Greetings SEL in Afterschool Community,
I am thrilled to announce upcoming Social, Emotional, and Mindfulness Learning training sessions coming to three evenings in March! Please join Rick Alleva, Ed.D. and me for three evenings together centered on Mindfulness and Social-Emotional Learning Outcomes.
Mindful awareness practices can function as an effective tool to support growing the social and emotional learning skills young people need to reach their optimum potential. Skills connected to understanding and managing stress, regulating emotions, having empathy, showing compassion, and making thoughtful moral and ethical decisions can be cultivated in people of all ages. Mindfulness can serve to support this cultivation in many ways.
Come enjoy an evening, or two, or three as we experience mindfulness together and consider the many ways young people may enjoy and make gains from practicing mindfulness together in your programs. We’ll address the following three topics in our sessions: Mindful Self-Awareness and Emotional Regulation, Mindful Social Awareness and Heartful Connecting, and Social, Emotional, and Mindfulness Learning: Putting It Into Practice. Sign up as soon as possible to assure your spot!
 
Warm Regards,
Abigail J. Blodgett, 
SEL Project Coordinator,
ACROSS NH
 Click here or on the image below for a detailed flyer.
Click on the buttons below to register for sessions in Eventbrite.
#SELday is MARCH 11
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#SELday is coming on March 11th, 2022! Stay tuned for ACROSS NH’s kick off to an #SELday Challenge on Friday, March 11th! Visit https://selday.org/ to learn more about how you and your organization can participate in #SELday.
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Take a quick peak at this short blog post by Rick Alleva, Ed.D. to see the highlights of the ways that Mindfulness and SEL can work together. Rick has included all kinds of bonus links to neat little resources to follow as well. 
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Check out the Banni Bunting Mindfulness Website, https://bannibuntingmindfulness.com/blog?category=Daily%20Practices, for free practices such as the S.T.O.P. acronym below.
When we engage in a practice such as S.T.O.P. in a moment of stress to calm and ground ourselves, we are practicing self-awareness of our thoughts, feelings, and mood, and are creating the time to consider which response or decision might be best before proceeding. In short, by doing so we use our Social – Emotional skills. By presenting a variety of strategies like these to our children, youth, and staff, we provide an opportunity for each person to find the regulation and contemplative strategies that work best for them, enabling each of us to be our best selves each day.
DOWNLOADABLE GUIDES FROM ACROSS NH
Guided Resource Walk Through Trainings
If you have questions about these trainings, or you would like to request a guide introduction training for your program, please email acrossnh@seresc.net or call (603) 206-6848.
This guide seeks to support afterschool programs with the development of policies that seek to include all children and youth. Research shows many positive outcomes from participation in afterschool programs that intentionally address growth in personal and social skills.
Social and Emotional Learning takes place in all contexts that children and youth participate: their homes, schools, out-of-school time environments, and communities. The field of afterschool’s commitment to Social and Emotional Learning can make a profound difference in the lives of the young people served, and in the adults who guide them.
If you would like to request a printed copy of one of these guides,
please email acrossnh@seresc.net. Quantities are limited.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Abigail J. Blodgett, NH ASMP & ECMP
Social and Emotional Learning Project Coordinator
ACROSS NH, a project of SERESC
165 South River Road, Unit F
Bedford, NH 03110
Art by Mercy, 12 years old
ACROSS NH is a project of the Southeastern Regional Education Service Center (SERESC) and is funded by the Bureau of Child Development and Head Start Collaboration. Our goal is to provide statewide technical assistance and professional development opportunities to afterschool providers to support their work in creating high quality, innovative programs for schoolage children.