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#38 | Cultivating Mindful Resilience: Guidance for Parents & LGBTQ Teens
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In this episode, Heather interviews Andrew Jordan Nance, founder of Mindful Arts San Francisco whose mission is to provide literary and arts-based mindfulness instruction to youth at underserved San Francisco schools. He has been an educator for over 25 years and is the author of four mindfulness books.
Mindfulness is such a valuable practice for all human beings, and Heather has found it particularly helpful over the past four years.
Andrew shares practical advice on cultivating a mindfulness practice, as well as engaging stories and examples throughout the interview. A few of the topics include:
* Understanding mindfulness as connection with the mind, heart, and the body.
* Responding wisely vs. reacting blindly
* Incorporating mantras such as: Today may I be kind. Today may I be focused. Today may I be curious.
Here are links to Greater Good Science Center and Mindful Schools.
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