For episode 274, we’re persevering with a brand new collection on the Metta Hour, centered on children, in honor of Sharon’s first kids’s ebook, Type Karl, popping out on December ninth!
Co-authored by Jason Gruhl, this illustrated image ebook is for 4-8 year-olds and is a brand new kids’s adaptation of Sharon’s beloved ebook Lovingkindness.
For this podcast collection, Sharon speaks with educators, caregivers, and researchers in regards to the methods meditation, mindfulness, and lovingkindness can impression kids of all ages and the household methods that assist them. For the third episode of the collection, Sharon speaks with Meena Srinivasan.
Meena Srinivasan is an academic chief, speaker, writer, and visionary edupreneur. With over 20 years of devoted service, she has persistently championing the fusion of Mindfulness and Social and Emotional Studying (SEL). In 2022, she was featured as one in every of Aware Journal’s “Ten Highly effective Girls of the Mindfulness Motion,” whereas additionally gaining recognition in Academic Management Journal for her insights into Aware Management and Wellbeing. Her current TEDx Discuss on Tenderness is likely one of the hottest talks of 2024 with greater than 2 million views. A devoted practitioner for greater than 25 years, Meena is a newly ordained lay Dharma instructor within the Plum Village custom, within the lineage of Zen Grasp Thich Nhat Hanh, who calls her a “treasured ambassador of mindfulness.”
On this dialog, Meena and Sharon talk about:
- Aligning interior life with outer work
- Meena’s early religious basis in Hindu tradition
- Social and Emotional Studying (SEL)
- SEL practices for various ages & environments
- Scent the Flower and Blow Out the Candle meditations
- Supporting children in disaster
- Thích Nhất Hạnh’s Faculty of Interbeing
- The significance of fogeys’’ and educators’ well-being
- Neighborhood follow as a necessity
- Transformative Academic Management
- Meena’s analysis on tenderness with Yale
- Tenderness versus compassion, vulnerability & empathy
- The Three Breath Hug Meditation
- The Non-Toothache Meditation
The episode closes with Meena main guided follow. You possibly can be taught extra about Meena’s work on her web site, proper right here.
To be taught extra about Sharon’s forthcoming kids’s ebook, Type Karl, and pre-order a replica with a particular pre-order present, you’ll be able to go to Sharon’s web site, proper right here.
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