Ages: 16+
Overarching Question: How do we define success and how does this definition impact our lives?
Here, you’ll find a resource of simple, step-by-step instructions on how to deal with symptoms related to specific anxiety disorders as well general strategies — such as how to get a good night’s sleep or how to deal with uncertainty in your daily life.
Find amazing resources for Random Acts of Kindness including:
RAK Calendars for each month
Posters
Bookmarks
Bingo
Colouring
& more!
Follow the link to the Google Play or Apple Store to download the Release App for Mindfulness. This app was created by Keynote Speaker Trinna Markusson at iLearn & SWTA for 2020.
"This new wellness app incorporates mindfulness and tapping techniques to help empower you to begin to deal with daily stress, difficult emotions and limiting beliefs that can hold you back from living your best life! With categories for adults, teens, kids, classroom use and a special high-performance category for athletes, Release can help you to stay present and to live with more peace and ease."
For more information visit (copy and paste into a browser) - http://www.presentmomentliving.ca/
Great ideas to take care of yourself!
"The Science of Happiness is a free online course that explores the roots of a happy and meaningful life. Students engage with some of the most provocative and practical lessons from this science, discovering how cutting-edge research can be applied to their own lives.
Since it first launched in September of 2014, The Science of Happiness has been hugely popular: It is one of the top 10 courses on the edX platform, where it is hosted; more than 500,000 students have registered for it so far; and students who complete the course report significant increases in their happiness and decreases in their levels of stress and loneliness."
You will have to register to take this free online course!
A recent survey found that 37% of teens say they have poor mental health.
This 6-week course aims to curb this mental health crisis by bringing together the best insights from Dr. Laurie Santos’ popular Yale course Psychology and the Good Life.
In this course, you will explore what the field of psychology teaches us about how to be happier, how to feel less stressed, and how to thrive in high school and beyond. The lessons along with short weekly ‘happiness homework’ assignments will ultimately prepare you to put these scientific findings into practice. The ultimate goal is for you to feel better and build healthier habits.
Parents, teachers, and other professionals supporting teenagers may also find the course beneficial.
Social-emotional learning (SEL) instruction in small groups can be a great way to build student belonging and community—while also teaching key skills and competencies that students may need additional support with.
This toolkit includes a set of 6 facilitation guides for small-group SEL activities—complete with “how to” instructions for educators. These low-lift strategies are designed to help promote positive relationships while building students’ SEL skills.
Smiling Mind can be used with kids, teachers or parents - at school and at home!
"Smiling Mind is a non-for-profit web and app-based meditation program developed by psychologists and educators to help bring mindfulness into your life."
To use these mediation, you can use the website, or download the free app from the App Store or Google Play.
There are full programs for classrooms, specifically for teachers, kids as well as adults.
A Problem-solving Approach to Stress Management
What is Stress Strategies?
Stress Strategies looks at stress as a problem that can be addressed solved, or at least improved, using practical problem-solving methods.
Stress Strategies:
provides a variety of research-backed stress management strategies
shares real life stories of how people use these specific strategies to manage their stress more effectively
guides you through a few questions to help you make use of these various strategies
When finished, you’ll be able to download or print your own personalized stress management plan.
"Physical signs of stress can include headaches, stiff joints, and sore stomachs. Due to our bodies’ own self-protective measures, we might not realize that we’re living with symptoms of stress for days, weeks, months, or years. To support you, Yoga Ed. has created this toolkit. In this toolkit, you will find body-based practices to manage stress and support your and your students’ physical and emotional wellbeing."
You will need to provide your email to download the kit.
Poses and exercises for:
*headaches
*tension
*tight shoulders
*back ache
*sore hands
*vertigo
*stomach ache
*jaw
Strong Minds make for Strong Kids
Strong Minds Strong Kids, Psychology Canada is committed to promoting the mental well-being of children and youth in Canada. We are dedicated to nurturing resilience in kids with the use of psychological science so they can manage, learn, and grow from the many challenges in life.
This site offers workout videos and exercises that kids can do to keep them fit and healthy. Choose the category and activity, set the time you want to do it for and you're set! Categories include:
Strength for Kids
Agility for Kids
Flexibility and Balance for Kids
Warm-Up for Kids
Cool down for Kids
Stand Up and Move for Kids
"Do you want to do bodyweight exercises you can do at home? Craig Ballentyne of Turbulence Training provides a wonderful collection of no-equipment bodyweight workouts designed to help you burn fat and get lean.
These instructional videos are mostly short ones (i.e. under 10 minutes) and can be used to create your own home workouts."
Sometimes life can be overwhelming and it can be hard to work through difficult times. This Virtual Calming Room was designed to assist in identifying different strategies for managing emotions.
Resource Links:
-Sounds and Music
-Visual Relaxation
-Guided Practice
-Colouring & Create
-Live Cameras
-Smart Phone Apps
"We provide a wealth of free curriculum-based teaching resources and online tools to help you teach your students about prejudice, human rights and social justice.
By registering for our Teacher Dashboard you can:
Customize lessons with your own notes and instructions
Share lessons and assignments for students to access online
Create PDF handouts
Use assessment tools to evaluate"
WE Schools @home offers free online tools and resources to complement and support at-home learning. Developed for Grades K through 12, this weekly lesson package includes interactive and experiential curriculum-based resources, materials and lesson plans with an emphasis on well-being, social and emotional learning, service-learning and fostering resiliency.
A wellness inventory for overall Wellness. This inventory is used in Grade 10. (Wellness wheel)
You can find a collection of recorded workouts on the YThrive YouTube page to help you keep active. (Videos for families and kids.)
Be sure to like this video and subscribe to be notified of all our new YMCA workout videos!
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Please read our YMCA Home Health Disclaimer & Safety Warning before participating: https://www.ymcahome.ca/safety"
Yoga Journal is your number one resource for yoga poses, sequences, meditation, and the lifestyle that surrounds it.
"Yoga Journal is a wonderful YouTube channel worth following if you want to learn how to do yoga at home. Highly experienced yoga teachers will show you how to do poses for the most relaxation, flexibility, and strength benefits. These short videos can be done whenever you have a few minutes to spare during your day."