For episode 272, we’re launching a brand new collection on the Metta Hour, centered on youngsters, in honor of Sharon’s first youngsters’s ebook, Variety 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 youngsters’s adaptation of Sharon’s beloved ebook Lovingkindness. To study extra about Sharon’s forthcoming youngsters’s ebook, Variety Karl, and pre-order a duplicate with a particular pre-order present, you’ll be able to go to Sharon’s web site, proper right here.
For this podcast collection, Sharon speaks with educators, caregivers, and researchers in regards to the methods meditation, mindfulness, and lovingkindness can influence youngsters of all ages and the household programs that help them.
For the primary episode of the collection, Sharon speaks with Susan Kaiser Greenland. Susan is a mindfulness educator and bestselling creator, specializing in distilling world knowledge traditions and scientific analysis into easy on a regular basis practices. Within the early 2000s, she helped pioneer the introduction of secular mindfulness into lecture rooms by way of her Interior Youngsters mannequin. After many years of working with youngsters and adults and writing two extensively translated books, Susan’s newest ebook, Actual-World Enlightenment, was revealed in 2024 by Shambhala.
On this dialog, Susan and Sharon talk about:
- Susan’s journey with meditation
- Meditation’s impact on Susan’s son
- Inspiration for writing The Conscious Youngster
- Volunteering in colleges
- Creating the Interior Youngsters program
- The significance of storytelling
- The playful method for younger ages
- The constructive results of mindfulness in colleges
- The “Pink Bubble” compassion train
- Mindfulness for household dynamics
- Susan’s UCLA analysis findings
- Susan’s most up-to-date ebook, Actual World Enlightenment
The episode closes with Susan main guided observe. You possibly can study extra about Susan’s work on her web site, proper right here.
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