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"The Need For Nature: Exploring Youth Leadership Development Through Outdoor Activities", Margaret A. Dudley
"The Need For Nature: Exploring Youth Leadership Development Through Outdoor Activities", Margaret A. Dudley
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Youth are increasingly spending more time indoors. A young person spends hours in front of different screens, tuned out to their natural surroundings. When numerous studies have linked spending time outdoors to physical, mental, and emotional health, this increase in indoor time is disturbing. Youth living in apartment complexes in the Western Suburbs of Minneapolis do not have a lot of natural outdoor space close to their homes or transportation to parks, to enrich creativity and promote independence. This paper explores what has been called, the nature-deficit disorder, among youth today, and how one organization, the CONECT (Community Organizations Networking …
Mountain Movement: The Design, Implementation, & Evaluation Of A Youth Yoga Program, Abigail A. Long
Mountain Movement: The Design, Implementation, & Evaluation Of A Youth Yoga Program, Abigail A. Long
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Abigail Ann Long – PIM 70
Mountain Movement: The Design, Implementation, & Evaluation
of a Youth Yoga Program
May 2012
Mountain Movement is a youth yoga program designed to introduce children to the sustainable practice of yoga as well as convey the ability to recognize stress and utilize relaxation techniques. Children face a number of challenges throughout their daily lives. These challenges, ranging from academic pressures to bullying, can create stresses with negative impacts. Yoga is an activity that can provide children with tools and methods to better deal with and cope with these challenges. Mountain Movement has demonstrated that …