This message is sent to all parents of FCPS students and KIT Plus subscribers.
What do students, professional athletes, corporate executives and others do to reduce their stress-levels, and improve their focus and performance? They practice Mindfulness.
We invite you to attend Managing Stress: How Mindfulness Training in Our Schools Can Benefit Students, Educators, and Parents, on Monday, June 9 at 7:30 p.m. at Woodson High School Auditorium, 9525 Main St., Fairfax, VA.
Join Congressman Tim Ryan (Ohio), five-term U.S. Representative and author of A Mindful Nation, and Tara Brach, Ph.D., a nationally recognized mindfulness teacher and author of Radical Acceptance and True Refuge, as they discuss how practicing mindfulness can help improve your ability to respond to events and circumstances in your life with clarity and balance. Scientific evidence supports the benefits of mindfulness.
This FREE event is a partnership between MINDS, The Josh Anderson Foundation, and Fairfax County Public Schools. For more information please email
info@mindsincorporated.org
I give you Mz. Tara Brach, Ph.D....
As an undergraduate at Clark University, Tara pursued a double major in psychology and political science. During this time, while working as a grass roots organizer for tenants’ rights, she also began attending yoga classes and exploring Eastern approaches to inner transformation. After college, she lived for ten years in an ashram—a spiritual community—where she practiced and taught both yoga and concentrative meditation. When she left the ashram and attended her first Buddhist Insight Meditation retreat, led by Joseph Goldstein, she realized she was home. “I had found wisdom teachings and practices that train the heart and mind in unconditional and loving presence,” she explains. “I knew that this was a path of true freedom.”
http://www.tarabrach.com/about.html