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Mindfulness Mode

331 Become An Empowered Educator With Jen Molitor

Mindfulness Mode

Bruce Langford

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness:alternative Health, Self-improvement, Education, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Spirituality

4.8541 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Jen Molitor is a teacher who believes we should teach children, not curriculum. She’s on a mission to empower and unite teachers and parents all over the world. Her superpower is getting teachers to smile and enjoy teaching again. She brings a refreshing perspective that lifts you up when you want to walk out, reminding you of the real reason you became an educator.We are all teachers. Let’s spread the message that powerful teaching is done through the heart. Start there, and as if by magic, the mind also opens to learning. Contact Info Website: www.LiftUpLeaders.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LiftupLeaders/ Blog: Lift Up Leaders Most Influential Person Louise Hay, Author Effect on Emotions I'm more centered. I'm a better mom, a better wife, a better person. Thoughts on Breathing It helps to slow me down, helps to connect me and get in touch with my body in a quicker way. Suggested Resources Book: The Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman App: Smiling Minds (A Meditation App for Kids) Bullying Story I think there are a lot of stories about people being bullied and picking on them and I have some. However, I don't want to share that. I want to share one from a teacher perspective and what I'm seeing in schools because I think it's really powerful. I think it's powerful as a parent too, to model these kinds of things. I think that parents and teachers in this authority type of responsibility, we're taking care of kids, we're in charge of them. We can tend to bully kids ... because I said so and this is how it's done and we have all these other things to get through. So just sit down and this is what you have to do and I don't care if you dropped your pencil, you know, like this kind of thing. And I think inadvertently we are really sending this message to kids that they're not as important. Right now I work as a gifted intervention specialist and instructional coach and so part of my time I work with kids in my room who are identified as gifted. It's a pullout type of atmosphere. So I have between eight and 20 kids in my room and when they come to my room I hear some of the grumbling that happens from what teachers told them in the hallway, like their whole class had to go back to the class and sit down because two kids were talking in the hallway or one kid got in trouble and everyone else had to get the brunt of it. So what I've come to discover is that we need to have more mindful conversations with kids and step out of our ego for a little bit. And if a kid is misbehaving, it's usually because they're discouraged. They don't wake up one day and say, who can I tick off today? I can't wait. It's more of, I'm feeling uncomfortable if something's going on, I'm discouraged. And, I need attention. I need this. I'm going to throw this or get in trouble there. I don't eat the teacher's lounge anymore. I stopped that and it's been helpful. So that kind of complaining and venting about kids and other people. Even as a mom, if there's another mom on the soccer field and all the moms are talking about that person, well that's, that's kind of bullying too. And I think we have to model for others, you know, like grace. I think we have to model grace. Like, no, she doesn't wear what I would wear and maybe she doesn't do what I would do or drive the car that I would, or treat her kid like I would. There's got to be a place for some grace for kids, for teachers, for adults.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Mindfulness mode 331.

0:03.6

Sit with your day and visualize how you want it to go.

0:08.5

You're listening to Mindfulness Mode with me, your host and mindfulness life coach, Bruce Langford.

0:14.9

Hey, it's so great to have you with us today.

0:17.8

Thanks for joining us.

0:19.4

Always I like to mention how much I appreciate you being

0:23.5

an avid listener of the show. And if this is your first time, I hope you enjoy it. And if you do,

0:29.7

please share and subscribe. That always helps too. So thanks so much again for being here. Well,

0:36.9

as I record this intro on today's show it's almost

0:41.5

father's day and the show is going live and i just had my meetup i've never mentioned that the third

0:49.7

saturday of every month i have a meetup in lond, Ontario, Canada, and it's a meetup about

0:57.2

mindfulness. It's called Pause Your Life. We have a little time of meditation. We have a time

1:04.0

where we can talk and be open and be non-judgmental with each other and just share.

1:11.0

It's called Pause Your Life.

1:13.0

And it's a great group.

1:14.1

So if you'd like to attend and you're in the London, Ontario area,

1:17.9

just send me an email, Bruce at MindfulnessMode.com,

1:22.6

and I'll tell you more about it.

1:24.8

And speaking of that, I got an email this morning from Becky, who she says

1:30.8

she's been listening to the show for quite a while. She said, I discovered it last year,

1:35.3

and I enjoy episode after episode after episode. And she writes, I can't believe how much it's helped

1:43.3

my life at work because I'm so much more calm

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