Therapeutic Recreation Month
The National Therapeutic Recreation Society established National Therapeutic Recreation Week in 1984. This special week has been celebrated during the second week of July annually since then. ATRA resumed responsibility and has deemed the month of February as Therapeutic Recreation Month. If you haven’t planned anything yet. I have some goodies that will make celebrating this month, easy peasy.
Introduction to Leisure Education Inservice |
 This 60 minute introductory in-service is designed to assist the Recreation/Activity Director, or Staff Educator in providing an overview of Leisure Education as utilized with older adults and elders. This inservice comes with a handout, teacher's outline, certificate of attendance, inservice sign in sheet, flyer to announce the inservice, an interactive exercise, and an inservice evaluation form. Participants will be able t
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Valentine's Day Puzzles and Activities |
 In this free zipped folder, I share some fun Valentine-themed activity worksheets. This bundle includes 8 activities: 2 word search puzzles, 2 word scrambles, fill in the blank love songs, love affirmations, how to say I love you and love quotes! Just download and print!
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Heart-Centeredness and Love Affirmations |
As with most aspects of our lives, being in a place of heart-centeredness is usually the best approach. If you are in a place of darkness, depression, anger, and so on, it's difficult to navigate life and make good choices. Let me be clear, I am a firm believer in having boundaries and not everyone deserves your love. It's ok and often necessary to move on and remove toxic people and situations from your life. However, you can actually let go, move on, forgive, etc. from a place of heart-centeredness. Simply stated, heart-centeredness is when we are in alignment with our true selves and have peace in our heart. This is better done when one has had some time to heal or has had some distance from the situation.
As recreation and activity professionals, we see how residents, family members and friends interact. Perhaps it's not our area of expertise to offer relationship advice, but we can be supportive and offer healthy ways for the residents to be in touch with what I call "the heart space". That's when we move out of our thinking minds (ego) and enter the area of the heart (love). Is this easy? No. But since words and our own thoughts are so powerful, we can change our energy and how we feel by changing how we think. Affirmations are one way to do this and something you, as an Activity Professional could do with the residents
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Thank you for taking the time to view this newsletter. Happy Therapeutic Recreation Month and Valentine's Day! I hope you have a wonderful month ahead. Many blessings, Kim
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