Headspace: Free Tools for Educators, Teens

To say life has been worrying the previous few years is a large understatement. Studying and working towards methods to ease stress may also help increase your total well being and wellness – and there’s an app for that. 

Headspace affords Ok-12 educators free entry to its intensive and well-organized content material library centered on mindfulness and meditation. You possibly can select from intro periods and quick programs to extra superior work, from breathwork and calming strategies to guided and group meditation.

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Need assistance sleeping or consuming higher? Strive “sleepcasts” or conscious cooking and consuming ideas. Exercises primarily based on mind-body connections are led by Olympic athletes, curated playlists from Grammy-winning artists assist you to focus, and informative articles cope with all the things from social to election nervousness. “Navigating Injustice” presents meditations by voices with numerous views to assist acknowledge our variations, struggles and distinctive journeys. 

“We’re continuously evolving supplies,” says Alice Nathoo, a spokesperson for Headspace, which relies in Santa Monica. “We work with LA Unified College District and particular faculties” to grasp educators’ wants, she provides.   

The app is straightforward to navigate and might be set as much as offer you every day reminders, monitor your progress and embrace others by a buddies function. 

“The purpose is to offer a platform for teenagers to be form to their thoughts.” 

Simply launched in November 2021 is Headspace for Teens – additionally free, with content material tailor-made for younger folks, providing instruments to de-stress, sleep and focus.  

“The purpose is to offer a platform for teenagers to be form to their thoughts,” says Nathoo. 

Teenagers can enroll individually, or by becoming a member of or bringing a “Convey Change 2 Thoughts” program to their highschool. The latter helps increase consciousness, normalize conversations round psychological well being, and create a tradition of peer help inside faculties.  

“We wish to convert the conversations to motion,” Nathoo says. 

Educators can use Headspace for teenagers as a supplemental useful resource to social emotional studying and mindfulness within the classroom; the app supports teachers with quite a lot of supplies, together with movies, posters and different instruments, to help with this.