Mindfulness in Action: Cultivating Self-Awareness and Self-Compassion
The Habits of Mind are an identified set of 16 problem solving, life related skills, necessary to effectively operate in society and promote strategic reasoning, insightfulness, perseverance, creativity and craftsmanship. The understanding and application of these 16 Habits of Mind serve to provide the individual with skills to work through real life situations that equip that person to respond using awareness, thought and intentional strategy in order to gain a positive outcome.
(Habits of Mind: A Developmental Series)
HABITS of MIND by Art Costa and Bena Kallick
1 PERSISTING
2 MANAGING IMPULSIVITY
3 LISTENING with UNDERSTANDING and EMPATHY
4 THINKING FLEXIBLY
5 THINKING about THINKING
6 STRIVING for ACCURACY
7 QUESTIONING and POSING PROBLEMS
8 APPLYING PAST KNOWLEDGE to NEW SITUATIONS
9 THINKING and COMMUNICATING with CLARITY and PRECISION
10 GATHERING DATA through all SENSES
11 CREATING, IMAGINING, INNOVATING
12 RESPONDING with WONDERMENT and AWE
13 TAKING RESPONSIBLE RISKS
14 FINDING HUMOUR
15 THINKING INTERDEPENDENTLY
"Take care of each other. Share your energies with the group. No one must feel alone, cut off, for that is when you do not make it." Willie Unsoeld: Renowned Mountain Climber
Human beings are social beings. We congregate in groups, find it therapeutic to be listened to, draw energy from one another, and seek reciprocity. In groups we contribute our time and energy to to tasks that we would quickly tire of when working alone. In fact, we have learned that one of the cruelest forms of punishment that can be inflicted on an individual is solitary confinement.
Cooperative humans realise that all of us together are more powerful, intellectually and/or physically, than any one individual. Probably the foremost disposition in the post industrial society is the heightened ability to think in concert with others; to find ourselves increasingly more interdependent and sensitive to the needs of others. Problem solving has become so complex that no one person can go it alone. No one has access to all the data needed to make critical decisions; no one person can consider as many alternatives as several people can.
Some students may not have learned to work in groups; they have underdeveloped social skills. They feel isolated, they prefer their solitude. "Leave me alone ---- I'll do it better by my self." " They just don't like me." "I want to be alone." Some students seem unable to contribute to group work either by being a "job hog" or conversely, letting others do all the work.
| interdepent_teacher_questionaire.docx |
16 REMAINING OPEN to CONTINUOUS LEARNING
General Resources
| habits_of_mind_free_posters.pdf |
| hom-summary-outline.pdf |
| mindfulness_stickers.docx |
| mindfulness_stickers_interdependence.docx |
