Christopher Willard, PsyD - TedX: Growing Up Stressed or Growing Up Mindful?
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Channel: Sounds True · 2016 · Education
The American Psychological Association’s 2014 survey on stress made an alarming discovery: America’s teens are now the most stressed-out age group in the country. Growing Up Mindful: Essential Practices to Help Children, Teens, and Families Find Balance, Calm, and Resilience (on sale June 2016) shows parents and professionals alike how to model and teach the skills of mindfulness that will empower our youth for the rest of their lives with greater self-awareness, resiliency, and confidence. While many adults now understand how mindfulness practice helps us alleviate the stress and anxiety of our busy modern lives, getting a typical teenager on board is another story. Dr. Christopher Willard draws on his work with hundreds of young children, tweens, and teens—along with countless hours training parents, teachers, and other counselors—to make the principles and practices of mindfulness accessible, entertaining, and cool for people of all ages and interests. Growing Up Mindful features dozens of exercises to incorporate mindfulness into daily life (in class, extracurricular activities, among peers), specific meditations and movement practices, compassion training, and more. “Teaching children to check in with, rather than check out of, their experience builds emotional intelligence, leading to happier kids and families,” says Dr. Willard. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Christopher Willard, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist and consultant specializing in bringing mindfulness into education and psychotherapy. The author of Child’s Mind (Parallax, 2010) and other books on the topic, Dr. Willard lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and teaches at Harvard Medical School and Lesley University. For more, visit http://www.drchristopherwillard.com “A helpful manual to introducing secular mindfulness practices to children and teens, as well as their parents.” —Publishers Weekly “A wonderful approach to learning mindfulness—full of great skills, practical tools, and enormously helpful wisdom.” —Jack Kornfield, author of The Wise Heart “Growing up Mindful is filled with wisdom and expert guidance in sharing the blessings ofmindfulness with young people. Drawing on his vast experience as teacher, clinician and practitioner, Chris Willard provides the kind of practical, doable exercises and reflections that will help you bring mindfulness alive in all the situations of daily life.” —Tara Brach, PhD, author of Radical Acceptance and True Refuge Paperback Book Contents (241 pages) Date Published June 01, 2016 ISBN-10 1-62203-590-9 ISBN-13 978-1-62203-590-8 Dimensions 6 x 9 inches Product Code BK04652 Amazon: http://amzn.to/1saKtjj Barnes & Noble: http://bit.ly/1ONRz21 Sounds True: http://bit.ly/1WUcsRA Indie Bound: http://bit.ly/1XxEWiy -- CD Contents 3 CDs (2 hours, 57 minutes) Date Published June 01, 2016 ISBN-10 1-62203-601-8 ISBN-13 978-1-62203-601-1 Dimensions 5 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches Product Code AW04653D CE Credits Contents 3 CE credits Date Published April 19, 2016 Product Code CE05058 Amazon: http://amzn.to/1Z0wXsX Barnes & Noble: http://bit.ly/20D7qqp Sounds True: http://bit.ly/1qK6tA5 Indie Bound: http://bit.ly/1ViGLzC TWO Free Gifts From SoundsTrue.com http://bit.ly/1iMa3Tj Free Weekly Wisdom http://www.soundstrue.com/weeklywisdom IATE Podcast w/Tami Simon on iTunes http://bit.ly/1dtEwUT About TEDx In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxEde, where x = independently organized TED event. At our TEDxEde event, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized.
