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The Conscious ClassroomAwe: Education's Essential IngredientSend us Fan MailIn this episode of The Conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein reflects on the role of awe and wonder in learning and how it's incumbent on us--the educators--to teach in a way that evokes that sense of being moved with what we teach, why we want our students to learn it, and what we define as the markers of successful learner. Learning for mere information or test-taking ends up primarily being transactional--not transformational. That's also one of the issues with the use of AI--information without the learned and transformative impact of engaging with t...
2026-09-2732 minThe Conscious ClassroomMaking Room for StillnessSend us Fan MailMeditation Practice Changes How We Teach And ListenKnowing about mindfulness is easy. Practicing it, especially when life is loud, is when everything changes. In this episode, Amy Edelstein brings an inspiring and insightful conversation about why real practice matters for educators, students, and anyone who wants more stability, clarity, and joy in daily life. She brings illustrations from her recent 8-day training intensive for new Inner Strength Classroom instructors, why she began the training with a two-day meditation retreat before touching curriculum, classroom management, or ped...
2026-08-3027 minThe Conscious ClassroomThe Gift of Boredom: How Downtime Builds A Teen's BrainSend us Fan MailWhat if your teen's complaint of "I'm bored" is not something to fix? It's something to encourage?In this episode of The Conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein explores the value of unstructured downtime for adolescents. Drawing on neuroscience — including Marcus Raichle's research on the brain's default mode network — Amy explains how boredom activates self-reflection, empathy, imagination, and creative problem-solving, all essential for teen identity development.Amy shares personal reflections on rest, unpacks why over-scheduling and screen time crowd out this vital internal reflection, and offers practical contemplative practices parents can invite...
2026-07-3127 minThe Conscious ClassroomSummer: Time to Slow DownSend us Fan MailSummer is supposed to feel like space, yet so many families enter the break with the same tight grip they used all school year. I’m Amy Edelstein, and I’m inviting you to consider a different kind of summer for teenagers: less optimization, more presence. When life is overscheduled and overstimulated, the mind loses the room it needs to roam, integrate, and create. When there’s slack in the day, something surprising happens problems quietly solve themselves, imagination returns, and young people get to hear their own inner life again.Join A...
2026-06-2825 minThe Conscious ClassroomMeditation and the Muse: How mindfulness stimulates creative writingSend us Fan MailIn this session of The Conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein brings to life the connection between meditation and creativity and how this can be employed in the classroom. She articulates how blending mindfulness with creative writing helps young people find their voice, regulate their inner world, and build real confidence through imperfect drafts. Sharing a simple structure educators can use to create community, deepen attention, and protect imagination in a time of constant stimulation and fast AI tools, you'll finish listening ready to start your own Meditation & Creative Writing Retreat!
2026-05-1927 minThe Conscious ClassroomA Night Under the Bodhi Tree: The True Posture of MeditationSend us Fan MailIn a rare podcast, our host Amy Edelstein shares a personal experience of meditating at the site of the Buddha's awakening in Bodh Gaya back in 1985. In her inimitable narrative style, you'll feel the chill of a predawn rickshaw ride, the rustle of Bodhi leaves, and the mind challenge of conquering challenging mental states. Through Amy's experience, you'll settle into the posture of true meditation, open, curious, and willing to discover. If you’ve ever tried to “win” at practice, chased a perfect sit, or judged yourself by your m...
2026-03-0816 minThe Conscious ClassroomAwe, Accountability, and AI: Teaching the Next Generation to Co-Create ResponsiblySend us Fan MailWhy awe belongs not the makers, not the machines...Awe belongs to the makers who dare, persist, and stand by their work. In this episode, Amy Edelstein opens with a striking contrast: Olympic snowboarders whose courage makes us hold our breath, and synchronized robots whose elegance points back to the human minds that designed every leap. From that lens, she digs into a question shaping classrooms and homes everywhere: how do we welcome synthetic intelligence as a powerful collaborator without losing the accountability, empathy, and taste that ma...
2026-02-2425 minThe Conscious ClassroomMeme Carriers - An Encounter with AlexaSend us Fan MailA simple request for the time turned into a lesson on hidden defaults and the values they carry. When Alexa, perhaps the most popular voice assistant offered eight new voices, Amy Edelstein follows the breadcrumb trail from “small” UX choices to big cultural scripts that land in our homes and classrooms. Along the way, she unpack how labels like “professional” for a male voice and “soothing” for female voices quietly reset expectations for students who are still forming their sense of agency and identity.She looks at the idea of “meme carriers”: eve...
2026-01-1831 minThe Conscious ClassroomMindfulness, More than A Productivity HackSend us Fan MailIn this episode, Amy Edelstein unpacks why mindfulness goes beyond technique and how wonder is a key ingredient that develops authentic leadership in young people and adults. Mindfulness as only an add-on falls short of what it can be and how awe, gratitude, and presence foster the qualities of autonomy and leadership that are becoming more and more important. She encourages reflection on the wonder of human capacities, at a time when there is much attention on the capabilities of synthetic intelligence. In this session, Amy will• contrast typical exe...
2025-11-0128 minThe Conscious ClassroomTeaching Wonder: Jane Goodall inspires a Conscious GenerationSend us Fan MailWhat if the most powerful classroom tool isn’t another strategy, but a deeper way of seeing? In this episode, Amy Edelstein explore show purpose, presence, and philosophical clarity can reshape teaching from the inside out—so young people feel safe to grow, wonder, and lead with heart.As Amy reflects on the quiet force of Jane Goodall’s life—her translucent presence, her unflinching observation of beauty and brutality, and her devotion to conservation—and translates those lessons into daily actions educators can take: walk lighter, listen longer, hold paradox without fl...
2025-10-0529 minThe Conscious ClassroomMiddle School Mindfulness, Made PracticalSend us Fan MailIn this episode, Amy Edelstein shares a practical, developmentally appropriate guidance on teaching mindfulness to middle schoolers. She describes how to adjust practices to this age group, with a focus on structure, repetition, and emotional intelligence. Paying attention to their emerging selfhood, a teacher can guide that emergence while recognizing that students are still very group oriented. Short, tactile practices, playful competition, and thoughtful repeated transitions help students build mindfulness habits that will last.Tips and Guidelines in this session:• modeling calm, order, and consistent rout...
2025-09-0924 minThe Conscious ClassroomLetting Go & Creating Safe Spaces: Rituals for the Conscious ClassroomSend us Fan MailFor teachers feeling overwhelmed by global challenges and classroom responsibilities, this episode offers a lifeline of wisdom. Amy Edelstein delves into the transformative power of letting go—not as abandonment of responsibility, but as a profound acceptance that creates space for growth.Just as great trees stand witness through storms and seasons, we can bear witness, standing still, mindfully being with emotions without trying to fix them. We can practice being present with our own anxiety, grief, or despair. Inner work is essential. When we metabolize our emotions, we become capable of...
2025-08-1020 minThe Conscious ClassroomMindful Interconnectedness: Seeing Beyond Personal StressSend us Fan MailIn this episode, Amy Edelstein explains why she included the lessons on systems thinking in the Inner Strength Teen Mindfulness Program. Teaching students how to understand their experiences within larger systems, helps them manage stress by seeing interconnections across time and society rather than taking challenges personally.You'll learn why:• Teaching teens to think in context allows them to see how their current stressors connect to broader historical developments• Systems thinking serves as powerful self-care by revealing our interdependence and reducing feelings of isolation• Underst...
2025-06-3024 minThe Conscious ClassroomTrue North: The Key to Navigating Change in EducationSend us Fan MailIn this episode Amy Edelstein explores what it can meet to root in our True North, our deepest values, when we lean into how education needs to transform.The questions surrounding education's future form an intricate web: How do we pause and reflect while simultaneously responding to the immediate needs of our students? Who funds it and why? What outcomes do we desire? How do we serve students with vastly different backgrounds and trajectories? When confronting complexity, Amy looks at how returning to a "true north" of universal hu...
2025-04-2627 minThe Conscious ClassroomBrave New Learning: Sal Khan, AI Tutors, & the Future of Mindfulness EducationSend us Fan MailThe educational landscape is undergoing a profound transformation through artificial intelligence, and mindfulness education stands at this exciting frontier. In this thought-provoking exploration, Amy Edelstein reviews Sal Khan's new book "Brave New Words" and unpacks the potential and challenge of AI tutors to support students' inner development, while maintaining crucial human connections.Amy examines Khan's great success with Khan Academy and the AI Khanmigo, looking specifically at how AI tutors can personalize learning experiences, making first-class education and tools more accessible. AI tutors can deliver mindfulness content in students' n...
2025-03-1734 minThe Conscious ClassroomReturning to AnalogSend us Fan MailIn this episode of The Conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein questions the use of the popular idiom "returning to analog." While agreeing with the sentiment that we reconnect with the preciousness of our humanity as technology continues to advance rapidly, she questions placing that sentiment within in technical context. Amy discusses the balance between digital experiences and the visceral richness of our awareness and connections and looks at some of the questions surrounding Ed-Tech and the integration of AI into the classroom. Key themes include:• Exploring the concept of returning to anal...
2025-02-0425 minThe Conscious ClassroomInspiration, Illumination & Sacred Intention: A New Year's Day ContemplationSend us Fan MailThis episode of The Conscious Classroom with Amy Edelstein invites us to explore the power of setting meaningful intentions and to learn how to let go of will-based resolutions as the most effective means to create lasting transformation. By uncovering our deepest values and nurturing inspiration from within, we can align our actions with what truly matters to us and engage in positive change, both personally and collectively.Amy will delve into:• Identifying the value of intentions rather than resolutions• Reflecting on our deeper cares as we set o...
2025-01-0541 minThe Conscious ClassroomBeing with What Is During the HolidaysSend us Fan MailHolidays are awe-filled and also can bring about feelings of sadness, grief and loneliness for ourselves and our students. Join Amy Edelstein in this episode of The Conscious Classroom Podcast as we explore how to let go into the present moment and find the posture that allows us to be with what is with grace, strength, and presence. The holiday season can be a challenging time, filled with mixed emotions and societal expectations. As educators, we have the unique opportunity to guide our students through these complexities with grace and awareness. T...
2024-12-1128 minThe Conscious ClassroomDedication, Transformation & the ArtsSend us Fan MailExperience the essence of creativity and dedication with Amy Edelstein as we journey with her to CoSM, the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in the Catskills. This episode celebrates Alex and Alison Gray, the visionary artists who have devoted decades to the transformative power of art. For their entire adult life, they have been expressing their own adventures in consciousness through their unique for of art, becoming leaders and pillars of the psychedelic art movement. They exemplify how art can be a conduit for personal and collective growth, and their center stands as one...
2024-11-2631 minThe Conscious ClassroomCreating Positive Spaces with a Grateful MindsetSend us Fan MailCreating Positive Spaces with a Grateful MindsetIt's so simple, could it really change our outlook, experience and classrooms? In this episode of the Conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein looks at ways that gratitude can transform our experience and deepen our understanding of presence, interconnectedness, and awe. You will see how we can shift our perspectives, working with everyday events like traffic irritation, and cultivate a very different mindset. It's not lightweight, it can have a real impact and reveal profound truths about the nature of our world. Dis...
2024-10-3122 minThe Conscious ClassroomAuthenticity: the elusive quality that ignites classroomsSend us Fan MailDo you feel like you're authentic in your teaching and in your life? How does we "become" more authentic? Can mindfulness bring authenticity or is it more than that?In this episode, Amy unpacks the elusive quality of authenticity. We all think we know it when we see it but how do we develop it? Authenticity brings integrity and stability into our classrooms. Embracing vulnerability and aligning with our core values revolutionizes our teaching and enables our students to trust and let go so they can learn. ...
2024-09-2934 minThe Conscious ClassroomContentment in Times of StressSend us Fan MailDiscover the secret to finding profound contentment even in the most stressful times. What if you could cultivate a deeper sense of fulfillment through mindful awareness and systems thinking? On today's Conscious Classroom podcast, Amy Edelstein guides you through transformative insights that will help you create spaces for rejuvenation. You'll learn how to harness the power of meditation to develop an inner sense of wholeness and simplicity, empowering you to maintain a backdrop of contentment no matter the challenges you face.Support the showIf you enjoyed this episode pl...
2024-08-2630 minThe Conscious ClassroomPlato Knew It All Along - Teachers, Transmission & Trustworthy ImpactSend us Fan MailCan shifting the focus for teachers from content to connection be the key to lifting adolescent loneliness? Journey with Amy Edelstein on this episode of the Conscious Classroom podcast as she unpacks the role of teachers as moral exemplars, following the principles laid out by Plato. You'll explore how transmission occurs and why teachers impact not just academic success, but also ethics, values, and personal connection that can make a real difference in students' lives.Amy shares a personal story of how her fifth-grade teacher from Linden E...
2024-06-041h 04The Conscious ClassroomEducation Design that Works: Blending Visionary Ideas with Classroom RealitiesSend us Fan MailIn this episode we pack two levels of insight that are mostly at odds with one another when it comes to improving educational design. We examine the dual landscape of educational innovation, where grand visions and data analysis for systemic change clash with the hands-on challenges of classroom application. Working with systems thinking, the fact that we are all innovating around the same core issue, Amy Edelstein illuminates what can become synergy between high-level design and practical program execution. For true reform to be meaningful and pragmatic, we must work with the tools t...
2024-05-0729 minThe Conscious ClassroomJim Crow's Pink Slip - Dismantling the Education GapSend us Fan MailJim Crow's Pink Slip - Dismantling the Education Gap with Amy EdelsteinIn this episode of The conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein helps illuminate the little-known history and ongoing influence of resistance to de-segregation within America's education system - and how mindfulness, being conscious and aware of our biases, is an important part of our work to redress inequity. Leslie Fenwick's seminal work, Jim Crow's Pink Slip, serves as a guide and compass, unveiling the long shadow left by the dismissal or demotion of a significant number of black principals and educators a...
2024-04-1832 minThe Conscious ClassroomAwareness & Innovation: The Wings of Tomorrow's EducationSend us Fan MailUnlock the synergy between mindfulness and innovation as Amy Edelstein explores the relationship between these two orientations in this episode of the Conscious Classroom. Imagine a learning environment where the air is alive with creativity, and students and teachers alike are inspired to view the world through a lens of fresh possibilities. This discussion unearths the possibilities that contemplative practice can reveal, and shows how marrying innovation and inner exploration is working. In Inner Strength Education's pilot project with 10 student interns explore the XPRIZE Connect innovation curriculum and Inner Strength Education's tools of o...
2024-03-2730 minThe Conscious ClassroomMindful Joy: The Secret Sauce in Educational LeadershipSend us Fan MailIn this episode of The Conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein unpacks the importance of teacher happiness and how to use mindful awareness and perspectives to improve teacher wellbeing and sense of possibility prior to making practical changes, which undoubtedly also need to occur. Amy explores the impact of educators who tap into their passion, setting the classroom tone and invigorating their students with a love for learning. In this insightful episode, she dissects how a teacher's zest for their craft can revolutionize the traditional learning space, fostering innovation and a thriving environment f...
2024-03-0325 min
Handful of Leaves | Mindfulness & Buddhism in Everyday LifeEp 9: Near Death Experience Ft Amy Edelstein- #1 Amazon Bestselling Author)About Amy Edelstein:
IPPY-award winner and #1 Amazon bestselling author
Begun her own meditation practice in 1978, spent four decades practicing, studying, researching, writing about
Founder of Inner Strength Education, which brings mindfulness, systems thinking, and social-emotional tools to under-resourced schools, training more than 17,000 teens in Philadelphia public high schools.
Created a trauma-informed free mindfulness app for teens Inner Strength VIBE, available on GooglePlay and App Stores.
Awarded a Philadelphia Social Innovation Award for her organisation’s work in Violence Reduction.
She is a Cornell University College scholar and the author of six books, including The Conscious Classroom.
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2024-02-2047 minThe Conscious ClassroomMindfulness Is Not A Pill, It's a PerspectiveSend us Fan MailDiscover the keys to unlocking our children's potential in an era where education is at a crossroads and technology's influence is undeniable. This enlightening journey through the world of learning reveals how an evolved mindset, coupled with a transformative educational system, is essential for nurturing the curiosity, purpose, wisdom, and respect desperately needed today. Amy delves into the challenges presented by outdated institutions, and the pressures faced by both students and educators as they navigate the fragmented structures of modern society. While mindfulness is a tool, and a valuable one, what it reveals...
2024-02-1821 minThe Conscious ClassroomA Human Relationship to AISend us Fan MailDiscover how the relationship we forge with AI in our classrooms can go beyond mere functionality to touch the very core of our humanity. Join me, Amy Edelstein, as we unveil the transformative potential of AI when approached with the same reverence we approach the great mysteries and subtleties of sentience and life. It's an invitation to infuse our relationship to educational technologies with wonder, respect, and a co-creative spirit that not only advances our learning tools but also shapes the hearts and minds of learners. By instilling these values, we contribute to...
2024-02-0524 minThe Conscious ClassroomScaling Compassion? AI possibilities & Real Life ExamplesSend us Fan MailIn this episode, Amy Edelstein reflects on a recent trip to India, which raised intriguing and inspiring possibilities as she visiting with the founders of the Happiness Curriculum, that reaches 1.7 million students each day. She also explores AI potential and urgency to train AI on compassion and wisdom and scale that use for the benefit of all. She also shares the value of reflection, retreat, and time to let our minds open up to new ways of seeing as essential to keep our relationship to life and those we teach awake and alive.
2024-01-2131 minThe Conscious ClassroomThe Power of Fostering Friendships in the ClassroomSend us Fan MailThere's a hidden superpower in a regular teen activity that will provide support for teachers as well as students. This inclination, when activated, encouraged, and guided can create a safety net for students, build webbing so classrooms feel warm and encouraging, catch students who are falling behind, and bring out the sensitivity and protectiveness of some of the most unruly students. What is it? Friendships. Yes, simple friendships. In this episode, Amy Edelstein talks about how to structure the friendships and the positive benefits that come when students begin to support each other's...
2023-11-0537 minThe Conscious ClassroomPeace, Reason & Care in the Face of WarSend us Fan MailIn this episode of The Conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein shares from the heart about the impact of the eruption of war between Israel and Gaza, and that pain that is bringing to so many in the region and beyond. How do we provide steadiness and guidance within our classrooms? How do we rise authentically and demonstrate care that goes beyond divisions? Included is a long guided meditation (not to be practiced while driving), starting with open awareness to access the goodness of the human heart, and moving into insight practice, from that space...
2023-10-1724 minThe Conscious ClassroomThe Future of Education - New Teacher Training GroundsSend us Fan MailIn this episode, The Future of Education, Amy Edelstein explores a visionary approach to teacher training. If we are to truly inspire teachers and students to engage with their own learning in an innovative and even prophetic way, the training grounds that prepare teachers to teach must exemplify that new world and its higher values. Far too many people are concerned about how AI and Augmented Virtual Reality might subvert learning and far too few are imagining the frontiers that can be created in a virtual reality training ground, where the context is...
2023-09-0430 min
Flourishing Edge Podcast with Ashish KothariMindfulness for Personal Growth: Cultivating Inner Strength with Amy EdelsteinAre you ready to explore why you should never give up seeking? In today’s episode, Anil and Ashish sit down with Amy Edelstein, an author, educator, and nonprofit leader, as they delve into her transformative experiences and the impact of her work in inner city schools. Amy shares her story and how her practices have helped unlock flourishing within the lives of teen students in one of the poorest cities in the United States. With over 40 years of experience, Amy is the founder and executive director of the nonprofit Inner Strength Education, which has empowered more tha...
2023-07-2551 min
Meditation Jam with Maria Rinné, Igniting guided meditations, guests and life!MEDITATION JAM - Celebrate life with guest Amy Edelstein - 18 of June 2023Warm welcome a new pod episode of - “Meditation Jam with Maria Rinné.
I’ve had a beautiful, and inspiring talk with transformation educator, author, meditation teacher, and adventurer Amy Edelstein.
Amy has recently written her sixth book where she shares her transformation trekking to Zanskar (northern India) in her early twenties.
We talk about this, about life and also how she today works with teens to help transform the culture we live in.
After the talk you can join me for an igniting energy meditation where we connect with a base energy, one that is from the beginnings, filled with...
2023-06-181h 14The Conscious ClassroomAI - Potential or Peril or Both?Send us Fan MailIn this episode of The Conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein shares insights about the potential and peril of new AI tools and considerations explored in the recent C20 meetings on Technology, Security and Transformation. As a panelist for the convening on Technology & Education, Edelstein was able to share views on the importance of teachers and teaching, and how to meet this brave new world with caution and optimism.Support the showIf you enjoyed this episode please leave a review! Your review supports our podcast to...
2023-05-2131 minThe Conscious ClassroomEmpathy or Compassion? Discovering an Orientation that Brings Energy & JoySend us Fan MailIn this episode, Amy Edelstein looks at the difference between empathy and compassion, exploring the elements of compassion that allow it to become a source of our own joy and upliftment. She also illuminates how detachment, universality, and self-care enable us to orient ourselves around compassion and fuel our own resilience and upliftment. Support the showIf you enjoyed this episode please leave a review! Your review supports our podcast to reach more educators and share the importance of creating more conscious classrooms. We are c...
2023-05-0228 minThe Conscious ClassroomUncommon Leadership: The Path for the History Makers of Tomorrow - Villanova Women's History Speaker of the MonthSend us Fan MailIn honor of Women’s History Month, Amy Edelstein was invited by Villanova University's School of Business to unpack what it takes to pursue our own calling, break limits, and strive to for excellence in our work, our personal growth, and our contribution to the world. These days, we are pressured to achieve in so many spheres, from the obligation, as leaders, to the bottom line to our own desire for a positive and holistic value set that takes into account our planet, our community, and our own interior life. As women...
2023-04-0254 min
Speaking of Travel® With Marilyn BallAmy Edelstein Is Living Her Elevated Lifelong Personal Transformative JourneyWhat do you remember most about the '70s? Many people certainly went through a lot of changes in the 70s, but not nearly as many as Amy Edelstein. Amy is a transformative educator, mediation teacher, founder of Inner Strength Education, co-founder of Emergence Education Press and the author of a number of books, including Adventure In Zanskar: A Young Woman’s Solitary Journey To Reach Physical And Metaphysical Heights.Amy shares why she embarked on this solitary journey to reach physical and metaphysical heights and some of the most important things she learned while being there. An...
2022-11-2848 minThe Conscious ClassroomVirtual Reality Education- It's Coming, Are We Ready?Send us Fan MailVirtual Reality Education is not a future prospect. Higher Education spaces like Morehouse College have already taught full semesters using VR. This Metaverse is rapidly expanding into K-12. In this episode of The Conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein asks who is thinking about the potentials of this space to train us to be truly mindfully compassionate, awakened humans? And what are the downsides to a world where young people become increasingly more mediated in their relationships and their learning? This episode provides a view into the future that's already happening and asks some important...
2022-10-0229 minThe Conscious ClassroomA Web of Connection: Systems & Solutions for Teen DiscouragementSend us Fan MailIn this episode, Amy shares a brief look at how our awareness of large scale systems that we can intuit through our mindfulness practice and through exploring the interconnected systems we see in nature and in the structure of the cosmos can reveal new solutions to our very entrenched problems. For teens who are discouraged and feeling defeated by the issues of the world and in their lives, this way of seeing can ignite optimism, interest, and passion to make the world a better place. Support the showIf y...
2022-08-0229 min
The Trail Dames PodcastEpisode #165 - Amy EdelsteinIPPY-award winner and #1 Amazon bestselling author, Amy Edelstein has a unique perspective on the relationship between the inner journey and outer change. Having begun her own meditation practice in 1978, and spending the better part of four decades practicing, studying, researching, writing about, and ultimately teaching a variety of contemplative methodologies, Edelstein established and directs the non-profit Inner Strength Education, which she founded in 2014. Inner Strength brings mindfulness, systems thinking, and social-emotional tools to under-resourced schools, training more than 17,000 teens in Philadelphia public high schools. She has now expanded the program's reach with her award-winning, trauma-informed free...
2022-07-2651 minThe Conscious ClassroomA Freedom Worth Striving For - Independence DaySend us Fan MailA Freedom Worth Striving For - Reflections in Independence on the American Holiday 4th of JulyWhat makes freedom exalted? What can our students aspire to when the "freedom" they have been taught to cherish is either - in the case of politics and social orders - profoundly inequitable and even harmful or - as in the case of personal freedoms - exacerbates a sense of existential anxiety with its proliferation of choices and optionality and its dearth of guidance and directives that ennoble. In this short reflection, Amy Edelstein explores...
2022-07-0416 min
Chatting with Christine: Tech Careers & Badass WomenAmy Edelstein: Non-Profit Leader, Educator, and Author | WOMEN OF INSPIRATIONAmy Edelstein is a nonprofit leader, author, and educator. Her mission is to hare powerful ideas that can help us transform ourselves and the culture we live in. The focus of my work illustrates the insight that comes from viewing all our experience in a vast context, as we learn to weave together the evolutionary history of the cosmos, the developmental shifts in global culture, and the subtleties of contemplative insight. Her programs support individuals and groups to discover deeper fulfillment, joy, and purposefulness in life. She comes to us after writing six books including the IPPY award-winning, educational...
2022-06-1444 minThe Conscious ClassroomMeditation on Love in the Face of ViolenceSend us Fan MailThese recent weeks have seen the scourge of senseless gun violence tearing through a school, a supermarket, and neighborhoods across America. In this episode, Amy Edelstein reaches deep into the power of meditation to imprint in us the undeniable experience of interconnectedness and love, a love that inspires us to want to dispel ignorance rather than fight (even for a cause) in ways that only create more division and separation. This entire episode is both a guided meditation and a deep reflection. Support the showIf you enjoyed this e...
2022-05-2727 min
Enthusiastically Spiritual: Uplifting Conversations on Mindfulness, Trust, Intuition & Spiritual PerspectivesLiving a Courageous Life with Amy EdelsteinSend us Fan MailAs souls there are times in our lives where something within us stirs to explore life deeper.Have you ever had that inner stirring? How about the yearn to travel to a foreign land? Perhaps meet others who are living a life that may seem primitive yet exotic and unique.My guest today had this inner yearning, set off on a journey and she is here to share with us her explorations through her Adventure in Zanskar.In 1983, 21 year old Amy Edelstein set out on a 500 kilometer...
2022-05-1043 min
Girl about the Globe#80: Interview with Amy Edelstein - Spiritual TravelIn this episode, bestselling author, Amy Edelstein joins me to speak about spiritual travel and her brand new book. ’Adventure in Zanskar.’ We also cover the thought pattern that often arises when you travel solo. If you’ve ever wanted to travel to Zanskar, are interested in meditation retreats, or question yourself when you travel alone, this episode is for you.
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2022-04-0437 minThe Conscious ClassroomPurpose Driven Education and the Role Mindfulness Can PlaySend us Fan MailPurpose Driven Education and the Role Mindfulness Can PlayIn this episode, Amy Edelstein talks about the role of purpose in teen flourishing. When people are connected to a purpose greater than themselves, they experience more resilience, ability to persevere through challenges, sense of connection, and happiness. We can work with tools of mindful awareness to help students connect with their own values and imbue their lives with greater meaning. As educators, we can contextualize any subject we are teaching within a framework of higher purpose. This helps shape our student's a...
2022-03-1934 min
Spirit Matters TalkAmy Edelstein InterviewAmy Edelstein is the founder and Executive Director of Inner Strength Education, a non-profit organization that supports youth development. Its innovative teen mindfulness and systems-thinking program has empowered 17,000 high school students in under-resourced schools in Philadelphia. The curriculum blends evidence-based mindfulness tools, evolutionary neuroscience, the science of large-scale cultural shifts, and the art and science of relationship. In recognition of the program’s impact on violence reduction, Amy was awarded a Philadelphia Social Innovators’ Award. She is also the co-founder of Emergence Education Press, which is dedicated to creating a more compassionate and inspired world. Amy has more than forty year...
2022-02-2737 minThe Conscious ClassroomThe Power of PurposeSend us Fan MailIn this episode, Amy Edelstein explores the power of purpose and the value that speaking about purpose with youth has on the rest of their lives. She discusses the great Stanford Educator and Author William Damon and his book The Path to Purpose , which looks at the impact of materialism and our fast-paced technological world on the exploration of greater goals. Going as far back as Aristotle, tapping into Erik Erikson and Piaget, Damon bolsters his argument in favor of purpose as a key foundation for youth happiness, resilience, success, patience, and also...
2022-02-1435 minThe Conscious ClassroomHappy New Year! Establishing Presence, Courage & CenterednessSend us Fan MailIn this episode, Amy Edelstein talks about the need of our times for greater courage, centeredness and connection to presence, or being. This episode and its guided meditation will start the new year off on a positive and directed note. Support the showIf you enjoyed this episode please leave a review! Your review supports our podcast to reach more educators and share the importance of creating more conscious classrooms. We are committed to sharing insights that transform outlooks and inspire with what's possible.
2022-01-1125 min
So Important: The Interview Podcast!Amy Edelstein on TRANSFORMING OURSELVES AND THE CULTURE WE LIVE IN!Greetings friends and fans of the So Important podcast! It's the holiday season, and I thought a story of inspiration was in order. And our guest on this episode is very inspiring, to say the least. Spend a little time with Amy Edelstein, who discusses her lifelong personal journey to attain a higher level of spirituality and one-ness with the world - but also to translate her life's lessons into helping others deal with life's stresses and traumas. She has run programs for inner city youth in Philadelphia, written numerous books, and hosts her own podcast.
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2021-12-2420 minThe Conscious ClassroomTech + Teens: Part 3 in dialogue with XPrize semifinalist Anthony HollandSend us Fan MailCan technology empower rather than divide? Can we train robots to exhibit the empathy of their operators in humanitarian situations? How is Inner Strength looking ahead and the possibilities for supporting youth wellness through technology? Join Amy Edelstein in dialogue with XPrize semi-finalist and Inner Strength Board Member Anthony Holland.In this final installment, Tony and Amy answer audience questions about their own search for meaning and purpose and the potential they see in creating a positive culture for all to benefit from. More at Inner Strength Education
2021-12-0921 minThe Conscious ClassroomTech + Teens: Part 2 in dialogue with XPrize semifinalist Anthony HollandSend us Fan MailCan technology empower rather than divide? Can we train robots to exhibit the empathy of their operators in humanitarian situations? How is Inner Strength looking ahead and the possibilities for supporting youth wellness through technology? Join Amy Edelstein in dialogue with XPrize semi-finalist and Inner Strength Board Member Anthony Holland.In this second part of the dialogue, Tony and Amy go more deeply into issues facing students and how Inner Strength is working to empower and heal. More at Inner Strength EducationSupport the showI...
2021-11-3032 minThe Conscious ClassroomTech & Teens: in dialogue with XPrize Semi-Finalist Anthony Holland Part 1Send us Fan MailCan technology empower rather than divide? Can we train robots to exhibit the empathy of their operators in humanitarian situations? How is Inner Strength looking ahead and the possibilities for supporting youth wellness through technology? Join Amy Edelstein in dialogue with XPrize semi-finalist and Inner Strength Board Member Anthony Holland. More at Inner Strength EducationSupport the showIf you enjoyed this episode please leave a review! Your review supports our podcast to reach more educators and share the importance of creating more...
2021-11-2334 minThe Conscious ClassroomMy New Memoir! Adventure in ZanskarSend us Fan MailAdventure in Zanskar: one woman's solitary journey to reach physical and metaphysical heightsThis episode of The Conscious Classroom is a little different, some fun. I just published a memoir about a solitary trek I undertook in the highest mountains of the world, the western most corner of the Tibetan Plateau, and area called Zanskar, India.I simply couldn't wait to share it with all of you. It'll take you on a journey in 1983 through a region virtually untouched by western materialist culture and show y...
2021-11-1812 minThe Conscious ClassroomBreakthrough Insights Can Come Quickly - Classroom Highs and LowsSend us Fan MailDo you often relate just to the ways teens present in the classroom and forget that what goes on in their personal reflection may be much deeper? Teens present in all their awkward ways, they are in a growth stage and sometimes it feels like their bodies don't quite fit their minds and emotions or vice versa. Remember, there may be much more going on under the surface that is significant and should be acknowledged. In this episode Amy Edelstein shares some subtle insights into the nature of thought and awareness that a...
2021-11-1431 minThe Conscious ClassroomMindfulness - How Can It Impact Gun Violence?Send us Fan MailRecently I've been asked, "How does your Inner Strength school mindfulness program help prevent gun violence?" When you are being asked that in a city that has one of the fastest rising rates of gun violence per capita in the United States, that's a serious question. In the last 4 weeks, we've seen 4 shootings at schools, with multiple youth killed. This has led to some serious soul searching. How does a focus on conscious awareness impact such a specific soul-wrenching external event?Join Amy Edelstein for this impassioned an...
2021-10-2322 minThe Conscious ClassroomFun: It's Good for Learning - Playing Mindful GamesSend us Fan MailWe all know play is important for little kids. Imagination, working out scenarios, assuming roles. It's how kids develop a wider sense of being in the world. Play is also important for teenagers. They need to have fun while learning. Play can also break up the day, change the rhythm. It teaches important and deep values as well. Games help students see each other in a different light, some students who are less skilled at call and response classroom questions, may excel in game format. It teaches teamwork and leadership. Games support creative...
2021-09-3026 minThe Conscious ClassroomHappiness Is a Subversive PursuitSend us Fan MailIn this episode, Amy Edelstein talks about why pursuing happiness is not selfish. She looks at what happiness is, why caring about our own happiness and the happiness of others is foundational to creating a positive learning environment, and how to shift students' orientation so they care about the well being of the classroom community. In this session, Amy leads a long guided Love & Kindness mindfulness practice on caring for the whole. Support the showIf you enjoyed this episode please leave a review! Your r...
2021-07-1525 minThe Conscious ClassroomWhat We Learned from the PandemicSend us Fan MailIn this episode, Amy Edelstein explores what we learned about students, teaching online, and essentials during this past year. What supports students' well-being? How do we create relationship even when we are not in the classroom? When we are forced to simplify, what rises to the top as the most important learning tools? The pandemic brought out the importance of well-being, for positive health outcomes and for ability to stay steady in a tense and uncertain world. Amy illustrates how to use mindfulness in the classroom and how to continue to apply the...
2021-06-2931 min
Apricot JamAmy EdelsteinBio: Amy Edelstein, educator, author, and public speaker is a powerful communicator of ideas and beliefs that can help us transform ourselves and the culture we live in. In 2014, she founded Inner Strength Education, a non-profit organization that has empowered 15,000 Philadelphia high school students in mindfulness and systems thinking and 1,400 Philadelphia teachers in self-care strategies. Inner Strength received the coveted Collaborative for Academic Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL)-recommended designation in 2018. ISE's new mobile app Inner Strength, free for all teens and developed to promote teen mental health, launched in April 2021. Amy was awarded a Philadelphia Social Innovation Award f...
2021-06-191h 24The Conscious ClassroomGrief & Loss: Supporting Students in the Post Pandemic ClassroomSend us Fan MailIn this, our third and final episode of this mini-series The Post Pandemic Classroom, we are going to look at how to support students who are returning to school having lost someone during the pandemic. Students often try to hide their grief or don't know how to process emotions, and the school day marches on with little room for the holistic learning and care. Grieving is a tender and an instructive time, creating the space in a classroom for students to take their time to process will serve them their entire lives.
2021-06-1532 minThe Conscious ClassroomWorking with Social Anxiety - The Post Pandemic ClassroomSend us Fan MailThe second episode in this series looks at the phenomenon of teens who are reluctant to go back to the classroom, who are afraid, ashamed, or anxious about their peers' response to them. These students need support to break the ice. They will need to be able to trust the boundaries set up in the class. In this episode, Amy Edelstein will share some tools for the classroom and attitudes that will help you invite reluctant students back to in person learning, while respecting their boundaries and their concerns. To go...
2021-06-0827 minThe Conscious ClassroomWhat to Expect in a Post Pandemic ClassroomSend us Fan MailWe are coming towards the end of the year, Districts are sending out plans, metrics, and expectations for the coming year. Oftentimes, without enough discussion and recognition that this Fall will be one unlike previous years . . . and we don't really know what to expect. Teachers are tired. It's been a trying year. There's hope on the horizon with the coronavirus vaccine and social groupings and businesses coming to life again. But COVID left its mark on us, and has on our students. Many students have fallen behind without the support of in person...
2021-05-2527 minThe Conscious Classroom7 Learning Styles & Mindfulness Cues for Different LearnersSend us Fan MailIn this episode, Amy outlines the seven different learning styles. During the pandemic, while most students are learning online, we need to make special effort to reach different types of learners. Learn the 7 different styles and how to give mindfulness cues and classroom cues that appeal to different learners. Support the showIf you enjoyed this episode please leave a review! Your review supports our podcast to reach more educators and share the importance of creating more conscious classrooms. We are committed to sharing insights t...
2021-01-1923 minThe Conscious ClassroomTapping Inspiration & Building AccountabilitySend us Fan MailThe New Year is a time when all of us make resolutions to improve, accomplish, and achieve. In this episode of The Conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein will talk about how to use the tools of mindful awareness and contextual thinking to tap into a student’s passion to learn. When we feed their inspiration and show them how to recognize their own desire to grow, we set the stage for positive classroom culture. As always, we’ll practice mindfulness exercises and other experiential tools.Support the showIf you enjo...
2021-01-0142 minThe Conscious ClassroomJoy to You - Special Better Sleep SessionSend us Fan MailJoy to the World starts with sending joy to ourselves. Most of us probably believe that but how many of us practice that? Here are some special tips for deepening your experience of joy and restoration during this holiday season. Included is a long guided meditation for better sleep. You can use this year-round and start to make your nights something to look forward to!Support the showIf you enjoyed this episode please leave a review! Your review supports our podcast to reach more...
2020-12-2935 minThe Conscious ClassroomAmplifying GenerositySend us Fan MailHolidays are a time of giving and family. For students who are resource-challenged, this time of year can be challenging. In this Conscious Classroom episode, Amy Edelstein shares mindfulness tools and perspectives to bring the spirit of the holidays into your classroom. You will learn how to emphasize human connection, care, and appreciation and transform worry and concern into positivity and joy.Support the showIf you enjoyed this episode please leave a review! Your review supports our podcast to reach more educators and share...
2020-12-2233 minThe Conscious ClassroomCamera Up?Send us Fan MailTeaching in an online environment due to coronavirus restrictions has required us to deal with new and challenging questions. How can we teach if we can't see our students faces? How do we know if they are comprehending or struggling? Do we demand that they "camera up" or do we allow them to find their way? In this episode, Amy Edelstein talks about online teaching and how to invite but not impose a visual on students. She shares easy to implement techniquest that create relationship and encourage some kind of visual and also...
2020-12-1528 minThe Conscious ClassroomFinding Your CenterSend us Fan MailWhen there's distraction in the classroom and students are disengaged or wound up, our inclination as teachers is often to clamp down, to try to control. We do that with greater or lesser degrees of success. But after that, how do we feel? Those are the days that usually leave us more spent, drained, and wound up. In this episode, Amy talks about establishing our own anchor as a way to coalesce our classroom community. Using mindfulness and other contemplative techniques, we ground ourselves and establish a compelling and safe space f...
2020-12-0226 minThe Conscious ClassroomGratitude: Building Community in the ClassroomSend us Fan MailThanksgiving is a time for conscious appreciation, recognizing the gifts in our lives, even during hard times like these days during the pandemic. How to we build gratitude and what is the relationship between gratitude, awareness, and ease? In this episode, Amy Edelstein will share some insights about the deeper dimensions of gratitude, how our culture and self-sense can serve to obstruct our appreciation for connectedness, and how, once we begin to build our muscles of thanks it makes us extraordinarily happy. As always, mindfulness exercises to build conscious cl...
2020-11-2627 minThe Conscious ClassroomExpressing GratitudeSend us Fan MailIn this Conscious Classroom episode, Amy Edelstein will explore different ways to think about gratitude as well as several different mindfulness practices that you can share with your students to cultivate a deeper sense of care in your classroom.Support the showIf you enjoyed this episode please leave a review! Your review supports our podcast to reach more educators and share the importance of creating more conscious classrooms. We are committed to sharing insights that transform outlooks and inspire with what's possible.
2020-11-1731 minThe Conscious ClassroomBuilding a Culture of ThanksSend us Fan MailGratitude feels good. In this episode of The Conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein will talk about building a culture of thanks. As we lean into the Thanksgiving season, it’s a time where we can begin to bring in awareness of the things that we’re grateful for and start helping our students appreciate so much around them. Specific gratitude practices, questions, and meditations will help you build a culture of thanks in your classroom.Support the showIf you enjoyed this episode please leave a review! ...
2020-11-0339 minThe Conscious ClassroomThe Joy of Returning to Class - However that looksSend us Fan MailCOVID-19 has changed all our lives. Students, Teachers, Parents . . . . But regardless of the medium you are going back to school - online or in person or blended, it really is great to be back in class. Learning, teaching, connecting is perhaps more important than ever. When you don't take school for granted, which we can't in these times, the school connections become even more precious. Enjoy this exploration and some guided meditation. Support the showIf you enjoyed this episode please leave a review! Your r...
2020-10-2131 minThe Conscious ClassroomCultivating AwarenessSend us Fan MailAwareness is the foundation of stability, good relationships, and creative learning. Mindfulness techniques help teens cultivate self-knowledge – the awareness of their habits of thought and behavior, their likes and dislikes, and the way they feel happiness and sadness. In this Conscious Classroom episode, Amy Edelstein will shed light on how we cultivate awareness and lead you through meditation exercises you can do in your classroom.Support the showIf you enjoyed this episode please leave a review! Your review supports our podcast to reach more ed...
2020-10-0644 minThe Conscious ClassroomRaising EnthusiasmSend us Fan MailIn this Conscious Classroom episode, Amy Edelstein will share mindfulness tools and tips to raise the level of enthusiasm for learning. She’ll illuminate why mindful perspective taking can shift students from blasé to interested in simple but profound ways. You’ll learn how to inspire your students to seek that experience of “being in the zone.”Support the showIf you enjoyed this episode please leave a review! Your review supports our podcast to reach more educators and share the importance of creating more conscious...
2020-09-1530 minThe Conscious ClassroomS.P.A.C.E. - 5 Practices to Start the School Year MindfullySend us Fan MailIt’s the start of the school year. Hey, no smell of new textbooks, no bulletin boards to decorate, no lockers to assign, no bells and the patter of hundreds of pairs of shoes clattering down the hallways. This year is quiet. Buildings at rest. Teachers and students at home, each in our own little spaces, connecting via . . . what seems like magic . . . our bodies and voices broadcast as little bits of numeric data, miraculously appearing on the screen in front of us. How do we humanize this experience? How do we create a sen...
2020-09-0331 minThe Conscious ClassroomCultivating Curiosity: Mindful Qualities for Teen SuccessSend us Fan MailLove of learning is essential for youth to truly internalize information. Contemplative exercises, contextual seeing, and the practice of re-framing our worldview cultivate a student’s curiosity. In this episode of The Conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein will talk about how to shift a student’s experience from overwhelm to interest, and how to work with the art and science of observation and reflection. As always, the episode will include information and practice.Support the showIf you enjoyed this episode please leave a review! Your revi...
2020-08-0433 minThe Conscious ClassroomA Mind Like Water, Inspiring Calm in the ClassroomSend us Fan MailBruce Lee, the iconic martial artist, often spoke about the value of a mind like water -- fluid, flexible, soft enough to go around obstacles, persistent enough to carve a hole in rock, and forceful enough to uproot tall trees or buildings. Water can be invisible as steam, transparent in its liquid state, and hard and opaque as ice. Our minds can be as flexible and powerful if we know how to cultivate attentive calm, precise discrimination, and flexible perspectives. In this episode, Amy Edelstein will talk about using the metaphor of a...
2020-07-2242 minThe Conscious ClassroomImproving FriendshipSend us Fan MailGood relationships with adults and peers help teens navigate mental and emotional challenges more effectively than any other intervention. Friendships gone sour can snuff out the light of enthusiasm in an adolescent. How do we help our teens learn the art and science of friendship? In this Conscious Classroom episode, Amy Edelstein will map the cartography of friendship. She will guide you in mindful awareness practices you can use with your students to help them learn how to be better friends to themselves and to others. You will also learn some of the...
2020-07-0733 minThe Conscious ClassroomAmplifying CelebrationSend us Fan MailHard to believe, the end of the school year is upon us! In this Conscious Classroom Webinar, Amy Edelstein will lead you in some reflections and meditations that will celebrate the year’s victories, allow more challenging times to be assimilated and transformed into lessons learned, and consciously close the year so everyone can enjoy the summer break ahead.This episode looks at how to bring in celebration in the time of COVID-19 and protests for equality and the end of racism. Teens are still teens and need to celebrate milestones, ri...
2020-07-0239 minThe Conscious ClassroomCOVID-19: Self Care & Discovering PositivitySend us Fan MailResistance and frustration is an inevitable human reaction to the stressful conditions we are living in. We can learn to allow, observe, and be with our responses as they are, without creating more tension or negative self judgment. Self care means treating ourselves with kindness, learning how to be gentle when needed and how to turn our minds away from thought patterns that sap our vitality and well-being. Working with tools such as breath, body scan, or love & kindness all affect different parts of the brain and produce different long term c...
2020-06-1642 minThe Conscious ClassroomCOVID-19: Building Capacity, Let the Lima Bean GrowSend us Fan MailIn this episode of special support for educators during the time of school closures looks at how we build our inner capacity so we have a little more strength. Our inner systems feel like they have very little give right now. How do we create a little more space for all the frustration? We'll talk about expanding our context, deepening our understanding of interconnectivity and using awareness to focus. By expanding our context, we'll look at the miracle of how our world came into being, the beautiful evolutionary story. We'll also explore interconnectivity...
2020-06-0927 minThe Conscious ClassroomSummer Break: Conscious EndingsSend us Fan MailThe end of the school year is a special time. Conscious endings and appreciation for the heartwarming things that happened during the course of the year make all the difference. As educators, we need to learn to let go, nourish ourselves with lessons learned, and release ourselves to enjoy the downtime. In this episode of The Conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein will help you end the year on a note of positivity and resolution.Support the showIf you enjoyed this episode please leave a review! ...
2020-06-0939 minThe Conscious ClassroomCOVID-19 Developing Patience, Bringing Ease and InsightSend us Fan MailHave you ever thought about why they say "Patience is a virtue"? Virtue is not only meant as an inherent moral goodness but also as a quality that we can develop if we apply ourselves to it over time. It is not necessarily easy to cultivate. Patience is a coveted character trait. During the times of great challenge, we naturally want the hardship to be over. We want to return to a life of relative ease, stability, and familiarity. The reality is, upheavals of the magnitude we are experiencing now have ripple effects ex...
2020-06-0248 minThe Conscious ClassroomPeace or Pressure? Supporting students during testing seasonSend us Fan MailTeens are more stressed than ever before. The cloud of testing looms large over students and anxiety about grades and performance can incapacitate ordinarily happy kids. In this episode of The Conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein will teach you how to help your students use mindfulness and other systems thinking practices to do their best and to gain confidence from the learning and victories they've had over the entire year.Support the showIf you enjoyed this episode please leave a review! Your review supports our...
2020-05-2635 minThe Conscious ClassroomCOVID-19 Integrative Mindfulness - Whole Person WellnessSend us Fan MailHow can we integrate all we are thinking and feeling at this time? What is the Body-Mind connection? When we take into account thought patterns, the frameworks we rely on to make meaning, and the quality of our awareness, we start to open up and integrate our entire experience. Just paying attention without also examining the context within which we are paying attention is partial. Just exploring our worldviews and interpretive frameworks without paying attention to the qualities of consciousness and to the clarity of our own awareness is also partial. I...
2020-05-2237 minThe Conscious ClassroomThe Dynamics of CalmSend us Fan MailKids are naturally full of energy. That energy, when channeled helps learning. And yet, as teachers we crave calm. In this episode of The Conscious Classroom Calm, Amy Edelstein will show you that calm doesn’t always look “quiet.” And quiet isn’t always calm. You’ll learn more about how to create authentic calm, ease of being, and openness in your classroom. As always, we’ll do some mindfulness and perspective taking practices to experience and to promote ease of being in the classroom.Support the showIf you enjoyed...
2020-05-1235 minThe Conscious ClassroomDeveloping PatienceSend us Fan MailPatience is a virtue. In our era of ever-increasing speed and ever-decreasing attention span, cultivating this virtue may be harder than ever. And yet we must. We must both cultivate our own patience and that of our students. In this Conscious Classroom episode we will work with mindful awareness tools to develop patience. Amy Edelstein will shed light on how and why doing something as simple as watching the breath, becoming aware of thoughts, and noticing sensations can improve our tolerance and our care.Support the showIf you...
2020-04-2824 min
The Conscious ClassroomGen C: Learning & Focus in the age of CoronavirusSend us Fan MailIn the age of coronavirus, everything has changed. Usually at this time, students would be focusing on testing skills. Now they are needing to cultivate many new habits, some good, some not so good. How do we support them to learn in a relaxed way? How do we help them to bypass self-consciousness and drop into their authenticity and creativity? Join Amy Edelstein for insight and experiential tools to develop relaxed and alert focus. For more, visit www.InnerStrength.EducationSupport the showIf you enjoyed this episode please
2020-04-2746 minThe Conscious ClassroomPracticing Love & KindnessSend us Fan MailThe foundation of good learning is a good relationship with one’s teacher or mentor. Building Love & Kindness practices into your school day creates a culture of appreciation, respect, kindness, and care. In this episode of The Conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein shares some simple ways that you can work with compassion building tools, allowing students to embrace goodness. In a culture where students are exposed to violent video games and acrimonious public discourse, building in care into the classroom is a welcome focus for both you and your students.Support the sh...
2020-04-1443 minThe Conscious ClassroomTimes of Challenge, Times of OpportunitySend us Fan MailWe are living through a great cultural change, while we are in the midst of something so big it is hard to see what is changing and where it will leave us. Still, as educators, this is the time to use the best of our historical knowledge and context setting to think in constructive ways about these times and to challenge our students to think in the same way. During the Civil War, Walt Whitman wanted to create a poem so noble, so beautiful that it would end war. "Song of Myself" sadly...
2020-04-1221 minThe Conscious ClassroomCOVID-19 Exercising Choice, Building StabilitySend us Fan MailIn times of challenge, like we are presented with now during the Coronavirus epidemic, when we feel overwhelmed and ill-equipped to handle the situation, small tools and actions can help bring groundedness, stability, and courage into our lives. Join Amy Edelstein in this episode as she shares ways to exercise a degree of choice over our circumstances and in so doing build strength. We'll keep our eyes on the bigger picture and be able to better support our students and ourselves. Support the showIf you enjoyed this episode p...
2020-04-0913 minThe Conscious ClassroomCOVID-19 Conscious ClassroomSend us Fan MailLife has been upended as we know it. Now more than ever, we need tools that will provide our students with calm during the storm, compassion when nerves are fraught, and curiosity about how we can emerge triumphant and proud. In this episode, Amy Edelstein looks at the coronavirus and what that means about priorities for ourselves and our students.Support the showIf you enjoyed this episode please leave a review! Your review supports our podcast to reach more educators and share the importance...
2020-03-3138 min
Mourning Talk ShowEP 10 Amy Edelstein: Mindfullness for Inner StrengthAmy Edelstein is an author and educator. She has studied many paths of spiritual practice and (among other things) developed a secular course to teach inner strength to teens. Her message is one of practical strength and love. It was an honour to speak to her!
Check out how you can learn or get involved in this important work!
Inner Strength Foundation: https://www.innerstrengthfoundation.net/
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2020-03-281h 07The Conscious ClassroomWhat Is Racial Literacy? Understanding the dynamics of raceSend us Fan MailRacial stress occurs every day in diverse classrooms. Tensions between students, between teachers, on the news all affect how well we connect and teach our students. In this powerful episode of The Conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein shows how mindfulness skills can diffuse racial tension and create a classroom of openness, respect, and love.Support the showIf you enjoyed this episode please leave a review! Your review supports our podcast to reach more educators and share the importance of creating more conscious classrooms. We are...
2020-03-1756 minThe Conscious ClassroomTeen Mental Wellness: Promoting positive mental healthSend us Fan MailHoliday season is a time for family, warmth, and peace. For all too many of our students, holiday time is a time of stress, sadness, and distance between media images of gifts and neighborhoods of lack. Many teens, even those who come from stable homes experience depression and loneliness at this time. In this episode of The Conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein shares mindfulness tools that support teens over the holiday break to stay happy and connected with themselves.Support the showIf you enjoyed this episode please leave...
2020-03-0340 min
The Victor Cruz Acting StudioEpisode 17: Emotional Awareness w/ Psychotherapist Amy Edelstein, LCSWVictor Cruz and Psychotherapist Amy Edelstein, LCSW sit down and talk about the emotional wellness of actors and some of the mental health issues that they face.
For more information on Amy and her practice, visit:
Amy Edelstein LCSW
In-Home & In-Office Therapy
P: 201.981.9318
W: www.amyetherapy.com
A: 516 Bloomfield Ave, Suite 2, Montclair, NJ 07042
Other Resources
1. The Renfrew Center For Eating Disorders - NYC
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2020-01-0738 min