Professional Development for Teachers:
 Mindfulness

Professional Development for Teachers
with a focus on Mindfulness

Mindfulness Retreat for Teachers
A one-day quiet retreat at beautiful Woolman Hill Retreat and Conference Center (directions to Woolman Hill)
Cabin rentals available from Woolman Hill.
Fall retreat possible... TBA, 2010
8:30 am-4:30 pm
Deerfield, MA
$80 registration fee includes a farm-fresh lunch

Professional Development Point Options:
10 PDPs for an additional $40 (details upon request)

Pre-service and unemployed teachers: email marilyn@seriousfunclc.com for reduced fee.

A note from the director:
Serious Fun knows there is more than one way to power up. We are each equipped with an “inner technology” to help us balance the pressures of 21st century life, and so we are happy to offer this mindfulness retreat for teachers. Please share this information with your colleagues. -- Gaby

During retreat:
Cabin rentals available from Woolman Hill.

This off-site program is offered by Serious Fun 21st Century Community Learning Center in South Deerfield, MA

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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
- John Burroughs

You are invited to join us Tuesday, August 24, when we turn our attention to simple practices that use capacities of our mind and the senses of our body to deal with stress, uphold well-being, and create greater peace of mind.

Mindfulness promotes kindness, concentration, and readiness to learn. When educators practice mindfulness, they share its benefits with their students.

It is refreshing to be among intelligent, compassionate people talking about teaching, while not being judged as a teacher. It is empowering. I need more of these kinds of experiences to nourish my work.
--A participant from our February 2010 retreat

Teachers:  Marilyn McArthur, and teachers from our August and November 2009 and our Winter and Spring 2010 retreats.

Marilyn McArthur earned a Ph.D. in anthropology before turning to a career in teacher professional development, serving most recently as a public historian for the Deerfield Teachers’ Center. She is a regular participant in teacher training programs in mindfulness-based stress reduction at the Center for Mindfulness at UMass Medical School in Worcester MA.

To contact Marilyn directly, email or call marilyn@seriousfunclc.com or 413-687-5623
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Richard Brady, our neighbor from Putney, VT, was our co-presenter at the November retreat. He is the co-editor of the book Tuning In: Mindfulness in Teaching and Learning, and founder of the Mindfulness in Education Network (MiEN), sponsor of the spring 2010 conference “Mindfulness: Foundation for Teaching and Learning”  March 19-21, 2010 in Cambridge, Mass. http://www.mindfuled.org Order this book through our store...