Mindfulness workshops begin in April
by Mary Entrekin Agee, mindfulness education coordinator
Workshops with mindfulness teacher Susan Kaiser Greenland will be offered in early April, and Middle School begins its Mindful Parenting series.
Workshops with mindfulness teacher Susan Kaiser Greenland will be offered in early April, and Middle School begins its Mindful Parenting series.
Internationally-known author and mindfulness teacher Susan Kaiser Greenland is coming back to Nashville through an exciting public, private, and charter school partnership. As part of our commitment to building a more mindful community, USN is partnering with Valor Collegiate Academies, the Metro Nashville Public Schools’ Social and Emotional Learning Department, and the Center for Integrative Learning and Teaching to bring this 12-hour Professional Training and free parent talk to our community.
More people are coming to understand that supporting the health of our brains through exercise is as important as supporting and exercising the health of our bodies. And, as with physical exercise, the challenge is how to build a solid, regular habit so as to experience deep and lasting results. Here are some upcoming opportunities to ignite or rekindle your interest in mindfulness:
Parent Talk with Kaiser Greenland
7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, April 6 at Valor Collegiate Academies
"Mindful Parent, Mindful Child: A Simple Approach to Mindfulness and Meditation for a Multitasking, Hyperconnected World"
Drawing from her new book, “Mindful Games,” Kaiser Greenland will introduce her approach to helping caregivers guide the children they serve in building attention, balance, and compassion in our hyperconnected and multitasking world. This parent talk is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Each attendee must register separately. We are expecting this event to fill up and will work on an overflow plan once we reach our capacity of 200.
Drawing from her new book, “Mindful Games,” Kaiser Greenland will introduce her approach to helping caregivers guide the children they serve in building attention, balance, and compassion in our hyperconnected and multitasking world. This parent talk is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Each attendee must register separately. We are expecting this event to fill up and will work on an overflow plan once we reach our capacity of 200.
Professional Training with Kaiser Greenland
Friday, April 7 through Saturday, April 9 at USN
We are hosting the first Level One Inner Kids Professional Training with Kaiser Greenland in the southeast. We have participants coming from as far away as Texas and Michigan, and we only have a few spots left. This 12-hour training over three days is $350 and will provide an overview of the theory and practice of Inner Kid’s approach to mindfulness with youth and its specific applications in home, classrooms, and clinical therapy settings. Participants will learn how to foster six essential life skills — Quieting, Focusing, Seeing, Reframing, Caring, and Connecting — using mindful games and activities empirically tested over more than a decade with thousands of children. In addition to helping youth, mindfulness in school and clinical settings can strengthen and support how you communicate and teach with activities that develop greater mind-body awareness, compassionate life skills, and help you manage stress.
Mindful Parenting Six Week Class with Mary Agee, mindfulness education coordinator, and Helen Tarleton, Middle School counselor & resource director
8:15 to 9:45 a.m. Mondays from April 3 through May 8 at USN. The cost is $90 per person for the entire series. Click here for additional information and to register. We are excited about this public, private, and charter school partnership and would like to thank our sponsors USN, the MNPS Social and Emotional Learning Department, and Valor Collegiate Academies for their support in bringing mindfulness and social emotional learning opportunities to educators, children, and families in Nashville.
8:15 to 9:45 a.m. Mondays from April 3 through May 8 at USN. The cost is $90 per person for the entire series. Click here for additional information and to register. We are excited about this public, private, and charter school partnership and would like to thank our sponsors USN, the MNPS Social and Emotional Learning Department, and Valor Collegiate Academies for their support in bringing mindfulness and social emotional learning opportunities to educators, children, and families in Nashville.
For more than two decades at USN, there have been conversations exploring how best to meet the social and emotional needs of children in support of optimal learning and success in school. In Lower School, there is a strong emphasis placed on the social curriculum, which is guided by the Responsive Classroom philosophy.
In its sixth year, our Middle School mindfulness program emerged out of a small exploratory faculty group looking at how to build on the strength of the social curriculum from Lower School as children enter preadolescence and the turmoil that the middle school years can bring.
In addition, we are excited to be offering a lunch opportunity for High School students this spring, with a small and enthusiastic group. A wellness class offered for ninth graders through the counseling office has been well-received and includes some mindfulness.
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