Taking Gratitude Back to School With Ash Manuel

Live Happy Now

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Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Health & Fitness:mental Health

4.7 • 522 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

As kids (and teachers) head back to school, what if they started focusing on subjects like gratitude, kindness and empathy? This week’s guest, Ash Manuel, left his teaching career after discovering positive psychology and set out on a mission to change how children learn. Now, his Growing with Gratitude program is a global positive education program that helps build and protect children’s mental wellbeing. In this episode, you’ll learn: How Ash became interested in positive psychology. How he has applied his teaching skills to develop the Growing with Gratitude program. What he hopes to accomplish by taking gratitude into classrooms.

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0:00.0	Thank you for joining us for episode 378 of Live Happy Now.
0:07.8	Most schools don't teach things like gratitude, kindness, and empathy, but this week's
0:12.7	guest wants to change that.
0:15.3	I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I'm talking with Ash Manuel, who left his
0:19.9	career as a teacher after discovering
0:21.7	the principles of positive psychology and deciding to change the way students are taught.
0:27.5	His program, Growing with Gratitude, is a global positive education program that helps build
0:33.2	and protect children's mental well-being.
0:35.8	His new book, Growing with Gratitude, Building Happiness, Resilience, and Mental Well-Being in
0:41.1	our schools and homes, is designed to share those principles with parents and teachers around
0:45.6	the world.
0:46.5	And today, he explains more about this important program.
0:51.2	Ash, welcome to Live Happy Now.
0:53.8	Thanks, Paula. Thanks for having me. We wanted to talk to you because Now. Thanks, Paula.
0:54.5	Thanks for having me.
0:55.5	We wanted to talk to you because gratitude happens to be one of our favorite topics here at Live Happy.
1:01.3	And you're taking it to the schools.
1:03.5	And I'm just so happy to see the work that you're doing.
1:07.5	And I wanted to find out how this journey began.
1:10.8	Like, how did you become interested in gratitude and what led you to this point?
1:16.3	Yeah, it's a really interesting question about how I came across, I guess, the power of gratitude for my own journey.
1:22.4	If I look back now, probably about 2010, I was actually looking into property investing.
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