TSD#9 Mindfulness

A place to share resources and to find and place materials and resources to help and encourage living a mindful life in and away from school.

What?

  • To integrate mindfulness into the classroom
    • Define mindfulness as being here & now with kindness
  • Increase personal practice and participation in mindfulness.
    • Provide / educate different practices and styles.
  • Bring healthy habits to our community with accountability

What Are We Doing For Ourselves?


Our Process for Each Gathering

Circle up (10 minutes)

Mindfullness Practice (5-10 minutes)

Business

Circle up ( 10 minutes)

How do we bring this to staff and students?

  1. Minute of silence?
  2. gratitude moment?
  3. Provides tools to teachers such as the "Rethink" card deck
  4. Find funding for Peace in Schools

Group Norms

      • be conscientious
      • be present
      • begin and end with a circle up
      • Speak from the heart
      • listenfrom the heart
      • practice our practice each meeting
      • no friendly fire
      • allow equal voice
      • all email is to all and reply all
      • end each meeting with an actionable goal

A Short video about mindfulness from the perspective of THS Students

mindfulness.mp4