We provide professional development and self-care strategies via adult Brain Breaks, trainings and webinars. We also offer ongoing support for our partner districts and organizations. Continuing ed unit opportunities available.
We provide a range of free classroom resources that include learner Brain Breaks, health & wellness curricula, and Virtual PE. Our mission is to promote social, emotional, and academic development for all learners.
This special Mental Health Awareness Month self-care series for mental health providers will offer experiential sessions designed to support the well-being of school-based MHPs as they continue to provide essential services to our community each day.
This series will focus on implementation of Brain Breaks for learners grades 6-12 and their teachers. This 30-minute session focuses on Seated.
In this special session highlighting Mental Health Awareness Month, meet an incredible group of CA & NJ high school student leaders who are focused on supporting mental health through service to others. Our panelists are students from Kearny High School in San Diego, CA, & NuYu Club leaders from West Windsor-Plainsboro High School, NJ. These leaders are focusing on mindfulness & wellness strategies to promote the importance of mental health.
This series will focus on implementation of Brain Breaks for learners grades 6-12 and their teachers. This 30-minute session focuses on Breathe.
Chi Kim welcomes Alice Nathoo & Evelyn Lewis for a conversation & live meditation.
This session will illustrate how developing mindfulness can influence decision-making.
This special Mental Health Awareness Month self-care series for mental health providers will offer experiential sessions designed to support the well-being of school-based MHPs as they continue to provide essential services to our community each day.
In this series, experience Brain Breaks as a family. Thirty minutes of interactive Breathe, Move, Rest strategies will be provided for your family.
This experiential session Mindful Speech and Action will focus on the difference between mindful and non-mindful speech and action. This will be primarily for youth, grades: 6th-12th.
Panelists Dr. Victor Carrion, Teri Lawler, Kennard Branch moderated by Chi Kim
Saving Superman – The Importance of Educator Self Care, Now More Than Ever. This session was selected by SXSW EDU on the SEL Track. Since the conference was canceled, we wanted to the bring this panel to you. Join panelists: Dr. Victor Carrion, Stanford Medicine, Teri Lawler, Delaware Department of Education, and Kennard Branch Principal of Garfield Prep Academy in DC Public Schools as they discuss how developing an evidence based integrated model of educator self care is critical for the care of our nation’s 55+ million learners. Hear from state and district leaders who are making this a priority.
This session will look at how stress depletes our energy levels. Participants will experience simple strategies to re-energize.
In this 30-minute interactive session, we will share the neuroscience of stress and its impact on the body. You will learn simple strategies to alleviate stress through breath, movement & rest.
In this series, experience Brain Breaks as a family. Thirty minutes of interactive Breathe, Move, Rest strategies will be provided for your family.
This session will articulate the difference between “responding” and “reacting” to a situation through the four steps of STOP. The target audience is educators and youth grades 6-12.
Dawn began her service of teaching 25 years ago and has worked as a teacher for the NYC DOE teaching in Harlem, NYC for 16 years and has served as Principal of Thurgood Marshall Academy Lower School (TMALS) for the past 9 years. Dawn Brooks-DeCosta, EdD will share how to incorporate culturally responsive pedagogy to maintain positive school culture during remote learning with an emphasis on the well-being of her staff, scholars and families through Ruler, Brain Breaks and Self-Care programs.
Kids and adults process stress differently. This session will introduce a variety of ways to help young children stay calm and happy. Children are welcome to join!
Se hablará de neurociencia del estrés, de los problemas específicos por la situación de Covid-19 de los estudiantes universitarios y se proporcionarán estrategias de calma para afrontarlo.
In this series, experience Brain Breaks as a family. Thirty minutes of interactive Breathe, Move, Rest strategies will be provided for your family.
The current pandemic is taking a large toll in human lives. Dr. Shear will provide a model for understanding grief and adaptation to loss, discuss the unique challenges to adaption posed by a Covid-19 loss, and suggest ways to promote adaptation.
This experiential session Body, Breath and Mind, Part 2: Taking in the Good will increase understanding that, Taking in the Good, can be used to commit positive experiences to long-term memory. This will be primarily for Youth, grades: 6th-12th.
Join us for a live webinar with Goldie Hawn. She is an Academy Award winning actress, producer, director, best-selling author and true children’s advocate. She is also the Founder of The Goldie Hawn Foundation. Working with leading neuroscientists, educators, psychologists and researchers, the Foundation developed MindUP ™ an evidence-based curriculum and teaching model for grades K-12 that provide tools to help children self-regulate and understand their own emotions, moods and behaviors; reduce stress and anxiety; sharpen concentration; increase empathy; and improve academic performance.
Esta sesión, dirigida a enseñar estrategias de relajación a los niños, se presentará en Español.
This session will look at how stress depletes our energy levels. Participants will experience simple strategies to re-energize.
Esta sesión analizará cómo el estrés afecta nuestros cuerpos y le daremos estrategias para reducir sus efectos.
In this series, experience Brain Breaks as a family. Thirty minutes of interactive Breathe, Move, Rest strategies will be provided for your family.
Experimenta Descansos Cerebrales en familia. Treinta minutos de estrategias interactivas de respiración, movimiento y descanso en un entorno familiar.
This experiential session will allow participants to develop an understanding of mindfulness practice and its application to habitual thoughts. The target audience is educators and youth, grades 6-12.
Utilizando los Descansos Cerebrales para restablecer y mantener / modelar la propia autorregulación en momentos de estrés.
Join Justin Tuck, husband, father, 2x NFL Super Bowl champion, philanthropist, entrepreneur, children’s book author, VP Private Equity at Goldman Sachs & Pure Edge, Inc. board director for a live uplifting session, followed by a Q&A.
Esta sesión, dirigida a como gestionar la preocupación, estrés y ansiedad, se presentará en Español.