{"id":1076,"date":"2021-02-16T20:34:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T01:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2021-02-16T20:36:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T01:36:02","slug":"45-calm-school-resources-with-christi-an-and-nat-slomka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/2021\/02\/16\/45-calm-school-resources-with-christi-an-and-nat-slomka\/","title":{"rendered":"45. Calm school resources with Christi-an and Nat Slomka"},"content":{"rendered":"

How might teachers use mindfulness as a tool for developing resilience? Today on the show I am joined by sisters Christi-an and Natalie Slomka speaking about the school resources developed by Calm.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s be real: this has been the most difficult year in our profession. In Ontario, we have just been told that the rest point of March break has been delayed by a month, we are just heading back into school or freshly returned, and we are not good. As a profession, we are raw, we are vulnerable, and we are tired.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That is why I reached out to Christi-an and Natalie Slomka: Christi-an helped to develop the school resources with the Calm app and Natalie, a teacher with the Toronto District School Board, is actively using these mindfulness strategies with her students.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In this conversation, we talk about the need for practicing mindfulness in an oppressive system, how to make your mindfulness practice trauma informed, how you can turn almost anything into a meditation, and resilience. We talk about developing capital R resilience: in our students and in ourselves and how this might just be what we really need to be focusing more on right now.<\/span><\/p>\n

I also just want to add that this show is not sponsored by Calm–I really like their app and I personally am using it right now, but they did not actually fund this conversation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I really adored getting to share in the sister love between these two and I know you will too.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Things We Mentioned In This Conversation:<\/strong><\/p>\n