Mentors

When people ask us what Minds in Motion does, one of the common threads running through our work is to provide mentoring, either through what we do or by what we link up for children. When kids experience real-life examples, our lessons stick. This weekend, I’m taking our Green Girls group, ages 6 – 10 […]

Green

What I love about Austin is that you can almost taste creativity and innovation in the air. Equally fun–to share that energy with girls ages 6 – 9 while supporting them in growing as leaders, innovators, productive community members and guardians of the earth. Today we took our Green Girls course participants on the road […]

Empower

Yesterday, I nearly missed an opportunity to motivate a student.  Not with harsh words, but with a positive statement I almost made. What? A positive statement? Compliments are bad? No, but depending on our goals, we can make subtle language changes with children. Before speaking, I remembered my weekend work with a colleague, revisiting a […]

Artplay

Artplay. OK, I made that word up just now. Perfect for this topic. Just like my hands made up this design of color tiles last week. Even if we’re not “natural” artists, allowing ourselves some time to create each month is key to recharging our batteries, stimulating problem-solving in other areas of our lives, and just […]