxiety is...

By Julie Zeeb, Red Bluff Daily News, November 20, 2019 Educators and community members converged Wednesday at Red Bluff’s State Theatre for the 11th annual Expect More Tehama education summit. “This year the focus was on social-emotional learning and how we can support it and become a social-emotional community through science, education and self-awareness in the community in both the private and public sector,” said Steering Committee member Kathy Garcia. “We are super excited to have Kyla...

If we look for how we're alike, not different, we can all heal, together.

This video is so good! I was going to post it last week and Jane Stevens posted it. Was so glad. It was brought to my attention by a friend. I want to know more about this program and this amazing woman! Glad you posted it. It is by the compassionprisonproject.org

This video gives me hope for a better future. Also see this amazing video that Samual Brown posted from the same video series. https://www.pacesconnection.com...-ace-and-criminology

By Dana Lambert, EdSource, June 1, 2020 California Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond’s voice broke as he recounted the last moments of George Floyd’s life as he lay dying on a Minneapolis street. “I am haunted by the sound of his voice, begging to breathe, begging for life and we must address that trauma head on,” Thurmond said during an address on Facebook Monday. “We must have hard conversations.” Floyd, an African American man, was asphyxiated by a white police officer...

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This International Webinar is being organized by the Professional Institute of Business, Bangladesh on September 13, 2020 at 6:30-8:30am PST / 7:00-9:00pm IST. Join these experts on suicide. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScqNQ0RV7NuYPO6DAnUAMxNYaQTDTcWogV7Apf3jguGyJs_nQ/viewform

Whoops. Thank you @Daun Kauffman . The registration link is now included. Hope to see you in a few hours.

After the U.S. education system fractured into Zoom screens last spring, experts feared millions of children would fall behind. Hard evidence now shows they were right. A flood of new data — on the national, state and district levels — finds students began this academic year behind. Most of the research concludes students of color and those in high-poverty communities fell further behind their peers, exacerbating long-standing gaps in American education. A study being released this week by...

Toxic stress can have lifelong impacts. Here’s what you need to know about adverse childhood experiences and how you can help to mitigate the effects.

Have you ever wondered why some people seem to be really good at dealing with challenges and then others will struggle and shut down with the same challenge? What is the difference between them? It's RESILIENCE ! So is that something that you are just born with or do you think we can learn to be resilient? Come listen to Christian Moore, best selling author of The Resilience Breakthrough, a world famous expert on FEAR and FAILURE, as he answers this question and shares his secret to how you...

Thanks for sharing this. It is helpful for those who are suffering from mental health issues in the pandemic (COVID-19). For those people, mental health therapist can help them and the therapist try their best to overcome their client's issues so that they can get rid of their issues and again their life happily.

For moving past hidden wounds from childhood, mindset matters. These important attitudes undergird the process of healing from adverse childhood experiences.

Anxiety rooted in the hidden wounds from childhood need not be a lifelong sentence. A combination of effective strategies offer hope and help to alleviate anxious conditions, including excessive worry and panic attacks, that originate in childhood.

Three burdensome happens learned in trying to cope with adverse childhood experiences can be changed. Efforts to drop and replace these troubling habits can be extremely liberating.

Worry rooted in adverse childhood experiences can rob you of energy and joy, and cause a variety of anxiety symptoms. This post explains the ACEs/worry connection and the principles for managing worry.

A difficult past need not define you, nor determine your future. We explore three paths to building a satisfying life after hardship in childhood.