Dr Astrid Bernkopf

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Welcome March 🌱🌸🌤️

Spring is now getting on its way and March invites us to welcome growth. Growth can take many forms and may be small to start with. I invite you to find one small area of growth that you might want to commit to this month.

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Mindful Monday

Let’s counter overload by focusing on tiny breaks. Enjoy looking at a plant, watch a bird or enjoy a cup of tea. If someone talks to you, don’t give a quick response to move on with your busyness, stop and engage.

It’s in the little breaks that we can find regular rest.

Higher ed organizations sue against Trump’s DEI orders The American Association of University Professors and others argue in a new lawsuit that the executive orders violate the Constitution.

Academia strikes back

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Mindful Monday

Spring and the renewal of nature starts.
I invite you to sit and listen in. See if inside you a tiny flower raises its head above the snow. Maybe journal about it. What flower is it? What growth or renewal can it bring? How can you nourish it and remove obstacles to its growth?

Opinion | A new era of government censorship has dawned Donald Trump fancies himself a champion of free speech. Oh, really?

A new era of government censorship has dawned

By Catherine Rampell

“An eerie hush is spreading across America. Companies, scientific researchers and Trump critics are clamming up as the MAGA movement ushers in a new era of government censorship’.

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And this is how it starts. If we change language we delete more than words. We take people’s experiences and don’t allow them to be. A slow quiet genocide right in front of us.

‘Worse than the 1980s’ – that’s the arts sector now. It’s not a good look for a Labour government | Charlotte Higgins So many pre-election promises: but still a cultural malaise spreads from our schools to museums, galleries and theatres, says the Guardian’s chief culture writer Charlotte Higgins

"It is not OK to shove everything together, from ballerinas to florists, into a thing called 'the creative industries'... What’s required is a subtle sense of how provision of arts in schools & in communities (theatres, libraries, museums) can create opportunities for children from all backgrounds."

Welcome February - Welcome Spring

Snowdrops are the one of the first flowers to blossom symbolising purity, hope and new beginnings.

They promise the end of winter and new growth.

Petition: Tighten the rules on political donations We want the government to: Remove loopholes that allow wealthy foreign individuals to make donations into UK political parties (e.g. by funnelling through UK registered companies). Cap all donations ...

Restrict political donations. Time to follow Australia’s example petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Mindful Monday

Let’s work on building bridges.

In building communities and reaching out to others, we learn more about life and living. We can see similarities and dreams others have. We might realise that in strengthening others’ rights, our own are strengthened.

80 years ago Auschwitz was liberated. More than one million children, women and men were murdered there as part of the Holocaust. A dark lesson of history; humanity owes it to each of the victims to ensure it will never happen again. #HolocaustMemorialDay

We chill. Hope you have a nice day.

Book cover of How We Learn to be Brave by Mariann Budde

Photo of author Mariann Budde

My next read --downloaded the audio read by the author. Hardcover was sold out!

Martin Luther King Jr Day falls on Monday 20th Jan and the inauguration. Let’s remind ourselves of his messages.

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” Martin Luther King Jr

Festive Slow Down Meditations present a 10-minute series of consciously resting and switching off. Week 5 is the final in this series and uses the image of a candle to spread our inner light.

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Mindful Monday

As we reach the end of the year, we will soon see lots of posts about achievements.

This is your encouragement to be considerate when it comes to achievements. Let’s be more open towards the various forms achievements come in and celebrate each other.

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Mindful Monday

Singing is a great way to release stress and body tension. In pacing your breath, you regulate the nervous system and can have fun doing it.

Why not use the darker days, to learn a new song or get together with friends for karaoke.

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Festive Slow Down Meditations present a 10-minute series of consciously resting and switching off. Week 3 turns inwards and lets thoughts and emotions blow over following a Buddhist metaphor.

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Week 2 of Festive Slow Down Meditations landed this morning 🎄🕯️🔥🔥🔥

This week we turn inwards and let the noise be.

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YouTube video by The Mindfulness Revolution by Astrid Bernkopf Festive Slow Down week 1

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Starting tomorrow Saturday 23 Nov

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