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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it's ok if it's done well, adapts and the curriculum innovates. For my kids, it was extremely redundant and boring. I'm not sure either of them are approaching life and decision-making differently after years of it. A year of COVID and learning about resiliency and disappoint has probably done more for them.

As a teacher, I am ok with some integration into the classroom but I absolutely hate it being forced onto me professionally and the expectation that I practice SEL with my colleagues. I am a super introvert and I don't want to feel vulnerable, talk to my colleagues about my SEL needs and I don't want to feel pressured into participating in all the extra activities. [/quote]

this is actually a really important point. for someone who has been through trauma or is just very private/introverted, “SEL” techniques like meditations can actually be harmful. actual therapists and mediation teachers know that there is no one size fits all. [/quote]

LMAO you have no clue what meditation is do you?[/quote]

yes, I do. and good meditation teachers know that you need to be very careful with how you teach meditation to someone with a history of trauma, anxiety, or other mental health challenges. even an instruction to “pay attention to the breath” can cause anxiety/panic in some people. [/quote]

You really don't, meditation can literally be done by anyone who knows the basic foundations. It's not something needed by a licensed professional. Leave it to white people to take my people's traditional practices and make it into something to be monetized.[/quote]

Leave it to someone on DCUM to claim an ancient and global activity as exclusively “their” tradition.[/quote]

Sorry sweetie, meditation did not originate from whites. Doesn't mean you can't practice it by any means but Asians and Africans practiced it first and Europeans adopted it way later. You really think during the Victorian era your people were doing mediation  :roll: [/quote]

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