Why Mindfulness Matters with Vikas Srivastava
Life, Death & The Space Between with Dr. Amy Robbins
Dr. Amy Robbins
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🗓️ 9 July 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Vikas Srivastava holds a M.A. in Education from Harvard GSE and a B.A. in Sociology from UC San Diego. He focused on school design with an emphasis on student centered curriculum, creative confidence and expanded consciousness. Over the last 20 plus years, he has served as a counselor, teacher and administrator in district, charter and private schools including various grades preschool thru college in both very affluent and economically disadvantaged communities. He currently serves as Director of Mindfulness at Legacy Early College a k-12 charter school in Greenville, South Carolina. He supports school wide integration of Mindfulness, restorative practices, trauma informed interventions and social emotional literacy for all scholars, staff and related adults throughout the k-12 school.
In this epsidoes we discuss:
A review of mindfulness and why it matters.
How can we truly be mindful in everyday lives including mindful walking and eating.
The daily impact of mindfulness
How mindfulness translates into enduring calm.
Mindfulness as a tool and a bridge to a spiritual practice.
Where the wisdom lies in the mindfulness.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Dr. Amy Robbins and welcome to life, death, and the Space Between podcast. I'm a licensed |
| 0:10.0 | clinical psychologist and medium and here we explore life, death, consciousness, and what it all means. |
| 0:18.0 | Today I have Vakas Shravastiv, or Brother V, on the show. Vakas holds an M.A. in |
| 0:25.4 | education from Harvard and a BA in sociology from UC San Diego. He focused on school design |
| 0:33.7 | with an emphasis on student-centered curriculum, creative confidence, and expanded consciousness. |
| 0:40.6 | Over the last 20-plus years, he has served as a counselor, teacher, and administrator in district |
| 0:47.7 | charter and private schools, including various grades preschool through college, in both very affluent and economically |
| 0:56.0 | disadvantaged communities. |
| 0:58.0 | He currently serves as directful of mindfulness at Legacy Early College, a K-12 charter |
| 1:05.0 | school in Greenville, South Carolina. |
| 1:07.0 | He supports school-wide integration of mindfulness, restorative practices, trauma-informed |
| 1:13.7 | interventions, and social-emotional literacy for all scholars, staff, and related adults |
| 1:20.0 | throughout the K-12 school. Welcome, Brother V. A quick public service announcement before we get into today's show with today's guest. |
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