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The Notebook covers Inner Strength Teen Program
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Relax, Heal, Learn by Dale Mezzacappa – The Notebook

The Inner Strength Teen Program just received some insightful coverage in the April 11th issue of The Notebook, Philadelphia’s Education weekly. You can read the article Relax, Heal, Learn by Dale Mezzacappa @dalemezz in its original with comments and more on

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Creating Stability

How do we use our mindfulness practice to create stability? What are we looking for and how are we orienting ourselves so that the time we spend being still and paying attention begins to have

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Haverford School Diversity Conference
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ISF at the Haverford Middle School Diversity Conference

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Teenage Brain: Risks, Peer Pressure & Our Modern World

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Teen Essays

Wherever You Go, There You Are

Student, 17 years I will take meditation and the developmental perspective with me to college because the ideas and practices that come with them have helped me develop a better self. Over the time that

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Teen Essays

A Taste of Mindfulness

Student, 18 years I am not much of a meditator. I find that closing my eyes for a long period of time makes me drowsy and is a little painful. However, one Thursday I decided

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Teaching kids to support one another post election
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What Do We Say to Our Children?

Many of the images we’re shown these days are of fractures between peoples. The unexpected but unambiguous results of the US election is confronting many of us with the challenge of seeing our own silos,

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prison mindfulness program with Amy Edelstein
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Insights from Inmates

Everyone can present themselves well in the right circumstances. The question is, when the human being is at rest, what is our essential nature? And how much does our conviction about our potential and inherent

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Navigating racial stress
Culture of Mindfulness

Racial Stress & Mindful Spaces

It’s Fall. Back to school. Reconnecting with my teacher friends who have been out on summer break. Most of them hold summer jobs, in part for the extra cash to make ends meet, and in

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