Empowered Program

Healing takes time.  Our bodies are in a constant state of regeneration after wear and tear.   Muscles take 2-4 weeks, tendons 4-6 weeks, cartilage 12 weeks and nerves 3-4 mm per day.  This is on a physical level and as long as we have rest and nourish ourselves with healthy food the body heals itself.  How then, on an emotional level, does the heart heal? 

This week during Empowered the students were introduced to the healing power of LOVE energy through intention whether it be through prayer, thoughts or words.  Sharing with their buddy they described how they heal themselves emotionally.   Music was then played for 20 minutes while the students coloured a piece of a mural, did their own yoga and wrote a “sorry letter”.  Healing is in our every thought, word and action.  We can choose to build or destroy it is up to us.

Recess Clubs

Recess Clubs continued with the usual enthusiastic vibe.

 

 

Empowered Leaders

Inner calm

Three week ago twenty students, two from each grade, nominated themselves to attend Mindfulness workshops on a Friday afternoon whereby they would learn how to walk, eat, listen and speak mindfully in order to cultivate inner peace.   The only criteria was that these students needed to be consistently in their “Calm zone”.  When we first met I invited each of the students to share their secret of how they were able to remain calm most of the time.  As the students shared it became apparent that each and every one of them had a strategy and had to work at being calm.  I found this very fascinating and asked the following question:  “Do you think those students who are often not in their “calm zone” realise how you have to work hard to stay consistently in your “calm zone?”  Their answer was unanimous … “probably not!”    The way we respond to any given life situation is a CHOICE and exchange of energy that will leave you feeling good or not.

Alicia Spicer

Wellbeing Coach