Want To Train Your Brain To Feel More Compassion? Here’s How Many of us know that if we want to become more physically healthy, we can exercise. What if we want to improve our emotional health? Are there ways to train emotional "muscles" such as compassion? Would such training improve our lives? Compassion meditation is an ancient contemplative practice to strengthen feelings of compassion towards different kinds of people. With practice, it’s thought that compassion can be enhanced and this will increase the likelihood of a person exhibiting helping behavior—not only during the meditation practice, but out in the real world, when interacting with others. After only two weeks of online training, participants in our study who practiced compassion meditation every day behaved more altruistically towards strangers compared to another group taught to simply regulate or control their negative emotions. We decided to give only seven hours of practice, in 30 minutes daily sessions for two weeks.
Using Sound Texts in Antiracist Teaching in Middle and High School Educators are facing the intimidating reality of remote classrooms this fall; many are also looking for new ways to promote antiracism because familiar methods may have seemed more authentic, manageable, or accessible in an in-person classroom. We would like to offer some ideas for how humanities teachers in particular can use texts that use sound—podcasts, speeches, interviews, music, and the like—to integrate antiracist content into online classrooms. Texts written with sound offer a number of high-value benefits to a remote classroom, including being organically accessible to English language learners and students with learning challenges like dyslexia, as well as being simple and affordable. Working with sound also allows educators to teach necessary skills in new and exciting ways that invite both intellectual play and literacy with digital tools. Communicating Respect for Many Varieties of English Humanizing Diverse Voices Engaging Emotionally Getting Started With Sound Texts Podcasts
Peaceful protest is much more effective than violence for toppling dictators Political scientist Erica Chenoweth used to believe, as many do, that violence is the most reliable way to get rid of a dictator. History is filled, after all, with coups, rebellions and civil wars. She didn't take public protests or other forms of peaceful resistance very seriously; how could they possible upend a powerful, authoritarian regime? Then, as Chenoweth recounts in a Ted Talk posted online Monday, she put together some data and was surprised by what she found. "I collected data on all major nonviolent and violent campaigns for the overthrow of a government or a territorial liberation since 1900," she says -- hundreds of cases. "The data blew me away." Here's her chart, which pretty clearly suggests that nonviolent movements are much likelier to work: (Erica Chenoweth/YouTube) And that trend is actually "increasing over time," Chenoweth adds. "Researchers used to say that no government could survive if just 5 percent of the population rose up against it," Chenoweth says.
Serena Williams Tennis Sexism in U.S. Open Loss to Naomi Osaka When Williams realized that, she argued more and demanded that Ramos apologize to her and make an announcement to the crowd that she was not receiving any coaching. Ramos, known for his no-nonsense approach, did not relent. When the next changeover came, with Osaka leading, 4-3, Williams, still visibly distraught over what she perceived as unfair treatment, told Ramos that he had stolen a point from her and called him “a thief.” For that, Ramos gave Williams a third code violation, which meant she lost a game. Williams did not appear to realize that Osaka had been given the game until she reached the baseline again. Fighting back tears as the crowd yelled, hooted and booed, Williams pleaded her case. “There are men out here that do a lot worse, but because I’m a woman, because I’m a woman, you’re going to take this away from me? Later, at a postmatch news conference, she accused Ramos of sexism for issuing a code violation for her “thief” accusation.
BODHI Benevolent Organisation for Development, Health & Insight Douglas Cardinal Foundation for Indigenous Waldorf Education – Fondation Douglas Cardinal pour une éducation autochtone Waldorf Buddhist Global Relief Teaching Indigenous Histories Through an Authentic Voice | ETFO Voice As a mother and educator, all I seem to think about lately is the legacy we are leaving. What kind of future will our children have? What kind of stories will inspire them to live passionately and change the world? In her 2009 Ted Talk, The Danger of a Single Story, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie describes the importance of multiple narratives about groups of people. Many moons ago, when I was apartment hunting in university, I stumbled upon a lakefront rental. Elsie Knott’s legacy should be a story we share with our students. Growing up, her family was financially poor, but rich in spirit and determination. In the late 1950’s, Elsie brought education to the children of her community. Elsie is part of a history of Indigenous women many of us don’t know. In 2016, ETFO created a poster celebrating 21 First Nations, Métis and Inuit (FNMI) women for their contributions in arts, education, politics and environmental and human rights. I wish I could write at great length about these 21 women.
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