Notes From The Field – Mindful Body 3rd Grade Lesson

by Cody Wiggs | Jan 29, 2019 | Mindfulness in the Classroom

It is always a heartfelt pleasure for us at Empowering Education to see our mindfulness and social-emotional learning lessons in action. We recently had the chance to observe a mindful body lesson at High Tech Elementary School in Denver Public Schools. The High Tech...

Defining Your Purpose – Social & Emotional Learning Lesson Highlight

by Cody Wiggs | Jan 28, 2019 | Social-emotional Learning

?He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.? ? Friedrich Nietzsche Why Purpose Matters After surviving the Nazi concentration camps in the 1940s, Victor Frankl founded a new form of therapy known as logotherapy. The essence of logotherapy is that many...

A Mindful Approach to New Year’s Resolutions

by Cody Wiggs | Dec 27, 2018 | Mindfulness in the Classroom

As the days begin to grow longer and we welcome the next calendar year, many are looking toward 2019 with a familiar mixture of hope, trepidation, excitement, and uncertainty. The new year inevitability brings with it the question of resolutions, goals, and hopes for...

Tips for the Trauma Informed Educator: Stress & Trauma as Resilience Factors

by Cody Wiggs | Nov 20, 2018 | Trauma-informed Teaching

Recent years have seen a remarkable shift in schools and educators across the country embracing the concepts of social-emotional learning and trauma-informed teaching. This is undoubtedly a positive and necessary shift in our approach to education. Like any...

School-Based Mindfulness – Examining the Evidence

by Cody Wiggs | Sep 25, 2018 | Mindfulness in the Classroom

The past several decades have seen a marked increase in the use of mindfulness-based interventions to promote psychological health and well-being. According to Burke (2009), the use of mindfulness-based approaches with adult populations has been well documented to...