Can Teaching Middle Schoolers Self-Regulation and Heart-Based Biofeedback Reduce School Violence and Suicide Risk? In response to rising mental health struggles and interpersonal violence among young adolescents, federal health officials are turning to an innovative, science-backed approach: neurophysiological emotional regulation. Under a newly awarded grant funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), NORC at the University of Chicago is partnering with Ohio’s Pickerington and Upper Arlington school
Whole-Child, Whole-School Success: How SEL and Self-Regulation Helped Transform an Albuquerque Charter In the high-energy hallways of Mission Achievement and Success (MAS) Charter School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, emotional wellness isn’t just an abstract counseling concept—it is the living, breathing pulse of the daily schedule. Serving roughly 1,800 K–12 students from predominantly low-income backgrounds across two campuses, MAS has quietly engineered an extraordinary educational turnaround. By seamlessly weaving comprehensive Social-Emotional
We’ve all had moments when we wished we had taken a pause – to allow ourselves the chance to regain calm and tune into what would be an intelligent response in the next moment. Yet even knowing the value of pausing, we can still allow frustration, rushing, harsh judgments, or other reactions to block our intuition and the need to: Pause before engaging, especially in sensitive situations. Example: Emails we
There's a moment most of us have experienced. You're sitting with a big decision – a relationship, a career shift, a change that's been quietly tugging at you for months. You've read the articles, talked to friends, maybe even typed your question into an AI. The answers come back organized and reasonable. And still, something in you isn't settled.
The speed of increasing stress and chaos is awakening more people to the understanding that it's highly intelligent to start getting along with each other through cooperation and compassion. This requires opening our hearts along with commitments to treat each other as we want to be treated. Together we can diminish the stress accruing snowball, but it has to start at the individual level rather than waiting for and blaming
Measuring Workplace Stress – In A New Way Researchers studying the effects of stress on employees undertook a new approach in their research to improve upon what they said may be outdated and obsolete tools for evaluating workplace stress. As a result, they said, some of their findings were "astonishing." The researchers, Adrian Low of the …
The holidays can magnify our care, kindness, and connection… yet they can also magnify energies of separation, like blame, chaos, and emotional instability. It’s helpful to make heart-firm commitments to add compassion, kindness, patience, and latitude as we interact with others and with ourselves. Practicing these heart qualities during the holiday period (or any time) can prevent much stress and lift our spirit for increased clarity, discernment, and intuitive guidance
Study Finds a Little Quick Coherence Good for College Students Editor’s note – “Coherence is the state when the heart, mind and emotions are in energetic alignment and cooperation. It is a state that builds resiliency – personal energy is accumulated, not wasted, – leaving more energy to manifest intentions and harmonious outcomes.” Dr. Rollin McCraty, HeartMath Institute Know someone about …
Global Tree Monitoring Network Tree Research Project: Phase 2 Something about trees. … a walk in the forest, the spiritual experience of planting a tree, settling down against just about any kind of tree with book in hand. Can these "other beings" sense how humans feel about them? Do trees feel and are they affected by our …
