The Iceberg - An SEL Metaphor
This resource is a follow up to the fun introduction to icebergs and the fun facts about them. The connection to the iceberg and our emotions is a next step into understanding how feelings and emotions are complex and often connected. The iceberg metaphor helps to explain that often we find more than one feeling 'below the surface' just like the iceberg...
Introduction to the Compassionate Systems Framework in Schools
Author's Introduction Abdul Latif Jameel World Education LabDescriptionIn education, where interest in social and emotional learning (SEL), mindfulness, and systems thinking is growing, we find both an opportunity and a need to develop models of thinking and teaching that prepare students to better understand and respond to the systems to which these issues belong. We draw from established SEL models, together with developments in the emerging field of complexity science and the study of systems, to establish a framework—what we call a “compassionate systems” framework—for building a cognitive and affective foundation for global citizenship. This framework conceptualizes compassion as an essentially systemic property of mind: to cultivate compassion is to be able to appreciate the systemic forces that influence people’s feelings, thoughts and actions...
Mindful Minutes with Katie and Dan
In this current time with so many unknowns and new routines, self care practices that include attention to our social emotional wellbeing are critical to our overall health. With Zoom meetings and conference calls becoming a part of our 'new normal', taking a few minutes to stretch our bodies and minds is within our capacity. Most of us, including a beginner like me, benefit from facilitated guidance...