"Prairie South's online Wellness Room provides individuals with tools, activities, and resources to support them with their Mental Health. There are “toolboxes” for parents, kids, teens, and teachers with great videos, articles, and websites."
Mindbodygreen is a lifestyle media brand dedicated to helping people live their best life mentally, physically, spiritually, emotionally and environmentally.
"Here you’ll find a 360-degree approach to wellness that weaves the mental, physical, spiritual, emotional, and environmental aspects of well-being together, because we believe that these pillars of health are all interconnected."
Topic areas include:
Mindfulness
Health (including mental health)
Parenting
Food
Movement
Beauty
To begin this lesson I introduced the concept of mindfulness as being more than an empty mind but rather focusing on the present and staying in the moment and being in the now. Shared a video on Mindfulness from GoStrengthsOnline called Teaching Mindfulness to Children At Home and In Schools. We discussed other ways we can be mindful in addition to sitting and meditating or doing deep breathing. Introduced the concept of mindful colouring – focusing on the now (What am I doing now? What color am I choosing and what part of the image will I colour with it?) I shared an image that I’ve been working on and discussed my colour choices the feelings I had while coloring it. Following their art work students used an iPad to record their colour choices and thoughts/feelings they had throughout the project.
Mindfulness is a form of brain training. It is training our brain to pay attention to where we want it to be. It is training our brain to not wander or be stuck on one thought but to be able to train our brain to go where we want it to go … and ultimately, be able to stay there for a while. The goal of Mindfulness Meditation is simply to get our brain to pay attention to the present moment, and what is happening ‘right now.’ But we must also be able to do this without judging our thoughts, ourselves, or others.
This resource includes:
- How mindfulness works
- Instructions to do it
What Is It?
A downloadable packet of mindfulness activities and tools from Panorama Education, Open Circle, Breathe for Change, and other expert organizations.
The resources (like a "Self-Care Practice Guide" and a Spotify playlist for Mindful Practice) are perfect for developing your own mindfulness practice and/or modeling mindfulness to staff and students.
Includes great low-lift ideas for tuning up your physical health and mental health, so you can be of better service to students.
What's Inside This Resource Pack?
1. Self-Care Practice Guide (from Breathe For Change)
2. Calm Breathing Techniques for Students (from Open Circle)
3. Free Access to Inner Explorer's Audio-Guided Mindfulness Program
4. Spotify Playlist for Mindful Practice
5. Webinar Recording: Mindfulness Strategies for Adult and Student Wellness
Not Myself Today is an evidence-based solution - offered by CMHA- that helps employers transform mental health at work. This initiative helps companies engage employees to:Build greater awareness and understanding of mental healthReduce stigmaFoster safe and supportive culturesWe all have mental health and we need to take care of it.
Perfectionism is not necessarily about being ‘perfect’. Ask yourself this question… Is it ever really possible to be 100% ‘perfect’? So, if it’s not about being ‘perfect’, then what do we mean when talk about perfectionism?
Although there’s no perfect definition, we understand perfectionism to involve three things: Firstly, the relentless striving for extremely high standards for yourself and/or others that are personally demanding. Secondly, judging your self-worth based largely on your ability to strive for and achieve such unrelenting standards. Thirdly, experiencing negative consequences of setting such demanding standards, yet continuing to go for them despite the huge cost to you.
**Site includes workbook and information sheets available for download.
Within the attached document, you will find several links to "personal development" resources crafted over the years by Leanne Hintz, Regional Teacher for the Sun West Distance Learning Centre.Maintaining her blog entitled, Our Life Well Lived - Leanne Hintz, as well as publishing two books in 2020, has been Leanne's "side gig" for the last number of years. As she has learned and grown as a mother and as a human being, she's shared her reflections and her journey within the pages of this blog!
In order to feel good about ourselves, we need to pay attention to the 5 different areas of our life that bring us wellness.
1. Spiritual- How do I fit in this world? What is my purpose in life? What things can I do to feel happy? What can I appreciate?
2. Physical- What physical activity did I do today? Did I eat healthy?
3. Emotional- What feelings did I have today? If I had negative feelings today, how can I change them to positive feeling
4. Intellectual- What is something I learned today? What did I discover that was new?
5. Social- Did I talk with anyone today? Did I spend time with a pet today? Did I get connected to others face to face today?
Take time to relax, recharge, and remember your strengths with these fun coloring pages.
Sayings include: I Believe in Me, Breath in Courage Exhale Doubt, I Can Do Hard Things, Don't Give Up! I Can Do This!, It's All Going to be Okay
Check out the great connected lessons that accompany the coloring pages, as well as many other resources.
A Progressive Muscle Relaxation is a great way to relieve anxiety and stress in your body by having you slowly tense up your muscles and then gradually relax them again. This helps us to relax by making us focus on our muscles and how they feel when we relax them from a ‘tensed up state.’ When we practice progressive muscles relaxation regularly, it becomes a valuable tool we can use to help us to relax and calm our body. It will also help us to be able to recognize when our body is experiencing tension and then be able to relax it. The resource includes instructions and how progressive muscle relaxation works.
Google Quick, Draw! tells you what to draw and then uses artificial intelligence to try to guess what you're drawing. Fun!
Download the sheet (some are free, some are paid), colour it - then add the Quiver app to your device and it will bring your picture to 3D life with Augmented reality!
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!
What Is It?
When the COVID-19 health crisis began, the Panorama team moved quickly to compile a list of informational resources, articles, and guides to support educators in practicing self-care and resiliency despite the circumstances.
The five core SEL skills —self-management, self-awareness, responsible decision-making, social awareness, and relationship skills—are more important than ever.
This is a collection of vetted resources on everything from managing anxiety to adapting to a distance learning environment. It is being updated as relevant information becomes available. Categories include:
- Adult Self-Care
- Resources for Educators and School Communities
- Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
- Live Webinars: Guided Mindfulness Practice for Adult and Student Wellness
- Resources for Families and Parents
Call HealthLine at 811 for professional health advice or mental health support.
Open 24/7
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Translation in over 100 languages
What is HealthLine 811?
HealthLine is a confidential, 24-hour health information and support telephone line. It is staffed by experienced and specially trained Client Navigators, Registered Nurses, Registered Psychiatric Nurses, and Social Workers.
HealthLine is free. Services are offered in English, with translation available in over 100 languages.
If you are having technical issues with accessing HealthLine by dialling 811, you can call 1-877-800-0002 to be connected with HealthLine.
Deaf and hard of hearing residents can access HealthLine by using the SaskTel Relay Operator service at
1-800-855-1155.
How does HealthLine work?
When you call 811, a licensed healthcare professional will give you options and information to help you with health-related questions or concerns. You will be able to discuss your concerns in a safe, caring, and confidential manner.
A registered nurse will assess your symptoms and help you decide whether to treat your own symptoms, go to a clinic, see your primary health care provider, or access emergency medical care, if necessary.
HealthLine also provides mental health and addictions support. HealthLine’s registered Psychiatric Nurses and Social workers can offer advice to help you manage your situation, or give you information about resources in your community.
"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!
In this course you will engage in a series of challenges designed to increase your own happiness and build more productive habits. You will ultimately be prepared to successfully incorporate a specific wellness activity into your life. Enroll for free.
SKILLS YOU WILL GAIN
Gratitude
Happiness
Meditation
Savoring
"A library full of free tips, videos, and more to help you get through the school year. Check it out!"