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Is Helping Always Helpful? - Susan talks to Dan Harris on Ten Percent Happier Live

While some people become more selfish in times of crisis, some of us (especially parents and other caregivers) go to the opposite end of the spectrum: "helping" overdrive. Susan and Dan Harris meditate for five minutes and then talk strategies for parents and other caregivers to discern whether what they're about to say or do is more likely to be helpful or to backfire.

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Susan Kaiser Greenland, Kim Schonert-Reichl and Patricia Broderick on “Working with children”

Susan Kaiser Greenland, creator of the Inner Kids program, Kim Schonert-Reichl, lead researcher for the Hawn Foundation's MindUP program, and Patricia Broderick, creator of the Learning to BREATHE program, share a discussion about the complexities of training educators to teach mindfulness-based curricula to students, and the balance between scientific research and practical implementation, focusing on developmental and age appropriateness.

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