The Playwell Foundation

🌿 Our nervous system remembers safety 🌿

Safety is not just an idea....it is something our nervous system learns through rhythm, repetition and relationship.

Our Old People gifted us the tools to return to that place of safety:
✨ Ceremony
✨ Song and dance
✨ Art, weaving, and carving
✨ Sitting on Country
✨ Sitting in circle

These are not simply “cultural activities.” They are medicine for the mind, body and spirit.

Through a two-eyed seeing perspective, we understand that what Western somatic and polyvagal approaches teach about regulation, Aboriginal ways of knowing, being and doing have held for thousands of years....that healing comes through connection, rhythm, community and Country.

Let us reclaim and honour these practices in our healing journeys for ourselves, our families and the generations to come.

ancient wisdom healing us in chaotic modernity ...

🌿 Our nervous system remembers safety 🌿

Safety is not just an idea....it is something our nervous system learns through rhythm, repetition and relationship.

Our Old People gifted us the tools to return to that place of safety:
✨ Ceremony
✨ Song and dance
✨ Art, weaving, and carving
✨ Sitting on Country
✨ Sitting in circle

These are not simply “cultural activities.” They are medicine for the mind, body and spirit.

Through a two-eyed seeing perspective, we understand that what Western somatic and polyvagal approaches teach about regulation, Aboriginal ways of knowing, being and doing have held for thousands of years....that healing comes through connection, rhythm, community and Country.

Let us reclaim and honour these practices in our healing journeys for ourselves, our families and the generations to come.

The Invisible Epidemic of Trauma (+ How To Heal): in this into psychiatrist & trauma expert Dr. Paul Conti discusses how unresolved truma negatively affects our lives and shares tools to understand, heal & even prevent it.

Paul Conti, MD: Face & Heal The Trauma That Dictates Your Life Psychiatrist & trauma expert Dr. Paul Conti discusses how unresolved trauma negatively affects our lives and shares tools to process, heal, & even prevent it from impacting you.

Rethinking Learning: A Review of Social and Emotional Learning for Education Systems This publication titled ‘Rethinking Learning: A Review of Social and Emotional Learning for Education Systems’, published by the UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) reviews the latest research on Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), its impa...

EXERCISE HELPS CHILDREN STRENGTHEN THEIR HAND-EYE COORDINATION, GROSS MOTOR SKILLS, AND STRENGTH.

Here’s a 7 minute workout that can be used for helping with self-regulation, a brain break or indoor recess movement activity!

https://hes-extraordinary.com/improve-emotional-regulation-just-7-minutes-per-day/

Mindfulness And Meditation Will Now Be Part Of The Curriculum In 370 Schools In England Most of the time, when children act out by kicking and screaming expletives, it is because they do not understand what they are going through, and cannot find a better way to release their feelings.

Empathy? In Denmark they’re learning it in school A compulsory subject of study which is taught an hour a week in the “Klassens tid”, where students learn to help their classmates and compete only with themselves

The 6 core strengths all of us need for healthy development - from the bottom up

Juggling the demands of everyday family life can be stressful, and it’s easy to forget to be mindful. But if we want to raise compassionate children, we as parents have to find ways to integrate our practice into our daily lives and maintain a strong core of awareness within ourselves so that we can serve as models.

In a new dharma talk series, Buddhist chaplain and mom Sumi Loundon Kim outlines a practical path to becoming a more mindful parent, introducing mindfulness to children, and learning how to recognize and address harmful family patterns.

Mindful Parenting with Sumi Loundon Kim To raise mindful, compassionate children, parents must first establish a strong foundation in their own practice to serve as a model. Sumi Loundon Kim, a Buddhist chaplain and author of the Sitting Together parenting curriculum, provides immediately applicable practices for your family's daily routi...