Amazon Our new book, Awakening Joy for Kids , is a resource for parents, teachers, and caregivers who want to give their kids the gift of authentic happiness. "Awakening Joy for Kids is the new 'go-to' resource to help parents and teachers help children manage fears and worries and develop a deep inner wellspring of well-being. Here he joins with Michele Lilyanna, a classroom teacher for 25 years, to offer caregivers and children ways to find joy in each day together.
Awakening Joy for Kids Click to order at Amazon. Awakening Joy for Kids provides an easy to follow, step-by-step guide for bringing mindfulness to the lives of children and even adults. Kids who … These lessons are fun, playful, practical, and easily adaptable for home and school. Spirit Rock founder, author, and teacher James Baraz’s Awakening Joy offers his large and devoted readership a program to gain contentment and happiness by cultivating the seeds of joy within.

It encourages children to appreciate the small things in life and to cultivate the skills necessary to deal with everyday stressors. • cultivate effective practices for sustaining joyfulness, such as reclaiming your natural sense of wonder and finding joy in the midst of everyday experiences.

So many kids today come to school stressed and brain science tells us that that's not a good condition for learning. These lessons are fun, playful, practical, and easily adaptable for home and school. Awakening Joy for Kids provides a number of lessons for children that both teachers and parents can use to address emotional learning. Reprinted with permission of Parallax Press. 2016 Nautilus Book Award – Gold Medal, Parenting & Family; Spirit Rock founder, author, and teacher James Baraz’s Awakening Joy offers his large and devoted readership a program to gain contentment and happiness by cultivating the seeds of joy within. Awakening Joy for Kids: A Hands-On Guide for Grown-Ups to Nourish Themselves and Raise Mindful, Happy Children.

Spirit Rock founder, author, and teacher James Baraz’s Awakening Joy offers his large and devoted readership a program to gain contentment and happiness by cultivating the seeds of joy within. Kids who … Winner of the Nautalis Gold Book Award for BEST PARENTING.

Your Independent Bookstore . Awakening Joy for Kids. So many kids today come to school stressed and brain science tells us that that's not a good condition for learning. In our book, Awakening Joy for Kids, James Baraz and I offer parents, educators and children a huge toolbox of playful user-friendly practices to nurture qualities of wellbeing such as mindfulness, gratitude, getting through difficult times, loving ourselves, loving others and several other social-emotional principles. James Baraz and Michele Lilyanna’s new book, Awakening Joy for Kids, is a resource for parents, teachers, and caregivers who want to give their kids the gift of authentic happiness.

He is co-author of two books Awakening Joy: 10 Steps to a Happier Life and Awakening Joy for Kids. or click here for Penguin Random House. or go to your local bookstore and ask them to bring it in! This essay is dapted from Awakening Joy for Kids by James Baraz and Michele Lilyanna ©2016.
Co-authored by James Baraz and Michele Lilyanna. Reprinted with permission of Parallax Press. Awakening Joy for Kids provides a number of lessons for children that both teachers and parents can use to address emotional learning.

“Awakening Joy for Kids is the new ‘go-to’ resource to help parents and teachers help children manage fears and worries and develop a deep inner wellspring of well-being. James has taught the Awakening Joy course to over 20,000 people from 30 countries since 2003, as well as retreats and workshops in the US and internationally. Here he joins with Michele Lilyana, a classroom teacher for 25 years, to offer caregivers and children ways to find joy in each day together. Packed with practices and activities that James and Michele have gathered over their many years of working with thousands of adults and children in retreats, workshops, and the classroom, Awakening Joy for Kids is imbued with compassion and delight.

ISBN: 9781941529287 Ordering Options: Parallax Press. Michele Lilyanna is a zealous creator of living lessons for children, parents and teachers, translating leading edge research, practices in mindfulness, neuroscience and compassionate communication into parenting and classroom activities.