The Gift of Awareness for Educators

A 13-Module Journey on Cultivating Mindfulness through Jewish Meditation in the Classroom

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Course curriculum

1. Welcome
2. Why is This Course Different?
3. Mindfulness vs. Meditation
4. What You Might Expect
5. Course Overview
6. Demographic Survey
7. Guidance for Mindful Chevruta
8. How to Use the IJS Course Dashboard
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1. The Friendly Old Neighbor and the Ticking Clock
2. Living on Auto-Pilot
3. How to Move from Auto-Pilot to Intention
4. Between Heaven and Earth: Embodying Jacob’s Ladder
5. Let’s Practice - Mindfulness of Breath
6. Drinking Meditation: Mindful Life Practice
7. Reflection Questions
8. A Roadmap for Your Journey from Auto-Pilot to Intention
1. The Scenic Overlook
2. Being Present Now
3. Address Distraction Through Awareness of Breath
4. The Wonder of Being Breathed into Life
5. Let’s Practice: Breath Anchor with Mental Note
6. Awakening to Breath: Mindful Life Practice
7. Reflection Questions
8. A Roadmap for Your Journey from Distracted to Present
1. The Best Cup of Coffee I Never Had
2. Turning Towards the Torah of the Body
3. The Powerful Practices of Truth Telling and Loving Kindness
4. The Living Dead
5. Let’s Practice: Body Scan
6. The Five Senses Practice: Mindful Life Practice
7. Reflection Questions
8. A Roadmap for Your Journey from Thinking to Sensing
1. The Broken Air Conditioner
2. Noticing the Habit of Emotional Reactivity
3. Pleasant, Unpleasant, Neutral
4. The Stream of Your Emotions
5. Let’s Practice: Locating Emotions in the Body
6. Mindful Eating: Mindful Life Practice
7. Reflection Questions
8. A Roadmap for Your Journey from Reactivity to Responsiveness
1. The Failed Relationship
2. Exploring Difficult Emotions
3. A Shelter in the Inner Storm
4. Approaching Thick Inner Emotional Clouds
5. Let’s Practice: R.A.I.N.
6. Caller ID Mindfulness: Mindful Life Practice
7. Reflection Questions
8. A Roadmap for Your Journey from Avoiding to Approaching
1. The Meditation Teacher Who Almost Never Was
2. Getting Fooled by “The Truth”
3. How to Open Up Curiosity to Our Thoughts
4. The Mind as An Inn
5. Let’s Practice - Becoming a Friendly Innkeeper
6. Knee-Jerk Judgment Practice: Mindful Life Practice
7. Reflection Questions
8. A Roadmap for Your Journey from Doing to Being
1. A Rabbi, a Priest and An Imam walk into An Abbey
2. Watering the Inner Seeds of Peace
3. Our Reserves of Love
4. Purifying the Heart, Balancing the Mind
5. Let’s Practice - Cultivating Loving-Kindness
6. Awakening Love Practice: Mindful Life Practice
7. Reflection Questions
8. A Roadmap for Your Journey from Judgement to Compassion
1. The View Through a Dirty Window
2. Just Being When Doing Becomes Too Much
3. Finding our Inner Shabbat
4. As if All Our Work is Complete
5. Let’s Practice - Resting in Shabbat Mind™
6. Mini Shabbatot: Mindful Life Practice
7. Reflection Questions
8. A Roadmap for Your Journey from Doing to Being
9. Thank You and Next Steps
1. Walking the Mindful Walk
2. How to Model Kavvanah and Teshuvah in the Classroom
3. You are the Lesson: Your Life is a Teaching
4. Inner Classroom Practice: Setting a Kavvanah, Practicing Teshuvah
5. Mindful Classroom Practice: Setting a Kavvanah, Practicing Teshuvah
6. Reflection Questions
7. Into the Classroom: Modeling Kavvanah and Teshuvah with your Students
1. Why Paying Attention to the Body Matters
2. How to Listen for the Torah of the Body in the Classroom
3. Attending to Physical Sensations, Resting in Our Inner Ark
4. Inner Classroom Practice: Dropping into the Inner Ark of the Body
5. Mindful Classroom Practice: 75/25 Body Awareness
6. Reflection Questions
7. Into the Classroom: Showing up Non-Reactively with Students
1. The Importance of Clear Seeing
2. How to Relate to Students as Mirrors
3. Loving Our Neighbor, Questioning Judgments We Hold about Our Students
4. Inner Classroom Practice: Aspaklaria (Mirror) Practice
5. Mindful Classroom Practice: “Are You Sure?” Practice
6. Reflection Questions
7. Into the Classroom: Showing up Non-Judgmentally with Students
1. Shabbat Mind: A Refuge from the Emotional Storm
2. Carving Out Mini-Shabbatot
3. Inner Classroom Practice: Continue Your Personal Practice
4. Mindful Classroom Practice: Mini-Shabbat Guided Meditation Practice: Shabody™
5. Reflection Questions
6. Into the Classroom: Resting in Shabbat Body
1. Weathering Our Inner Storms
2. Tracking Inner Weather Patterns: Calming Ourselves Down
3. Inner Classroom Practice: Continue Your Personal Practice
4. Mindful Classroom Practice #1 - Inner Weather Report
5. Mindful Classroom - Practice #2 - Anchor in the Storm
6. Reflection Questions
7. Into the Classroom: Finding an Anchor in the Storm
1. Jewish Mindfulness Lessons for the Classroom Packet
1. Thank You and Next Steps
2. Tell Us About Your Experience

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Course curriculum

Welcome!

Module 1 - Waking Up to Your Life: From Auto-Pilot to Intention

Module 2 - Strengthening Attention: From Distracted to Present

Module 3 - Listening to Your Body: From Thinking to Sensing

Module 4 - Turning Towards the Stream of Your Emotions: From Reactivity to Responsiveness

Module 5 - Working with Difficult Emotions: From Avoidance to Approaching

Module 6 - Befriending Your Own Mind: From Conviction to Curiosity

Module 7 - Cultivating Your Loving Heart: From Judgment to Compassion

Module 8 - Resting in Shabbat Mind™: From Doing to Being

Module 9 - Showing Up Mindfully: Modeling Kavvanah and Teshuvah in the Classroom

Modul 10 - Showing Up Non-Reactively: Listening for the Torah of the Body

Module 11 - Showing Up Non-Judgmentally: Relating to Students as Mirrors

Module 12 - Mindfulness in the Classroom: Mini-Shabbatot

Module 13 - Mindfulness in the Classroom: Finding an Anchor in the Storm

Jewish Mindfulness Lessons for the Classroom

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