Learning to Feel Not Fight, Flight or Freeze Ft. Mychal Mills w/Anita Nowak - Purposeful Empathy
Description
In a special series devoted to empathy in education with leaders and fellows of Transformative Educational Leadership (TEL), watch this episode to learn how to help students “feel more to heal more.”
Mychal Mills, co-founder of K.Y.D.S (Kids Conscious Youth Development and Service), shares how his personal journey of loss led him to founding a nonprofit that has impacted over 40,000 youth and educators across New Jersey. He also reflects on the power of mindfulness, sound healing, and Beloved Community as pathways to resilience and collective care.
00:00 Preview
00:59 Introduction
00:34 About Mychal Mills
05:38 Mychal’s understanding of a “Beloved Community”
08:25 Mychal’s backstory
13:37 The origin story of K.Y.D.S.
21:13 Inviting youth into healing: What parents and educators need to know
27:31 How educators can practice non-violence every day
35:32 Inviting kids to feel in a world that teaches them to be numb
41:43 What is sound healing?
46:30 Why sound is a universal language of healing
49:41 The role of empathy in education
54:37 Empathy as a spiritual practice
01:06:30 The importance of holding space for grief, grace and gratitude
01:09:12 Mychal Mills’s Purposeful Empathy story
CONNECT WITH ANITA
✩ Email purposefulempathy@gmail.com
✩ Website https://www.anitanowak.com
✩ Buy a copy of Purposeful Empathy http://tiny.cc/PurposefulEmpathyCA
✩ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/anitanowak/
✩ Instagram https://tinyurl.com/anitanowakinstagram
✩ Podcast Audio https://tinyurl.com/PurposefulEmpathyPodcast
✩ Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/anitanowak.bsky.social
CONNECT WITH MYCHAL
✩ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/mychalmills/
✩ Website www.mychalmills.com
✩ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/journey_inn/?hl=en
SHOW NOTES
✩ Transformative Educational Leadership https://www.teleadership.org/
✩ KYDS https://www.konscious.org/
Video edited by Green Horizon Studio
United States
