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Protocols/Criterion for the “Positively Shifting Mindset”:
- Based on Hardwiring Happiness (book) by Rick Hansen and Will Power Instinct (book) by Kelly McGonagal
Savoring the Good can shift our mindsets to notice, focus on and enrich positive experiences.
Our brains have evolved to quickly solve the puzzle of how to stay safe and so we learn quickly about safety. The activities in earning the Digital Badges/Mindfulness/Savoring
Sacavenging, Selecting, Sharing
Badge will help to shift one's mindsets toward a more positive (and accurate? - cut) view of our selves, our world and our futures. To earn this badge, first we will intentionally seek to notice the good events, the good facts, and the good experiences that we each have in each day (Seeking). Intentionally choose to focus for 10 to 20 seconds on that good experience, event, fact, or person that you are glad, grateful, liking, or relaxed about. Allow your mind and body to deeply and warmly hold on to the good for 10 to 20 seconds with a deeply felt sense of appreciation in the present moment. For a good moment, savor the good, in some sense, drink in deeply your appreciation for this part of your day. Try to see new ways that this good part of your day is helpful to you.
To earn the “Savoring the Good Badge” keep a journal for seven days and each day try to find 5 things, people, or events that happen during your day that you are glad, grateful, or pleased about. Each day list the five good things that you have found, describing what you are appreciating and why, and describe what it felt like to “savor” them for 10 to 20 seconds.
Invite your parents or guardians to do this badge with you!
Savoring Description[]
This badge rewards a mindful attitude of savoring and holding on to the small things in everyday life that aren't normally appreciated.
This badge is awarded for seeking and recognizing positive people, experiences, and things that we encounter throughout our day and savoring them in our mind through focused attention on them for a minute--then reflecting the process in writing.
Completion Time[]
It will take a week of building the mental attitude of savoring--through seeking positive people, experiences, and things--and recording five a day in a journal to earn the badge. This shows that the disposition of savoring has been developed in the earner.
Evaluation Criteria[]
- Seek people, experiences, and things to savor for 10 to 20 seconds at a time throughout the day.
- Focus and hold on to the positive parts of each of those items that are savored.
- Select 5 per day to record in a journal--describe what you were appreciating, why they were good to savor, and how it felt savoring them instead of letting them pass by.
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Badge Issuers[]
Summer Dreamers Mindful Eating Staff and Summer Dreamers Swim & Water Polo Coaches will issue the badges to students after they have verified the students' journal entries.
Training[]
Summer Dreamers Swim & Water Polo coaches and Mindful Eating staffers will be oriented in the City of Learning badging process during their initial training by the Summer Dreamer supervisors and management before the summer session. As part of this initiation, they will be made aware of the requirements for the Digital Badges/Mindfulness/Savoring badge and be taught how to perform the necessary evaluation to award the badge.
Additional Considerations[]
This badge is part of the mindfulness suite of badges, and an important part of living life with a mindful attitude. It will hopefully be a requirement of the program for the students to at least earn this badge before finishing. If each student earned the badge and continued to savor the small things in life in the future then the badge will have been successful.