Sep 17, 2018
My guest today is Stefanie Dunnigan. Stefanie has been an
outstanding elementary school teacher for 17 years, who intuitively
incorporates mindfulness into the classroom. Well before the
current trend of mindfulness, Stefanie was an educator who
naturally tuned into her students. From first hand experience,
Stefanie understood that students can’t absorb academics if they
are mentally distracted, emotionally triggered, or traumatized, so
she experimented with all sorts of strategies to engage her
students, validate their feelings and guide them to calm down in
order to be open for learning. Stefanie began to translate
consciousness skills and meditation techniques she learned through
her personal journey of readings, therapy, and research to make
tools accessible for her students.
I wish you could see all the props she brought with her, but I
asked her to describe them so listeners could imagine these
creative, simple items that make mindfulness practices so tangible.
The more Stefanie honored her own inner resources, the better able
she modeled for her students to trust in their inner resources. In
the less than 2 years I have known Stefanie, she has taken steps,
actually leaps into manifesting mindfulness into not only her
classroom, but publishing children’s books, with supplemental
exercises, created websites with resources for educators, provided
professional development workshops for faculty and most recently
ran a group for adults called “Mindfulness, Mediation, Mindset, and
More!” I imagine it won’t be long before the world wants to learn
more and more from this humble, compassionate, wise teacher,
Stefanie Dunnigan! Shining light on Stefanie this week, coincides
beautifully with World Gratitude Day on 9/21/18. I
encourage you to check out her book "I Choose Gratitude", available
on Amazon.
Enjoy the podcast!
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Books: (available on Amazon)
"Travel Tails: All Bark and No Bite"
"I Choose Gratitude"