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Social and Emotional Learning During COVID-19 Crisis: Equity Lens Reflection

Wed, 22 Apr 2020 10:38:34 -0400

This article was originally posted by Karen Craddock, Ph.D., on April 17, 2020, on The Wellness Collaborative. While we manage the day-to-day, sometimes moment-to-moment, shifts during this global pandemic, it is sure to have implications on how we navigate the array of feelings and interactions we encounter in every aspect of our inner and outer lives. This process involving managing emotions, setting goals, showing empathy, building relationship, and making constructive decisions, otherwise known as social and emotional learning (SEL), is especially poignant now. Raising awareness of how these skill sets and competencies intersect with interpersonal, situational and structural inequities is even more so… Pain of exclusion In my blog article on the social-emotional, neurophysiological pain of racialized exclusion and strategies to remain resilient, there is discussion on how pain is perceived and received across racial lines. Particularly relevant is mention of the well documented racial empathy gap that occurs for people...

‘It’s Not in Our Head’… and yet Pain is in Our Brain:

Wed, 13 Feb 2019 17:54:07 -0500

Why Racialized Exclusion Hurts and How We Can Remain Resilient Going into your home while Black, waiting in a coffee shop, playing with your child, styling your hair, swimming, cooking, flying as a doctor while Black…living while Black. And as such, being subjected to undo questioning, demeaning and sometimes life-threatening reactions - you name it, we have seen it. And we feel it…which means our children do as well. A starkly sobering example in recent weeks with the news of a 9 year old Black girl who committed suicide, no longer able to cope with the racist taunts she faced from peers at school. Each of these widely known and growing incidences of exclusion, harassment and race-based violence impose criminalization of everyday behaviors onto people of color and others in marginalized groups. These attacks have and continue to have a cumulative impact that injures psychological and physiological well-being. Evidence regularly grows about the impact of...

Stopping the Pain of Social Exclusion

Wed, 07 Oct 2015 21:05:07 -0400

Everyone Needs to STOP the Pain! Everyone Needs the Pain to STOP! “Hands up!” The universal symbol of surrender, sign of protest, and signal for self-selection to take action. All of these are integral in stopping the pain of social exclusion. Human beings are built to function physically, emotionally, and spiritually in supportive groups. This simple fact has recently been supported by neuroscience research and helps explain why individuals and groups of people that are marginalized or socially excluded often suffer from higher levels of chronic health problems and shorter life expectancy. SPOT – Social Pain Overlap Theory1: How and Why Social Exclusion Hurts All of Us Being part of a group is so critical to humans that our nervous system literally uses the same alarm (the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex) to register the danger and distress of physical pain or injury AND social exclusion. This neuroscience finding requires that we...

Blogs from Karen Craddock - ��������

Social and Emotional Learning During COVID-19 Crisis: Equity Lens Reflection

‘It’s Not in Our Head’… and yet Pain is in Our Brain:

Stopping the Pain of Social Exclusion

Blogs from Karen Craddock - ��