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Let’s talk about how to use Staying Alive in Groups and Class Meetings

How to teach about Staying Alive. Topics to review in the need for Staying Alive in Groups and Class Meetings One of the best things ...
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Let’s Get Started with Morning Meeting Plans

Let’s Get Started: How to Teach Staying Alive in Morning Meetings or other times: The 5 Needs in Life can be taught in any order. ...
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A Few Reasons to use The 5 Needs in Your Class Meetings

We all share these basic needs in life. Although we may not have considered these specific needs in our life when we take a few ...
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Watching for Fun

This is our life. We must take care to meet all of The 5 Needs in Life in our lives if we want to live ...
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Morning Meetings: Getting Ready

Summer is in full swing, and yet many teachers are already seeking the best ways to meet the students they will get to teach in ...
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Summertime is a good time to explore

Summertime is a good time to explore the landscape of our lives. What a beautiful day it is here today. The sun is shining, the ...
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Diversity. Opening Windows and Doors.

Open Windows, Platform, and Open Doors Allowing for Diversity to Bloom One of the reasons to use The 5 Needs in Life materials, mindset, and ...
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Better Not To Know (with 3 songs)

Better Not to Know As we go through life, we often want answers and want them NOW! As we travel through the landscape of our ...
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What do we see?

What do we see? Sometimes when we take time to look at how we are meeting each of our needs in life, we may find ...
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Never Giving Up On You and Remember the Simple Things (Songs included)

Never Giving Up YOU, or Me, or Us…and a turn around too. Music with a message is a gift to give to yourself today (or ...
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Morning Meetings (or Anytime)

Morning Meetings (or Anytime Meetings) are a Good Time to Explore The 5 Needs we share in life. Today, Morning Meetings are part of classes ...
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Golden (with lyrics and music)

You are Golden.  We are Golden. Thinking about The 5 Needs shown in this song makes me smile. We are loved. We belong. You are ...
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Break Away and It Takes a Little Time (Music included)

Break Away and know It Takes a Little Time Have you ever wanted to “Break Away” or wanted to and know “It Takes a Little ...
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Shovel in Hand (Amy Grant Song included)

Life can change in the blink of an eye. Many of us have experienced this fact in different ways. Perhaps it was the death of ...
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Greet the Day (with Amy Grant song)

What a beautiful sunrise today! How lovely to look outdoors and smile.  Some days it can be hard to get going. On other days we ...
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Need Hope? Three songs to help along the way (Byrds and Sara Bareilles)

Do you ever feel like you need hope? Do things feel overwhelming today? We all need hope and have days when life seems overwhelming. There ...
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Somewhere Down the Road (with song)

Do you ever wonder, “Why?” Why is this or that going on? “This” or “that” could be our own personal pain, the pain of friends ...
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Takes a Little Time (with song by Amy Grant)

You are not going done, me either. “It” takes a little time, sometimes a long time, to turn things around. But we’ve got this.   ...
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