Mindful walking as one daily act of self-care: Meditation54321

Every day I go for a walk. I walk to feel the fresh air on my skin, to smell nature and to notice beautiful things around me. I also walk to pause. To pause, stop, refresh and renew. On my walk I’ve been noticing new things, and I’ve been sharing these on social media as a way to share my pause and pass it on to others.

A strengths based approach to goal setting

I had the privilege this morning of working with a group of final year pre-service teachers preparing to enter their last professional experience (time in the classroom where theory and practice are put into action). Our focus today was goal setting, and we approached this by exploring our ideas around what it means to be a teacher and our why of being a teacher closely connected to who we are right now as teachers as this identify formation is occurring. One of the key aspects of this was working to our strengths and extending our knowledge and language around how we can do this.

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Digging deeper into boundary setting: questions to help you

If we are being present with a boundary setting, then we need to be present with the process.

boundary setting: time to learn about or polish up your boundaries

Boundary settings are rules, rituals, goals, guidelines or limits that you set for yourself in regards to your personal and/or professional life.

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How to make small choices well

When we make small choices they can be powerful.

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scan, delete, file, allocate to a task or unsubscribe: 8 steps to approaching email habits mindfully

Have you come back from end of year festive break email overload? Is your inbox overflowing? Hello, yes, that’s me as well.

No email before 11am

This is a great concept. I really like it. And before, you panic and go into all the "what if” scenarios, let's remind ourselves that.

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Creating possibilities to be creative

"I'm not arty" or "I don't do art" are often comments I hear when working in the art studio with young adults

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Always connected

We have now become accustomed to being always connected. Most of us have multiple devices, we have multiple social media accounts (sometimes multiple with the same platform for different audiences and purposes), and we have multiple email accounts.

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3 tips to get you off to the right start for the week

As the a new week begins we often need a bit of a pep-me-up to make sure we get through the week as energised as we started.

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Resting and learning from others

Over the end of year period we all stop...or at least try to stop. We connect with family and friends. But importantly we connect with our self and what we have learnt.

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5 steps to reconnecting to your goals and intentions and setting those boundaries

I’ve been working with several clients who are finding that they have shifted away from their main goal for the year. This is not because it is not important to them.

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