Episode #27: Oh, The Thinks you can Think! Lessons from Mindfulness Teacher, Dave Trachtenberg

Your Anxiety Toolkit - Anxiety & OCD Strategies for Everyday

Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT | Anxiety & OCD Specialist

Self-improvement, Education, Anxietymindfulnessmeditation, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Today, we have an AMAZING guess on the podcast, Dave Trachtenberg. Dave is the Program Director at Minds Incorporated. Minds Inc. is a non-profit dedicated to empowering Washington DC-area schools by teaching mindfulness-based practices to students, educators, and parents.

During the Podcast, Dave shares how

Minds Inc. teaches students, starting in elementary school (and their educators, and parents) simple daily mindfulness practices. Dave speaks about how these teachings increase focus and attention, reduce stress and anxiety, create resilience and the capacity to handle difficult emotions, and build compassion.

As discussed in the podcast, sometimes when I get down about the state of the world, I find myself doing late night Google searches on how I can make it better. In my searches, I found Minds Inc's website and came across Dave. Dave shared some beautiful stories about helping young children and teens and also shared his own struggles with OCD, Tic Disorder, Depression and Self-worth.

Dave answered the following questions:

Tell us about Minds Inc?

What got you involved in teaching meditation to Teachers, Students and Parents?

What is your personal experience with meditation and Mindfulness?

What at some experiences/examples of situations you have had with youth at Minds Incorporated? (successes, struggles, changes made)?

What type of meditation does Minds Inc. teach?

What special tools/practices do you use for living mindfully?

What advice do you give for those starting out with meditation?

Tell us how you manage struggles with meditation?

How can we teach our children?

This was one of my favorite conversations and I am so thrilled to share it with you. I would love to hear your feedback. Have a wonderful day! Kimberley Resources: Mindsincorporated.org Brain Lock Angel Kyodo Williams http://transformativechange.org/founder/ Pema Chodron Link here Mindfulness For Dummies Mindfulness An * Week Plan How to Live in a Frantic World

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0:00.0	Okay, well, welcome. My name is Kimberly Quinlan and this is your anxiety toolkit podcast. Today's
0:11.0	podcast was quite a synchronous process for me and I wanted to start by telling you the story of how
0:18.4	it all started. So a few weeks ago, it was late at night and I was feeling a little bit gloomy about
0:26.6	the way the world was going and we had a shooting here close to us in Las Vegas and the news is just so crummy.
0:35.6	And as we do, I had one of those crazy Google searches late at night, basically Google
0:42.4	searching how I could solve the world.
0:45.0	And basically what I came to was more doing a more direct Google search on how I can
0:51.4	increase the mindfulness education for children.
0:55.6	And through that search, I found Dave.
0:58.6	And Dave is with us today to talk to us about what they're doing in the world
1:03.7	to make mindfulness and meditation available to our youth and for adults.
1:09.1	So welcome, Dave.
1:11.8	Thank you, Kim.
1:12.6	And I'm glad your late night's Google Bench to Save the World brought us together in this moment.
1:20.2	Oh, I'm so glad to.
1:21.7	Like, I feel that this is, like I said, there's so much synchronicity here.
1:26.2	And I'm sure the listeners will really appreciate your
1:28.4	story and what you have to say on how you came here to this place today as well. So just a little
1:34.8	bit about Dave. Dave is, Trettenberg is the program director at Minds Incorporated. And I'm going to let you tell me a little bit more about that, but basically I wanted to
1:48.6	share that Minds is a non-profit dedicated to empowering Washington, D.C. schools by teaching
1:55.5	them mindfulness and mindfulness-based practices to students, educators, and parents.
2:01.6	So Dave, tell us a little bit more about what you do.
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