Adult Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)

What is SEL for Adults?: Greater Good in Education - Science-based Practice for Kinder, Happier Schools

Learn About SEL for Adults

• "Be Calm" Series with Dr. Lucy Vezzuto

• The Importance of Self Care - TED Talks

• Self Care Assessments: Educator Resilience and Trauma-Informed Self-Care Assessment – Center for Great Teachers and Leader at the American Institute of Research

• VCOE SEL Canvas Course

• Self Care for Educators

• HOW TO FILL YOUR OWN CUP – Stop, Breathe and Think

• Self-Care Strategies for Educators During the Coronavirus Crisis - Supporting Personal Social and Emotional Well - WestEd

• Self-care for school staff - Headspace

• Taking Care of Yourself in Difficult Times - American Federation of Teachers

Practice SEL

• Breathwork

  • Controlled Breathing Practices for Adults - Dr. Lucy Vezzuto

  • How to breathe - Belisa Vranich 

  • How to Reduce Stress with a 2:1 Breathing Technique
  • TED - Max Strom - Breathe to Heal

  • Wim Hoff Breathing Tutorial 

  • Diaphragmatic Breathing

• Guided Meditation
  • Daily Calm

  • UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center

  • Goodful - 10 Minute Guided Meditation for Beginners

  • 4 Minute Body Scan Meditation

  • Mindful.com - Meditation

• Mindfulness Activities
  • Mindfulness Exercises
  • Coloring
  • Develop Good Habits - 71 Mindfulness Activities for Living in the Present Moment
  • Develop Good Habits - 11 Mindfulness Worksheets and Templates to Lving in the Present Moment
  • Be Mindful Now
• Movement and Exercise
  • National Institutes of Health  - Physical Wellness Toolkit
  • CDC - Physical Activity Breaks for the Workplace
  • Yoga for Complete Beginners - 20 minute home workout 
  • Wellness @ Work - Movement Breaks
• Nutrition

  • What science says about the best way to eat (and what we're still figuring out)

  • Wellness Watch - Mindful Eating & Good Nutrition
  • Food and Mood
  • The 5 Golden Rules for Healthy Eating, According to a Doctor and an RD

  • How the food you eat affects your brain

Resources

• Self Care Plan and Example
• 50 Ways to Take a Break
• Self-Care During COVID-19: You Can’t Do It All… And That’s OK
• Free mindfulness apps:
  • Stop, Breathe, and Think is a guided meditation app that allows you to choose your own meditation experience and suggests useful meditations based on how you are feeling on that particular day.
  • Calm includes an array of meditative visuals and soundscapes with quick meditative moments, full guided meditations, and the ability to track your progress.
  •  Smiling Mind provides specific meditation programs for different age groups, ranging from age 7 to adult, including short as well as extended mindfulness exercises.
  • Insight Timer provides a number of guided meditations and a simple meditation timer you can use anywhere.
  • Omvana is library of meditation and mindfulness talks by the top professionals in the field.