For episode 276, we’re persevering with a brand new sequence on the Metta Hour, centered on youngsters, in honor of Sharon’s first kids’s e book, Type Karl, launched on December ninth!
Written with Jason Gruhl, this illustrated image e book is for 4-8 year-olds and is a kids’s adaptation of Sharon’s beloved e book Lovingkindness.
On this podcast sequence, 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 techniques that assist them.
For the fifth episode of the sequence, Sharon speaks with Sumi Loundon Kim. Sumi is the Buddhist chaplain at Yale College. A graduate of Harvard Divinity Faculty, she is the founding instructor of Buddhist Households of Durham (NC). She is the creator of Blue Jean Buddha; The Buddha’s Apprentices; Sitting Collectively and of the youngsters’s e book Goodnight Love: A Bedtime Meditation Story.
On this dialog, Sumi and Sharon talk about:
- Sumi’s adolescence in Zen neighborhood
- Sumi’s first go to to IMS at age 16
- The worth of non secular observe throughout adolescence
- Educating meditation to youngsters by way of tune
- Advantages of group observe for folks and children
- Working with the 5 senses
- Implicit studying, main by instance
- Nurturing kindness in self-talk
- Creating a house as a sanctuary
- Designated device-free household time
- Meditation for school college students
- Social connection selling self-regulation
- Psychological fluency
- A bedtime meditation for youths: “Goodnight Love”
