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When the world outside seems to be closing in, we’re called upon to go inside…to find strength, hope, and wisdom.
The Foundation is pleased to present a program of online conversations and experiences, guidance and tools, and stories to help sustain us during this crisis and beyond.
Coping TOOLS & TIPS
In the list below, please find a series of innervention guiding tools and tips, from video messages and recorded sessions to useful techniques from which you may be inspired to face our global COVID-19 crisis with calm and hope. Whatever inner strength is cultivated today will be our ally for years to come.
Please follow the Foundation's YouTube channel and the innervention playlist where video tools below are posted.
Care Package for Caregivers
by Anna Tansi, MS Org Psych; Theresa Velendzas, MS; and Jacqueline Germain, MS, ND
A short experience for honoring the caregiver experience and providing supportive, restorative self-care tools and supplies that can be accessed any time and integrated into the journey ahead.
A Meditation for Parents
with Seth Kopald, PhD
Find a place of calm as you prepare for supporting your children through home learning and other parenting activities.
More Ease with Home Learning
Episode 12 - How to Do a Repair
Seth Kopald, PhD
Exploring theory & practice around effective home-learning: learning about Self-led parenting techniques that inform engagement with children’s Home Learning; helping create a psychologically safe home climate that encourages learning and exploration; and trusting children’s individuality and uniqueness, fostering their natural talents, gifts, and interests.
More Ease with Home Learning
Episode 11 - Setting Limits with Children
Seth Kopald, PhD
Exploring theory & practice around effective home-learning: learning about Self-led parenting techniques that inform engagement with children’s Home Learning; helping create a psychologically safe home climate that encourages learning and exploration; and trusting children’s individuality and uniqueness, fostering their natural talents, gifts, and interests.
More Ease with Home Learning
Episode 10 - Managing vs Leading
Seth Kopald, PhD
Exploring theory & practice around effective home-learning: learning about Self-led parenting techniques that inform engagement with children’s Home Learning; helping create a psychologically safe home climate that encourages learning and exploration; and trusting children’s individuality and uniqueness, fostering their natural talents, gifts, and interests.
More Ease with Home Learning
Episode 9 - Meditation & Discussion
Seth Kopald, PhD
Exploring theory & practice around effective home-learning: learning about Self-led parenting techniques that inform engagement with children’s Home Learning; helping create a psychologically safe home climate that encourages learning and exploration; and trusting children’s individuality and uniqueness, fostering their natural talents, gifts, and interests.
A Feather Surrendered
Episode 4 br/>Ray Mount,. PhD
Follow Ray Mount's journey seeking healing in nature through daily walks. On this one, after a difficult day, a tree sends him an important message...
More Ease with Home Learning
Episode 8 - Helping Children with their Parts
Seth Kopald, PhD
Exploring theory & practice around effective home-learning: learning about Self-led parenting techniques that inform engagement with children’s Home Learning; helping create a psychologically safe home climate that encourages learning and exploration; and trusting children’s individuality and uniqueness, fostering their natural talents, gifts, and interests.
More Ease with Home Learning
Episode 7 - Self is the Best Learner
Seth Kopald, PhD
Exploring theory & practice around effective home-learning: learning about Self-led parenting techniques that inform engagement with children’s Home Learning; helping create a psychologically safe home climate that encourages learning and exploration; and trusting children’s individuality and uniqueness, fostering their natural talents, gifts, and interests.
The Inner Lives of Teachers
A Session of Connecting to Self While Nurturing Others
Planned & Moderated by Joannna Curry-Sartori, LMFT
Explore how to teach from a Centered Space with Jody Nelson, EdD.
More Ease with Home Learning
Episode 6 - Exploring Our Children's Parts
Seth Kopald, PhD
Exploring theory & practice around effective home-learning: learning about Self-led parenting techniques that inform engagement with children’s Home Learning; helping create a psychologically safe home climate that encourages learning and exploration; and trusting children’s individuality and uniqueness, fostering their natural talents, gifts, and interests.
More Ease with Home Learning
Episode 5 - Exploring Our Parts
Seth Kopald, PhD
Exploring theory & practice around effective home-learning: learning about Self-led parenting techniques that inform engagement with children’s Home Learning; helping create a psychologically safe home climate that encourages learning and exploration; and trusting children’s individuality and uniqueness, fostering their natural talents, gifts, and interests.
Healing with Nature
Episode 3
Ray Mount, PhD
Follow Ray Mount's journey seeking healing in nature through daily walks. On this one, after a difficult day, a tree sends him an important message...
More Ease with Home Learning
Episode 4 - Concentration is Gold
Seth Kopald, PhD
Exploring theory & practice around effective home-learning: learning about Self-led parenting techniques that inform engagement with children’s Home Learning; helping create a psychologically safe home climate that encourages learning and exploration; and trusting children’s individuality and uniqueness, fostering their natural talents, gifts, and interests.
More Ease with Home Learning
Episode 3 - Creating a Safe Learning Climate
Seth Kopald, PhD
Exploring theory & practice around effective home-learning: learning about Self-led parenting techniques that inform engagement with children’s Home Learning; helping create a psychologically safe home climate that encourages learning and exploration; and trusting children’s individuality and uniqueness, fostering their natural talents, gifts, and interests.
Creating culturally sensitive, Self-led, restorative, trauma-informed, love-filled spaces in our school communities.
Planned & Moderated by Joanna Curry-Sartori, LMFT
This session explores how to create culturally sensitive, Self-led, restorative, trauma-informed, love-filled spaces in our school communities to listen, acknowledge, make meaning, heal and act, now and going forward.
Panelists: Nicole Thompson (Urban School psychologist, Founder GOAT Educators, Philadelphia); Kena Acuna (Self-Leadership Coach, Restorative Practices Trainer, New York City); Jon Rice (Social Worker--family-focused, trauma work--IFS-trained, Restorative Practices Trainer, Office Mental Health, New York)
More Ease with Home Learning
Episode 2 - Meditation
Seth Kopald, PhD
Exploring theory & practice around effective home-learning: learning about Self-led parenting techniques that inform engagement with children’s Home Learning; helping create a psychologically safe home climate that encourages learning and exploration; and trusting children’s individuality and uniqueness, fostering their natural talents, gifts, and interests.
More Ease with Home Learning
Episode 1 - Introduction
Seth Kopald, PhD
Exploring theory & practice around effective home-learning: learning about Self-led parenting techniques that inform engagement with children’s Home Learning; helping create a psychologically safe home climate that encourages learning and exploration; and trusting children’s individuality and uniqueness, fostering their natural talents, gifts, and interests.
Accessing our Essential Self, Enacting our Core Values: The Experiential Power of Values
from Connecting to Self While Nurturing Others
– Led & Moderated by Joanna Curry-Sartori, LMFT
A conversation with Neil Hawkes, PhD and Jane Hawkes, MSc, BSc, CTA, UKCP
Addressing the question, Who's Caring for YOU,
from Connecting to Self While Nurturing Others
– Led & Moderated by Joanna Curry-Sartori, LMFT
A conversation with Tim Amaral, MS, to explore how listening to our own needs can help us sense the needs of others, and connect, even at a distance.
Caretaker Supply Kit:
Core Needs Assessment
Theresa Velendzas, MS
The Core Needs Assessment can offer a way to find a general path to self-leadership by answering the question: “What do I need now?” The intention is to offer helpful guidance to explore general entry areas for getting into that feeling of our higher self, often referred to as “the zone”. Naturally, when we are there, we likely feel all of these and more. However, when we are not there, we can use this as a start to navigate our personal access point. Use alone or with the offered guided “Core Needs Assessment; Companion Activity.” Enjoy.
An Excerpt from: Accessing our Essential Self, Enacting our Core Values Presented by Neil Hawkes, PhD and Jane Hawkes, MSc, BSc, CTA, UKCP From Connecting with Self While Nurturing Others
Moderated & Led by Joanna Curry-Sartori
Taking an important pause to be.
Guided Reflection
by Tim Amaral
From Connecting with Self While Nurturing Others
Moderated & Led by Joanna Curry-Sartori
A reflective body scan to engage mindfully with one of your parts.
Healing with Nature
Episode 2
Ray Mount, PhD
Follow Ray Mount's journey seeking healing in nature through daily walks. On this one, he's thinking about The Scream...and comes across a bright green leaf...
Caretaker Supply Kit:
Movement Meditation
Theresa Velendzas, MS
Embody this sequence of mindful movements to achieve grounding and presence in your body and release mounting tension in your body.
A posture for connecting our left and right brains for calming
In a seated position, cross one ankle over the other. Now hold your arms up in front of you with your palms facing down, cross one wrist over the other. With your wrists crossed and palms facing down, rotate your wrists by pointing your thumbs down until your palms meet. Interlace your fingers. Rest your hands and arms comfortably on your lap. Close your eyes or drop your gaze downward.
Caretaker Supply Kit:
Nature Recharge - A Walking Meditation
Theresa Velendzas, MS
Nature has hidden healing powers. Discover them as you seek to connect with your own deep inner qualities.
Calming Sounds:
Clouds {if hedrons were dimensions calibrating}
Jason Matthew Malli, MFA, MALS
Sounds and images to inspire tranquility, positive thoughts, and open spaces in our hearts.
Caretakers Supply Kit:
Morning & Evening Stretch
Theresa Velendzas, MS
Start and end your day by stretching your body muscles...to open space for a calmer day and night.
Caretakers Supply Kit:
When I am Among the Trees,
A Poem by Mary Oliver
After listening, take some time to sit quietly and write your responses to the following prompts:
What/Whom do you hear?
What/Whom do you see?
How do you feel?
Caretakers Supply Kit:
Meditation in Embers
Anna Tansi, MS Org. Psych
Calming Sounds:
Streams {if glimmers were beacons cast meandering}
Jason Matthew Malli, MFA, MALS
Sounds and images to inspire tranquility, positive thoughts, and open spaces in our hearts.
Caretakers Supply Kit: Healthy Minds Platter
Shared by Anna Tansi, MS Organizational Psych.
The Healthy Minds Platter is created by David Rock, MD, and Daniel Rock, MD, to remind us how best to distribute our time to ensure mental health and wellbeing.
Healing with Nature
Ray Mount, PhD
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Connecting with NATURE could be powerful. Whether in your backyard, in the woods or on an urban sidewalk, by focusing on the natural environment, listening to a bird or cricket, observing a swinging branch or a bright green leaf with intent… you may find the way to inner healing. Follow the journey of Ray Mount, PhD, as he seeks healing with nature.
Mapping Internal Influences
Brian Jaudon
This is a framework for helping us identify "hidden drivers that influence how we engage life and business challenges... and allow us to lead ourselves and our businesses deliberately with self-awareness rather than reacting to current challenges."
Video Meditation
A Path Meditation
Joanna Curry-Sartori, LMFT
Take a few moments to pause. Take a virtual walk in the woods, put down what's on your mind, and connect again with the resources within you. Prepare to return to your world refreshed, strong and ready to serve.