Linda Kavelin Popov

Bring compassion, generosity, and kindness into your home with this essential interfaith parenting guide to raising kids in a virtuous and spiritual household, with week-by-week strategies for living your best lives. The most important job parents have is to pass basic virtues on to their children, and this invaluable book is designed to help make that job a little easier. Compiled by The Virtues Project, an international organization dedicated to inspiring spiritual growth in young and old alike, this multicultural, interfaith handbook shows parents and teachers how to turn words into actions and ideals into realities.Drawn from the world’s religions, the 52 virtues included here—one for each week of the year—nurture togetherness in family life. The simple strategies, which explain what a virtue is, how to practice it, and signs of success, will engage children of all ages in an exciting process of growth and discovery. This important book shows you how • Learn the language of integrity and self-esteem• Understand the five roles parents play• Discover ways to introduce sacred time into family life• Help children make moral choices The Family Virtues Guide gives adults and children the tools for spiritual and moral growth. Join the thousands of families discovering simple practices for bringing out the best in each other by sharing The Family Virtues Guide.

In today’s anxiety-ridden, stress-infused world, even a moment of quiet reflection has become a time- consuming luxury most of us just can’t afford. How did we reach this point? How did we lose our direction and sense of control? And, most important, how can we reclaim our lives? Linda Kavelin Popov asked herself these same questions, after the pressures of her own workaholic lifestyle nearly destroyed her. Now, as cofounder of the International Virtues Project she helps others achieve a pace of grace—a pace for our lives that can balance and sustain us physically and spiritually. Through a four-part program that teaches you how to purify your life, pace yourself, practice the presence, and plan a sustainable life, A Pace of Grace offers simple ways to rediscover the essential elements of a life well lived. Complete with Linda’s ten rules for health, this comprehensive guide is the first step in recapturing the joy and vibrancy inherent in each of us.

The Virtues Project: An Educator's Guide (K-12) is an excellent guide to empower children to lift each other up instead of putting each other down. It contains virtues honored by all cultures and traditions as the best within us and is honored by the United Nations as a model program for children of all cultures. This practical guide, containing 52 virtues, was designed to develop respect, compassion, commitment, and cooperation, (and more!) in children grades K-12. The book offers proven methods for counselors, teachers, caregivers, and youth leaders to create a culture of character in a classroom, school, or a club. This educator's guide gives academic leaders and other caregivers of children a way to empower children to make moral choices, deal with grief and loss, and resolve problems using their own inner strength. The book includes restorative justice techniques that are easy for teachers at all grade levels to use.

This day-by-day book of meditations helps you contemplate the nature of virtue with the use of quotes for each day of the year. Pulled from the world's sacred texts and from the storehouse of wisdom of intellectuals, artists, writers and philosophers, these meditations on the gift within are sure to inspire you.Virtues such as excellence, discernment, honesty and trust are illuminated with quotes from Franz Kafka, William Blake, Katherine Hepburn and many more, as well as by the author's personal stories. Accompanied by Kavelin Popov's probing questions, this book will guide you through the year in a thoughtful and enlightening manner.The Virtue of Truthfulness: "If a man does not keep a pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away". -- Henry David ThoreauThe Virtue of Compassion: "If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete". -- Jack KornfieldThe Virtue of Generosity: "A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, desiring attainment for himself, helps other to attain". -- Confucius"What better gift can we give ourselves than to take a few unhurried moments each day to ponder the virtues within us? Sacred Moments is our pathway to that gift". -- Janet Luhrs, Editor and Publisher of Simple Living, the Journal of Voluntary Simplicity

The Virtues Project was honored by the United Nations during the International Year of the Family as a model global program for all cultures and was featured on the Oprah Show as a method for teaching children to "do the right thing." This long-awaited guide for counselors, teachers, caregivers and youth leaders offers a wealth of character awakening activities and ideas for bringing out the best in your students and yourself.The Virtues Project contains proven strategies for awakening virtues -- the gifts within. It represents a wholistic approach to character education that can easily be integrated into existing curricula in individual classrooms, counseling groups, school, day-care center, or youth program.Major components The simple elements of character honored by all cultures and spiritual traditions -- 52 basic virtues! "The language of virtues" for drawing out the best in children Proven methods for creating a culture of character and reducing violence Powerful strategies to inspire Excellence, Respect, Kindness, Commitment and Cooperation in all students Success stories and activities from schools, Boys and Girls Clubs and childcare programs around the globe Activities for children of all ages Virtues in games and art You will Positive school-wide discipline with restorative justice Tips for Transforming Bully Behavior Counseling tools that empower moral choices One-minute counseling strategies How to begin the year with a shared vision Simple ways to introduce the "Virtue of the Week" Peer mentoring techniques Ways to turn your school into a community of caring A language which turns character slogans into behavior

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Als je leven een plotselinge wending neemt, bijvoorbeeld door baanverlies, pensionering of ziekte, welk pad kies je dan? Droompauze helpt je een nieuw begin te maken en te leven naar je idealen.Als je leven een plotselinge wending heeft genomen - bijvoorbeeld door baanverlies, pensionering, ziekte of een verlies - welk pad kies je dan? In 'Droompauze, leven naar je idealen' beschrijft Linda Kavelin-Popov hoe je altijd de keuze hebt om jezelf opnieuw uit te vinden. De oefeningen doen een beroep op je aangeboren deugden en helpen je oude gewoontes en beperkende overtuigingen los te laten, en je droom (alsnog) waar te maken. Beslissen wat je echt wilt met je leven, je roeping vinden en je talenten inzetten en ontwikkelen... daartoe nodigt dit boek je uit. De hoofdstukken worden versterkt door inspirerende verhalen van mensen die ieder op een kruispunt in hun leven 'van de nood een deugd' wisten te maken, en - vaak tot hun verrassing - een betekenisvoller leven kregen. Linda vertelt ook openhartig over enkele cruciale wendingen in haar leven.

A Handbook for PARENTS TEACHING VIRTUES