CIJ for kids and teens insight for life
program is an awe-inspiring course
focusing on mindfulness and emotional
intelligence the curriculum is based
upon a methodology first taught at
Stanford University's famed creativity
and business course that was developed
by Dr. Michael Ray in 1979. It had such
great success there. It was touted the
most life transforming course ever to be
taught at Stanford University. In 2001, it
was finally brought out of the
university by Julia Romaine and a team of
coaches for the general public to enjoy.
In 2014, the torch was passed to Hay
House author and transformational coach
Jennifer Grace who became the lead
train-the-trainer
and brought the curriculum worldwide
under Ms graces direction it was then
translated into six different languages
and is now being taught in six different
countries. In 2016,
she and her team piloted the class for
kids and teens. The results were profound.
As of 2017, there are now 40 Insight for
Life instructors teaching the curriculum
in after schools, public and private
schools, as well as yoga studios, and
wellness centers here are the results
from Muse Arts after-school center that
has recently implemented the curriculum
into its programming. -Hi my name is
Yasmine satici. I'm the director of Muse
Center for the Arts. So, bringing Insight
for Life to our conservatory program has
made such an incredible impact on the
students here. They immediately fell in
love with the material and we're super
inspired by it and just kind of bubbling
over with like enthusiasm and they just
wanted more and more and it really
taught them that they have a choice, they
have a choice how they conduct themselves
and the direction that they take their lives
in and it gave them this power that they
never really knew they had before. - Before
I took Insight for Life, I really
struggled with self-confidence like a
lot it really helped me like figure out
what my identity was and like Who I am
- Before I took insight for life I was
very confused about a lot of things I
also thought really negatively about
myself. It has made me more confident and
I believed in myself way more than I
have when I started this and I feel like
I can do more and I trust myself more now.
- I grew up a lot this year and I think
it's a lot because of this class, but I
really learned like how to love myself
and like to love the mistakes that I've
made through the process of this class
but also through my life so this is what
I created - Wow
and it's like my inner
gremlin. I'm like. it's also can be like
representatives like me before
this class and me now.
I had bad anger issues and like
they're a lot better now like - yeah
and like I used to have a lot of conflicts
with my mom and stuff like that's also a
lot better now
it helped me with focusing a lot better
it helped me with different relationships
with different friends and it helped me
just focus - So the tools from insight for
life and meditation and journaling and
everything they helped me so much
because I'm not a great test taker so
when I got so stressed out.
I would use SA TA NA MA meditation
just to calm down and I'll
breathe in and breathe out, get my focus
straight and then I would continue
I'm Olivia Holmes I'm 25 I live in
central Massachusetts and when I was 15
years old I took CIJ Insights for Life
with Jennifer Grace
at that time I was about to drop out of
high school I was dealing with friend
drama, boyfriend drama and it made me, so,
I wasn't confident in myself and I felt
like I didn't fit in. I wanted to escape
and the only way that I thought I could
do that was to drop out of my high
school and to start fresh and go to
beauty school. Fast forward 10 years and
I'm a graduate of Isenberg School of
Management at UMass Amherst. I'm a
marketing professional at a tech company
in Boston .I've been there three years
and I've earned myself three promotions
working my way up from a marketing
analyst to a marketing programs manager
and I envisioned myself getting another
promotion within the next six months
Over the years I've gone back time and
time again to those simple tools like
journaling and meditating in order to
get clear on Who I am and what I want
I silenced my inner gremlin whenever I'm
doubting myself and I think back to the
creative process model that lets me know
that hitting a brick wall in life is
just part of the process. I don't know
where my life would be at if I hadn't
taken this course so many years ago, but
I sincerely hope that every kid out
there in the world has an opportunity to
experience these tools because for me
it's changed my life.
- I think it would be
amazing if Insight for Life was a
part of like our everyday curriculum for
our children in any age group from
elementary school to middle school kids.
if these tools were given to children at
an earlier age where it was just an
everyday thing to identify you know the
different aspects of yourself your inner
self the outer world and how you
interact with it, it would give our
children an incredible upper hand in
just moving forward and dealing with
life both in the an academic environment
and outside of the academic environment
You would allow them to really thrive as
students and as human beings and as
contributing members to our community and
our society this should be as important
as math and English. It's as
important to be a healthy functioning
well-adjusted young person who is
self-aware and community conscious so
that you can put all this wonderful
academics at very learning to good use
and and it really absolutely should be
something that's a necessity and not a
luxury. If you're interested in learning
how you can bring this into your school,
after-school program, yoga studio,
Wellness Center or get your child involved
Please visit: www.jennifergrace.com/IFL
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