This book was developed so you can easily and effectively integrate mindfulness and SEL into your classroom experience. We designed each lesson to be completed within about fifteen minutes with very little preparation. The intent of this book is to teach mindfulness and social-emotional awareness in a way that is accessible, practical, and realistic for you and your students. Our hope is that as you move through these lessons, your students will develop greater awareness, self-acceptance, ...

Thirty hands-on lessons provide students opportunities to learn and practice self-regulation strategies.Students today face many challenges that did not exist a generation or two ago, and rates of emotional disorders (including anxiety and depression) have increased steadily over the years. Students must also manage an overwhelming amount of information. With today’s reliance on technology and social media, they have fewer opportunities to develop effective self-re...

Breathe Like a Bear is a beautifully illustrated collection of mindfulness exercises designed to teach kids techniques for managing their bodies, breath, and emotions. Best of all, these 30 simple, short breathing practices and movements can be performed anytime, anywhere: in the car to the grocery store, during heavy homework nights at home, or even at a child’s desk at school.Based on Kira Willey’s Parents’ Choice GOLD Award-winning CD, Mindful Moments for Kids,...

From the author of How Are You Feeling Today? and Will You Be My Friend? comes a picture book all about the birds and the bees (sex education).It's natural for young children to have questions about their bodies and where they came from, but it can seem a daunting task to answer honestly so that they understand the subtleties of puberty, sex, reproduction and relationships, and are comfortable with their bodies.This book uses clear, easy t...

There are times when you have to surrender to win. There are times when you have to die to live. There are times when the truth is harder to believe than fiction. This amazing story is of that kind.

EFT, Emotional Freedom Technique, is an emotional healing technique which can relieve many physical, mental and emotional symptoms. One of the bases of EFT is the belief that ‘The cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body’s energy system’. EFT is a meridian energy therapy which works by tapping with the fingertips on various body locations. These locations correspond to acupuncture points belonging to the main energy meridian identified in Traditional Chinese medicine. In ...

Case studies of persons with developmental disabilities, autism, fetal alcohol syndrome, mental handicaps with practical approaches.

Case studies of persons with developmental disabilities, autism, fetal alcohol syndrome, mental handicaps with practical approaches.

**A USA TODAY BestsellerAn NPR "Book We Love"A finalist for the California Book Award“A poem to mortality and the beauty of how we can cope with it.” -Atul Gawande, author of Being MortalNew York Times-bestselling artist Wendy MacNaughton shares wisdom from hospice caregivers: how to be, when to help, what to say-with full-color drawings throughout.**As artist-in-residence at the Zen Hospice Project Guest House in San Francis...

Discover how you can be the awesome person you want to be with this brilliant e-guide to the life skills kids need to learn.This ebook helps kids to tackle the difficulties they face and will help to prepare them for whatever the future may hold.Life Skills includes practical advice and real-life examples that teach problem solving, how to make good decisions, and excellent communication skills. Kids will learn how to better understand themselves a...

You come to a fork in the road. On the right is the path to the world created by all minds. This is the objective world, the public world. On the left is the path to the world created by your own mind, your own unconscious. This is your dream world, your private world. Your dream world changes every time you go sleep. There is no continuity of space and time. The objective world, by contrast, stays the same every time you wake up. There is complete continuity of space and time. That’s the ...

An Enneagram introduction that invites you to enter into the experience of the 9 Enneagram types, using engaging story integrated with compelling visuals. Stimulating in presentation and accurate in content, you'll learn the core qualities of each type, how they react when in conflict situations or when stressed, their basic communication styles and more. Compelling metaphors and charming illustrations illuminate each type's transformational journey and include three deeply developmental a...