Choose Love Curriculum
CHOOSE LOVE ART PIECE
The Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement was founded by Scarlett Lewis. "Choosing LOVE is the core message of this program! Choosing love means having the courage to be grateful when life isn't easy, to forgive when the person who hurt you isn't sorry, and to step outside your own pain to help someone else. That's the way to Choose LOVE, and the empowering lesson is that it's a Choice."
The GOAL of the CHOOSE LOVE MOVEMENT PROGRAM is to provide children with the knowledge, attitude, and skills they need to Choose LOVE in any situation!
The CHOOSE LOVE formula is:
COURAGE + GRATITUDE +
FORGIVENESS + COMPASSION IN ACTION
= CHOOSING LOVE
LET's START OFF WITH THE WORD COURAGE
What does COURAGE mean to you?
COURAGE is the willingness and ability to work through obstacles despite feeling embarrassment, fear, reluctance, or uncertainty. When you practice courage, you make positive choices even when it may be difficult for you. It takes courage to express our feelings, make ethical choices, tell the truth, admit mistakes, ask for forgiveness, and to be kind. This is especially true when others might not be leading by example. Students practice identifying feelings in themselves and others. The “courage” exercises assist students in learning how to help their brains regulate the amygdala by activating the prefrontal cortex (Motzkin, Philippi, Wolf, Baskaya, & Koenigs, 2015).
In Mrs. Gilbride's class, COURAGE is...never giving up, encouraging others, doing your best!
Follow these steps as I show you how to do a Brave Breath
Get comfortable where you are
Place one hand on your heart
Place the other hand on your belly
Take a slow, deep breath through your nose, and count to four in your mind. (Pretend that you are smelling beautiful flowers. Feel your belly get bigger and full of air, like a balloon.)
Now count to four and slowly breathe out through your mouth. When you breathe out, pretend you are blowing on hot cocoa to cool it down.”