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Relaxing and Releasing Anxiety
This 5-minute relaxation exercise involves bringing attention to different parts of the body and intentionally releasing tension, ultimately promoting a sense of calm and reducing anxiety. Listen to it anytime you need to ease your mind and slow down.
Meditation: Loving & Kindness
This meditation exercise involves visualizing people in your life and sending them positive energy in the form of a pink light while repeating a mantra of well wishes to promote loving-kindness and compassion. The exercise ends with extending those same wishes to...
5-4-3-2-1 Grounding Exercise
This mindfulness exercise involves focusing on the breath and using the senses to notice five things you can see, four things you can hear, three things you can touch, two things you can smell, and one thing you can taste to increase present moment awareness and...
Aliza and the Mind Jar
This video showcases a first-grade student who experienced the benefits of the Mindful Schools program, and instructions are provided to create a "Mind Jar" using materials such as glitter glue, food color, and water to promote relaxation and mindfulness.
Choosing a Breath Anchor
A guide for participants in choosing a breathing anchor for mindful breathing, by focusing on the physical location where they feel the natural in and out of breath most easily. Check out the guide where you can explore anchoring breath with your students.
Grief and Loss Circle
Circle keepers should skillfully hold space for staff or parents to process their emotions, and facilitate a supportive community by redirecting dismissive comments, validating feelings, and summarizing at closing. Pacing and thoughtful transitions between questions...
Virtual Community Building Circles
This article explains how to facilitate a virtual Community Circle, a restorative practice that encourages participants to connect through sharing and listening, and offers suggestions for prompts and agreements/intentions. The article also emphasizes the importance...
Helping Others Activity
This activity encourages empathy by presenting scenarios where students need to infer the feelings of characters and provide an appropriate response, and includes "To the Rescue" worksheets with sentence starters to guide conversation and improve different school...