July 25th-July27th
Theme: Spa Week — Skill Building: Personal Hygiene
December is about pumping the brakes. It’s been a challenging year and we have learned A LOT! So let's all take a breath, synthesize all this change and focus on being one another's soft place to land as we head into 2021.
Self-Advocacy and Rights
Show & Share (5-10 min)
What's your favorite scent? Is it found in nature or made by people? How long have you liked it? How does it make you feel when you smell it?
Thematic Activity 01 (5-10 min)
How does my body tell me it is feeling stressed?
Basic care that helps my body reduce stress
- movement
- stretching
- fresh air
- healthful food
- good sleep
- good relationships
- pets
Thematic Activity 02 (5-10 min)
What is special care that helps my body reduce stress?
PRESENTERS: alert participants that sometimes people hear about detoxing and get advice to ingest certain vitamins or fast or other unusual things. They should not do anything like that without a doctor's supervision. ONLY take in or use products that you have used before and know the effects.
Skill Builders (10-15 min)
Meditation to clear stress. Choose one that suits your group and feelings. The longer one works great if you are super stressed.
- LONG—Learn Tara Brach's R.A.I.N. meditation for fear to help with stress (13 minutes long but worth it for those who can attend to the audio.)
- SHORTER—4 minute body scan by Tara Brach: First one in the list, click play
