Children are bombarded with imagery and overwhelmed with emotions - adding to their stress is eco-anxiety. The Rainbow Breath series addresses this in a gentle, light-hearted way using our new mindfulness tool S.C.A.N. and ‘monkey mind.’
S.C.A.N. - Still, Chill, Awareness, Now - brings inner and outer awareness and calming relief, with the use of metaphorical monkeys in the mind.
Visual depictions of ‘monkey mind’ throughout the series, help children think about thinking.
The use of ‘monkey mind’ and S.C.A.N. combine to help children become aware of, and talk about their own inner sensations, thoughts, feelings and emotions, while focused breath work and relaxation create inner balance.
Harrison represents the wisdom of the trees. He lives in the rainbow tree of life, connected to all trees on the globe. In our adventures Harrison helps one child from each of the seven continents, to calm their racing thoughts and emotions; allowing them to respond in a calmer manner to the issue at hand; be it water shortages, deforestation or species dying, in a way that empowers them to undertake a small act of kindness. Thus leaving them at peace.
The core set of seven books: Happy Hippo; Bye Bye Butterfly; Bumblebee Buzz; We Can Toucan; Don’t Pant Elephant; Fantastic! No Plastic and Transforming Global Warming. All come with an additional recorded guided meditation adventure based on the story. Parents may stay, or leave their children to use the calming meditations as a peaceful sleep aid. They can also be used in classrooms for quiet time.
These will be housed on a proposed website, along with numerous supporting materials, including fun songs, additional short meditations and other mindful practices. Sample lesson plans and ideas to further learn about continents, ecological issues, insects, animals, fungi, trees and simple ways to help preserve our planet, including links to charities and supporting resources.
Along with the core series are two introductory books, (which could also be stand-alone) Harrison - The Wisdom of the Trees, which introduces the readers to Harrison and the ancient trees and Still Monkey, Chill Monkey, which introduces the concept of ‘monkey mind' and S.C.A.N. This is accompanied by a short teaching booklet for parents and teachers, Stilled Monkey, Chilled Monkey. The final book of the series, We Are All One, brings together all the characters in the rainbow tree of life where they learn that we may look different, and live in different parts of this amazing planet, but we all share the same bodily functions, types of thoughts and feelings. We are all one, and we are all dependent on a healthy planet.
An additional book, aimed at ages four through adult Rainbow Breath is a stand-alone bedtime story that features Harrison ‘breathing the rainbow.’ A free visualisation meditation to aid peaceful sleep will be provided, to be included as a QR code in all books, this will help promote a planned interactive website. We plan to provide both free and fee-based teaching materials.
The overall premise of the series is to aid children’s emotional intelligence. Bringing together the issues of inner emotions and global stresses with the techniques of mindfulness, thus balancing the teaching of our children about world ecological issues whilst protecting their mental health – all the while empowering them with a small act of kindness that can be carried out in their own homes.
Tee & MJ
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