Learning to Feel Not Fight, Flight or Freeze Ft. Mychal Mills w/Anita Nowak - Purposeful Empathy

In a special series devoted to empathy in education with leaders and fellows of Transformative Educational Leadership (TEL), watch this episode to learn how to help students “feel more to heal more.”Mychal Mills, co-founder of K.Y.D.S (Kids Conscious Youth Development and Service), shares how his personal journey of loss led him to founding a nonprofit that has impacted over 40,000 youth and educators across New Jersey. He also reflects on the power of mindfulness, sound healing, and Beloved Community as pathways to resilience and collective care.00:00 Preview00:59 Introduction 00:34 About Mychal Mills05:38 Mychal’s understanding of a “Beloved Community”08:25 Mychal’s backstory13:37 The origin story of K.Y.D.S.21:13 Inviting youth into healing: What parents and educators need to know27:31 How educators can practice non-violence every day35:32 Inviting kids to feel in a world that teaches them to be numb41:43 What is sound healing?46:30 Why sound is a universal language of healing49:41 The role of empathy in education54:37 Empathy as a spiritual practice01:06:30     The importance of holding space for grief, grace and gratitude01:09:12     Mychal Mills’s Purposeful Empathy storyCONNECT WITH ANITA✩ Email [email protected] ✩ Website https://www.anitanowak.com✩ Buy a copy of Purposeful Empathy http://tiny.cc/PurposefulEmpathyCA✩ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/anitanowak/✩ Instagram https://tinyurl.com/anitanowakinstagram✩ Podcast Audio https://tinyurl.com/PurposefulEmpathyPodcast✩ Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/anitanowak.bsky.socialCONNECT WITH MYCHAL✩ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/mychalmills/✩ Website www.mychalmills.com ✩ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/journey_inn/?hl=enSHOW NOTES✩ Transformative Educational Leadership https://www.teleadership.org/✩ KYDS https://www.konscious.org/Video edited by Green Horizon Studio