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CIJ for kids and teens insight for life

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program is an awe-inspiring course

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focusing on mindfulness and emotional

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intelligence the curriculum is based

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upon a methodology first taught at

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Stanford University's famed creativity

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and business course that was developed

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by Dr. Michael Ray in 1979. It had such

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great success there. It was touted the

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most life transforming course ever to be

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taught at Stanford University. In 2001, it

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was finally brought out of the

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university by Julia Romaine and a team of

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coaches for the general public to enjoy.

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In 2014, the torch was passed to Hay

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House author and transformational coach

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Jennifer Grace who became the lead

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train-the-trainer

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and brought the curriculum worldwide

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under Ms graces direction it was then

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translated into six different languages

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and is now being taught in six different

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countries. In 2016,

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she and her team piloted the class for

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kids and teens. The results were profound.

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As of 2017, there are now 40 Insight for

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Life instructors teaching the curriculum

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in after schools, public and private

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schools, as well as yoga studios, and

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wellness centers here are the results

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from Muse Arts after-school center that

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has recently implemented the curriculum

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into its programming. 
-Hi my name is

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Yasmine satici. I'm the director of Muse

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Center for the Arts. So, bringing Insight

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for Life to our conservatory program has

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made such an incredible impact on the

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students here. They immediately fell in

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love with the material and we're super

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inspired by it and just kind of bubbling

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over with like enthusiasm and they just

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wanted more and more and it really

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taught them that they have a choice, they

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have a choice how they conduct themselves

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and the direction that they take their lives

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in and it gave them this power that they

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never really knew they had before. 
- Before

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I took Insight for Life, I really

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struggled with self-confidence like a

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lot it really helped me like figure out

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what my identity was and like Who I am

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- Before I took insight for life I was

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very confused about a lot of things I

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also thought really negatively about

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myself. It has made me more confident and

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I believed in myself way more than I

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have when I started this and I feel like

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I can do more and I trust myself more now.

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- I grew up a lot this year and I think

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it's a lot because of this class, but I

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really learned like how to love myself

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and like to love the mistakes that I've

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made through the process of this class

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but also through my life so this is what

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I created 
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and it's like my inner

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gremlin. I'm like. it's also can be like

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representatives like me before

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this class and me now.

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I had bad anger issues and like

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they're a lot better now like 
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and like I used to have a lot of conflicts

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with my mom and stuff like that's also a

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lot better now

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it helped me with focusing a lot better

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it helped me with different relationships

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with different friends and it helped me

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just focus 
- So the tools from insight for

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life and meditation and journaling and

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everything they helped me so much

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because I'm not a great test taker so

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when I got so stressed out.

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I would use SA TA NA MA meditation

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just to calm down and I'll

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breathe in and breathe out, get my focus

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straight and then I would continue

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I'm Olivia Holmes I'm 25 I live in

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central Massachusetts and when I was 15

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years old I took CIJ Insights for Life

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with Jennifer Grace

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at that time I was about to drop out of

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high school I was dealing with friend

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drama, boyfriend drama and it made me, so,

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I wasn't confident in myself and I felt

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like I didn't fit in. I wanted to escape

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and the only way that I thought I could

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do that was to drop out of my high

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school and to start fresh and go to

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beauty school. Fast forward 10 years and

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I'm a graduate of Isenberg School of

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Management at UMass Amherst. I'm a

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marketing professional at a tech company

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in Boston .I've been there three years

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and I've earned myself three promotions

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working my way up from a marketing

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analyst to a marketing programs manager

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and I envisioned myself getting another

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promotion within the next six months

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Over the years I've gone back time and

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time again to those simple tools like

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journaling and meditating in order to

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get clear on Who I am and what I want

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I silenced my inner gremlin whenever I'm

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doubting myself and I think back to the

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creative process model that lets me know

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that hitting a brick wall in life is

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just part of the process. I don't know

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where my life would be at if I hadn't

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taken this course so many years ago, but

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I sincerely hope that every kid out

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there in the world has an opportunity to

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experience these tools because for me

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it's changed my life.

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- I think it would be

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amazing if Insight for Life was a

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part of like our everyday curriculum for

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our children in any age group from

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elementary school to middle school kids.

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if these tools were given to children at

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an earlier age where it was just an

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everyday thing to identify you know the

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different aspects of yourself your inner

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self the outer world and how you

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interact with it, it would give our

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children an incredible upper hand in

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just moving forward and dealing with

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life both in the an academic environment

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and outside of the academic environment

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You would allow them to really thrive as

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students and as human beings and as

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contributing members to our community and

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our society this should be as important

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as math and English. It's as

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important to be a healthy functioning

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well-adjusted young person who is

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self-aware and community conscious so

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that you can put all this wonderful

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academics at very learning to good use

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and and it really absolutely should be

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something that's a necessity and not a

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luxury. If you're interested in learning

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how you can bring this into your school,

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after-school program, yoga studio,

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Wellness Center or get your child involved

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Please visit:
www.jennifergrace.com/IFL

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or contract the instructor that have

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shared this information with you today