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Take-What-You-Need Meditations to Support Kids, Teens, and Young Adults
“Mindful partnered with WholeSchool Mindfulness to create a special collection of guided meditations designed to support young people in finding more calm, compassion, and joy in daily life.”
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The Environmental Impact of Our Tech (And what we can do about it)
4/20/2023
“Knowing the impacts of our buying habits—like getting our hands on the newest, fastest, shiniest smartphone—is the first step to becoming a more mindful consumer.”
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How to Reclaim Your Brain from Big Tech
12/12/2022
“From online gaming to scrolling Facebook, we know that overusing technology can be addictive. But in a tech-immersed world, it’s often hard to know what to do about it. Here’s how you can use mindfulness to pause, pay attention, and align your tech use with your values.”
Mindful Magazine
Building Compassionate Social Media Habits— for you and your kids
11/16/2022
“How to approach doomscrolling, social media comparison, and addicting algorithms with mindfulness. Author and WholeSchool Mindfulness director Erica B. Marcus shares lessons she’s learned from teaching middle school and high school.”
WMTW Channel 8 interview
4/14/2022
“It's nice to be able to take a moment all together with my class because they're coming in all different places too and to ground ourselves- to feel more at ease and I can do a better job at reaching my students and they are also more available to learning,” said Special Education teacher Lisa Lund.
Portland Press Herald
2/2/2022
At Cape Elizabeth Middle School, students, teachers, parents study mindfulness
A program that started at the onset of the pandemic has gotten positive feedback all around, the principal says.
CREATIVE MAINE
Jan-Feb 2022
Maine is Sitting Still
The Cape Elizabeth Middle School has a Mindfulness Director, Erica Marcus, who gave up being an English teacher to do this. “I kept thinking about how I could teach kids not just reading, but skills and strategies to be human,” she told me.
Mindful Magazine
3/23/2022
How Mindfulness Can Help Teens With Tech Addiction
“We want students to see that they don’t need external validation,” she says. She helps her students approach technology grounded in their personal values, self-compassion, and empathy for others. “We recognize that social media is exacerbating judgmentalness, perfectionism, and a sense of not ‘enoughness.’
Mindful Magazine
7/2/2021
What Mindfulness Brings to a Middle School Classroom
In her role as Mindfulness Director at a US middle school, Erica Marcus is helping students and teachers honor the difficulties of learning in the era of COVID, while also savoring the joys.