Mental Movements with Music Ep. 4 Halloween Special!
Join me for this special Halloween edition of MMwM as we listen to a chilling orchestral piece about pagan ceremony, witch rites, and rituals! Click here to Listen to the podcast!
Interacting With Music Guide
Music drifts through the air into our heads throughout our lives. But, when do we stop to just listen? You and I will be experiencing different ways of listening to music with these audio instructions. This week, the activity is to walk with music.
Great Expectations
This lesson will focus on the idea of expectations in Stoicism and negative visualization, the idea of contemplating a range of potential outcomes that include the worst-case scenarios in order to promote resilience when an unfavorable situation occurs. We will explore the methods used in order to practice this as well as why people do.
What is Good?
An investigation into the concept of goodness and what defines good in stoicism. Introduces the concept of the cardinal virtues and vices, and what it means to live a good life.
Are We Living in a Simulation?
Think critically about reality in this lesson that takes an epistemological approach to examine the question: is your life a simulation?
Google Earth Adventure
In today’s lesson we will be exploring google earth and learning about location on a global scale. Let’s go on an adventure!
Intonation
In this lesson, students learn about and explore their use of intonation— the way we speak. The attached PowerPoint takes students through a series of activities, teaching them about the relationship between pitch and expression. Why do we speak to our pets any differently than we speak to our parents?
Grades
What do grades measure? Are they an accurate reflection of our knowledge? Should we have grades at all?
Who Would You Save?
A thought experiment is presented to explore your morals and values. If a boat was sinking and the lifeboat couldn’t save everybody, who would you save and who would you sacrifice? Do your morals and values change in different situations, especially in a life or death situation?
Wordless Music
Music drifts through the air into our heads throughout our lives. But, when do we stop to just listen? You and I will be experiencing different ways of listening to music with these audio instructions. This week, the activity is to listen to a song without words.
Control and Choice
We will explore the concept of control and choice in the context of stoicism, and how people in the modern world apply this seemingly archaic school of thought in their day to day lives.
Sports and Permanence
What does it mean to root for a team when its players change constantly? Should we look at teams differently?
Are We Losing it? w/ Lelan Ep 3: Joy & Gratitude
In this episode Lelan breaks down how joy can be one of the most terrifying feelings we have. It’s close ties to gratitude and vulnerability make it really easy for us to dismiss it, but is this really what we want as we are in search of more whole-hearted connection? No! And it’s why Lelan explores how to break down […]
The Truth About Lying
This lesson aims to get us to think about why we lie, what lying is, and why we look down on lying. In recognizing the moments when we lie, we gain a greater understanding of why we do so and what the effects of our lies are. We tend to think of lying as generally bad, but why, then, do […]
