Oren Jay Sofer

A practical roadmap to cultivating the heart's capacity to face and transform our greatest challenges--like the climate crisis, oppression, anxiety, and burnout--from the bestselling author of Say What You Mean. Meditation teacher Oren Jay Sofer shares a pragmatic guide to developing the inner resources necessary to meet a world in crisis with clarity, balance, and courage. Through touching stories, insightful reflections, and concrete instructions, Sofer offers powerful tools to strengthen our hearts and nourish the qualities that can transform our world. Each chapter guides you to cultivate a quality essential to personal and social transformation like mindfulness, resolve, wonder, and empathy. You'll learn ways to: - Experience more choice and freedom in life - Strengthen your ability to focus, sustain energy, and accomplish goals - Develop healthy states of mind to respond more effectively to stress - Identify burnout and take steps to renew yourself - Imbue your daily activities with meaning and purpose

Ibland flyter kommunikationen med andra människor som en dans. Vi slappnar av, turas om att tala och lyssna, riktar om vår uppmärksamhet från den ena till den andra i en rytm vi båda följer. Vid andra tillfällen känns samtalen mer som bergsklättring än som dans. Packningen är tung när vi släpar oss uppåt, väjer för motstånd och snubblar över hinder. I den här banbrytande boken väver Oren Jay Sofer ihop mindfulnessträning med förhållningssättet Nonviolent Communication (NVC). Med sin gedigna erfarenhet visar han vägar som gör det möjligt att kommunicera på ett sätt som inbegriper inte bara ens egna behov, utan även den andras. Sofer förtydligar, med hjälp av berättelser från livet, hur Nonviolent Communication stärker vår förmåga till medveten närvaro. De kraftfulla verktyg som erbjuds för att utveckla tillfredsställande sätt att kommunicera gör det möjligt att: - Uppleva större trygghet även i svåra samtal. - Fokusera på det som gör skillnad i en interaktion. - Uppfatta människors oro, behov och förhoppningar bortom orden. - Få energi av möten och kommunikation i din vardag.

Matthew Brensilver, JoAnna Hardy and Oren Jay Sofer provide a powerful guide to help teachers master the essential competencies needed to successfully share mindfulness practices with teens and adolescents. Incorporating anecdotes from actual teaching, they blend the latest scientific research with innovative, original techniques for making the practices accessible and interesting to this age group. This text is an indispensable handbook for mindfulness instruction in its own right, and a robust companion volume for teachers using The Mindful Schools Curriculum for Adolescents.

Arguably, no student population stands to gain more from mindfulness practice— with its power to enhance emotion regulation, attention stability and self-awareness—than students between the ages of thirteen and twenty. In this comprehensive curriculum developed at Mindful Schools, Oren Jay Sofer and Matthew Brensilver provide twenty five brief (twenty-to-thirty-minute) lessons that supply a framework for mindfulness instruction that can be expanded or condensed according to the needs of students. Each lesson includes a “science supplement” with research findings relevant to the practice, and handouts summarising key aspects of the lesson that can be distributed to students. Users of the curriculum may also be interested in the instructional resource written from a similar perspective by these authors with JoAnna Hardy: Teaching Mindfulness to Empower Adolescents.