Welcome to our ever growing section of resources regarding Wellness for Kids. By teaching the children in our lives to understand all aspects of their wellness, and to make being well a priority, we are setting them up for better success in everything they do. Connecting with values and purpose have both been shown to give incredible health benefits and outcomes. Thus, an intro to Spiritual Wellness (connection to a sense of meaning, values and purpose) gives inherent motivation to also prioritize the 7 other aspect of wellness in one’s life: physical, social, intellectual, emotional, vocational, environmental, and financial. In the age when “health care” equates to “sick care,” we are seeing a surge in the wellness industry market (nonprofit and for profit). Please explore our latest posts involving Wellness for Kids below to add some fun stuff to your wellness bag of tricks!
The elements of art are generally considered to be line, shape, texture, form, space, color and value, with the additions of mark making, and materiality. The following projects were curated from some fantastic people and organizations. They combine one or more elements of art into …
We recently crowdsourced to find out your best rhymes and acronyms for teaching communication skills to young children. Below you will find 5 great ideas! #1. Listen Like a Mouse Debbie Lopez, 20+ year teacher and tutor and Director of …
Note: When this post was first published, there was an embedded linktree that pointed to free resources. Unfortunately the linktree is no longer around. But good news! You can use this quick link to browse free resources for teaching about kindness: …
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During our Emanant Wellness, workshop Start on Purpose, we encourage attendees to “explore purpose.” It struck me that most of the exploration is hindsight. We are chiefly uncovering clues (or “data,” as I dorkily like to say), from out past, and …
I saw this video a while back and thought it was amazing. It shows an experiment which covers the gratitude and happiness connection. I have been a dabbler in perusing research on the science of happiness, and focusing on gratitude and having …
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Set a goal to join kids all over the world in making a positive difference. From working one-on-one to improve the quality of a neighbor’s life to joining other kids in a larger help network, you can make a difference …
Learn to Become a Better Communicator with the Communication Model Communication models conceptualize the way in which people send, receive, process and respond to information. Claude Elwood Shannon and Warren Weaver developed one of the first widely accepted communication models …
