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SIY Teacher Community Gathering: Creating A Culture Of Mindfulness Within An Organization (Sept. 2018)

Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute. September 2018. San Francisco, CA

Dear SIY Teachers & Teachers-In-Training,

Looking forward to seeing you all at our SIY Community Gathering on Thursday!

Two colleagues and myself will be leading a session titled “Creating A Culture Of Mindfulness Within An Organization”. In it we’ll explore what "Mindfulness" means in the workplace, and how it can help increase awareness of the gap that often exists between an individuals’ pursuit of wellbeing within an organization, and the organizations’ goals, often driven by productivity & profit. We will explore whether, and in what capacity, there can be alignment, and if so, how it can be cultivated and supported. 

We will also look at how we can respond to attempts of Mindfulness being used in organizations to assuage reactions to toxic work environments, and unhealthy work schedules & demands Vs. attempting to address & change the root causes of these problems….. And particularly in the field of Education, are we bringing mindfulness & Yoga into the classroom to get students to be more at peace with, and generate less push back to, unhealthy environments, unfair treatment, and bias teaching practices? How do we create better experiences for them, as well as for teachers, and simultaneously not gloss over “mis-behaviors” that are often a response to feeling unsafe, unheard, and not respected?

This session will take place at 1:30pm. 

Before hand, I will be teaching a dance called Freedom, for anyone interested. This is the same dance that was taught in April, during our in-person teacher training at Futures Without Violence. 

I look forward to seeing you there! :)

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The Program: 

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A Few Photos From The Event. Thanks Miroo & Laura, for being wonderful co-teacher! 📚💡📿💪🏽

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By Rich Fernandez

Born at Google, the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute offers mindfulness and emotional intelligence training for focus, resilience and leadership.

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SIY Teacher Community Gathering: Movement Activity: Freedom (Sept. 2018)

Dear SIY Teachers & Teachers-In-Training, 

I will be teaching the choreography to a dance called “Freedom”, set to the song Freedom by Pharrell Williams. We will dance for half an hour, for the latter part of lunch, beginning at 1pm. 

This is the same dance that was taught at the in-person teacher training back in April.

While there’s no need to prepare anything ahead of time, below is a video of the choreography, if you’d like to see the kind of movement we’ll be doing. 

Later in the afternoon, two colleagues and myself will be leading a session titled “Creating A Culture Of Mindfulness Within An Organization”. In it we’ll explore what "Mindfulness" means in the workplace, and how it can help increase the awareness of the gap that often exists between an individuals’ pursuit of wellbeing within an organization, and the organizations’ goals, often driven by productivity & profit. We will explore whether, and in what capacity, there can be alignment, and if so, how it can be cultivated and supported. 

We will also look at how we can respond to attempts of Mindfulness being used in organizations to assuage reactions to toxic work environments, and unhealthy work schedules & demands Vs. attempting to address & change the root causes of these problems….. And particularly in the field of Education, are we bringing mindfulness & Yoga into the classroom to get students to be more at peace with, and generate less push back to, unhealthy environments, unfair treatment, and bias teaching practices? How do we create better experiences for them, as well as for teachers, and simultaneously not gloss over “mis-behaviors” that are often a response to feeling unsafe, unheard, and not respected?

I look forward to seeing you there! :) 

Freedom:

Dance Notes For Freedom:

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Preparations. September 2018. San Francisco, CA

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SIY Morning Wellness Activity :)

Dear SIY Teachers In Training,

My name is Jakey Toor, and I will be leading some movement activities the morning of April 16th, before our day begins.

I’m planning to lead a Warmup dance, which has integrated into it the Brain Dance - a research-based set of movement patterns developed by Anne Green Gilbert (Creative Dance Center) (more info below), followed by the choreography to a dance called “Freedom”, set to Freedom by Pharrell Williams. We will then end in a Savasana pose, to give our bodies & minds an opportunity to rest, and integrate what we’ve learned. If there’s time, we might move through a few gentle asanas toward the beginning & end of our time together as well. 

Looking forward to it :)

To give an idea of the kind of movement we will be doing, videos of the choreography are below; If you’d like to attend, please don’t feel pressured to learn these dances ahead of time, as it won’t be necessary. 

namaste jakey

Brain Dance Warmup Up (16-17):

Freedom:

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More Information On The Brain Dance:

Integrated into our warmup dance is the Brain Dance, a research-based set of movement patterns developed by Anne Green Gilbert. These movement patterns are beneficial for people of all ages. Specifically, they support:

- sensory integration - proprioception (knowing where the body is in space) - interpersonal intelligence - intrapersonal intelligence - correct alignment - a sense of aliveness - hearing - balance - memory - attention - coordination - motor skills - functioning of central nervous system - emotional stability - an understanding of our own right or left side dominance - left and right brain hemispheres - horizontal eye tracking (necessary for reading) - higher thinking skills

Brain Dance Patterns:

Dance Notes For Freedom:

Yoga. In. Dance. Notes: