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SPRING 2024
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April Spotlight
April 2024
Your Happiness Calendar for Educators
This month, practice self-compassion with daily tips and practices from Greater Good Science Center.
Greater Good’s monthly Happiness Calendar for Educators is a day-by-day guide to building kinder, happier schools where everyone belongs. This month, learn about the science of self-compassion each day in April.
You can join them on April 16th for a free Zoom meeting around the science of self-compassion!
Around the Globe
Stop Trying to Save the World
Simply tending to our own lives and making authentic human connections is almost always the most impactful thing we can ever do.
Refelections…
Vocabularies of Being
A Conversation with Jane Hirshfield
Sam speaks with poet and essayist Jane Hirshfield. They discuss Jane’s poems “Habit,” “Many-Roofed Building in Moonlight,” “A Cedary Fragrance,” “It Was Like This: You Were Happy,” and “Three Times My Life Has Opened,” all of which she recites.
They also discuss Jane’s experience as a member of Princeton’s first graduating class with women; the creative power of beginner’s mind; poetry as a hybrid art form; Jane’s years-long “detour” at America’s first Buddhist monastery; distinguishing between lineages and teachers; various frameworks of Buddhist practice… and more.
Jane Hirshfield, is described by The Washington Post as belonging “among the modern masters” and in The New York Times Magazine as “among the most important poetry in the world today.”
News, Topics & Events
April Spotlight
April 2024
Your Happiness Calendar for Educators
This month, practice self-compassion with daily tips and practices from Greater Good Science Center.
Our Greater Good’s monthly Happiness Calendar for Educators is a day-by-day guide to building kinder, happier schools where everyone belongs. This month, learn about the science of self-compassion each day in April.
You can join them on April 16th for a free Zoom meeting around the science of self-compassion!
Around the Globe
Stop Trying to Save the World
Simply tending to our own lives and making authentic human connections is almost always the most impactful thing we can ever do.
Reflections
Vocabularies of Being
A Conversation with Jane Hirshfield
Sam speaks with poet and essayist Jane Hirshfield. They discuss Jane’s poems “Habit,” “Many-Roofed Building in Moonlight,” “A Cedary Fragrance,” “It Was Like This: You Were Happy,” and “Three Times My Life Has Opened,” all of which she recites.
They also discuss Jane’s experience as a member of Princeton’s first graduating class with women; the creative power of beginner’s mind; poetry as a hybrid art form; Jane’s years-long “detour” at America’s first Buddhist monastery; distinguishing between lineages and teachers; various frameworks of Buddhist practice… and more.
Jane Hirshfield, is described by The Washington Post as belonging “among the modern masters” and in The New York Times Magazine as “among the most important poetry in the world today.”