Resources

—Bainbridge Youth Services (www.askbys.org) site offers on-line consultation, both psychological and medical, as well as the range of BYS activities. 

—Common Sense Media (www.commonsensemedia.org) is a resource seeking to improve the lives of kids and families by providing independent reviews, age ratings, & other information about all types of media.

—Greater Good Science Center (www.greatergood.berkeley.edu) Science-based insights for a meaningful life.  A project of UC Berkeley that is inspiring and practical.

—Upworthy (www.upworthy.com) is a source of positive, instructive, and inspiring news and/or perspectives on contemporary life.

—TRUCE (Teachers Resisting Unhealthy Children’s Entertainment). (www.truceteachers.org). TRUCE is a grassroots organization of educators who prepare materials and provide information to help parents and educators work to counteract the harmful impact of commercial culture, media, and marketing on children's play, learning, and behavior.  Largely for parents of younger children, it offers ideas and models for non-digital play.

—Findhorn Foundation (www.findhorn.org) An educational/spiritual community and eco-village in northeast Scotland which sees itself as pioneering a new view of the evolving world, and demonstrating and teaching practices and principles to bring this about.  

—Cloud Mountain Retreat Center (www.cloudmountain.org) is a teaching and retreat center in the Mindfulness (Vipassana) tradition in southern Washington, offering both short-term and longer mindfulness retreats.

—Mindfulness For Teens (www.mindfulnessforteens.com) is a wonderful gathering of teen voices talking about mindfulness, videos about teen practice of mindfulness, and brief, guided meditations.  A great resource!

—Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child is a ‘how-to’ book by John Gottman, a renowned—and local—couple and family psychologist.  This book is based on his ‘emotion coaching’ method of helping your kids stay emotionally alive and healthy!

—UC San Diego (health.ucsd.edu/specialties/mindfulness/programs/mbsr/Pages/audio.aspx), a center for Mindfulness research and training, has a range of recorded guided meditations. There is also a link to poems that are mindfulness based.  Very lovely and inspiring!

—Bainbridge Psychotherapy Guild (www.bainbridgepsychotherapyguild.com) is an organization of licensed mental healthcare providers on the island.  The website contains self-descriptions of the therapists as well as their contact information.