Amy Edelstein

Episode 9 June 19, 2021 01:24:49
Amy Edelstein
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Amy Edelstein

Jun 19 2021 | 01:24:49

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Bio: Amy Edelstein, educator, author, and public speaker is a powerful communicator of ideas and beliefs that can help us transform ourselves and the culture we live in. In 2014, she founded Inner Strength Education, a non-profit organization that has empowered 15,000 Philadelphia high school students in mindfulness and systems thinking and 1,400 Philadelphia teachers in self-care strategies. Inner Strength received the coveted Collaborative for Academic Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL)-recommended designation in 2018. ISE's new mobile app Inner Strength, free for all teens and developed to promote teen mental health, launched in April 2021. Amy was awarded a Philadelphia Social Innovation Award for her work in Violence Reduction and an IPPY Award for her #1 bestselling education book The Conscious Classroom. She began her own contemplative practice in 1978 and continued studying and practicing transformational tools and philosophies ever since. She is a Cornell University College Scholar and cofounder of the transformative learning platform Emergence Education. More at: www.InnerStrengthEducation.org and www.TheConsciousClassroom.com 

Favorite practice these days: Sitting in fullness; writing; and cherishing the beauty and living presence of the plants, animals, rivers, ocean, rocks and sky
 
Books: I think everyone should read The Warmth of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson, Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward. 
(Right now I'm knee deep in writing summary research reports, board reports, and school district reports for the Inner Strength program so I'm not reading, but if I were, I'd be reading about the Neanderthals, finishing Caste (also by Wilkerson) and My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakhem, and something by some wild female sufi mystic that I haven't identified yet.)

 

 

Just a quick word from Lukas.

The music this week is a tribute to my cousin Chris Sener. Chris was a beautiful vibrant young man and a truely inspiring artist. This week is Chris's birthday so rather than dwelling on our loss we're celebrating his life. He is a major reason why I had to confidence to launch this podcast. I am continuously working through my insecurity about expressing myself intelligently. But we only have one life to live. Why not just go for it? 

Intro: "Ketto" - Chris Sener

Outro: "Good Day" - Chris Sener

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove!

 
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Contact: [email protected]

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