Growing Hearts Podcast: Recent Episodes
Maryam Ishani
A podcast for parents, caregivers, and educators working to foster mindfulness, emotional intelligence, and resilience in children. This is the official podcast for The Conscious Childhood curriculum.
In this episode, host Maryam Ishani Thompson, talks about how you can talk with transparency with the children in your lives about war, refugees and how to respond the chaos around them. Inspired by the images we are seeing about the tragedy being suffered in Ukraine, we hope this week's podcast will empower you to act, feel strong, and ready to change the world. Here are some ways you can contribute:
https://www.unwomen.org
https://www.airbnb.org/help-ukraine
https://razomforukraine.org/razom-emergency-response/
https://helpukraine.center/
https://donate.jdc.org/give/393030/#!/donation/checkout
https://eef.org.ua/en/program/proyekt-shelter-dopomoga-vymushenym-pereselentsyam/
https://efektywnyaltruizm.org/blog/help-for-ukrainians
In this episode Certified Counselor and child mindfulness expert, Jennifer Jost, speaks about how early you can start to introduce the skills of mindfulness to children and how even children who struggle with trauma and behaviour control can benefit from moments of presence.
In this week's show host, Maryam Ishani Thompson, breaks down the way that connectivity, contactless technology and the isolation of the pandemic are affecting our youngest generation.
In this week's episode host, Maryam Ishani Thompson, discusses how the band The Grateful Dead could give children a more conscious and happy childhood.
In this episode host Maryam Ishani Thompson dives a little deeper into what it means to raise humans that are socially conscious and able to create what social psychologists call "bounteous presence" with each other.
We learn quickly what to look for in the physical and mental development of children, but are we paying close enough attention in their early years to the development of skills like empathy, kindness, and patience?