Oren Jay Sofer – författare

Matthew Brensilver, JoAnna Hardy and Oren Jay Sofer provide a powerful guide to help teachers master the essential competencies needed to successfully share mindfulness practices with teens and adolescents. Incorporating anecdotes from actual teaching, they blend the latest scientific research with innovative, original techniques for making the practices accessible and interesting to this age group. This text is an indispensable handbook for mindfulness instruction in its own right, and a robust companion volume for teachers using The Mindful Schools Curriculum for Adolescents.

Arguably, no student population stands to gain more from mindfulness practice— with its power to enhance emotion regulation, attention stability and self-awareness—than students between the ages of thirteen and twenty. In this comprehensive curriculum developed at Mindful Schools, Oren Jay Sofer and Matthew Brensilver provide twenty five brief (twenty-to-thirty-minute) lessons that supply a framework for mindfulness instruction that can be expanded or condensed according to the needs of students. Each lesson includes a “science supplement” with research findings relevant to the practice, and handouts summarising key aspects of the lesson that can be distributed to students.Users of the curriculum may also be interested in the instructional resource written from a similar perspective by these authors with JoAnna Hardy: Teaching Mindfulness to Empower Adolescents.

Find your voice, speak your truth, listen deeply—a guide to more meaningful and mindful conversations.We spend so much of our lives talking to each other, but how much are we simply running on automatic—relying on old habits and hoping for the best? Are we able to truly hear others and speak our mind in a clear and kind way, without needing to get defensive or go on the attack? In this groundbreaking synthesis of mindfulness, somatics, and Nonviolent Communication, Oren Jay Sofer offers simple yet powerful practices to develop healthy, effective, and satisfying ways of communicating.  The techniques in Say What You Mean will help you to: ·      Feel confident during conversation ·      Stay focused on what really matters in an interaction ·      Listen for the authentic concerns behind what others say ·      Reduce anxiety before and during difficult conversations ·      Find nourishment in day-to-day interactions

A practical roadmap to cultivating the heart’s capacity to face and transform our greatest challenges—like the climate crisis, oppression, anxiety, and burnout—from the bestselling author of Say What You Mean. Through touching stories, insightful reflections, and concrete instructions, Oren Jay Sofer offers a pragmatic guide to living a life of meaning and purpose in times of great social, environmental, and spiritual upheaval. From cultivating the heart’s capacity to face our greatest challenges (such as the climate crisis, oppression, anxiety, and more) to finding joy, belonging, and deep connections with others, each chapter guides you to cultivate a quality essential to personal and social transformation.You’ll learn ways to: ·         Find more choice and freedom in life ·         Strengthen focus, sustain energy, and accomplish goals ·         Identify burnout and take steps to renew yourself with clarity and vitality ·         And more

Wir verbringen viel Zeit unseres Lebens damit, miteinander zu kommunizieren. Wie oft sind wir dabei präsent, offen und mit ganzem Herzen dabei? Können wir anderen wirklich zuhören und klar und freundlich unsere Meinung sagen, ohne in die Defensive zu gehen oder anzugreifen?Oren Jay Sofer verbindet die Prinzipien der Achtsamkeit und der Gewaltfreien Kommunikation mit seiner Erfahrung aus dem Somatic Experiencing (SE)®. Diese wegweisende Synthese gibt Ihnen Möglichkeiten an die Hand, Präsenz, wohlwollendes Interesse und einen Blick für das Wesentliche in Ihre persönliche Art der Kommunikation einfließen zu lassen.Dieses Buch hilft Ihnen,sich in Ihrer Kommunikation sicher und zentriert zu fühlenVertrauen zu anderen und zu sich selbst aufzubauendas Anliegen hinter den Worten zu hörenmit Befürchtungen vor und in schwierigen Gesprächen konstruktiv umzugehenalltägliche Begegnungen so zu gestalten, dass sie Ihnen guttun.Stimmen zum Buch:"Wenn ich nur ein einziges Buch über Kommunikation empfehlen könnte, dann dieses."Rick Hanson

Ibland flyter kommunikationen med andra människor som en dans. Vi slappnar av, turas om att tala och lyssna, riktar om vår uppmärksamhet från den ena till den andra i en rytm vi båda följer. Vid andra tillfällen känns samtalen mer som bergsklättring än som dans. Packningen är tung när vi släpar oss uppåt, väjer för motstånd och snubblar över hinder. I den här banbrytande boken väver Oren Jay Sofer ihop mindfulnessträning med förhållningssättet Nonviolent Communication (NVC). Med sin gedigna erfarenhet visar han vägar som gör det möjligt att kommunicera på ett sätt som inbegriper inte bara ens egna behov, utan även den andras. Sofer förtydligar, med hjälp av berättelser från livet, hur Nonviolent Communication stärker vår förmåga till medveten närvaro. De kraftfulla verktyg som erbjuds för att utveckla tillfredsställande sätt att kommunicera gör det möjligt att: - Uppleva större trygghet även i svåra samtal. - Fokusera på det som gör skillnad i en interaktion. - Uppfatta människors oro, behov och förhoppningar bortom orden. - Få energi av möten och kommunikation i din vardag.