Things We Think You'd Like to Know / March
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Here are the things we think you’d like to know that were included in our March newsletter.
Write us if you're in LA this summer and would like to join a six-week meditation program for parents, teachers, and other caregivers. It's a pilot program featuring new videos from Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche designed to increase joy and harmony in families, schools, and communities.
Susan is delighted to be a founding faculty member of the flagship certificate program from The Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy. This unique, intimate, deep dive into personal mindfulness practice and its many clinical applications provides an unparalleled learning environment that cultivates a close-knit community of therapists. She recommends it highly. Applications are now open for the 2020-21 cohort.
Kerry Madden Lunsford's delightful Ernestine is one year old! If you haven't yet read this terrific children's book, you can check out an excerpt and read a Q & A with Kerry (the author) here.
Greater Good in Education launched this week! Find free, research-based practices for cultivating student and teacher emotional well-being on this new online resource, created by UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center.
For those who follow Susan's husband's books and couldn't read his OpEd in Le Monde last week because (like us) you don't speak/read French, Quillette just published an English language translation.
"Simply put, the problem [with mindfulness] was with beliefs about the body and mind, (not about God)," from Don Salmon's comment on Candy Gunther Brown’s Debating Mindfulness & Yoga in Public Schools. Join the conversation.
In the Spring issue of Tricycle Magazine, Wendy Joan Biddlecombe Agsar revisits how mindfulness is being taught to children in schools writing, "new objections to the practice and its Buddhist roots reveal a need for a coordinated response."